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Sherdog's live Bellator 274 coverage kicks off at 6 p.m. ET.

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Round 1 John English will be the third man in the cage for this featherweight bout. Hokit immediately changes levels and takes Macuka down in the center of the cage. The Jackson-Wink MMA product is working inside his opponent’s closed guard. Hokit creates some room and lands an elbow from above. A couple more elbows rain down, and Hokit mixes in some punches to the ribs. Although Macuka is trying to hold him close, Hokit isn’t having difficulty finding space and landing heavy elbows from top position. Macuka’s head is starting to display some lumps as a result of Hokit’s ground-and-pound assault. Hokit passes to half guard and then transitions to full mount. He quickly frames an arm-triangle choke, but he releases it in favor of more ground-and-pound. Macuka gives up his back and Hokit locks in a rear-naked choke. Macuk…

The Professional Fighters League launched its latest format, the PFL Challenger Series, which featured eight light heavyweight contestants competing for a contract on the upcoming Regular Season.

It took only one perfectly-timed shot from Bruce Souto to pocket the PFL contract in a fight that was arguably going in favor of Travis Davis, a short-notice replacement for Joao Paulo Fagundes. Souto (15-3, 1-0 PFL) landed a flying knee that folded Davis (10-6, 0-1 PFL) before finishing the job with a few follow-up punches. The referee stopped the contest at the 4:43 mark of Round 1. In addition to the contract, Souto also took home a $5,000 bonus for his performance.

The headliner featured a clash between former two-division Legacy Fighting Alliance Joshua Silveira and Mohamed Juma. The fighters stormed out of the gate with kicks and punches landed from each man. Juma looked dangerous on the feet at first, but Silveira made the most out of his wrestling and grappling pedigre…

Sign up for ESPN+ right here, and you can then stream the PFL and UFC on ESPN+ live on your computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the ESPN app. Sherdog's live PFL Challenger Series 1 coverage kicks off Friday at 9 p.m. ET. The action will be broadcast live and free on fuboTV. Check out the MMA Forums to discuss the card or enter your comments and predictions below. Round 1 Sherdog Scores Tristen Critchfield scores the round:Tudor Leonte scores the round:Mike Fridley scores the round:Round 2 Sherdog Scores Tristen Critchfield scores the round:Tudor Leonte scores the round:Mike Fridley scores the round:Round 3 Sherdog Scores Tristen Critchfield scores the round:Tudor Leonte scores the round:Mike Fridley scores the round:The Official Result Round 1 Sherdog Scores Tristen Critchfield scores the round:Tudor Leonte scores the round:Mike Fridley scores the round:Round 2 Sherdog Scores Tristen Critchfield scores the round:Tudor Leonte scores the round:Mike Fridley scores …

Sign up for ESPN+ right here, and you can then stream the UFC live on your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the ESPN app. There are no hard feelings between ex-Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight queen Amanda Nunes and her former team. At UFC 269, two-division champ Amanda Nunes fell short to Julianna Pena and lost her 135-pound strap, suffering her first defeat since 2014 and ending an incredible 12-fight win streak. Since then, she announced her decision to leave her longtime camp of American Top Team, revealing details at the press conference of the upcoming season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” Nunes plans on opening her own camp, where she will bring former ATT coaches with her for a more individual-focused team. Sherdog spoke this week with Nunes’ former head coach, “Conan” Marcus Silveira, who opened up with his side of the story.

“There was no disagreement,” Silveira revealed. “After the fight, Amanda had a friendly and adult conversatio…

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— UFC (@ufc) February 18, 2022 Sign up for ESPN+ right here, and you can then stream the UFC live on your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the ESPN app. It has all the earmarks of a last-man-standing match in the topsy-turvy Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight division.

Johnny Walker tipped the scales at 206 pounds for his five-round battle with Jamahal Hill (205) in the UFC Fight Night 201 headliner on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The eight other fighters slated for main-card duty also met their contracted weight requirements at Friday’s official weigh-in, including Kyle Daukaus (193.5) and Jamie Pickett (194)—the two men booked opposite one another in the catchweight co-feature. One lone fighter missed weight: Gabriel Benitez (148), who passed the feath…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-pI1iiKhb8&w=560&h=315] Neiman Gracie and Logan Storley have grand plans for the Bellator MMA welterweight division, and their head-to-head confrontation should determine who gets to move forward.

A longtime Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt with deceptively well-rounded skills, Gracie checked in at 170.75 pounds for his showdown with the once-beaten Storley (170.75) in the Bellator 274 headliner on Saturday at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The six other mixed martial artists scheduled to match wits and fists on the main card, including welterweight co-headliners Andrey Koreshkov (171) and Chance Rencountre (169.5), also met their mandatory weight requirements at Friday’s official weigh-in.

