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— ADCC (@ADCC_Federation) July 18, 2022 The Abu Dhabi Combat Club is making sure history will not be forgotten at its upcoming Worlds event in September.

The 14th edition of the ADCC Worlds, which will be held on September 14 to 18, promises to make up for lost time. In 2021, the grappling organization decided it would postpone its World Championships event to 2022 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, ADCC is staging its bi-yearly championship card in a new venue of the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, and it will also feature a Hall of Fame induction ceremony as well as a new book release.

The main attraction for some is the superfight between Gordon Ryan and Andre Galvao, but fans who attend the event will have the opportunity to participate in a joint seminar run by multiple past ADCC champions. Those names inclu…

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Alexander Hernandez will move to 145 pounds for a matchup with Billy Quarantillo at UFC 282.

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Iridium Sports Agency, which represents both fighters, announced the booking on Wednesday. UFC 282 takes place on Dec. 10 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and is expected to feature a light heavyweight championship rematch between Jiri Prochazka and Glover Teixeira.

The 29-year-old Hernandez compiled a 5-4 record at lightweight, with notable wins over the likes of Beneil Dariush, Olivier Aubin-Mercier and Francisco Trinaldo. Most recently, he suffered a second-round submission loss to Renato Carneiro at UFC 271.

Quarantillo is 4-2 in the Octagon since earning a UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Series in 2019. He’s lost two of his last three fights and is coming off a decision defeat to Shane Burgos at UFC 268.

UFC and Venum announce multi-year renewal of outfitting and apparel partnership :

— UFC News (@UFCNews) August 31, 2022

Venum will continue to be the outfitting partner for the Ultimate Fighting Championship for the foreseeable future.

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The UFC announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to a multi-year renewal of its agreement with the France-based combat sports apparel company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according to a release, the contract was “facilitated by IMG’s licensing business, which exclusively represents UFC and brokered the original agreement with Venum in 2020.” The UFC officially unveiled its partnership with Venum in April 2021 in what was supposed to be a three-year agreement, but it appears that both sides have extended the deal before its expiration.

The announcement coincides with the Las Vegas-based promotion’s first-ever trip to France for UFC Fight Night 209 at Accor Arena in Paris on…

Two fighters who competed on the pay-per-view-portion of the UFC 278 card were among the latest batch of releases from the Las Vegas-based promotion.

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Harry Hunsucker, Yanan Wu and Claudio Silva are all no longer part of the UFC roster. The cuts were confirmed by MMAFighting.com after Twitter account UFC Roster Watch initially brought word of their removal. Each of the aforementioned fighters could have either been cut by the UFC or simply did not have their contract renewed.

Hunsucker opened the UFC 278 pay-per-view draw, suffering a first-round technical loss to Tyson Pedro on Aug. 20 in Salt Lake City. The former Dana White’s Contender Series competitor went 0-3 in the Octagon, with all of his defeats coming inside a round.

Wu, meanwhile, followed Hunsucker on the UFC 278 card, as she fell to Lucie Pudilova via second-round TKO. The 28-year-old Chinese fighter lost four straight in UFC competition and was 1-5 in the promotion overall.

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Former Bellator bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi will return to action at Rizin 38 against Yuto Hokamura on Sept. 25.

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The Japanese promotion recently confirmed that pairing along with four other bouts: Hiromasa Ougikubo vs. Soo Chul Kim at bantamweight; Kyohei Hagiwara vs. Chihiro Suzuki at featherweight; Juri Ohara vs. Luiz Gustavo Felix dos Santos Felix dos Santos at lightweight and Shoma Shibisai vs. Callyugibrainn Marinho Borges de Oliveira at heavyweight.

Rizin 38 takes place at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama Japan and also includes a Super Rizin portion of the card, which will feature a previously reported exhibition boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Mikuru Asakura.

The 31-year-old Horiguchi has lost three of his last four professional fights. He last appeared as part of Bellator’s 135-pound grand prix, where he dropped a five-round verdict to Patrick Mix in the quarterfinals of the bracket on April 23. Horiguchi’s lone …

A finger infection has forced Sean Strickland to withdraw from the UFC Fight Night 212 main event against Jared Cannonier on Oct. 15.

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UFC president Dana White confirmed Strickland’s exit from the card following the Contender Series on Tuesday night while adding that the promoiton will not seek a replacement opponent for Cannonier. UFC Fight Night 212 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and also includes a women’s flyweight clash between Viviane Araujo and Alexa Grasso as well as a men’s 125-pound tilt pitting Askar Askarov against Brandon Royval.

