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** Huge Announcement ** Michael 'Venom' Page will be facing Mike Perry in the main event at #BKFC27 on Aug 20th! https://t.co/HLL6nJaKgl▶️Pre-Sale Ticket Signup: https://t.co/B9CKDdozj8 pic.twitter.com/XKrkrfAWVE

— Bare Knuckle FC (@bareknucklefc) June 9, 2022 Sign up for ESPN+ and order UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka

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Editor's note: The article has been updated at 4:45 p.m. ET on June 9 to add a statement from the promoter.

It appears Michael Page is taking his recent loss in Bellator MMA for the title a little harder than anyone expected.

On Thursday, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship announced the main event of its jaunt to London on Aug. 20. The fight card at the OVO Arena Wembley will be capped off by a middleweight (175 pounds) tilt between Page and Mike Perry. Both men longtime MMA veterans, this match will be contested under bare-knuckle boxing rules over five rounds, each two minutes in length. Per MMA Junki…

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Unlucky Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight Alex Perez has had more matches canceled than competed in his UFC tenure.

In November 2020, Perez (24-6) became the first fighter off Dana White's Contender Series to earn a title shot, facing Deiveson Figueiredo atop UFC 255. Perez fell short by first-round submission, and due to a series of unfortunate events, he has not competed since that night. Perez has been booked against Matt Schnell and Askar Askarov numerous times, only for the fights to fall through repeatedly. His latest tilt against Askarov, once scheduled for July 16, is now off, according to Ag. Fight on Wednesday night.

The promotion has adjusted accordingly, bumping Perez to UFC 277 in Dallas on July 30. Instead of Askarov, Perez will square off against Alexandre Pantoja (24-3) in a de facto title eliminator as well as a replacement option should the interim title tilt of…

BREAKING: @InvictaFights Heads to Denver on July 20 with Bantamweight Title Clash #InvictaFC48 https://t.co/Q5DlKYTdSQ

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Invicta Fighting Championships will be leaving the Kansas City region for the first time since 2018 this July.

The organization sent out a press release on Thursday announcing its next event, titled Invicta FC 48, which will take place on July 20. Rather than the Memorial Hall or Police Athletic League in Kansas City, Kansas, Invicta will be posting up in Denver at Reelworks Denver. As it will be held in Colorado, open scoring will be in effect. Capping off the fight card will be a bantamweight championship affair between defending champ Taneisha Tennant (4-1) and ex-Bellator MMA fighter Olga Rubin (7-2). The promotion will also be returning to the AXS TV airwaves, rather than airing on YouTube.

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Former UFC heavyweight Juan Adams could potentially get his shot in Professional Fighters League later this month.

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Adams announced via Facebook that he has signed with the promotion as an alternate and will weigh in ahead of the PFL 5 event on June 24. PFL 5 takes place at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta and features primarily heavyweight and featherweight competitors in the second regular season event for both weight classes.

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“Just signed the contract for [PFL]. I will be an alternate, meaning that if anyone can’t fight for whatever reason i get my shot,” Adams wrote. “I weigh in June 23 either way in Atlanta. My sponsors are set and i just want to thank all of them, as well as my fans for staying …

Even though he is in the midst of a later-career resurgence with a six-bout winning streak, light heavyweight champ Glover Teixeira is an underdog against Jiri Prochazka in the UFC 275 main event.

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Whether that’s betting odds or a recent poll on the Sherdog website, the MMA world seems to expect Prochazka to emerge from Saturday’s fight with the light heavyweight belt in tow. Some 19 months after facing the champion in a UFC on ESPN 17 headliner that featured knockdowns from both fighters before Teixeira emerged with a submission win in Round 3, Thiago Santos envisions a similar ending at UFC 275.

"Styles make fights. If Prochazka keeps fighting the same way he has been, always walking forward, he will fit perfectly into Glover´s gameplan,” Santos told Sherdog.com. “[He] will use that to take him down and, believe me, once he is on the top it is very hard to remove him from there. Jiri´s best chance in that fight would be to move laterall…

Two of KSW's most battle-tested fighters square-off in the main event!

Lightweight champ Marian Ziółkowski defends his title against Sebastian Rajewski at #KSW71!

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A lightweight championship clash pitting reigning title holder Marian Ziolkowski against Sebastian Rajewski will serve as the headliner for KSW 71.

The Polish promotion recently announced the booking. KSW 71 takes place on June 18 in Torun, Poland, and will also see former heavyweight champ Marcin Rozalski return from a five-year absence to face kickboxing standout Errol Zimmerman in the co-main event. Rozalski vs. Zimmerman will be contested under K-1 rules while using MMA gloves. KSW 71 is available on pay-per-view via KSWTV.com.

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Ziolkowski claimed the vacant lightweight strap with a fourth-round technical knocko…

Jiri Prochazka will enter the UFC 275 main event with a 12-fight winning streak that includes 11 victories by knockout or technical knockout.

