Month: April 2025

𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗣𝗙𝗟 𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗠𝗪𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦! 🔥

🇩🇪 Alex Luster (9-2)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dean Garnett (12-3-1)🇵🇱 Jan Ciepłowski (8-0)🇫🇷 Julien Lopez (7-4-1)🇫🇷 Mahio Campanella (7-1)🇱🇻 Matiss Zaharovs (7-3)🇫🇷 Anas Azizoun (5-1)🇵🇹 Gustavo Oliveira (10-2)… pic.twitter.com/7qgnpPHQdT

— PFL Europe (@PFLEurope) April 4, 2025 The second of two Professional Fighters League Europe tournament brackets is now a matter of record.

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On Friday, the PFL put out the entirety of its 135-pound division for the upcoming Europe tournament. The winner of each weight class—bantamweight and lightweight—will take home a $100,000 check along with a chance to graduate to the World Tournament next year. All opening round pairings will take place at PFL Europe 2, which will be held on May 24 at the Accor Arena in Paris.

The frontrunner to win it all may come from the matchup between Dean Garnett (12-3-1) and Alexander Luster (9-2). The former battled Lewis McGr…

Sherdog's live PFL 2025 World Tournament: First Round 1 coverage will begin Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.

Fighters only get one shot! Watch the PFL World Tournament LIVE at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

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The only heavyweight bout on the UFC’s fight card this weekend has changed days before it was set to go down.

Per the organization on Thursday, Kennedy Nzechukwu has sustained an injury that has ejected him from UFC Vegas 105, also known as UFC on ESPN 65. In Nzechukwu’s stead will be the debuting Uran Satybaldiev (8-0), who meet Martin Buday (14-2) above 206 pounds.

Slovakia’s Buday competed once in 2024, putting his first knockout loss behind him by swiping a split decision over ex-champ Andrei Arlovski. Before losing to Shamil Gaziev in the Octagon, Buday had racked up a 12-fight win streak that included names like Josh Parisian and Chris Barnett, with four in the Octagon including his 2022 debut. Buday made his way to the Las Vegas-based league courtesy of a knee-based knockout of Lorenzo Hood on the 2021 season of Dana White’s Contender Series.

Satybaldiev, who fights out of the Uulu Kyrgyz Team in Kyrgyzstan, made the jump stateside in 2023 when he appea…

The 2025 #PFLWorldTournament keeps rolling!

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For more information 👇https://t.co/eCMG4faqPw pic.twitter.com/f0N3QMNDoy — PFL (@PFLMMA) April 3, 2025 When all is said and done, the 2025 Professional Fighters League will conclude in four and a half months.

The promotion released the locations and dates for its three Finals events to conclude its World Tournament series this year. While the dates were already rumored to be Aug. 1, Aug. 15 and Aug. 21, the league confirmed them on Thursday. The first finals event will be held at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey; the second takes place at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina; the season ultimately concludes at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

In the first of three shows, the Aug. 1 card will feature the five-round tournament finals matches for the welterweight and f…

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The stage has been set for the debut of Professional Fighters League’s new tournament format.

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The lineups have changed slightly after Wednesday’s weigh-ins, when Magomed Umalatov checked in for his first-round matchup with Logan Storley (171) at 173.6 pounds — more than two pounds over the welterweight limit. As a result, Umalatov will be replaced by Joseph Luciano, who tipped the scales at 170.4 pounds. Everyone else on the card hit their contracted marks without issue.

Fighters only get one shot! Watch the PFL World Tournament LIVE at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

PFL World Tournament 1 takes place on Thursday at Universal Studios Florida and is headlined by a welterweight clash between Jason Jackson (170.8) and Andrey Koreshkov (171). The event will feature tournament bouts at welterweight and featherweight. The main card airs on ESPN2 and ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, while prelims stream on ESPN+ at 7:30 p.m./4:30 p.m. PT. Read more

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Sean O'Malley is well aware of the fact that some in the MMA community are less than pleased that he’s been granted an immediate rematch against Merab Dvalishvili.

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“Suga” lost the bantamweight title to Dvalishvili via clear-cut unanimous decision at UFC 306 this past September. O’Malley has been sidelined since then as he recovers from a hip surgery he underwent after that bout. Meanwhile, Dvalishvili successfully defended the strap against Umar Nurmagomedov at UFC 311 in January.

On Tuesday, UFC CEO Dana White announced that the Dvalishvili-O’Malley 2 would headline UFC 316 in Newark, New Jersay on June 7.

“The rematch is official,” O’Malley said on his YouTube channel. “‘Suga’ Sean vs. Merab 2 is happening, and I don’t think people are going to be too happy about it.”

While the booking was met with a lukewarm reception, O’Malley expects to be at full capacity now that the issues with his hip have been addressed.

