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Cage Warriors Fighting Championship stopped at the Violet Arena in Cardiff, Wales, on Saturday for CW 104.

The main event of the card featured a bantamweight title fight, with Welsh hero Jack Shore putting his belt and his spotless record on the line. Scottish challenger Scott Malone put up a valiant fight, but in the end the champion managed to keep his title. “Tank” secured a slick rear-naked choke at 2:28 of the third stanza. In defending his belt, Shore extended his perfect record to 10-0, the last nine in CWFC, and it may be time for the 24-year-old to join the major leagues of MMA.

#AndStill your Cage Warriors Bantamweight Champion Jack 'Tank' Shore

A clean sweep for the Welsh at #CW104 is completed by the champ, with a win via RNC pic.twitter.com/U2193hqdiz

— Cage Warriors (@CageWarriors) April 27, 2019

The co-main event was to have been the promotional debut of Ultimate Fighting Championship and BAMMA veteran Tom…

Chapter 2 Didn't Disappoint. #RungvisaiEstrada2 pic.twitter.com/4XFczZHNcT

— DAZN USA (@DAZN_USA) April 27, 2019 After losing a bid for the WBC super flyweight title to Srisaket Sor Rungvisai via majority decision a year ago, Mexico's Juan Francisco Estrada can finally call himself champion again.

In the main event of a DAZN-streamed boxing event at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood, California, on Saturday night, Estrada out-boxed his Thai counterpart for 12 rounds to earn a unanimous decision. Estrada (39-3, 26 KOs) moved brilliantly inside the ropes and countered Rungvisai throughout the encounter. Rungvisai (47-5-1, 41 KOs) searched for the knockout in every round, but he had terrible difficulty in figuring out "Gallo's" movement.

Though neither fighter was ever in serious peril of being stopped and nobody was knocked off his feet, the battle was entertaining from start to finish. Estrada seemed to be a step ahead of the def…

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Bellator MMA is concluding the first round of the welterweight Grand Prix in its home state of California, putting the belt on the line between divisional kingpin Rory MacDonald and Jon Fitch.

MacDonald hit the scales at 169.8 pounds, as he prepares to defend his Bellator welterweight throne against Fitch (169.5) in the Bellator 220 main event this Saturday at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. Co-headlining the event will be a women's flyweight title fight between flyweight queen Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (124.8) and Veta Arteaga (123.8) -- with all four making weight without issue at Friday's early weigh-in.

Bellator 220 "MacDonald vs. Fitch," which airs on DAZN at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, also features a light heavyweight rematch between former light heavyweight champs Phil Davis (205.6) and Liam McGeary (205.2). At lightweight, former Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion Benson Henderson (156…

Sean O’Malley vs. Marlon Vera set for UFC 239 on July 6 in Las Vegas, according to sources.

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) April 25, 2019

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is building its International Fight Week event more and more, adding a thrilling bantamweight matchup between Sean O'Malley and Marlon Vera to already stacked lineup.

According to ESPN late Thursday, O'Malley (10-0) will meet Vera (16-4) at UFC 239 in Las Vegas on July 6. Earlier this week, O'Malley posted on his Twitter his intentions of competing at this event, stating, "I'm freeeeeee. July 6th I'm busting someone up."

O'Malley is returning from a six-month suspension after testing positive for ostarine, where his suspension was reduced to that length after proving his supplements were contaminated. Unbeaten as a professional, "Sugar" made a splash in the major circuit after knocking out Alfred Khashakyan on the first season of Dana White's Tuesday Nigh…

#LFA64 Public Weigh-In today at 6 p.m. CT!@Wileys_Tavern330 N. Main St.#SiouxFalls, #SouthDakota

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— LFA (@LFAfighting) April 25, 2019 The Legacy Fighting Alliance is returning to Sioux Falls, S.D., for LFA 64, where every professional fighter successfully made weight.

Harvey Park hit the scales at 153 pounds, as he prepares to face Demarques Jackson (153) for the vacant LFA lightweight title, in the LFA 64 main event this Friday at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. Co-headlining the card will be a battle between Jason Jackson (178.4) and short notice replacement Scott Futrell (178) at a 180-pound catchweight.

LFA 64, which airs live on AXS TV on Friday, April 26 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, also features a 165-pound catchweight showdown between Jordon Larso…

It’s been a while since Nicco Montano has been inside the Octagon, but she is hoping that changes in the coming months.

The former UFC women’s flyweight champion on Wednesday released a statement regarding her six-month USADA suspension for ostarine, which was one of several announced cases that resulted from a contaminated supplement. Montano’s six-month sanction began on Nov. 15, so she will be eligible to return to active competition in May.

