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The #LFA58 Public Weigh-In takes place this Thursday at #ENVYNightlife at @RT66Casino at 6 p.m. MT!

It will be streamed live on the @LFAfighting and @AXSTVFights Facebook pages.

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The Legacy Fighting Alliance is set to plant its flag in the Land of Enchantment for the first time with LFA 58.

Harvey Park hit the scales at 155.8 pounds, as he prepares to face Jaleel Willis (155.8) at lightweight in the LFA 58 main event this Friday at the Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Co-headlining the card will be a flyweight showdown between former Ultimate Fighting Championship combatant Joby Sanchez (125.6) and Demetrius Wilson (125.8), with all four making with ease at Thursday's weigh-ins.

LFA 58, which airs live on AXS TV on Friday, Jan. 25th at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, …

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has scheduled major hearings for their meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 29 to decide the fates of three of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's biggest stars.

According to the agenda released by the commission, hearings for Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor and Jon Jones will take place during the same meeting. MMAJunkie.com was first to report this news. The meeting is scheduled in Las Vegas at 9 a.m. local time, and any potential broadcasting plans have not yet been announced.

First on the docket will be the complaint against Nurmagomedov. He has been on suspension ever since his post-fight brawl at UFC 229, where he submitted McGregor and then jumped from the cage to attack one of McGregor’s cornermen. Both Nurmagomedov and McGregor are potentially facing fines as well as additional suspensions and other possible action, and the commission has not released Nurmagomedov’s entire fight purse from the event. Although attendance has been deem…

Two lightweights on the hunt for back-to-back wins @DamirHadzo vs Marco Polo Reyes comes to #UFCPrague! pic.twitter.com/OdbHwu3ZZC

— UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) January 24, 2019

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first foray into the Czech Republic just received a new lightweight attraction. On Thursday morning, the UFC Europe Twitter page announced that Damir Hadzovic (12-4) and Marco Polo Reyes (8-4) have agreed to meet at UFC on ESPN+ 3 on Feb. 23.

“The Bosnian Bomber” Hadzovic has gone 2-2 under the UFC banner. The Bosnian fighting out of Denmark made his UFC debut in 2016, but was knocked out in the first round by Mairbek Taisumov. Since then, he has bounced back with wins in two of his last three bouts, having defeated Marcin Held and Nick Hein. Half of the Art…

Kelvin Gastelum heads Down Under next month to attempt to dethrone Robert Whittaker for the middleweight belt, and despite marching into the champ’s home ground, he is brimming with confidence.

The 27-year-old Arizona native is feeling confident ahead of his bout against “The Reaper” and comes into the fight with back-to-back victories over former middleweight champion Michael Bisping and grappling ace Ronaldo Souza.

During a media day in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Gastelum said he’s riding high on confidence and predicted a short night for the Aussie next month.

“I’m predicting a first-round knockout,” Gastelum said. “I’ve put in so much work and I feel so confident in my abilities and confident in what I’ve done in the sport that I’m predicting a first-round knockout.”

The middleweight belt has gone through a transitional period changing hands a number of times in recent years since Anderson Silva’s reign ended in 2012 with a number of champions including Ch…

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Alexander Hernandez was one of three fighters from UFC Fight Night Brooklyn to receive a 60-day medical suspension.

The New York State Athletic Commission released a list of medical suspensions from the event on Wednesday. Hernandez suffered a technical knockout loss to Donald Cerrone thanks to a head kick and follow-up punches at the 3:42 mark of round two in a preliminary lightweight con…

Reigning welterweight champion Rory MacDonald will face Jon Fitch as part of the first round of the Bellator grand prix at an event in San Jose, Calif., on April 27.

MacDonald will also put his belt on the line in the five-round bout, with the winner moving on to the semifinals as the California-based promotion’s welterweight champion. MMAFighting.com was first to report the matchup, which is expected to take place at the SAP Center. Bellator has not officially confirmed the booking.

MacDonald is coming off a lopsided second-round TKO loss at the hands of Gegard Mousasi in a middleweight championship tilt at Bellator 206 this past September. “The Red King” debuted in the promotion with a submission of Paul Daley before taking a five-round verdict over Douglas Lima to claim 170-pound gold at Bellator 192.

Fitch enters the matchup on a five-fight winning streak, which includes a decision triumph over Daley at Bellator 199. Prior to that, the former UFC title challe…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is hoping that the third time is the charm for a middleweight clash between Yoel Romero and Paulo Henrique Costa.

According to a report from Combate, the Las Vegas-based promotion is targeting Romero vs. Costa for its UFC on ESPN 3 card at American Airlines Arena in Miami on April 27. Multiple outlets have since confirmed that the 185-pound bout is in the works.

