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A bit of fun from both @AdamBorics and @Burnellmma 😅

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— BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) March 13, 2022 Adam Borics entered Saturday’s Bellator 276 main event as one of the promotion’s best featherweight contenders; he’s now set to fight for the championship in his next outing.

Borics (18-1) stood toe-to-toe for virtually 25 minutes with Denmark’s Mads Burnell to win a unanimous decision in what was the best performance of his career. Borics landed dozens of thudding and stinging leg kicks and popped Burnell (16-4) with two- and three-punch combos. Burnell was ferocious with an endless assault of body punches and sizzling combos up top, but Borics landed the harder, more telling blows throughout.

Borics dropped Burnell with a slick right hook late in the second round, but even though he busted the Dane up and nearly closed his right eye, he was…

Sherdog's live UFC Fight Night 203 coverage will begin Saturday at 4 p.m. ET.

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A clean sweep across the board for @SemiTheJedi! 🧹

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— UFC (@ufc) March 13, 2022 UFC Fight Night 203's featured prelim saw Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight prospects Matthew Semelsberger and A.J. Fletcher battle for supremacy. Fletcher (9-1) managed to take the fight to the ground early with a strong double leg takedown and then navigated his way to mount. Semelsberger (10-3) would have more success in Round 2 and even managed to get top position on Fletcher. Round 3 would mirror the previous frame with Semelsberger riding out the round in top position and landing solid punches. The judges all saw the fight 29-28 in the favor of Semelsberger.

With the win, "Semi the Jedi" improves to 4-1 inside the Octagon.

Aldrich Handles Robertson In the women's flyweight division, J.J. Aldrich took on fellow UFC mainstay Gillian Robertson.

The first round was co…

Sherdog's live Bellator 276 coverage kicks off at 6 p.m. ET.

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Round 1 Zach Teiberis will officiate the opening professional bout of the night. Both Howard and Ward will be competing in MMA for the first time since 2018. The rangy 6-foot-1 Ward looks to control the range with leg kicks and front kicks on the outside. It’s a tentative beginning, with both men throwing leg kicks as their primary means of offense. Howard blocks a high kick from Ward, who just misses with an overhand right. Howard sticks a jab but misses the straight left. More leg kicks coming from Ward. Ward steps in and eats short counter left. Ward remains committed to attacking the lead leg of his opponent, but he’s not doing much else. But it’s still more than Howard, who for the most part is feinting without pulling the trigger. Howard stuffs a takedown and shoves Ward to the mat in the final 20 seconds. Howard …

Do Gyeom Lee's Cornerman calls the fight after the 2nd round. Boston Salmon gets the TKO Win!#PFLonFuboTV LIVE NOW🇺🇸 https://t.co/R67yD8VVFQ🌍 https://t.co/StPf5kcxnW pic.twitter.com/PhoT2XH3Vn

— PFL (@PFLMMA) March 12, 2022

The only fighter to score a finish Friday night was rewarded with a spot on the upcoming Professional Fighters League 2022 Regular Season.

Ultimate Fighting Championship alum Boston Salmon was the worthiest man at PFL Challenger Series 4. Salmon (8-3, 1-0 PFL) went to war with Do Gyeom Lee (8-5, 0-1 PFL), exchanging wild strikes for 10 minutes. In Round 2, Salmon’s educated jab found the way to its target more freely, inflicting major damage to Lee’s mouth. The Korean — who missed weight by 2.6 pounds the day before the fight — attempted to battle through the pain, but his corner called it a night between the second and third stanzas. In addition to the promotional contract, “Boom Boom” also pocketed a $5,000 perform…

? @MoTownPhenom drops @DiegoSanchezUFC late in the third!#EagleFC46: Lee vs. Sanchez | LIVE NOW on @EagleOnFLX | Sign up to watch LIVE and FREE at https://t.co/QslxaipV9R pic.twitter.com/KfztaJCFMi

— Eagle FC (@EagleFightClub) March 12, 2022

Kevin Lee's (19-7) stock has fallen a lot in the past few years.

The former can't-miss prospect exited the Ultimate Fighting Championship having lost four of his last five fights, most recently a miserable decision loss to Daniel Rodriguez. Nevertheless, he was expected to dominate a 40 year-old Diego Sanchez (30-14), a man who seemed like he had no business fighting for a while now, looking woefully out of shape and offering little resistance in his last appearances.

Moreover, Sanchez had recently been hospitalized for Covid. The expectation was that Lee would dominate him everywhere at Eagle FC 46 in Miami, as he opened as a -400 favorite and closed at an astronomical -4000. Yet, to everyone's sh…

What a way to close out a WILD fight#LFA126 pic.twitter.com/jdTICWYdKZ

— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) March 12, 2022 Despite having two vacant title fights, the Legacy Fighting Alliance crowned only one champion in its return to Brazil.