Gracie has alternated wins and losses in each of his past four outings. He last appeared at Bellator 266, where he buried Mark Lemminger with punches and a follow-up elbow strike in the first round of their Sept. 18 pairing. …

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2IHIyXx3zg&w=560&h=315] Bellator MMA is stacking the deck for its return to San Jose, Calif., in April.

Per a report on Thursday by Marcel Dorff, and a subsequent confirmation from one of the participants on Instagram, Aaron Pico (9-3) will be setting foot in the Bellator cage on April 15 against Jeremy Kennedy (17-3, 1 NC). The featherweights will toe the line inside the SAP Center in the promotion’s adopted hometown. Additional, the organization released a few more fights on the preliminary lineup, including a middleweight tilt, a flyweight encounter and a bantamweight scrap.

Pico finds himself on a five-fight win streak since falling short to Henry Corrales and Adam Borics in 2019. A trio of finishes in 2020, an anaconda choke of Aiden Lee in June 2021 and a three-round decision over Justin Gonzales in November have led Pico to the No. 4 spot on Bellator’s rankings list. Of note, the judges’ verdict over Gonzales marked the fi…

Count former Bellator MMA champ Patricio Freire among those that want to get in on the lucrative boxing vs. MMA phenomenon sweeping the sport.

Just like the fight between Logan Paul and Floyd Mayweather in the U.S., the fight between the retired boxer Acelino “Popo” Freitas and YouTube sensation Whindersson Nunes was a smash success in their home country of Brazil. In the co-headliner spot, MMA legend Antonio Rogerio Nogueira squared off with Leonardo Guimaraes in the ring. The crossover show at Fight Music Show on Jan. 30 in Santa Catarina, Brazil, drew a massive audience combined of MMA and boxing fans, so much so that the second edition is already in the works.

This fight card featured a 165-pound match pitting ex-WBA Unified and WBO super featherweight champ Nunes against 27-year-old YouTube comedian Nunes – the latter celebrates nearly 43 million followers – and the two fought to a draw after eight two-minute bouts. After the fight, Freitas, age 46, called out ex- U…

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UFC Fight Night 202 will likely have a new main event after Beneil Dariush suffered an injury less than two weeks before his headlining matchup against Islam Makhachev.

According to a report from ESPN, Dariush was forced to withdraw from the lightweight bout when his toe caught in the mat and his ankle twisted during a sparring session. As a result, the promotion is targeting Bobby Green as a replacement opponent for Makhachev. Green has reportedly agreed to the fight, which if finalized, will likely take place at a 160-pound catchweight. UFC Fight Night 202 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Feb. 26.

Green has won five of his last seven Octagon appearances since 2020. He will be making a quick turnaround after earning a unanimous decision triumph over Nasrat Haqparast at UFC 271 on Feb. 12. Prior to that, “King” defeated Al Iaquinta via first-round TKO at UFC 268.

Makhachev is one of the promotion’s top lightweight contenders and has won his last nin…

Mike Swick has been in a fight for his life the past few months.

“The Ultimate Fighter 1” cast member shared via Instagram that he was recently diagnosed with cancer, calling it “the toughest and most aggressive battle I have ever had.” Swick revealed that he underwent chemotherapy and had more than 15 swollen lymph nodes in his neck.

Swick did not specify what type of cancer he was diagnosed with, but he added that he had the disease for seven months without knowing. He initially attributed the swollen lymph nodes to a side effect from the COVID-19 vaccine.

Swick is currently at home and is optimistic about his recovery prospects.

“Now recovering at home and actually feeling amazing mentally!” Swick wrote. “Vitals all still good but still full of Chemo and a little weak and quite skinny. The lowest I got after the fasts and first week was 151lbs. … I will get a scan and update in just over a week but I decided not to hide this. I want everyone to watch as…

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The UFC Fight Night 203middleweight clash between former M-1 Global champion Bruno Silva and ex-Glory two-division title holder Alex Pereira has the attention of the Brazilian fanbase, perhaps even more so than the card’s headlining bout between Thiago Santos and Magomed Ankalaev.

Silva is coming off three consecutive TKO wins in the UFC, while Pereira impressed with a second-round flying knee stoppage of Andreas Michailidis in his Octagon debut in Madison Square Garden. Daniel Acacio, Silva’s coach, shared his thoughts on the matchup of knockout artists with Sherdog.com.

“It´s natural that after defeating [Israel] Adesanya two times in kickboxing and winning multiple titles in Glory, ‘Poatan’ is expected to be the future champion by most fans,” said Acacio a former Pride Fighting Championships competitor and the head trainer at Evolucao Thai.

“But people need to understand that MMA is not kickboxing and ‘Blindado’ will show him that on March …