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The Ultimate Fighting Championship will return to Australia for a pay-per-view event in early 2025.

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The Las Vegas-based promotion announced on Wednesday that UFC 312 will take place on Feb. 8 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. No bouts were revealed for the card.

UFC 312 is the second event of a four-year, multi-event agreement as part of the promotion’s partnership with the New South Wales Government. The Octagon last touched down in Sydney in September 2023 for UFC 293, which memorably saw Sean Strickland claim middleweight gold with an upset victory over Israel Adesanya in the evening’s main event.

More recently, the company went Down Under for UFC 305 at RAC Arena in Perth on Aug. 17. In the evening’s main event, Dricus Du Pless…

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Video of Mike Perry’s recent DUI arrest shows the BKFC star acting hostile and using derogatory language toward police officers.

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Perry was pulled over by Clermont (Florida) Police for speeding on Oct. 12. Bodycam footage obtained by TMZ Sports shows Perry initially becoming agitated with one officer when he is questioned about his consumption of alcohol.

“Well, you’re talking a little slow, and I can smell it coming out of this side when I came over here,” the officer says.



“Well, you’re talking a little fast,” Perry responds.



“I’m talking a little fast?” the officer says. “OK, I’ll slow it down just for you. Is that better?”



Perry is then asked to step out of the vehicle. When he refuses to take a sobriety test, Perry is placed under arrest. At that point, Perry addresses his wife, who was in the vehicle with him, and uses homophobic slurs when referring to the officers.

“Latory, I’m getting arrested, beca…

Michel Pereira will take an eight-fight winning streak into his first main event appearance against Anthony Hernandez at UFC Vegas 99 on Saturday.

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“I was really excited to fight in the Sphere, but my agent told me the UFC changed plans and gave me my first main event, which was also good,” Pereira told Sherdog.com. “So it was initially bad news that turned into a [something] good.”

Hernandez also has plenty of momentum, as “Fluffy” enters the matchup having won five consecutive Octagon appearances. Pereira is confident that his training at Xtreme Couture will provide him with the preparation necessary to emerge victorious.

“No doubt Hernendez is a dangerous guy who likes to put a lot of pressure on his opponents, but the level of training and sparring partners I have at Xtreme Couture will certainly help me to take him out of his comfort zone,” Pereira said. “I’ve evolved a lot lately. I’m really well prepared for his game and, concerning …

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After authoring a career-defining moment at 155 pounds, Max Holloway is confident he can return to the featherweight division without issue.

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After knocking out Justin Gaethje to claim the BMF belt in a lightweight bout at UFC 300, Holloway will challenge Ilia Topuria for the featherweight strap in the UFC 308 headliner on Oct. 26 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. The Hawaiian star addressed concerns that he might struggle to make the cut to 145 pounds in a recent video on his YouTube channel.

“Everybody keeps talking about the weight coming into this fight. The whole question about the last fight was the weight, and now the whole question about this fight is the weight because of what we did in the last fight,” Holloway said. “But it is what it is. I got the best person behind me. I got my wife, she’s chefing it up, and I got my man Tyler Minton back on the team. He’s going to be out there with us fight week, and he’s one of the best …

The tension is rising as Ilia Topuria (15-0) and Max Holloway (26-7) near their featherweight title clash.

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Holloway will challenge Topuria in the main event at UFC 308 on Oct. 26 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. Topuria recently accused Holloway of trying to avoid fighting him in the beginning.

Holloway initially claimed that he called for a title shot against Topuria. However, Topuria refutes that claim, saying a challenger doesn’t get to call his shots anyway. Holloway earned his claim to title contention with a BMF title win over Justin Gaethje at lightweight this past April. According to Topuria, he asked for the Holloway matchup for his first title defense.

According to Topuria, Holloway allegedly tried his best to dodge the fight in favor of staying put at lightweight. Topuria claims it was the UFC who eventually forced “Blessed” to accept the booking.UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway Saturday at 2 PM ET on ESPN+. Order Now!

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Conor McGregor is trading barbs with Ilia Topuria leading up to the latter’s title fight at UFC 308.

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Topuria will make his first featherweight title defense against Max Holloway in the main event at UFC 308 on Oct. 26 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. Topuria’s back and forth with McGregor started when the Irishman visited Marbella, Spain, and claimed he feels more Spanish than the undefeated Georgian-Spaniard.

Responding to McGregor’s comments, Topuria made a somewhat crude comparison of himself and former UFC heavyweight king Francis Ngannou.

“When I see myself in the mirror, below my waist, I also think sometimes I’m more African than Francis Ngannou,” Topuria told Ariel Helwani.

Ilia Topuria responds to Conor McGregor saying he’s more Spanish than him:

“When I see myself in the mirror, below my waist, I also think sometimes I’m more African than Francis Ngannou.” 😭😭😭😭

🎥 @arielhelwani #HelwaniShow pic.twit…

🤯Ilia Topuria says he wants to break the record for the fastest KO in UFC history against Max Holloway:

"I wanna have the fastest knockout in UFC history with my hands because Jorge (Masvidal) has it with a knee, I wanna do it with the hands...

