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Virna Jandiroba defended her Invicta Fighting Championships strawweight title for the first time Saturday.

Two new champions were crowned Saturday in Liverpool, England, at Cage Warriors 96.

A bit of drama unfolded in Liverpool, England, during the Cage Warriors 96 weigh-ins Friday morning.

The weigh-ins for Saturday night’s Invicta Fighting Championships 31 event has concluded, with only one fighter missing weight. The card features a strawweight title fight between Virna Jandiroba and Janaisa Morandin, who both made the 115-pound limit during Friday’s weigh-ins.

Nick Diaz was cleared of all domestic assault charges on Thursday after a Las Vegas judge dropped the case against him, and now the outspoken UFC star has released a statement over the ordeal.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship heads back down under in December for a Fight Night event in Adelaide. It will be the second time in three years the UFC has visited South Australia. It seems the main event for the card is set, with Australia’s own rising heavyweight Tai Tuivasa to take on the former heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos.

The fallout between Donald Cerrone and the Jackson-Wink MMA gym continues to unravel with fighters and trainers alike providing their insight into what the situation is really like at ground zero.
The catalyst for the fallout according to “Cowboy” was that fellow Jackson-Wink fighter Mike Perry called him out and the gym backed Perry instead of him. “Platinum,” who only started training with the Jackson-Wink team earlier this year, has now weighed in on Cerrone’s comments.

It took a little bit of calculating and some controversy, but Smealinho Rama earned a spot in the 2018 Professional Fighters League playoffs.

Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweights Hakeem Dawodu and Kyle Bochniak will collide at UFC 231 in December, the promotion announced on Friday.

Tim Means is a risk-taker in the cage, but those risks haven’t paid off for the “Dirty Bird” in his last two fights.