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UFC Fight Island 3: Carla Esparza on Split Decisions, Open to Ribas Fight Next

Despite a lack of cookies to celebrate with (or at least not enough cookies), Carla Esparza was in good spirits following her fourth consecutive win on Saturday, at UFC Fight Island 3. Even looking a little worse for the...
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UFC Fight Island 3: Pannie Kianzad Feels She’s Had a Harder Road to the...

It took a minute, but it feels like Pannie Kianzad has finally arrived in the UFC. The bantamweight, who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 28 (at featherweight), wasn't gifted a contract at the end of the season. Few fighters were....
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UFC Fight Island 3: “Reserved” Tom Aspinall Not About to Replicate Teammate Darren Till’s...

MMA is a sport full of colorful personalities. But not everyone can be a Chael Sonnen, Rampage Jackson, or Conor McGregor. For every Darren Till, quite frankly, there's a Tom Aspinall. And that's fine. Let's be honest, one Darren...
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Bellator 242: Mark Lemminger Dug Bellator Debut, Open to More

"To be honest, it did not play out the way I thought it was going to play out," Mark Lemminger said following his Bellator 242 fight with Jake Smith. The welterweight pair threw down on the preliminary card of Bellator's...
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Bellator 242: Raufeon Stots Feels Difficulty Finding Opponents Means He’s Finally Getting Noticed

Raufeon Stots earned his second straight win inside the Bellator cage on Friday. Submitting the previously undefeated Cass Bell by rear-naked choke in the third round at Bellator 242, the bantamweight continued his steady progress up the 135lb ladder. That...

Cummins-Zappitella Title Fight Announced As Invicta FC 42 Main Event

Invicta FC has announced it's next event, and it features a vacant atomweight title fight in the main event. Following Jinh Yu Frey's missing weight earlier this year in her title defense against Ashley Cummins, the Invicta FC 105lb belt...
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Jason Jackson Credits Gilbert Burns, Vicente Luque following Bellator 242 Victory

"Have fun, smile, and don't have bad energy." That, at least in part, was what welterweight Jason Jackson saw as keys to his performance at Bellator 242. Whether the positive approach helped or not, the result was the right one....
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UFC, Strikeforce Vet Gilbert Melendez Hit with Two Year Ban by USADA

Now former-UFC fighter Gilbert Menedez has been handed a two-year suspension from competition by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Melendez, 38, was last seen in action at UFC 239 in July 2019. Once a Strikeforce lightweight champion, who challenged for gold...
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Bellator 242: Ras Hylton Knows He’s Not Ready for “Bad Ass” Darth Bader —...

To start last week, Ras Hylton had no fight planned. Then came Tuesday morning. Eventual Bellator 242 opponent Rudy Schaffroth had been expected to face Hard Knocks 365 heavyweight Steve Mowry. But Mowry was forced out of the event due...
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UFC Fight Island 3’s Nathaniel Wood Always Ready for Opponent Changes

Nathanial Wood got back in the win column Saturday at UFC Fight Island 3. Not that he'd been gone for long. Wood (17-4) had suffered the first loss of his UFC tenure earlier this year. Yet it had come in...

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Dakota Ditcheva Out of Next PFL Fight Due to Injury

Women's flyweight tournament champ Dakota Ditcheva will not take part in the first PFL card of 2026 as planned. Ditcheva, who won her 125lb title...