“First and foremost, I would like to thank my friends, family, and all of my fans for their continued support during this difficult period in my life,” Montano wrote on Instagram. “As you all know, USADA was unable to locate the source of my contamination.  I will continue to remain diligent in my responsibilities to USADA and the UFC.  I would like to acknowledge Donna Marcolini and Jeff Novitzky with the UFC for their assistance in this process.

“This suspension has further inspired me to work even harder of ac…

Italian fighter Danilo Belluardo (12-3) has joined the major leagues, as the time to prove himself in the Ultimate Fighting Championship has arrived.

According to Sherdog.com’s own sources, the up-and-coming fighter has just signed a four-bout contract with the Nevada-based promotion. The former Bellator contender arrives in the UFC riding a six-bout winning streak.

Fighting out of Milan, Italy, in his last bout “Caterpillar” defeated the Brazilian fighter Denilson Neves de Oliveira to capture the Venator lightweight belt. Prior to that, he submitted Elia Madau at Venator “Inside 1” and defeated Dragoljub Stanojevic via first-round TKO in the main event of The Golden Cage 2.

The majority of the victories on Belluardo’s record have come inside the distance, with six refer-ee’s stoppages and three submissions. Meanwhile, all three of his career defeats have come via KO or TKO, including a setback to hot prospect A.J. McKee at Bellator 152. That fight, howev-er, ma…

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has fined Pedro Munhoz $2,500 for jumping out of the Octagon following his victory over Cody Garbrandt at UFC 235.

The NSAC agreed upon the penalty during a hearing on Wednesday. In addition, Munhoz must pay $327.06 in fees before he will be allowed to fight again. UFC 235 took place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 2.

Munhoz was warned by commission officials to remain in the Octagon after the bout’s conclusion. The NSAC has that policy in place to prevent fighters from injuring themselves or those in the surrounding area. NSAC guidelines state that An unarmed combatant shall not leave the ring or, if the contest or exhibition is being held in a fenced area, the fenced area, during any period of rest that follows a period of unarmed combat.”

Munhoz stopped Garbrandt, the former bantamweight champion, at the 4:51 mark of the opening round. The 32-year-old American Top Team representative has won three straight fight…

It’s been quiet on the Zuffa Boxing front in recent months, but the venture is apparently still very much alive.

In an interview with CNN, UFC President Dana White revealed plans to launch his fledgling promotion later this year.

“I am making all my boxing moves after this summer,” White said (transcription via Bloody Elbow). When this summer is over, you’ll be hearing a lot about what I’m doing in the sport of boxing.”

After helping to promote the blockbuster bout between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor in August 2017, White promised that he was “getting into boxing, 100 percent.” During various faceoffs and promotional events, the UFC boss could be seen wearing a Zuffa Boxing T-shirt.

“I’m not leaving the UFC. I’m getting into boxing with [WME/IMG head] Ari [Emanuel] and the UFC will be doing boxing, too,” White told the Los Angeles Times in November 2017. “It’s still early. We’re still working on it. I’ve got to get my [stuff] together, but I’m getting into…

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A middleweight showcase will take place at the first-ever Ultimate Fighting Championship event in South Carolina. According to Sherdog’s own sources, Italy’s Alessio Di Chirico will touch gloves with Kevin Holland at ESPN+ 12 in June.

Bellator MMA and Legacy Fighting Alliance veteran Holland (14-4) earned himself a contract with the Nevada-based promotion after defeating Will Santiago Jr. on Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series. Once in the UFC, he suffered a loss to Thiago Santos, who bested the Phalanx MMA Academy product via unanimous decision. “Trailblazer” bounced back by submitting John Phillips via rear-naked choke, then by defeating Gerald Meerschaert by split decision at UFC on ESPN 2 last month.

Di Chirico (12-2) is currently 3-2 in his UFC campaign. “Manzo” is riding a two-bout winning streak after knocking out Oluwale Bamgbose at UFC on Fox 26 and winning a split decision against J…

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Former UFC flyweight champion Nicco Montano and highly regarded bantamweight prospect Sean O'Malley were among four fighters to receive six-month suspensions from USADA after testing positive for the banned substance ostarine.

In addition to Montano and O’Malley, UFC fighters Augusto Mendes and Marvin Vettori also received six-month sanctions. After conducting thorough investigations in each case, USADA found no evidence of intentional use of ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator sold as a performance-enhancing substance. Ostarine is often found as an undeclared ingredient in many supplements and can be difficult for athletes to identify as the source of their positive test. All four UFC athletes’ positive tests were determined to have resulted from contaminated substances.

The case resolution for each of the aforementioned fig…

It’s time for Norman Parke to step back in the KSW cage once again, and for the second time in a row it will be against a former champion. The Northern Ireland native will square off with Artur Sowinski in a 163-pound catchweight bout at KSW 49 on May 18.