Romero and Costa were originally scheduled to meet at UFC 230, but “The Soldier of God” was forced to withdraw due to lingering injuries from his UFC 225 clash against Robert Whittaker. The middleweights were later targeted for UFC Brooklyn on Jan. 19, but Romero again had to pull out of the contest.

Romero has lost two of his last three bouts, both in five round verdicts against Whittaker, the reigning middleweight champion. The American Top Team member began his promotional tenure on an eight-fight winning streak.

“Borrachinha” hasn’t competed since July, when he…

A previously rumored lightweight clash between Edson Barboza and Justin Gaethje is now official as the headliner for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s second card on ESPN network.

The Las Vegas-based promotion confirmed the lightweight matchup on Tuesday. UFC on ESPN 2 takes place at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on March 30 and is also expected to include a strawweight clash between Karolina Kowalkiewicz and Michelle Waterson.

Barboza has compiled a 14-6 mark in the Octagon since beginning his promotional tenure in 2010. The Brazilian last competed at UFC on Fox 31, where he authored a devastating beatdown of Dan Hooker en route to a third-round knockout victory.

Gaethje, the former World Series of Fighting lightweight champion, has gone 2-2 in UFC competition after beginning his professional career with 17 consecutive wins. “The Highlight” is coming off a first-round knockout of James Vick at UFC Fight Night 135 on Aug. 25.

This just in, we've added some serious talent to the #Bellator216 card!This women's flyweight bout between @ValerieLoureda and @Team_Colby22 is gonna' be ! pic.twitter.com/idJPwJCiad

— Bellator MMA (@BellatorMMA) January 21, 2019

Recently-signed taekwondo black belt Valerie Loureda will make her professional mixed martial arts debut against Colby Fletcher at Bellator 216.

The California-based promotion recently announced the pairing, which will be contested at 125 pounds. Bellator 216 takes place at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., on Feb. 16 and is headlined by a welterweight tournament bout between Michael Page and Paul Daley. Loureda vs. Fletcher is expected to be part of the evening’s main card, which airs on Paramount Network and streams on DAZN.

Loureda was initially rumored to have been paired against Anastasia Bruce, a New York-based amateur with a winless amateur record, but that matchup did not come to fruition. Loureda is a…

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Henry Cejudo surprised many with his 32-second TKO of T.J. Dillashaw last Saturday, and much of the conversation in the aftermath has centered on whether the stoppage was premature.

Many fans believed Dillashaw’s stand up and his unorthodox movement would prove to be too much for Cejudo, but it was “The Messenger” who lit up his opponent early which dropped the Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight champ. Cejudo landed a number of unanswered shots before the referee intervened with Cejudo now holding back-to-back wins over Demetrious Johnson and Dillashaw.

A frustrated Dillashaw told UFC commentator Jon Anik in the post-fight interview inside the Octagon that he was annoyed at how quickly the referee stopped the fight.

Cejudo’s head coach, Eric Albarracin, was a guest on the recent edition of “The MMA Hour” and said that Dillashaw was lucky that referee Kevin MacDonald stepped in to prevent e…

Excited to join WTT. Great things coming in 2019. New Players, new media partners, new technology, new cities and teams. Stay tuned. And make sure to follow @ProFightLeague in 2019. https://t.co/iVFwAKl16q

— Carlos Silva (@carlossilva) January 22, 2019

Professional Fighters League President Carlos Silva is leaving the promotion to take a position as CEO of World TeamTennis.

WTT announced the move, which is effective immediately, in a release on Monday. Over the past four years Silva served as both president of the PFL, which finished its debut season on New Year’s Eve, and as CEO of World Series of Fighting. WSOF was rebranded as PFL after a new ownership group of Washington-D.C.-based businessmen purchased the organization in 2017.

“Tennis has been a cornerstone throughout my life and I look forward to working hand-in-hand with the tremendously talented men and woman at WTT to achieve our common goal of linear and digital growth and promoti…

Khabib Nurmagomedov has several opponents in mind for his next fight, but Conor McGregor isn’t one of them.

“Right now, if you guys ask me, of course [McGregor] no deserve title shot,” Nurmagomedov recently told Submission Radio. “He lose. He tapped. It wasn’t a close fight. I dominated him everywhere in every aspect. I beat him. Like I told, I smashed him. Why we need rematch?”

Nurmagomedov soundly defeated McGregor at UFC 229, defending his lightweight crown via fourth-round submission at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Oct. 6. After the bout, the Dagestani jumped out of the Octagon to attack McGregor training partner Dillon Danis, sparking a post-fight melee that included McGregor and members of both camps. Nurmagomedov is still facing discipline from the Nevada Athletic Commission for his actions. His immediate future depends on what type of punishment he receives.

