Day: 9. Mai 2025

First to the scale this morning! ⚖️@BullyB170 weighs in at 170lbs

[ #UFC315 is LIVE on @ESPNPlus PPV | SAT | 10pmET ] pic.twitter.com/x4Cp1cL1Br

— UFC (@ufc) May 9, 2025 The Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight and women's flyweight titles will be on the line as two title fights are now official following the UFC 315 weigh-ins.

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The main event will see Belal Muhammad look to cement himself as the best fighter at 170 pounds with a championship defense against Jack Della Maddalena. Meanwhile, the co-main event will see Valentina Shevchenko attempt to defend her second reign as women's flyweight beltholder against Manon Fiorot. All four title tilt participants successfully made weight.

As for the rest of the card, only Bruno Silva failed to make weight, as he was one pound over the middleweight limit for his pairing with Marc-Andre Barriault. Additionally, the Jose Aldo vs. Aiemann Zahabi clash was moved to feath…

𝙈𝘼𝙄𝙉 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏 🔒 @paulhughesmma and @brunorobusto hit their marks ahead of the #PFLBelfast main event!

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LAST CHANCE TO BUY TICKETS! 🎟️ https://t.co/HJseTmGMjG #PFLBelfast | TOMORROW | LIVE on DAZN pic.twitter.com/6ywnUyBn3J — PFL Europe (@PFLEurope) May 9, 2025 The Professional Fighters League will kick off its PFL Europe 2025 season this weekend with four lightweight quarterfinals and a homecoming fight for Ireland's Paul Hughes.

The PFL Europe 1 main event will see Hughes (13-2) go up against Bruno Miranda. Both men successfully came in under the lightweight limit for the headlining bout. All eight of the lightweight tournament fighters also made weight. The middleweight scrap between Haider Khan (194.1) and Sean McCormac (188) changed to a catchweight contest at 195 pounds, and the heavier Khan was fined 20% of his purse by hitting the scales eight pounds over the 186-pound limit. The match wil…

Reigning Professional Fighters League MENA lightweight champion Mohsen Mohammadseifi passed his first test on the road to defending his title Friday, but it was far from easy.

After three hellacious rounds, the “Golden Boy” had his hands raised over Egypt’s Ahmed El Sisy in the 2025 PFL MENA 1 main event from the Onyx Arena in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Mohammadseifi (8-2) entered the tournament riding the high of a seven-fight win streak and hoped to put fear into the rest of the field with a knockout. He sat down on every punch and cut El Sisy over his eye with a whopper of a right hand, but El Sisy didn’t budge. El Sisy was buckled and dropped throughout the fight, but was never out of the match, and the slugfest was glorious. It was a clear win for Mohammadseifi, but El Sisy showed grit and raised his stock. With the win, Mohammadseifi moved on to the lightweight semifinals, where he’ll face Mohammad Fahmi.

It might’ve taken three rounds, but that…

Sherdog’s live 2025 PFL MENA 1 coverage will begin Friday morning at approximately 11:30 a.m. ET. Round 1 An amateur bout at a 166-pound catchweight kicks off festivities, as Saudi Arabia’s Moammar meets Algeria’s Hamdani. Basheer Reda administers the law and order. Glove touch gets us going. Hamdani probes with his lead hand, looking to gauge distance as he gathers information. They circle in the center of the cage. Moammar connects with a powerful leg kick, then another. Hamdani looks to stay light on his feet. Two minutes to go. Hamdani lands a leg kick of his own, as Moammar closes the distance and crashes into the clinch. They jockey for position along the fence. Hamdani using underhooks to keep Moammar at bay. Hamdani reverses position with a minute left in the round. Moammar secures a takedown and sheds a guillotine choke. Hamdani immediately scrambles to his feet. Once again, they settle into the clinch. Moammar hunts for another takedown as time runs out.

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Former Ultimate Fighting Championship two-division champ Alex Pereira may have a future in the life coaching business.

UFC middleweight Bruno Silva had fallen on hard times towards the end of 2024, having lost four consecutive outings with the promotion. The Brazilian had started his tenure with the UFC off promisingly, knocking out Wellington Turman, Andrew Sanchez and Jordan Wright all within the confines of 2021. After that, he came to blows with Pereira, and although he remains one of the few to face “Poatan” without getting knocked out, he had hit a proverbial wall and things would mostly go downhill from there.

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A call from Pereira after his fourth straight defeat may have changed the course of Silva’s career. Silva spoke to Sherdog in Montreal, Canada, ahead of his match with Marc-Andre Barriault at UFC 315 on Saturday, where he revealed the life-changing advice given to him by a man that two years before stood across from him in the Octagon. Read more

#RIZIN_LANDMARK11 in SAPPORO❄️💥💥 Newly Announced Bouts 💥💥

💪 RIZIN Heavyweight GP 2025 – Round 1 💪RIZIN MMA Rules: 5 min × 3 rounds (120.0kg)

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📅 June 14… pic.twitter.com/bSYiKTJNNG

— RIZIN.tv (@RIZINTV_) May 8, 2025 The Rizin Fighting Federation heavyweight grand prix will wrap up its opening round next month.

Via a press release sent out on Friday, the promotion broke the news of several new matchups that would be part of Rizin Landmark Vol. 11 on June 14. One of the few bouts that had already been on the books was its presumptive featherweight headliner between Vugar Karamov and Shuya Kimura, and the organization slotted six MMA matches and three under kickboxing rules on the card that will be held at the Makomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arena in Sapporo, Japan.

Among the additional pairings include a he…

𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Your #PFLWorldTournament 5️⃣ Fight Card!

The PFL World Tournament Semi-Finals kick off in Nashville on June 12th!

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First up: Welterweights & Featherweights pic.twitter.com/qimZjFNvdG — PFL (@PFLMMA) May 9, 2025 Welterweights and featherweights will lead off the next stage in the Professional Fighters League global tournament this June.

The organization dropped the entirety of the 10-fight event that would kick off the semifinals on Friday, with the first of three fight cards taking place on June 12 in Nashville, Tennessee. The athletes will meet in the Nashville Municipal Auditorium with four tournament matches, two alternate bouts and four showcases. The next two events soon to be released take place on June 20 and June 27, in Wichita, Kansas, and Chicago, respectively.

The main attraction of 2025 World Tournament 5: Semifinals will be a welterweight collision of Jason Jackson (19-5) against Thad J…