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Professional Fighters League prospect Shanelle Dyer is following the wisdom of Fleetwood Mac: “Go your own way.”

Entering the 2024 PFL Europe semifinals, Shanelle Dyer (5-0) is aiming to establish herself as a new star, independent of fellow undefeated British talent Dakota Ditcheva. In 2023, Ditcheva ran through her flyweight bracket at PFL Europe, and Dyer plans to do the same. She faces Valentina Scatizzi (3-2) at the PFL Europe 3 Playoffs on Sept. 28 in her home country of the United Kingdom, and bettors have installed her as a massive favorite.

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Dyer, a muay thai practitioner who made the transition into MMA and turned pro in 2023, has already competed twice under the PFL banner. Her first appearance came in a non-tourney tilt against Luisa Fernanda Cifuentes, and her performance earned an invitation to the 2024 PFL Europe bracket. Speaking to the media before facing Scatizzi, Dyer was well aware of the comparison to Ditcheva. Paying respect to th…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is putting together about as classic of a “striker vs. grappler” matchup as it gets.

Per MMA Fighting on Thursday, the promotion has set a welterweight collision of Michael Chiesa (17-7) vs. Max Griffin (20-10) for UFC 310. The two 170ers with drastically different styles will come to blows on Dec. 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Griffin has since confirmed the pairing on Instagram.

Chiesa bounced back from a career-long losing streak by tapping out Tony Ferguson in August. The victory snapped a skid that began in 2021, marking his first win since January of that year. In his rough patch, Chiesa succumbed to a brabo choke from Vicente Luque and fell short on the scorecards to Sean Brady. These back-to-back setbacks led to some time off for the Washington native. After about 20 months off, Chiesa returned, and Kevin Holland ended up tapping him with a brabo choke to set a record for the most losses via this submission in compan…

[embedded content] Unbeaten Polish standout Jakub Kaszuba is exactly where he wants to be right now.

Kaszuba (12-0), who won the 2023 lightweight season of Professional Fighters League Europe, is content in his training in Florida. Rather than moving to the global season of the tournament-based league, he returned to PFL Europe for the 2024 season, in hopes of snagging another $100,000 check. His campaign has gone well thus far, picking up a decision victory over Kane Mousah in March. The 29-year-old will stand across from the cage with Daniele Scatizzi in the semifinals in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sept. 28.

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Starting his career at 12-0, he knows that he is just now entering his prime as an athlete, so he focuses on his daily training. Using his circle of coaches that includes his wife, Kaszuba absorbs everything he is taught like a sponge. Speaking to Sherdog.com ahead of his semifinal pairing, Kaszuba discussed the patience in which he’s used in his car…

New UFC antitrust settlement explained in 90 seconds. pic.twitter.com/sXG0HIrozd

— Erik Magraken (@erikmagraken) September 26, 2024 The Ultimate Fighting Championship has offered more money to resolve one of two antitrust cases against it.

Former Bloody Elbow staff member John Nash first reported the news on Thursday of the new settlement plan, one that would increase the dollar amount offered by the UFC while concluding one of the two cases against it instead of both. This new offer, agreed to by both TKO Group Holdings—the new parent company of the UFC—and the parties involved, would be of the sum of $375 million. It is still subject to approval by Judge Richard Boulware, who has overseen the case thus far. If the Judge denies this settlement agreement, the parties will still have a chance to reach another before the trial currently scheduled for February 2025.

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A decade ago, the UFC’s former parent company of Zuffa w…

#UFCMacau is shaping up nicely 👀

Which fight are you most excited for?? pic.twitter.com/0qEawTiuEg

— UFC (@ufc) September 26, 2024 The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s trip back to the “Las Vegas of the East” is looking solid on paper.

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On Wednesday night, the organization released a swath of new matchups for UFC Macau, also known as UFC Fight Night 248. Earlier in the day, the promotion dropped the headliner of Petr Yan vs. Deiveson Figueiredo. To fill out much of the Nov. 23 slate, a whopping seven pairings were made official or announced for the first time.

