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Bekzat Almakhan is a very talented bantamweight out of Kazakhstan, and was set to make his debut at UFC Vegas 87 on Saturday. The only problem? That debut was against Umar Nurmagomedov. The undefeated, 16-0 Umar Nurmagomedov. A heck of...

Flyweights Steve Erceg and Matt Schnell kicked off the UFC Vegas 87 main card on Saturday, with Schnell returning from a fifteen-fight layoff. A bit of a feeling out process played out in the night's first flyweight bout, with Erceg...

After getting dropped early, Eryk Anders came back to beat Jamie Pickett by unanimous decision in UFC Vegas 87's featured prelim. Jamie Pickett came into the fight as the owner of a 2-6 record in his UFC career, so a...

Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA arrived at the Kia Center in Miami, Florida on March 2, with Jorege Masvidal's bareknuckle MMA outfit looking to crown its inaugural heavyweight champion. Junior Dos Santos and Alan Belcher headlined Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 7, with both...

AllStars Training Center standout Benardo Sopaj made his UFC debut on Saturday, with the promising bantamweight stepping up to take on Vinicius Oliveira on short notice at UFC Vegas 87. At just 23-years old, Sopaj was already a bright prospect...

Canada's Aiemann Zahabi made the trip to Las Vegas for Saturday's UFC Vegas 87, where he was paired with hot prospect Javid Basharat in bantamweight action. Basharat was an unbeaten 14-0 to start the night, while TriStar's Zahabi had won...

Bareknuckle boxing leader BKFC headed north to Canada and chilly Edmonton for Saturday's BKFC Fight Night Prospects card. The company had long considered Canada a potential area for expansion, with Alberta getting the first dose of BKFC action. And while...

Christian Leroy Duncan demolished Cláudio Ribeiro in a middleweight matchup on the prelims of UFC Vegas 87. Both men competed in their fourth UFC fight on Saturday afternoon, though they came in with inverse records - Duncan, aka CLD, had...

The second straight lightweight scrap to kick off UFC Vegas 87 on Saturday saw AJ Cunningham stepping in to face L'udovit Klein on short notice. Cunningham, an LFA vet, had come up short on the Contender Series against Steven Nguyen,...

Kicking off Saturday's UFC Vegas 87 card at the Apex in Las Vegas, lightweight Loik Radzhabov welcomed Contender Series alum Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady to the octagon. A former PFL athlete with nine fights under that promotion's banner, Radzhabov was 1-1 to...