The main event of the evening was for the LFA featherweight championship, however, only Jonas Bilharinho could win it as late replacement opponent Jose Mauro do Amaral Delano came in one pound heavy. This was more than just a footnote as Delano (10-2) offered up much more of a fight than many pundits expected.

Armed with an unorthodox striking style, Delano was able to get Bilharinho (9-2-1) off his game early on and control the fight at distance by keeping up the pressure and landing damaging flurries of punches. "Joshua" would finally come to life in Round 4, and would have quite a few moments in the final frame, but it was too little, too late as Delano kept walking down his fellow Brazilian. After fi…

The trash talk is heating up, but not between the fighters involved in the potential matchup.

On Tuesday, undefeated free agent Kayla Harrison (12-0) re-signed with Professional Fighters League when the organization utilized matching rights to keep her under contract. Offers from the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Bellator MMA were beaten by the PFL’s unexpectedly large war chest, thereby keeping the two-time Olympic gold medalist under its banner. Following the signing, Bellator chief Scott Coker expressed his disappointment to MMA Junkie that Harrison was kept under lock and key with PFL.

“With Kayla right now, I don’t know who she’s going to fight over there,” Coker said in his interview with MMA Junkie Radio. “She’s got to fight the girls that are the dominant girls in that weight class, [who] are ‘Cyborg’ [Cristiane Justino], to me, the greatest female fighter of all time, Amanda Nunes, and then Kayla. She’s growing, she’s doing very well, but she’s got to figh…

Eight out of ten fights ended by knockout in the latest One Championship event, one appropriately titled “Lights Out.”

Lights OUT! 💡@ThanhLeMMA 🇻🇳🇺🇸 uncorks a looping right hand on Garry Tonon to close the show and retain his ONE Featherweight World Title! #ONELightsOut pic.twitter.com/GAM5Mn1BlB

— ONE Championship (@ONEChampionship) March 11, 2022 The One: “Lights Out” headliner saw Thanh Le notch his first title defense against grappling ace Garry Tonon at 155 pounds. The fight itself only lasted 56 seconds, the time for the two contestants to study one other and exchange a few shots. When the Dana White's Contender Series vet Le (13-2, 5-0 One) started reaching his opponent with a few combinations, Tonon (6-1, 6-1 One) dropped low in pursuit of a heel hook. Le resisted the first submission attempt, and Tonon switched to a kneebar after a remarkable transition. At the same time, the John Danaher protégé left himself exposed to his opponent shot…

First to the scales, Thiago Santos is in at 205.5 🔨

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— UFC (@ufc) March 11, 2022 The Ultimate Fighting Championship's busy March continues with UFC Fight Night 203. The card is headlined by a light heavyweight bout between contenders Thiago Santos and Magomed Ankalaev, who both successfully made weight. The weigh-ins were devoid of any drama, as all 14 bouts are going ahead with all 28 fighters successfully hitting their marks.

A former title challenger, Santos (22-9) bounced back from three straight defeats by beating Johnny Walker in his last outing. While the fight didn't live up to the hype, "Marreta" will look to give a more exciting showing here. Santos officially weighed 205.5 pounds for his sixth UFC main event.

Meanwhile, this is the first UFC headlining spot for Ankalaev (15-1). The Russian fighter hasn't lost a bout since his UFC debut in …

#Bellator276 Official Weigh-In Results: Adam Borics (@AdamBorics) - 145.8 lbs. pic.twitter.com/mOKyi7W7dw

— Bellator Public Relations (@BellatorPR) March 11, 2022 Bellator MMA's lone event of March is upon us as Bellator 276's featherweight main event featuring Adam Borics and Mads Burnell is now official.

While both main event fighters and the bulk of the card made weight, the lone exception was late replacement Josh Weston. Weston missed the welterweight limit by 4.8 pounds, and his fight has been scrapped as a result. All other bouts on the card remain intact.

Borics (17-1) has bounced back from his lone career defeat to Darrion Caldwell and is riding a three-fight win streak. "The Kid" most recently defeated Jeremy Kennedy by decision, and weighed 145.8 pounds for the main event. Meanwhile, Burnell (16-3) is 3-0 inside the Bellator cage, recording finishes in two of those three victories. Burnell, who most recently defeated Emmanuel S…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phfK4BtdU20&w=560&h=315] A rare triplicate of title throwdowns will top the next tentpole card for Rizin Fighting Federation in April.

In a press conference on Wednesday night, the organization announced its next event, Rizin 35, which will take place on April 17. The event will be held not in Saitama, Japan, but instead in Tokyo at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza. The three championship tilts on one evening ties a record set at Rizin 20 in 2019, when three belts were on the line plus a tournament took place that night as well. This blockbuster card will draw lightweights on the marquee, as Roberto de Souza (13-1) aims to defend his throne against the returning Johnny Case (27-7-1).

“Satoshi” fought three times in 2021, claiming the inaugural belt against Tofiq Musayev at Rizin 28 and holding on to it six months later when he tapped out Yusuke Yachi at Rizin 33. With six wins under the Rizin banner, every one has ended within two…