The lineup of the Fight Night affair is currently not set, although two main card matchups of Volkan Oezdemir (20-7) vs. Carlos Ulberg (10-1) at light heavyweight and Xiaonan Yan (18-4, 1 NC) vs. Tabatha Ricci (11-2) at strawweight have been set in stone. In the latter bout, it will be Oezdemir attempting to string together a three-fight win streak, an achieve…

PFL unveils full card for Oct. 19’s ‘Battle Of

𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Your Battle Of The Giants Fight Card is set 🔐

The countdown to impact is 𝙊𝙉 ⏳💥#PFLSuperFights | #BraceForImpact | Oct 19th pic.twitter.com/npBUbpv6Bb

— PFL (@PFLMMA) September 26, 2024

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As anticipation continues to grow for Professional Fighters League’s “Battle of the Giants” pay-per-view event, fans now know the entire fight card for Oct. 19 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

PFL announced their full lineup Thursday morning, which features three title fights, including two massive welcomes to the organization, a Bellator MMA title fight rematch and two of the sport’s top young fighters locking horns.

In addition to the previously revealed bouts that top the marquee, the league announced all 10 fights that will take place on Oct. 19.

Joining Francis Ngannou vs. Renan Ferreira, Johnny Eblen vs. Fabian Edwards, Cris Cyborg vs. Larissa Pa…

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At this point in his career, Stephen Thompson isn’t a fighter who’s accustomed to being on the prelims.

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Barring a late change, that will be the case at UFC 307, when “Wonderboy” squares off against Joaquin Buckley in a welterweight bout at the Delta Center in Utah on Oct. 5. As it currently stands, Thompson vs. Buckley is slated to be the evening’s featured preliminary bout on ESPNEWS and ESPN+. For pay-per-view events, the promotion typically offers at least one marquee fight on the earlier portion of the card.

“I’m so used to being on the main card, but hey, wherever the UFC puts us, we’re going to go out there and put on a show no matter what. We’re going to show everybody that we deserved to be there,” Thompson recently told Bodog Canada. “We should have been on the main card. But yeah, a little weird at this point knowing what kind of a fight this is going to be. You would figure that they’d want to have all eyes on it.

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Manel Kape will lock horns with Bruno Silva at UFC on ESPN 63.

Ag.Fight was first to report the flyweight pairing. UFC on ESPN 63 takes place on Dec. 14 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, and also includes a strawweight rematch between Mackenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas. A headliner has not been confirmed for the card.

Kape last appeared at UFC 304, where he suffered a unanimous decison loss to Muhammad Mokaev on July 27. That snapped a four-bout promotional winning streak for the ex-Rizin Fighting Federation bantamweight king.

After going winless in his first three UFC bouts, Silva has emerged as a person of interest in the flyweight division thanks to a four-fight finishing streak. In his last outing, “Bulldog” scored a second-round TKO of Cody Durden at UFC on ESPN 60 on July 20.

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While Jamahal Hill believes Khalil Rountree possesses some traits that could give Alex Pereira problems, he ultimately expects the Brazilian to emerge victorious in the UFC 307 headliner.

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Pereira will defend his light heavyweight crown against Rountree on Oct. 5 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah. Rountree will take a five-bout winning streak into his championship opportunity, but he has yet to fight beyond the third round during his promotional tenure.

“It’s gonna be a knockout, 100% it’s gonna be a knockout. Khalil doesn’t have a five-round gas tank and he’s gassed at paces that were much slower than the pace that he’s gonna have to fight with Alex,” Hill recently told Aljamain Sterling on the Weekly Scraps podcast.

“Alex is gonna come out slow. He’s gonna come out and take his time… Although he does look like he just wants to feel out, he’s a lot more forward-imposing than he looks.”

However, Hill says that Rountr…

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Ali Abdelaziz isn’t happy that Magomed Ankalaev was bypassed for a light heavyweight title shot at UFC 307.

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Ankalaev is 10-0-1 with one no contest in his last 12 Octagon appearances, but the Dagestani standout won’t be facing reigning champion Alex Pereira at UFC 307 on Oct. 5 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Instead, that opportunity went to Khalil Rountree, who has won five straight in UFC competition but also recently failed a drug test.