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I don't have any doubts I'm… pic.twitter.com/CItqHlAlrc — Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) October 15, 2024

Ilia Topuria is confident as ever going into his first featherweight title defense.

Topuria puts his strap on the line against Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 308 on Oct. 26 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. And “El Matador” vows to beat Holloway at his own game.

While Holloway was slightly removed from the title picture until recently, he earned his shot with a BMF title win over Justin Gaethje at lightweight at UFC 300 this past April. “Blessed” battered Gaethje for five rounds before iconically inviting him to a slugfest in center of the Octagon and knocking hi…

The 10th and final week of this season’s Dana White’s Contender Series took place Tuesday night and saw four fighters receive Ultimate Fighting Championship contracts.

In the main event, Nick Klein (5-1) wasted no time upsetting huge favorite Heraldo Souza (9-1-1) as he got a takedown in the early seconds of the fight, and in a total of 37 seconds, Klein closed the show with a first-round, rear-naked choke victory.

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Jonathan Micallef, Yadier Del Valle and Luis Gurule joined Klein as winners who were awarded contracts. Two of the winners, Gurule and Klein, both came in on short-notice to secure wins.

The co-main event would have a tough act to follow after Del Valle and Monteiro, but it was quite the follow-up in itself with undefeated flyweights Nick Piccininni and Gurule taking center stage. Both fighters had their moments in the first round, with Gurule finding his momentum in the later stages of the period.

It was very much a wrestler versus…

Sherdog’s live coverage of DWCS 2024: Week 10 will begin Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET. Round 1 Herb Dean will oversee this welterweight contest. Micallef comes out throwing straight punches and Ado lands a body kick. Micallef catches a second offering and pushes his man into the fence. They battle for position in the clinch and Ado reverses position and lands a knee. They move off the fence but remain engaged, and they’re both throwing knees. Micallef tosses his foe to the canvas, but Ado is able to return to his feet in short order. The clinch battle resumes. Micallef tries for a trip but Ado reverses it. Ado locks in a power guillotine during a scramble, but Micallef frees himself. Micallef transitions to a triangle on his back, and Ado’s arm also appears to be vulnerable in this position. Micallef has the triangle choke locked in tight, pulling down on Ado’s head. He looks to Dean, and he indicates that his opponent is out. Dean checks to confirm, and Ado is indeed unconscious. …

Guilherme Vasconcelos, a veteran of 16 professional mixed martial arts bouts, has died at 38 years old.

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Members of Vasconelos’ family first brought word of his death, and multiple outlets later confirmed the Brazilian’s passing. A cause of death has not been revealed. Vasconcelos posted a photo of a Gracie Barra gym on his Instagram stories less than 24 hours ago.

Vasconelo’s death was also mourned by members of the MMA community on social media, including longtime jiu-jitsu coach Cristiano Lazzarini.

“Of all the students I had, you were the bravest,” Lazzarini wrote on social media (translation via MMAFighting.com). “Fearless, unbeatable. In moments of chaos, a machine. In trivial moments, a sweet boy. We had a machine that had a bit of everything. Your MMA debut, with a win against a man that had won 10 in a row and had 19 fights, was of the happiest moments of my life in the sport. Unbreakable. So many trips together, so many battles. From…

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The UFC 310 lineup appears to be nearly complete, as the promotion announced a heavyweight bout between Talisson Teixeira and Lukasz Brzeski to fill out the 12-bout card.

UFC 310 takes place on Dec. 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and is headlined by a welterweight championship duel pitting Belal Muhammad against Shavkat Rakhmonov. In the co-main event, Alexandre Pantoja will defend the flyweight strap against Rizin Fighting Federation veteran Kai Asakura.

The 6-foot-7 Texieira made waves on Week 6 of Dana White's Contender Series when he scored a first-round knockout of Arthur Lopes to secure a UFC contract. The 24-year-old Brazilian is 7-0 as a professional, with all of his triumphs coming inside of a round.

Poland’s Brzeski has been victorious in just one of his first five promotional outings — a unanimous decision win over Valter Walker at UFC Fight Night 240 on …

UFC Hall of Famer Donald Cerrone has unfinished business in the Octagon.

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The fan favorite, who announced his retirement following a second-round submission loss to Jim Miller at UFC 276 in July 2022, recently took to social media to announce his plans for a comeback.

“I want to go back and get two more fights,” Cerrone said in a video on Instagram. “When I retired, I told you I was getting my hair done and get on steroids. The No. 50 [under the Zuffa banner] has been sitting on my mind for a while. So, I’ve been working with Transcend for the last two years, taking TRT and a bunch of peptides. Now we got a protocol for all you people that, ‘Oh, what if you get on it, you can’t ever come off.’ Well, I now have to come off and piss clean, fight in a few months. So, watch this.”

“Cowboy” has 48 combined fights while competing for World Extreme Cagefighting and the UFC, a journey that began in 2007. The 41-year-old “Cowboy” is winless in his l…