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“I have the utmost respect for Alhassan. He is a good guy, a very strong striker, so I think this fight was a great matchup. We’re going to come out on top and put on a show for the audience,” Ribeiro said of his UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs Imavov opponent. “He is an aggressive

With the fight less than a week away, Maynard asked if Strickland would step in. “I knew when I saw it was Mick that Mick is going to ask me to do something I don’t want to do,” Strickland laughed. “That’s when he said UFC would pay a decent amount of money and I said

“If you can walk away from this sport for whatever reason, to me that shows a sign of your ability to give up on something,” Johnson said. “I can never walk away from the sport until I really decide to retire, so I feel like there may be mental weakness there, but I don’t know.

Historically speaking, a guy named “Krazy Horse” has never let the fans down. Eternal MMA might fall off the radar of US fight fans because of the time zone difference with the Australian promotion, but after landing a clear cut 2022 FIGHT PASS Fight of the Year with many other barnburners behind it, as well,

“I had been talking to my master (Dedé Pederneiras) about this,” she tells UFC.com “I believe very much in God’s plans, that things happen in His time and not in mine. I entered the UFC with only two years of MMA and was thrown in the lions’ den, maturing by force. However, I believe that

The fight was rescheduled for UFC 280: Oliveira vs Makhachev, but Abdurakhimov withdrew again, this time after suffering a knee injury in training. Despite both cancellations, the fight was scheduled for the third time. Shogun Rua | Greatest Hits Abdurakhimov travels to Brazil to fight Almeida in his home country at UFC 283: Teixeira vs

“I’ve got a lot of good feedback about coming back to the UFC. A lot of people are excited to see me back. The circumstances weren’t great, but I don’t regret any of my decisions and I think life is just going to get better over the horizon,” Flick said. “I’m glad the UFC accepted

PRELIMS Bantamweight Bout: Javid Basharat (136) vs Matheus Mendonca (134.5) Middleweight Bout: Claudio Ribeiro (183) vs Abdul Razak Alhassan (185.5) Lightweight Bout: Mateusz Rebecki (155.5) vs Nick Fiore (155) Flyweight Bout: Allan Nascimento (125.5) vs Carlos Hernandez (125) MORE FIGHT NIGHT: Card Updates | Fight By Fight Preview | On The Rise Featherweight Bout: Dan

All these new additions led Murphy to her biggest win to date when she defeated former UFC bantamweight champion Miesha Tate via unanimous decision at UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs Rodriguez in July. She hopes to double down on victories over past champions when she faces former strawweight titleholder Jessica Andrade at UFC 283: Teixeira

22 years old, Submission of the Year and 17 fights under his belt. No idea where Makoto Takahashi finds the time or energy, but sure enough, he does. He fights a lot, he wins a lot and despite how much of his playbook is out there, he’s still next to impossible to figure out. Takahashi

Whether it’s assisting his family or just basking in the rewards and fame of his success so far, the 29-year-old relished it as much as he could. “Whatever my family need, I could help them out with,” Turcios said. “Whatever I need, I could help myself out, too. I remember them days we were living

“I won the fight and I hadn’t told Firas,” he said with a chuckle. “We get back to the hotel and I’m like, ‘I just bought a house two weeks ago,’ and he was like, ‘Are you crazy?! You’ve been house shopping?! Do you know how much stress that is?!’ “I’m finally in a place

“He’s a tough guy, a very technical fighter, but I think there are levels to this game, and he’s never fought anybody like me,” Dos Anjos said of Fiziev. “I fought many guys like him, even better.  “I have to be really careful with his standup game, but I’m looking to mix it up. It’s

Back in December 2018, then-strawweight Maycee Barber was given a shot at a UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Series against Jamie Colleen. Anticipated as a striker vs grappler bout, Barber excelled in all facets of martial arts, beating Colleen to the punch, controlling the clinch and securing takedowns. Her final takedown of the night,

Back at the house… Walker gets her pre-fight call with her sister, Mackenzie, acknowledging afterwards that it made her both emotional and confident. She shows her sister the journaling she’s been doing in the house to fill her time, explaining that it has helped her reflect and gain a sense of peace as she progresses

The elder Shevchenko has struggled to find the success her younger sister Valentina has enjoyed inside the Octagon, entering Saturday’s contest with a 3-4 record in the UFC and in the midst of a two-fight skid. She’s only lost to ranked opponents, but at age 37, with a wealth of combat sports experience in the

A lot of people will look at Jalin Turner’s win over Brad Riddell and assume he fell out of the sky and into the Octagon at T-Mobile Arena. Not quite. Turner paid more than his share of dues, he got over some tough times during a long layoff following his 2019 loss to Matt Frevola,

Cerrone always said that he’d like to get to 50 appearances combined between the WEC and UFC, but rides off into the sunset two fights short, opting to explore new opportunities rather than stick around to chase a record when his heart was no longer in it. Though his career comes to a close on