“Certain fighters have a long road to the title, like Khabib [Nurmagomedov], like Kamaru Usman, like Islam Makhachev. But when they get there, they become dominant,” Abdelaziz recently told ESPN. “Listen, the UFC has different views about what they want to do with Alex Pereira. They want him for Utah. Magomed Ankalaev will fight in Abu Dhabi, in his market he fights in. Magomed has a new deal he’s very happy with. He deserves a title shot.”

UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. Saturday at 10 ET on ESPN…

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According to John Wood, Khalil Rountree came pretty close to calling it quits before his career could really pick up momentum.

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“I think, it was you know, third or fourth fight, he was talking to me about wanting to retire and going to construction,” the Syndicate MMA coach recently said on Daniel Cormier’s YouTube channel. “He’s like, ‘Yeah, I think I got this good construction job. It’s gonna pay money.’ I said ‘Whoa, whoa, bro, no no no.’ I was like, ‘Just give me a year. Give me a year and I promise you do whatever I’ll support you after that. Just give me a hard year.’ And you know, through that process, ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ came.”

It was still a bumpy road for Rountree after appearing on Season 23 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” as he had inconsistent results for the first five years of his UFC tenure. That led to him considering retirement again in late 2019 before eventually having a change of heart and extending his contract…

Reinier de Ridder didn’t take long to get his first Ultimate Fighting Championship opponent.

The former ONE Championship two-division title holder will square off against Gerald Meerschaert in a middleweight bout at UFC Fight Night 247 on Nov. 9. UFC op Eurosport NL was first to report the booking. UFC Fight Night 247 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and does not currently have a headliner in place.

De Ridder began his professional career with 17 consecutive triumphs, a run that included a 7-0 start to his ONE tenure. He bested Aung La N Sang on two different occasions to become a two-division champion but would lose both belts to Anatoly Malykhin in technical knockout defeats. “The Dutch Knight” fought outside the ONE banner for the first time since 2018 on July 27, when he defeated Magomedmurad Khasaev via first-round TKO at UAE Warriors 51.

A veteran of 54 professional outings, Meerschaert has finished 29 of his 37 career triumphs by way of sub…

A bantamweight clash pitting Petr Yan against Deiveson Figueiredo will likely serve as the main event for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s event in Macau on Nov. 23.

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The booking was initially reported by Leo Guimaraes on social media. The UFC Fight Nightevent takes place at Galaxy Arena in Macau, China.

A former bantamweight champion, Yan snapped a three-bout skid in his most recent Octagon appearance when he outpointed Yadong Song at UFC 299 on March 9. The 31-year-old Russian owns other notable victories over the likes of Cory Sandhagen, Jose Aldo, Urijah Faber, Jimmie Rivera and John Dodson during his promotional tenure.

Figueiredo, meanwhile, has found success at 135 pounds after two championship reigns in the UFC’s flyweight division. Since moving to bantamweight, the 36-year-old Brazilian has bested Rob Font, Cody Garbrandt and Marlon Vera in succession. While Figeuiredo was mentioned by newly-crowned champ Merab Dvalishvili as a …

Kevin Vallejos wants to avenge the lone career defeat that delayed his Ultimate Fighting Championship signing.

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Vallejos earned a UFC contract on Tuesday with a first-round technical knockout win over the previously undefeated Cam Teague at Dana White's Contender Series. However, this wasn’t the Argentine prospect’s first appearance on the Contender Series. Vallejos suffered his only pro loss via unanimous decision against streaking UFC featherweight Jean Silva in September 2023. Vallejos then racked up consecutive stoppage wins on the regional circuit to earn another shot on the Contender Series, where he made a strong impression. While “El Chino” is ready to fight anybody the UFC offers for his debut, he wants his shot at redemption against Silva at some point.

“I’m an employee of this company and I will fight wherever they ask me to… There’s a revenge that I think I should get and I want that,” Vallejos said during a post-fight media scrum. “Bu…

As the days count down to the biggest Professional Fighters League event of 2024, there’s another teaser trailer to excite the combat sports universe. #PFLSuperFights #BraceForImpact pic.twitter.com/h3yVn2FfuX

— Sherdog (@sherdogdotcom) September 25, 2024

As the days count down to the biggest Professional Fighters League event of 2024, there’s another teaser trailer to excite the combat sports universe.