Strickland had a bid for title contention shot down at UFC 276, as he suffered a first-round KO defeat to former Glory Kickboxing champ Alex Pereira in his most recent Octagon appearance. That defeat snapped a six-bout winning streak for the 31-year-old Team Quest representative.

Cannonier is coming off a failed attempt at middleweight gold at UFC 276, where he dropped a five-round verdict to I…

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The onetime Pancrase headliner was one of five competitors to nail down an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract on Week 6 of DWCS, as he buried Jose Henrique Souza with punches in the third round of their welterweight showcase on Tuesday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Souza (5-1) checked out 43 seconds into Round 3.

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ODDS: Morgan (-220); Bilder (+175)Round 1 Tristar gym member Morgan enters after a title-winning effort in the Samourai MMA promotion, while the unbeaten Bilder is a Cage Fury Fighting Championships title holder. Jason Herzog gets the night’s opening assignment. Morgan takes the center of the cage with Bilder circling on the outside. Morgan with an impactful kick to his foe’s lead leg. Bilder with a couple jabs and Morgan answers with a straight right. Bilder throws a 1-2 with his guard held high. A hard low kick lands for Morgan. Bilder finds the range on a solid right hand. Another calf kick lands for Morgan. Bilder kicks the body. A right hand behind the ear from Bilder buckles Morgan and Bilder immediately jumps on his foe’s back. Morgan goes to the floor and fights off the choke wit…

UFC middleweight Darren Till was arrested in Stockholm on charges of drunk driving last month, according to Swedish news outlet Expressen.

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Till was pulled over on July 31 while driving at high speeds behind the wheel of a silver Audi with English plates. According to police, Till was “noticeably drunk.” The fighter admitted to having “one to two beers” at a restaurant but initially claimed that the woman he was with was driving the vehicle. Till later admitted to driving while intoxicated and according to a police report said the incident would ruin his career.

The Liverpool native ultimately submitted to a breath test for alcohol, which came back three times above the legal limit and accepted a penalty order, the terms of which are currently unknown.

Till has visited Sweden on multiple occasions recently to work out at Allstars Training Center alongside friend and UFC welterweight contender Khamzat Chimaev. He was slated to make his first a…

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A flyweight showdown pitting Alex Perez against Amir Albazi is on tap for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event on Dec. 17.

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Perez confirmed the booking on social media following an initial report from MMAFighting.com. The UFC Fight Night event doesn’t yet have an official location or main event.

After winning six of his first seven Octagon appearances, Perez has dropped back-to-back fights in the Las Vegas-based promotion. The Team Oyama representative was submitted by Deiveson Figueiredo in a flyweight title bout at UFC 255 before tapping to a first-round neck crank from Alexandre Pantoja in his last outing at UFC 277.

Albazi, meanwhile, has emerged as an interesting prospect at 125 pounds after besting Malcolm Gordon, Zhalgas Zhumagulov and Francisco Figueiredo in his first three UFC bouts. The 28-year-old London Shootfighters product owns a 15-1 professional mark overall.

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Irina Alekseeva, a flyweight known as “Russian Ronda,” has signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

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Suckerpunch Entertainment, which represents Alekseeva, announced the news on Tuesday. A date for Alekseeva’s promotional debut is currently unknown, but she is not expected to compete on Dana White’s Contender Series before stepping into the Octagon.

Alekseeva previously appeared at Bellator 269, where she defeated Stephanie Ielo Page via unanimous decision in October 2021. She has since been released by the California-based promotion. She owns a 4-1 career mark overall, with two triumphs coming inside the distance.

The 32-year-old has won multiple championships in combat sambo and is a three-time silver medalist at the Russian Judo Championships.

Jake Paul could be in line to face his most difficult test to date.

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The social-media-personality-turned-boxer will reportedly face former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in a boxing match on Oct. 29. TMZ Sports was first to report the booking, while NoSmokeBoxing initially brought word of the targeted date. The bout would headlined a Showtime pay-per-view card. A location and venue was not confirmed.

Most Valuable Promotions, which is Paul’s company, teased an announcement over the weekend, claiming Paul would “almost certainly be the underdog” in his next fight.

Next week we will announce JAKE PAUL’s next opponent. @jakepaul will almost certainly be the underdog. He knows that and he wants that.

— Most Valuable Promotions (@MostVpromotions) August 27, 2022

Paul, 25, has compiled a 5-0 mark as a professional boxer, with notable wins over former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley (twice) and ex-Bell…