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Shortly after Khamzat Chimaev’s dominant victory over Jinliang Li at UFC 267, he took a moment to issue a high-profile callout to one of the promotion’s biggest stars.

Hey, Diaz, let’s go, brother,” Chimaev said in a post-fight media session. “Let’s go. You gonna get some smoke, bro. Let’s see who is the real gangster.”

Diaz, of course, is notoriously picky when it comes to opponents. The Stockton, Calif., native latst appeared at UFC 263, where he lost a unanimous decision to Leon Edwards in June. In an interview with TMZ Sports, UFC president Dana White said that the organization will at least entertain the thought of a Diaz vs. Chimaev booking.

“We’re gonna talk to Nate about it,” White said. “100 percent [down].”

Even if Diaz declines, White is impressed with the star potential of Chimaev, who has overwhelmed all four of his foes in the Octagon. That suggest a big promotional push for th…

The lineup for Bellator 272 continues to grow, as Jay-Jay Wilson will move up to lightweight to face Alfie Davis on Dec. 3.

Additionally, Kyle Crutchmer will square off against Oliver Enkamp in a welterweight contest. MMAjunkie.com was first to report the pairings. Bellator 272 takes place at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., and is headlined by a bantamweight title tilt between Sergio Pettis and Kyoji Horiguchi.

Wilson is making the move to 155 pounds after missing the featherweight mark for the third time at Bellator 265, when his clash against Adam Borics was canceled. The 24-year-old Kiwi is 8-0 as a pro, including a second-round TKO of Pedro Carvalho in his last outing at Bellator 257.

London’s Davis had a four-bout winning streak snapped at Bellator 259, where he fell to Alexdr Shabliy on May 21. The London Shootfighters native is 14-4 as a professional overall. A former NCAA All-American wrestler at Oklahoma State University, Crutchmer has been vic…

A Legacy Fighting Alliance featherweight champion and prized pupil of the Machida family, Bruno Souza has signed with the sport’s largest organization to make his debut against Melsik Baghdasaryan at UFC 268 on Saturday.

It’s a lifelong dream fulfilled for the 25-year-old Souza.

“Since I moved to the U.S. that was my ultimate goal. I really don’t care if it was a short notice, because I´m always trained and ready to fight,” Souza said. “Challenge given, challenge accepted.

Souza, who enters his first UFC foray with a 10-1 mark, signed a four-fight deal with the Las Vegas-based promotion. He is coming off a victory over Javier Garcia at Legacy Fighting Alliance 114 in September that earned him the promotion’s featherweight belt.

Souza is 25 years old and was born in Recife, Brazil. However, at the age of 4, he moved to Belém, Brazil, where he began to practice karate at the Machida Gym with patriarch sensei Yoshizo Machida. 

“We are v…

An atomweight clash with rankings implications is set for Rizin Fighting Federation 32, as Rena Kubota will lock horns with Miyuu Yamamoto on Nov. 20.

Promotion officials recently announced the full lineup for the card, which will take place at Okinawa Arena in Okinawa, Japan. Kubota and Yamamoto initially squared off at Rizin 2 in September 2016, with Kubota winning via first-round submission.

The card includes eight other MMA bouts: Mitsuhisa Sunabe vs. Yoshiro Maeda; Tomohiro Adaniya vs. Yuichi Miyagi; Bobby Ologun vs. Katsuya Kitamura; Daryl Lokuku vs. Noah Bey; Juri Ohara vs. Kohei Tokeshi; Haruo Ochi vs. Tatsuya So; Mizuki Oshiro vs. Aira Koga and Shinya Kumazawa vs. Tanner Lourenco.

“We are planning to put on monthly events for the rest of the year while following the guidelines given from the government,” Rizin CEO Nobuyuki Sakakibara said at a press conference. “I am proud to announce that we will be holding an event in Okinawa for the first time in Nov…

Legacy Fighting Alliance featherweight champ Bruno Souza will step in on short notice to face Melsik Baghdasaryan at UFC 268 on Saturday.

Souza is a replacement for T.J. Laramie, who recently announced his withdrawal from the event due to an MRSA infection. MMA DNA was first to report the new pairing. UFC 268 takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York and is headlined by a welterweight title rematch between Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington.

A protégé of former UFC title holder Lyoto Machida, Souza has been victorious in 10 of his first 11 professional outings. The 25-year-old known as “The Tiger” captured featherweight gold with a unanimous verdict against Javier Garcia at LFA 114 on Aug. 27. He also owns notable wins over UFC talent Kamuela Kirk and Bellator veteran Mike Hamel.

Anchored at Glendale Fighting Club, Baghdasaryan is a former competitor on Dana White’s Contender Series. Though he didn’t initially earn a contract with his win over Dennis Buzuk…

It was smooth sailing on the scales for Week 10 of Dana White's Contender Series, as all 10 athletes slated to compete on Tuesday’s card hit their contracted marks.

The Contender Series takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Tuesday night and airs via ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The featured bout on this week’s lineup is a lightweight showdown pitting Achilles Estremadura (156 pounds) against Maheshate Maheshate (156).

A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Estremadura has compiled a 7-0 record while competing exclusively under the Battlefield Fight League banner. Most recently, he scored a first-round KO of Curtis Demarce at BFL 66 on March 19.

China’s Maheshate has won five straight contests after dropping his professional debut. His current streak includes three KO victories inside of two rounds while competing for the Wu Lin Feng organization.

Contender Series Weigh-in Results:Achilles Estremadura (156) vs. Maheshate Maheshate (156)Yohan…

Benoit Saint Denis showcasing some true toughness, my goodness!

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— UFC (@ufc) October 30, 2021 While Vyacheslav Kiselev has taken the majority of the blame for the amount of punishment Benoit St. Denis endured at UFC 267, the French welterweight’s corner has come under scrutiny as well.