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In a newly released video, its main event of the “Battle of the Giants” pay-per-view on Oct. 19 is highlighted, with no words needed as the impact of former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight king Francis Ngannou and PFL heavyweight champ Renan Ferreira draws the attention of spectators and helicopters as they tear through the streets leading towards their clash in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

It will be a historic night for the PFL, with Ngannou’s promotional debut and a stacked main card. The co-main event will …

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Brendan Allen is hopeful of a middleweight title shot if he gets past his next opponent.

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Allen will go to enemy territory to co-headline UFC Fight Night 243 against French contender Nassourdine Imavov at the Accor Arena in Paris on Saturday. While Allen acknowledged Imavov’s striking speed, “All in” believes he is a better fighter overall.

“One attribute that definitely stands out for him is, he’s fast. I just think I’m better,” Allen recently told TMZ Sports. “I’m sure he probably thinks he’s better than me. I just think I’m better than him everywhere. I don’t think he’s fought anyone like me that possesses the skills that I possess and the athletic abilities that I have, the experience. I don’t think he’s fought anyone with all those things lumped in one. I know he’s probably thinking he’s gonna come out here and run through me and beat me up or whatever, that’s fine. Lot of people have thought that before and lot of people hav…

Renato Carneiro believes Paddy Pimblett is deserving of at least “some respect.”

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Carneiro is slated to headline UFC Fight Night 243 against Frenchman Benoit St. Denis at the Accor Arena in Paris on Saturday. The Brazilian recently revealed that the two most prominent potential opponents in his mind going forward are Pimblett and Dan Hooker.

Pimblett has consistently expressed interest in fighting “Moicano,” regardless of the outcome the latter’s clash against St. Denis. Meanwhile, Carneiro first called out Hooker after “The Hangman” and Israel Adesanya picked Jalin Turner to beat “Moicano” at UFC 300. Carneiro made “The Tarantula” pay for a failed walk-off KO attempt, coming from behind to submit him in the second stanza.

While Hooker had agreed to fight Carneiro, the Kiwi ended up fighting Mateusz Gamrot at UFC 305 this past August, earning an upset split-decision win. However, Carneiro didn’t see Hooker winning that fight. “Moicano” is mor…

Diego Lopes recently laid down his immediate career plans.

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Lopes is coming off a unanimous decision win over Brian Ortega at UFC 306 that saw the Brazilian enter the featherweight title picture. It was Lopes’ fifth consecutive win — including three finishes — after coming up on the short side of a unanimous decision against Movsar Evloev in his UFC debut.

Meanwhile, Evloev has offered Lopes a rematch after originally scheduled opponent Aljamain Sterling pulled out of their UFC 307 matchup set for Oct. 5. However, having fought Evloev on short notice once, Lopes is unwilling to do it again unless the UFC guarantees Lopes a title shot with a potential win over the undefeated Russian.

“The only possibility this fight happens is if the UFC really says, ‘OK, you fight him and win, and you’re next for the belt,’” Lopes recently told MMAFighting.com. “That’s the only way this fight happens at the moment, and I want a full camp. It’s very easy for h…

Danylo Voievodkin laughed in the face of the oddsmakers.

The 6-foot-3, 263-pound Ukrainian—a prohibitive 8-to-1 underdog on some books—was one of five hopefuls to nail down an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract during Week 7 of Dana White’s Contender Series, as he turned away the heavily favored Bailey Schoenfelder with a rear-naked choke in the first round of their heavyweight showcase on Tuesday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Schoenfelder (5-1, 0-1 DWCS) raised the white flag 73 seconds into Round 1.