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Since only two of those triumphs — Dominick Reyes and Volkan Oezdemir — have come within the Las Vegas-based promotion, reigning light heayvweight champion Glover Teixeira is not especially impressed with the achievement. When Teixeira initially challenged for 205-pound gold, he took a 20-bout professional winning streak into his matchup with Jon Jones at UFC 172. He would go on to lose a clear-cut unanimous decision to “Bones,” and it would be more than seven years before he reached the top of the mountain in the division.

“It’s different … It’s very hard to do in the UFC. When I fought Jon Jones I was coming off a [long winning streak] — something like that too. With many knockouts," Teixeira said at UFC 275 media day (video via MMAjunkie.com). "It’s not in UFC. It’s hard to do in UFC. That doesn’t mean muc…

On the most basic level, the UFC 275 headliner seems to boil down to the classic striker vs. grappler matchup.

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Reigning champion Glover Teixeira claimed the light heavyweight strap with a rear-naked choke victory against Jan Blachowicz at UFC 267, and prevailing logic suggests that the ground game is his best path to victory against Jiri Prochazka, a former Rizin title holder with 25 career knockout or technical knockout victories to his credit. Prochazka himself is well aware of Teixeira’s abilities and he’s spent a significant period shoring up his weaknesses in preparation for their championship clash.

“That started in the beginning of this year, preparation to be better in wrestling and jiu-jitsu,” Prochazka said at UFC 275 media day (video via MMAjunkie.com) “How to react, to change my the nature of my reaction to include wrestling in my standup style. I think that was the hardest thing I had to accept. After some time, I found some keys to h…

Once again, Valentina Shevchenko will enter her latest title defense as a considerable favorite.

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Shevchenko, who has long been regarded as one of the top female pound-for-pound talents in the sport, will defend the 125-pound belt against Taila Santos in the UFC 275 co-main event at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore, on Saturday night. “Bullet” has authored six consecutive title defenses — all in dominant fashion — but Santos stated that she has found some holes in the champion’s game leading up to their clash.

Shevchenko has heard it all before.

“I think it’s kind of hypnotizing herself, trying to convince there is something there should be,” Shevchenko told reporters at UFC 275 media day (video via MMAjunkie.com). “Like everyone is not perfect. Definitely not everyone is perfect, but all my opponents, they were saying the same – the same over and over.

“It’s like, ‘No one is unbeatable. She has some holes in her game.’ But once …

The increasingly frequent variation between judges’ scorecards in individual rounds has been a hot topic for debate in mixed martial arts.

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Nova Uniao coach Andre Pederneiras and prominent manager Alex Davis have both recently voiced their support for open scoring. Meanwhile, Joe Rogan weighed in on judging criteria as well, telling Aljamain Sterling on his podcast that he “definitely” won his rematch against Petr Yan. (For the record, Sterling did win a contentious split decision at UFC 273.)

Meanwhile, Brazilian judge Guilherme Bravo, author of the book “In the Judges’ Hands” and recognized by “Big” John McCarthy as one of the best in the business, not only agreed with Rogan but also emphasized the importance of normalizing 10-10 and 10-8 scorecards.

“The 10 point system is perfect, I dont see any need to change rules. The problem is not the rules system. The scores 10-10 and 10-8 are in the rules and must be used more,” Bravo told Sherdog.com…

It appears that the winner of the Weili Zhang-Joanna Jedrzejczyk rematch will be the next No. 1 contender in the UFC strawweight division.

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UFC president Dana White said in an interview with MMA Underground that the winner of the UFC 275 bout will receive a title shot against recently-crowned champion Carla Esparza.

“This would definitely be that whoever wins this will definitely fight Esparza for the title,” White said.

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Zhang and Jedrzejczyk initially squared off at at UFC 248 in March 2020. Zhang retained the 115-pound belt in a memorable split-decision triumph that was selected as Sherdog.com's “Fight of the Year.” Zhang would go on to lose the belt in a first-round knockout loss to Rose Namajunas at UFC 261 before dropping a split verdict to Namajunas in a rematch at UFC 268. Jedrzejczyk, who defended the bel five times before relinquishing it to Namajunas in 2017, hasn’t fought since the loss to Zha…

One familiar face will be absent from the UFC 275 pay-per-view broadcast this Saturday.

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Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping will step in for Joe Rogan as one of the color commentators at the event. Bisping will join fellow ex-champ Daniel Cormier and play-by-play man Jon Anik on the broadcast.

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Rogan typically doesn’t work the UFC’s international events due to a busy schedule that includes his podcast and stand-up comedy tour dates. MMAjunkie.com was first to report Rogan’s absence from the event.

UFC 275 takes place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore and is headlined by a light heavyweight championship tilt between Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka. In the co-main event, Valentina Shevchenko defends her flyweight crown against Taila Santos. The main card is available on pay-per-view via ESPN+ beginning at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, while prelims stream on ESPN2 and ESPN+ a…