St. Denis was on the wrong side of a lopsided second round in his preliminary matchup with Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos, and the Octagon newcomer appeared to be on the verge of being stopped on multiple occasions. The UFC commentary team criticized Kiselev for not stepping in to halt the bout, as did a large portion of the MMA community on social media. However, St. Denis survived the second round and ultimately made it to the final horn – even after informing Kiselev he couldn’t see out of one eye due to an eye poke later in the bout.

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Cory Sandhagen war alle Klasse nach seiner hart umkämpften Niederlage gegen Petr Yan in der UFC-267 co-main event.

Obwohl Sandhagen Yan durch eine 169-zu-149-Zählung in... streiks, sein russischer Gegner verbunden mit dem schädlicheren schläge im Verlauf von fünf Runden - einschließlich des Kampfes nur Knockdown. Sandhagen hat in Runde 1 seine beste Arbeit geleistet, konnte es aber nicht duplizieren Sie diese Anstrengung konsequent genug, um das Nicken von der cageside Richter.

In der unmittelbaren Folge hatte Sandhagen keine Probleme mit dem Finale urteil.

"Er ist ein verdammt guter Kämpfer, Mann", sagte Sandhagen in einem Nachkampf interview im Achteck. "Du bist ein großartiger Kämpfer. Er war besser heute Abend, Mann. Ich habe nicht wirklich viel anderes zu sagen. Ich frage immer. I immer wollen die besten der Welt zu kämpfen. Ich weiß, dass das, was ich werde die beste Kampfkünstlerin sein, die ich sein kann. Ich bin dankbar, dass ich ich muss es heute Abend…

Jan Blachowicz was pretty succinct in summing up his performance against Glover Teixeira in the UFC 267 headliner.

The Polish veteran struggled to remain upright to showcase his knockout power, as Teixera took him down with ease in the opening stanza of their light heayweight tilte bout. Blachowicz didn’t panic despite being on his back for much of Round 1. However, it wasn’t long before he was grounded again in the second frame after being stunned by a Teixeira left hook. This time, the Brazilian advanced position with ease, transitioned to the back and flattened Blachowicz out for a rear-naked choke submission win.

“Everything was okay,” Blachowicz said. “The first round I think that he would take me down, but anyway I don’t feel bad in this position. I say okay, this round is for him now, the second round I’ll start working, I’ll do my job.

“But he don’t let me do this. He take me down again and submit me. What can I say more? I feel like s— and that’s it.”<…

Islam Makhachev weiß, dass es immer Neinsager geben wird, aber er glaubt er hat genug getan, um ernsthaft über die nächste nachzudenken leichte Titelaufnahme.

Der Dagestaner verdiente seinen neunten Triumph in Folge bei UFC 267 als er rollte vorbei Dan Hooker für einen klaren Sieg in der Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi am Samstag Nacht. Makhachev benutzte eine Kimura, um einen Tapout von "The Hangman" zu erzwingen bei der 2:25-Marke der ersten Strophe. Es war Hookers erster submission-Niederlage seit 2012.

“Ich fühle mich gut, weil ich mein Niveau zeige – ich weiß nicht wie viele minuten (es hat gedauert) ", sagte Makhachev bei der UFC 267-Presse nach dem Kampf Konferenz. "Jetzt wird jeder wie Nutte reden ist eine einfache gegner, er hat kein Grappling oder Wrestling. Nutte wird hart. Er schlagen Sie eine Menge Wrestling, Grappling Kerl auch. Er schlug Gilbert Burns, viele, viele Leute. Ich denke, ich Verdiene jetzt.

“Wenn ] Michael] Chandler Hooker schlägt, geben si…

Nach Petr Yan behauptete die Interims-Bantamgewichts-Krone mit einem denkwürdigen triumph über Cory Sandhagen in der UFC 267 co-main event gab es einige Frage, was könnte sei der nächste für den Russen, der als “Keine Gnade" bekannt ist.”

Immerhin ein Zusammenstoß zwischen Yan und Ex-Champ T. J. Dillashaw könnte ansprechend sein, wenn Aljamain Sterling erholt sich nur langsam von einer Nackenoperation. UFC-Präsident Dana White legte diese Vorstellung zur Ruhe, in Anspielung auf das Unvollendete geschäft zwischen Yan und Sterling. Sterling behauptet, die bantamgewicht Krone, als er nicht weitermachen konnte, nachdem Yan gelandet war ein illegales Knie in der vierten Runde ihres Zusammenstoßes bei UFC 259. vergangenen März, was zu einem Disqualifikationssieg für die Serra-Longo Kampf Teammitglied.

"Diese beiden [Yan und Sandhagen] gingen heute Abend in den absoluten Krieg", weiß sagte am Samstag auf der Pressekonferenz nach dem Kampf. “Petr Yan ist ein Wild. Ich meine,…

For Glover Teixeira, winning the UFC light heavyweight title was a goal that was 20 years in the making.

After one unsuccessful championship bid in 2014, Teixeira was stuck in a contender’s purgatory for approximately four years, going 5-5 in UFC competition. At that point, it looked like Teixeira’s time to become a champion had passed, particularly after a lopsided loss to Corey Anderson at UFC Fight Night 134 in July 2018.

Teixeira has since rattled off six consecutive triumphs, culminating in Saturday’s second-round submission of Jan Blachowicz in the UFC 267 headliner at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. With the win, Teixeira became the 14th light heavyweight champion in promotion history

“It feels so amazing,” Teixeira said at Saturday’s post-fight press conference. “[I’m] so happy. This is what I dreamed for 20 years. Twenty years on the road, ups and downs, I wanted to get this belt. I wanted to be a champion. There was a time there that I thought I would never…