Voievodkin walked the former University of Minnesota linebacker backward and leveled him with a sweeping left hook. A dazed-and-confused Schoenfelder was powerless to defend against the follow-up attack. Voievodkin (7-0, 1-0 DWCS) wheeled to the back, cinched the choke and elicited the tapout. Featherweight Kevin Vallejos, welterweight Daniel Frunza, light heavyweight Kevin Christian and women’s strawweight Alexia Thainara are set to join Voievodkin in the UFC ro…

Sherdog’s live coverage of DWCS 2024: Week 7 will begin Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET. Round 1 Herb Dean will ref the evening’s first bout. Thainara lands a low kick to begin the action. Another low kick lands for Thainara, and this one has more impact. Thainara punches into the clinch and easily trips Conceicao to the mat. Thainara lands in half gaurd. Conceicao creates some space and is able to scramble up when her opponent stands. They’re back in the clinch, and Thainara shoves her foe into the fence. They separate and move back to distance. Conceicao just misses a knee in close quarters. Thainara again lands a low kick. Thainara times a takedown nicely and plants Conceicao on her back. Conceicao lands a couple elbows from her back. Thainara is in full guard. She makes Conceicao uncomfortable with a can opener before standing and letting her foe back to her feet. Conceicao lands a straight right. Thainara continues to chop away at the lead leg of Conceicao. More low kicks leand fo…

Former One Championship two-division title holder Reinier de Ridder has signed a contract to compete for the UFC.

Multiple outlets confirmed the news after UFC Roster Tracker brought word of the signing via X. De Ridder, who held titles at 205 pounds and 225 pounds in ONE, is expected to compete at middleweight within the Las Vegas-based promotion. A date for his debut has not been confirmed.

De Ridder began his professional career with 17 consecutive triumphs, a run that included a 7-0 start to his ONE tenure. He bested Aung La N Sang on two different occasions to become a two-division champion but would lose both belts to Anatoliy Malykhin in technical knockout defeats.

“The Dutch Knight” fought outside the ONE banner for the first time since 2018 on July 27, when he defeated Magomedmurad Khasaev via first-round TKO at UAE Warriors 51.

A heavyweight rematch between Ciryl Gane and Alexander Volkov will no longer take place at UFC 308 as originally anticipated.

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Volkov recently announced that he suffered a knee injury, which forced him to withdraw from the event. La Sueur was first to report that the fight was off the UFC 308 bill. While the French outlet revealed that the heavyweight bout was postponed to UFC 310, that has not been finalized, according to MMAFighting.com. UFC 308 takes place at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 26 and is headlined by a featherweight championship clash between Ilia Topuria and Max Holloway.

“I have to inform you that my fight on Oct. 26 in Abu Dhabi is canceled due to my knee injury,” Volkov wrote on Instagram. “I will try to return to the gym and fight as soon as possible.”

Gane and Volkov initially squared off in the main event of UFC Fight Night 190 in June 2021, with the Frenchman winning a five-round unanimous decision.

A former int…

😅Renato Moicano tells the story of how he got his name 'Moicano':

"I used to use the mohawk and Moicano means mohawk so when I started to train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, they used to give nicknames to everybody, and then they started to call me Moicano because of the hair"… pic.twitter.com/HuVXJ9KEHD

— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) September 23, 2024

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Renato Carneiro recently revealed how he got his nickname.

Carneiro says “Moicano” is not his real name, although that is a popular misconception in the mixed martial arts world. According to the Brazilian, “Moicano” translates to mohawk, the hairstyle he was sporting when he started training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a kid. Since it was tradition to give everyone nicknames in BJJ, Carneiro got “Moicano” based on his hairdo. And it has stuck with him to the point where his father also refers to him by the same moniker.

“Everybody thinks [it’s my real name]. But this is…

Belal Muhammad is confident he can beat Darren Till on the feet.

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Muhammad dethroned Till’s fellow countryman, Leon Edwards, via a dominant unanimous decision in the main event at UFC 304 in Manchester this past July. From his experience fighting “Rocky,” Muhammad has arrived at the conclusion that Englishmen aren’t good at striking.

This led him to challenge Till, who is primarily a striker, to a stand-up sparring match. Ready to put his money where his mouth his, “Remember the Name” offered a wager of $100,000 for the potential spar, which would be live streamed. Muhammad even more boldly offered to go southpaw against “The Gorilla” for five rounds.

“I realized after going with Leon that people in the U.K. don’t have striking, you guys aren’t good at it,” Muhammad said on X Spaces. “I’ll put $100,000 that I’ll beat you in a five-round sparring match. We’ll just do stand up sparring; we’ll go live stream it… I won’t even wrestle and I will go…