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A lightweight showdown pitting Joel Alvarez against Benoit St. Denis has been added to the UFC 315 lineup.

Eurosport was first to report the bout. UFC 315 takes place on May 10 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is headlined by a welterweight championship clash between Belal Muhammad and Jack Della Maddalena.

Alvarez has been victorious in seven of his last eight Octagon appearances, with all of those triumphs coming inside the distance. Most recently, the Spaniard scored a first-round knockout of Drakkar Klose at UFC on ESPN 63 this past December.

After winning five straight contests from June 2022 to November 2023, St. Denis has been finished in back-to-back outings by Dustin Poirier and Renato Carneiro. “God of War” has finished all 13 of his professional victories.

This new deal with @meta is going to be incredible for UFC fans pic.twitter.com/hCAYed6q4m

— danawhite (@danawhite) April 2, 2025

The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Wednesday announced a multi-year partnership with information technology giant Meta.

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According to a release, the agreement will help “leverage its leading technologies to deliver unprecedented engagement with hundreds of millions of UFC fans around the world.” Some of Metas most well-known properties include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads.

While Meta will collaborate with the UFC to use its technology platforms to increase fan engagement, perhaps the most interesting note is that the partnership is expected to bring about an update to the promotion’s rankings process.

“I’ve had a lot of great partners over the years that have helped us grow this sport, but Mark (Zuckerberg) and his team at Meta are going to do things that will blow away UF…

🏆 Carlos Prates picks Belal Muhammad to beat Jack Della Maddalena, thinks it won't be a hard fight:

"I would like to see [JDM] as a champ because he is a striker, but I think Belal Muhammad is going to win. It's not gonna be a hard fight."

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🎥 @Home_of_Fight & @LynchOnSports pic.twitter.com/DLrrpWmY8o — Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) April 1, 2025

While Carlos Prates would like Jack Della Maddalena to beat Belal Muhammad, he thinks it’s highly unlikely.

Maddalena challenges Muhammad for the welterweight title in the main event at UFC 315 on May 10 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Prates notes that Maddalena’s most high-caliber win came against Gilbert Burns in a fight which the Australian was losing until the last minute. While Maddalena has finished five of his seven UFC wins, Prates points out that he went to split decisions against Kevin Holland and Bassil Hafez. Meanwhile, Prates believes Muham…

🧠😣 Nathaniel Wood speaks about his OCD and how it 'helps' in his MMA career.

But still, if he could get rid off it with a snap of finger, he would do it.

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🎥 @Home_of_Fight & @JakeNoeckerMMA pic.twitter.com/mbzkjmE0Ej — Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) April 1, 2025

Nathaniel Wood would prefer not having an obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), although it has seemingly helped his MMA career.

Wood has never made any secret of the fact that he has suffered from OCD and anxiety for a long time. “The Prospect” admits that while it’s a “curse” for him in general, it has been a blessing for his MMA career. Wood believes he wouldn’t have scaled the heights that he has if it was not for the days that his OCD forced him to go to the gym. However, the Englishman made it clear that he would have cured his OCD long back had he had a choice.

“In my life in general it’s a curse,” Wood told Home of Fight. “But having it is…

Fabricio Werdum won’t be taking part in the Global Fight League after all.

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Initially scheduled to face Frank Mir in a heavyweight bout under the GFL banner, Werdum revealed Tuesday on the Mundo da Luta podcast that he will no longer be fighting for the fledgling organization.

“Frank Mir was a fight that motivated me to return. After he announced his withdrawal, I also lost my motivation,” Werdum said upon returning to Florianópolis and his normal routine.

“The atmosphere in Andre Dida’s academy in Curitiba is unbelivable. It was such a great experience to return do training routine with master Rafael, Wanderlei, Dida, Brunno Hulk and Blindado, but I have to feel the same motivation to return and that was not the case when Mir (was not an option).”

Werdum last appeared at Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 5, where he lost a split decision to former UFC opponent Junior dos Santos. The GFL on Monday officially announced the full lineups for its …

UFC 316 will feature a pair of title bouts at the top of the bill.

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In the main event, Merab Dvalishvili will defend his bantamweight crown in a rematch against Sean O'Malley, while Julianna Pena will square off against Kayla Harrison in a women’s 135-pound title tilt in the evening’s co-headliner. UFC CEO Dana White announced the bouts on Tuesday. UFC 316 takes place on June 7 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey and airs on pay-per-view via ESPN+.

Dvalishvili will take a 12-fight winning streak into his rematch against O’Malley. “The Machine” claimed bantamweight gold with a lopsided unanimous decision win over O’Malley at UFC 306 this past September. The Georgian wrestler then made a successful defense of the belt at UFC 311, where he took a five-round verdict over the previously undefeated Umar Nurmagomedov.

O’Malley will be competing for the first time since relinquishing the bantamweight strap to Dvalishvili. “Suga” underwent …