Everyone has a fighting chance
The first-ever Ultimate Fighting Championship main event to feature an Aboriginal Australian fighter is now set, with Tai Tuivasa making weight for his bout against former UFC heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos.
All fighters made their contractually agreed-upon weights for Saturday’s Bellator 211, the sixth event in Italy for Bellator MMA.
All is set for KSW’s 46th event, which will be held at Arena Gliwice, Poland, on Saturday, Dec. 1. In the main event, Mamed Khalidov (34-5-2) and Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki light heavyweight champion Tomasz Narkun (15-2) will lock horns once again.
Coming off her huge win less than a week ago over Jessica Aguilar, Weili Zhang has been given a big step up in competition when she faces off against top ranked Tecia Torres.
Riding a 12-fight winning streak, Kamaru Usman is the welterweight that nobody seems to want to fight, but he has just the solution for that problem.
According to John Kavanagh, Conor McGregor’s head coach at Straight Blast Gym in Ireland, he hasn’t seen his star pupil since his loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov last month at UFC 229, despite McGregor’s claims after the fight that he wanted an immediate rematch with “The Eagle” or barring that, an opponent that could get him back into title contention.
It appears Raphael Assuncao and Marlon Moraes are going to run it back in a five-rounder to headline an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Brazil this coming February.
In an interview with Croatian newspaper Vecernji List on Thursday, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic stated that he would not be appearing on Rizin Fighting FederationRizin FF 14’s New Year’s Eve card in Japan due to budgetary reasons.
Tomorrow, two new “Ultimate Fighters” will be crowned at the heaviest divisions the Ultimate Fighting Championship has to offer — heavyweight and women’s featherweight.
Every fighter on the Bellator 210 main card has been given the green light, and headliners Chidi Njokuani and John Salter have officially made weight.