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The Professional Fighters League regular season continues to roll on next month, as a lightweight duel pitting Brian Foster against Natan Schulte will headline the promotion’s fifth show.
Sherdog’s live Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series Season 2, Episode 6 coverage will begin at 8 p.m. ET.
Fighter compensation is one of the hottest topics right now in mixed martial arts and in particular the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which is the market leader in MMA.
A rematch between two of the premier lightweights take place on Saturday night when former Ultimate Fighting Championship 155-pound champion Eddie Alvarez takes on Dustin Poirier at UFC on Fox 30 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
A rematch between ex-middleweight champions Luke Rockhold and Chris Weidman is in the works for UFC 230, according to a report from ESPN.com.
Glover Teixeira didn’t look like a Top 10 light heavyweight at UFC Fight Night 134.
Mauricio Rua’s three-fight winning streak came to a resounding end in Hamburg, Germany, on Sunday, as he was stopped by Anthony Smith via knockout just 89 seconds after their UFC Fight Night 134 headlining bout began.
UFC President Dana White has been known to throw an extravagant party or two, and his son’s 16th birthday bash was no exception.
Fight fans have witnessed a number of gruesome injuries in mixed martial arts like the Anderson Silva leg break, or Leslie Smith’s cauliflower ear pop. Now add Ultimate Fighting ChampionshipStefan Struve’s second set of lips to that list.
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight Josh Emmett suffered a second-round knockout loss to Jeremy Stephens in February, ending a two-fight winning streak, which included an impressive knockout victory over Top 10 featherweight Ricardo Lamas back in December.