Parke (26-6-1) is coming off a victory over former KSW welterweight champion Borys Mankowski via unanimous decision at KSW 47. After suffering a nasty cut in the first round, Parke got back on track in the second and third stanzas, winning a unanimous decision in front of a partisan crowd at the Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland. With that victory, Parke ran his record since leaving the Ultimate Fighting Championship to 5-1 with one no-contest.

BREAKING!!! @norman_parke and @artur_sowinski will face each other at #KSW49!

May 18ERGO ARENAGdańsk/Sopot, PolandTickets on sale https://t.co/ZN4yal6Vzy pic.twitter.com/rX2hdZl5nY

— KSW (@KSW_MMA) April 22, 2019

Now the winner of “The…

Santiago Ponzinibbio doesn’t want to be a forgotten man in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s welterweight division.

“El Gente Boa” took to social media to call out former UFC and WEC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis, who made a spectacular welterweight debut with a Superman punch knockout of Stephen Thompson last month in Nashville.

“There’s no way I’m going to allow you to be ahead of me,” Ponzinibbio wrote to Pettis on Instagram. “Come get this beating, you won’t get lucky like last time.”

Ponzinibbio clearly isn’t putting much stock in Pettis’ highlight-reel knockout of “Wonderboy,” which came with five seconds remaining in the second round of the UFC Fight Night 148 headliner. Pettis was likely about to be down two rounds to none on the scorecards had Thompson made it to the horn.

The 32-year-old Argentina native has won his last seven bouts in the Octagon, including a fourth-round knockout of Neil Magny in the UFC Fight Night 140 main event on No…

Walt Harris has been suspended four months by the USADA for a failed drug test at UFC 232 this past December.

The sanction is identical to the one Harris received from the California State Athletic Commission, which also fined the heavyweight $4,000. “The Big Ticket” tested positive in competition for a selective androgen receptor module called LGD4033, and as a result, his split-decision triumph against Andrei Arlovski was overturned to a no contest.

Harris’ suspension was reduced after it was determined that a tainted supplement caused the failed drug test. He will be eligible to return to active competition in April, which means that his scheduled UFC Ottawa bout against Sergey Spivak on May 4 is not in jeopardy.

The statement from USADA regarding Harris is as follows:

USADA announced today that Walt Harris, of Homewood, Ala., has accepted a four-month sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy after testing positive for a prohibited substan…

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Darren Till has fined for allegedly stealing a taxi and damaging a hotel room in Spain’s Canary Islands last week.

According to a report from the Daily Mail, the UFC welterweight, along with one other individual, was fined more than 700 euros ($788) in duty court in Arona for the crimes of damage and unauthorized use of a vehicle in the taxi incident. Additionally, Till and four others were ordered to pay the hotel more than 8,500 euros ($9,750) in reimbursement fees for trashing their hotel room in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands.

Till and his group were reportedly staying in the five-star La Plantacion del Sur hotel until they were kicked out for breaking furniture and emptying fire extinguishers. They then went to another hotel but were not allowed to stay. When a cab came to pick them up, Till and one other individu…

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Former UFC title challenger Darren Till was recently arrested in the Canary Islands, according to multiple reports.

According to the Daily Mail, Till and four other unidentified individuals from England were allegedly arrested in Tenerife, the largest island of the Canary Islands located off the northwest coast of Africa, for allegedly destroying a hotel room and stealing a taxi as the cab driver loaded their luggage into the trunk. Spanish outlet El Dia first reported the incident.

Till and his group were reportedly staying in one hotel until they were kicked out for breaking furniture and emptying fire extinguishers. They then went to another hotel but were not allowed to stay. When a cab came to pick them up, Till and the others allegedly sped off in the vehicle as the trunk was being loaded.

The group was reportedly arres…

Ariane Lipski will square off against Molly McCann in a flyweight bout at UFC Greenville on June 22.

ESPN.com was first to report the booking. UFC Fight Night 154 takes place on June 22 at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C., and streams on ESPN+. A headliner for the card has not been announced.

Lipski, a former KSW champion, entered her Octagon debut with some hype behind her but ultimately dropped a unanimous verdict to Joanne Calderwood at UFC Brooklyn on Jan. 19. The defeat snapped a nine-but winning streak for the 25-year-old “Violence Queen.”

McCann, who is an ex-Cage Warriors title holder, debuted in the promotion with a submission loss to Gillian Robertson at UFC Fight Night 130 before rebounding to outpoint Priscila Cachoeira at UFC Fight Night 147 in March.