“Honestly, I don’t know nothing about my comeback. We have to wait,” Nurmagomedov said. “End…

Rachael Ostovich’s fight with Paige VanZant last weekend may not have turned out like she would have hoped, but there was a certain triumph in just making the walk.

On Saturday night, the main card of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s debut event on ESPN+ featured a flyweight bout between Ostovich and VanZant. Ostovich came into the fight having recovered from a broken orbital bone she sustained late last year as a result of an alleged attack by her husband, Arnold Berdon, and injury that had left the bout in apparent jeopardy.

The 27-year-old Hawaiian took the fight to her younger opponent, getting the better of the exchanges early before “12 Gauge” used her wrestling skills in the second round to take her opponent down, then locked up an armbar. Ostovich tapped to the hold and seemed to have hurt her elbow in the process.

Ostovich spoke to reporters backstage after the bout and said the injury she sustained during the fight is just part and parcel of the spo…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s partnership with ESPN is apparently already paying major dividends for The Worldwide Leader.

According to a release, ESPN+ gained 568,000 new subscribers on Friday and Saturday combined –525,000 on Saturday alone – a surge that can be largely attributed to the presence of UFC Fight Night Brooklyn on the streaming platform.

While the six-bout main card (along with three early prelims) streamed on ESPN+, four prelims from 8:15 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET aired on ESPN network. That telecast, which was topped by a lightweight tilt between Donald Cerrone and Alexander Hernandez, averaged a 1.4 metered market reading. That makes it the highest rated preliminary card for a UFC Fight Night card since 2013.

Additionally, MMA content brought 1.8 million unique visitors to various ESPN digital platforms.

“All day, and across all ESPN platforms, we collectively demonstrated the promise of what we can do to fulfill our mission of serving a w…

Greg Hardy didn’t do much to enhance his already tarnished reputation in his Octagon debut.

The former NFL star was disqualified after landing an illegal knee against Allen Crowder in the UFC Fight Night 143 co-main event in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Saturday night, drawing boos from those in attendance at the Barclays Center. Hardy, whose first three pro fights ended in less than a minute, claimed the blow, which ended the bout at the 2:28 mark of round two, was unintentional.

“He was getting up, it was inexperience in mistiming it, man,” Hardy told media at the post-fight press conference. “But I was trying to time it like I had just watched Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone do, like I saw everybody else do, and I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. And it was not. I messed up.”

Hardy’s past history with domestic violence led some to plenty of skepticism regarding his intent with the knee. However, Hardy pointed out that he had a clean history on the gridiron.

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Donald Cerrone has been one of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s most notorious bonus collectors during his lengthy tenure, and Saturday night was no different.

“Cowboy” earned $100,000 in post-fight bonuses for his second-round stoppage of Alexander Hernandez in a preliminary lightweight clash at UFC Fight Night 143 in Brooklyn, N.Y. After weathering a quick start from his opponent, Cerrone gradually picked up steam, ultimately putting Hernandez away with a head kick and follow-up punches at the 3:43 mark of round two.

As a result of his work, Cerrone earned one of the evening’s $50,000 “Performance of the Night” awards. “Cowboy” and Hernandez also shared “Fight of the Night” honors and $50,000 apiece for their entertaining scrap.

Meanwhile, reigning flyweight king Henry Cejudo garnered the card’s other $50,000 “Performance of the Night” check for his 32-second technical knockout victory of T.J. Dillashaw in the evening’s main event. A glancing head kick and …

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Henry Cejudo not only wanted to defend his Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight title, he wanted to make a statement at UFC Fight Night 143.

“The Messenger” come out aggressively from the opening horn and landed a fierce kick to T.J. Dillashaw’s ribs. From there, Cejudo (14-2) landed a glancing head kick and then rocked his foe with punches to the head. Dillashaw tried scoring a takedown from his knees, but he was dropped again and again from punches to the head.

Cejudo never stopped throwing bombs until Dillashaw (16-4) rolled out and referee Kevin MacDonald pulled him off, ending the main event in just 32 seconds.

Cejudo retained his title and thwarted Dillashaw, the reigning bantamweight king, from trying to become the fourth fighter in UFC history to win world titles in two weight …

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Dennis Bermudez went out on a high note.

The 32-year-old announced his retirement on Saturday night following a unanimous decision victory against Te Edwards in a lightweight bout at UFC Fight Night 143 in Brooklyn, N.Y. “The Menace” halted a four-bout losing streak that dated back to February 2017.

““This is my last fight,” Bermudez said in a post-fight interview. “It’s been awesome. I’ve been through some stuff and thought about hanging them up after the four losses. I want my kids to look back and see that even though I went through adversity, I came out on top. My uncle has cancer and isn’t doing so well. That’s what us Bermudez boys do—when we’re down and out, we come back and win.”