Jiří Procházka (24-3-1) is RIZIN's first light heavyweight champ, as he overwhelms a gassed King Mo in round three. "Denisa" avenges his last loss and boosts his win streak to eight. The Czech owns 23 finishes, 21 by knockout. #RIZIN15 #RIZINFF #RIZIN2019 pic.twitter.com/7xkhZGx2db

— Kyle Johnson (@VonPreux) April 21, 2019

For Jiri Prochazka, revenge was as good as gold at Rizin 15.

Prochazka became Rizin’s inaugural light heavyweight champion as he defeated Muhammed Lawal via third-round technical knockout in Sunday’s headliner at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan. Prochazka overwhelmed a fading “King Mo” with a flurry of punches at the 3:02 mark of the final frame. Prochazka (24-3-1) avenged a first-round knockout loss to Lawal (21-9) in the finals of Rizin’s heavyweight grand prix in December 2015.

Lawal traded punches with Prochazka for much of the first two rounds, and his steady diet of right hands opened a cut over his opponent’s left…

Terence Crawford on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York left little doubt that he remains one of the best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet.

Crawford improved to 35-0 and scored his 26th knockout, as he tormented former world champion Amir Khan for five-plus rounds before prompting a stoppage in the sixth. “Bud” nearly had the Brit out in the first round, where he dropped him with a sizzling right-left combo to the head. However, he settled for a systematic beating before securing the win.

Crawford picked apart “King Khan” from inside and at a distance, busting up the Olympic gold medalist with nasty hooks to the body and thudding punches to the head. Khan never gave up trying to turn the fight in his favor, but the defending WBO welterweight champion wobbled him repeatedly, mostly with his vaunted right hook.

With the fight getting out hand in the sixth, the Omaha, Nebraska, native slammed a left uppercut into Khan’s nether region, which inevitably…

For a brief period of time in his UFC Fight Night 149 headlining bout against Alexey Oleynik, Alister Overeem was in danger. A single knee to the face changed everything.

Overeem (45-17) was pressured by “The Boa Constrictor” from the opening bell, when the Moscow native charged at him with a volley of punches to the head and body. Oleynik (57-12-1) appeared to rock the Dutchman with an overhand right to the head, and he never stopped heaving punches from everywhere. But even with Oleynik’s relentless charges, Overeem never worried.

“He was pressuring me,” Overeem said at the post-fight press conference. “He was putting a lot of energy in there. I don’t really stress easy, so, to me, a little pressure is okay. I was not stressing in there. I’ve had a lot of fights. Sometimes a fight can go wrong but [his punches] weren’t dangerous to me. My coaches didn’t like it, but I’m okay.”

Oleynik’s pressure and aggression eventually subsided, but that was only when one of …

Roxanne Modafferi was a moderate betting underdog heading into her featured flyweight title with previously-unbeaten Antonina Shevchenko on Saturday, but she came out of the skirmish triumphant.

Modafferi, one of the pioneers of women’s MMA, withstood quite a few clean punches to the face and several kicks to the legs and body from “Pantera” and stuck to her game plan. “The Happy Warrior” appeared to be rocked by a few punches from Shevchenko, a multiple-time world champion in muay Thai, but once the American was able to get inside, Shevchenko became the victim.

“The fight went how my coach said it would, so I listened to his game plan,” Modafferi said after her win. “I’m very proud of myself and this camp was special because I got to train for a southpaw.”

When Modafferi took the fight to the ground – which she did in every round – she controlled the pace and dominated Shevchenko. A practitioner of both judo and jiu-jitsu, Modafferi was unable to secure any subm…

You can sign up for a free seven-day trial of ESPN+ right here, and you can then stream UFC on ESPN+ live on your computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the ESPN app. In a pivotal matchup between heavyweight contenders, it was Alistair Overeem who reigned supreme in the main event of UFC Fight Night 149 on Saturday night in St. Petersburg, Russia. Overeem (45-17, 1 NC) appeared to play possum on multiple occasions in the contest as Alexey Oleynik hammered him with punches to the head and body routinely. A loopy overhand right to the head wobbled “The Demolition Man” early in the first round and Oleynik pounced.

“The Boa Constrictor” unleashed a tempest of punches while Overeem covered up, only to unfurl his trademark knees. This pattern continued for most of the stanza, with Overeem firing knees to the body with his back to the cage while the Russian teed off on him.

Finally, with Oleynik (57-12-1) fading from his massive punch output, Overeem tied him up and t…

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship heads to St. Petersburg, Russia, for UFC Fight Night 149. The preliminary card airs on ESPN2 starting at 10 a.m. ET. Then the main card can be seen on ESPN+ at 1 p.m. ET. For Canadian viewers, the card airs in its entirety on UFC Fight Pass.

Check out the MMA Forums to discuss the card or enter your comments and predictions below.

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