Bermudez made it to the finals of “The Ultimate Fighter 14,” where he was submitted by Diego Brandao at the “TUF 14” finale. From there, the New York native kicked off the most successful stretch of his career, authoring a seven-bout winning streak that included triumphs over Max…

An aggression-fueled Jose Mariscal knocked Youssef Zalal from the ranks of the unbeaten, as he captured a unanimous decision over the Factory X prospect in the Legacy Fighting Alliance 57 headliner on Friday at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado.

All three cageside judges saw it 29-28 for Mariscal (7-3, 1-0 LFA), who has posted back-to-back victories since his September 2017 encounter with Carl Deaton ended in a no-contest.

Mariscal closed the distance with punching flurries, executed repeated takedowns and applied his ground-and-pound, controlling virtually all of the first round and parts of the second. However, Zalal (3-1, 3-1 LFA) put him in peril on multiple occasions in the middle stanza, once with an armbar and later with a guillotine choke. The 22-year-old carried the momentum into the third round, where he struck for a takedown of his own, advanced to Mariscal’s back and locked in an inverted triangle choke as time ticked away. “Chepe” escaped, survived t…

Championship weight!

@HenryCejudo - 124.4 #UFCBrooklyn pic.twitter.com/DpAd0tV25y

— UFC (@ufc) January 18, 2019

“For all you f*****g doubters out there.”

@TJDillashaw - 124.6 #UFCBrooklyn pic.twitter.com/tZ1JZBNSU9— UFC (@ufc) January 18, 2019

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The UFC on ESPN era is upon us, with the debut event hosting a title fight with the potential to crown the fourth-ever simultaneous double champ, as Henry Cejudo is set to face T.J. Dillashaw.

Cejudo hit the scales at 124.4 pounds, as he prepares to defend his Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight throne against bantamweight king Dillashaw (124.6) in the UFC on ESPN+ 1 main event this Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Co-headlining the card will be a heavyweight battle bet…

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It’s all systems go in Las Vegas as both Manny Pacquiao and Adrien Broner made the welterweight limit at Friday afternoon’s official weigh-in.

The two will clash in the featured bout of a pay-per-view event inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Pacquiao’s WBA welterweight title will be at stake and both men have vowed to knock the other out in the days leading up to their scrap.

Broner (33-3-1, 24 KOs) hasn’t won since he earned a split decision over Adrian Granados nearly two years ago. He dropped a decision to Mikey Garcia in his next bout and then fought to a draw against Jessie Vargas. The Cincinnati native was the first to step onto the scale and the polarizing and troubled 29-year-old made it look easy. “The Problem” came in at 146.5 pounds, flexed his muscles and was brimming with confidence.

Pacquiao (60-7-2, 39 KOs) has been knocking back Father Time for several years and has looked very shar…

#WCW: @RondaRousey protégé and #Judo black belt champion @PauliePita06 makes her @LFAfighting debut at #LFA57!

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— LFA (@LFAfighting) January 16, 2019 The Legacy Fighting Alliance is back in action in 2019 after a banner year, hosting a big event in LFA 57 in Colorado.

Youssef Zalal hit the scales at 145.2 pounds, as he prepares to face Jose Mariscal (145.8) at featherweight in the LFA 57 main event this Friday at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado. Co-headlining the card will be a welterweight showdown between Josh Cavan (170.2) and Anthony Adams (169.8), with all four making weight without issue at Thursday’s weigh-ins.

LFA 57, which airs live on AXS TV on Friday, January 18th at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, also features a middleweight contest between Lucas Rota (185.6) and Adam Stroup (183). A pair of welterweights will collide, as Austin Jone…

#WCW: @RondaRousey protégé and #Judo black belt champion @PauliePita06 makes her @LFAfighting debut at #LFA57!

TICKETS: https://t.co/adTN0xikoq#MMA#LFANation@1STBANK_Center pic.twitter.com/IfzhYXw6KJ

— LFA (@LFAfighting) January 16, 2019 The Legacy Fighting Alliance is back in action in 2019 after a banner year, hosting a big event in LFA 57 in Colorado.

Youssef Zalal hit the scales at 145.2 pounds, as he prepares to face Jose Mariscal (145.8) at featherweight in the LFA 57 main event this Friday at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado. Co-headlining the card will be a welterweight showdown between Josh Cavan (170.2) and Anthony Adams (169.8), with all four making weight without issue at Thursday’s weigh-ins.

LFA 57, which airs live on AXS TV on Friday, January 18th at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, also features a middleweight contest between Lucas Rota (185.6) and Adam Stroup (183). A pair of welterweights will collide, as Austin Jone…