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Nine up, nine down for Sean Brady.

The undefeated welterweight prospect kept his perfect professional record intact and made a successful Legacy Fighting Alliance debut, as he put a unanimous decision in the books against Gilbert Urbina in the LFA 49 headliner on Friday at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. All three judges struck 30-27 scorecards for Brady (9-0).

Outside of a flying knee that landed flush and a few standing elbows on clinch break in the first round, the long-limbed Urbina struggled to string together meaningful offense. Brady forced him out of his comfort zone with a variety of takedowns and strikes, countered effectively and nearly sealed the deal with a rear-naked choke in the second round. Though he settled for a decision, the 25-year-old left no doubt about his being a name worth watching at 170 pounds.

In the welterweight co-main event, former Cage Fury Fighting Championships titleholder Jonavin Webb improved to…

Hey @EliasTheodorou Really sorry man! The injury I had is a little more serious then I thought. I’ll need a surgery, so won’t be able to fight Dec 8th.Pity, I was going to give you a bjj lesson, and not hurt you cause your cool!!! @Alexdavismma

— Cara de Sapato (@caradesapatojr) September 14, 2018

Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight contender Antonio Carlos Jr. says he’s out of his UFC 231 matchup against Elias Theodorou, marking the second time the promotion has attempted to book the fight.

The two were originally scheduled to meet at UFC Fight Night 137 on Sept. 22 in Brazil, however the Brazilian middleweight was forced off of the card with an injury, so the UFC rebooked the bout for UFC 231 in December.

Unfortunately, “Shoeface” tweeted on Friday that he would need more time to heal from said surgery, and wouldn’t be able to make their newly scheduled fight date.

Junior (10-2) is riding an impressive five-fight winn…

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According to a report from TMZ, disturbing criminal charges have emerged over former UFC lightweight contender Melvin Guillard following an alleged fight in Colorado last week that saw multiple bar patrons attacked.

Guillard is alleged to have been captured on surveillance video assaulting several men and a woman, even knocking one if the victims out cold while at Bar Standard in Denver on Sept. 3. A warrant was issued for Guillard’s arrest.

This separate assault case stems from an April incident where Guillard allegedly beat and strangled his girlfriend in the midst of an argument. The victim in this case claims Guillard turned violent after she asked him when he would be leaving his wife so the two could be together.

The girlfriend claims Guillard choked her multiple times and told cops she was “scared that he might kill her,” according to TMZ.

Police who responded on scene reported o…

We’re excited to announce that @DAZN_USA is the new home of #CombateAmericas in English!

Subscribe now to catch all the action of our tittle fight tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/Wfb7nVVcjI

— Combate Americas (@combateamericas) September 13, 2018

DAZN has burst onto the combat sports scene after signing international deals with Ultimate Fighting Championship and Bellator MMA. On Thursday, the streaming-based service announced that it has partnered with Combate Americas to bring English-language broadcasts to North American audiences.

DAZN Senior Vice President Joseph Markowski talked with Sherdog.com on Wednesday to explain how this new deal with Combate Americas will benefit MMA fans worldwide:

“The cost to be a fight fan, whether MMA or boxing, is absolutely ridiculous. Premium cable packages, pay-per-view costs -- crazy price points, UFC Fight Pass, ESPN Plus...” Markowski told Sherdog on Wednesday. “It's truly expensive being a f…

What legs day means for Aung La @AungLANsang #WeAreONE #MartialArts pic.twitter.com/b9szt1aRnB

— ONE Championship (@ONEChampionship) September 13, 2018

One Championship middleweight and light heavyweight champion Aung La N Sang is set to defend his 185-pound title against undefeated Mohammad Karaki on Oct. 26 at Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar, the promotion announced on Thursday.

Sang (23-10 1 NC) is coming off of a fifth-round knockout over former light heavyweight champion Ken Hasegawa in June. Sang has become a homegrown star for the promotion, and has rattled off four victories in a row since a decision loss to Vitaly Bigdash last year, which Sang avenged in his very next fight.

Karaki (9-0) has remained undefeated in nine bouts since debuting as a professional mixed martial artist back in 2013. Out of his nine MMA victories, only one has gone the distance. The 27-year-old Karaki will be making his One Championship de…

Winless in his last six Octagon appearances, former two-division champion B.J. Penn will return to action against Ryan Hall at UFC 232.

The promotion announced the lightweight matchup on Wednesday evening. UFC 232 takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Dec. 29 and features a featherweight championship tilt between Cristiane Justino and Amanda Nunes.

Penn last appeared at UFC Fight Night 112 in June 2017, losing a majority decision to Dennis Siver. “The Prodigy” hasn’t won a fight since he knocked out Matt Hughes in 21 seconds at UFC 123 on Nov. 20, 2010. The Hawaiian last competed at 155 pounds at UFC 118, when he dropped a five-round verdict in a title rematch against Frankie Edgar. Since then, Penn has fought at either welterweight or featherweight.

The winner of “The Ultimate Fighter 22,” Hall has kicked off his promotional tenure with decision wins over Artem Lobov and Gray Maynard. The 33-year-old grappling ace owns a 6-1 career record overall.

Yair Rodriguez believes he still has unfinished business with Zabit Magomedsharipov.

The featherweights were supposed to square off at UFC 228, but Rodriguez was forced to pull out of the fight due to injury. Instead, Magomedsharipov submitted short-notice opponent Brandon Davis in the second round last weekend in Dallas. After the bout, the Dagestani fighter called out Chad Mendes, but Rodriguez is hoping that potential matchup can wait.

“Miss the feeling of being able to train, should be cleared soon,” Rodriguez wrote on Twitter. “Congratulations [to Zabit] on an amazing performance. Hopefully your business with [Chad Mendes] can wait so we can settle ours.”

The 25-year-old Mexican star hasn’t competed since UFC 211 in May 2017, when he was overwhelmed by Frankie Edgar en route to a second-round doctor stoppage defeat. Prior to that, “El Pantera” had won eight bouts in a row, including six in the UFC.

The UFC briefly cut Rodriguez for it claims was …

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Valentina Shevchenko is ready to move on with her Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight career, and she already has a next step in mind. Shevchenko, who had been scheduled to fight Nicco Montano for the UFC women’s flyweight title this past Saturday at UFC 228, was left without an opponent when Montano was hospitalized the day before the event as a result of a weight cut gone wrong. The UFC then stripped its inaugural 125-pound champion of her title and Dana White stated that Shevchenko would challenge for the now-vacant title with a date and opponent to be named shortly.

This week on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, Shevchenko said she’s putting the disappointment of the weekend behind her and is focusing on getting the title in her next fight.

“I’m moving on,” she said. “If at some point [Montano] will show that she deserves this fight, that she really knows where she’s going and is ready for this fi…

Some in the MMA community have bemoaned the lack of promotion leading up to the blockbuster lightweight title fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor at UFC 229.

With the event less than a month away, McGregor posted a highlight video of his training camp via Instagram on Tuesday. The clip shows the Irishman engaging in sparring, wrestling, grappling and strength-and-conditioning workouts. The footage comes primarily from his home gym, SBG Ireland.

UFC 229 takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Oct. 6 and airs on pay-per-view. UFC President Dana White recently said he expects the card to draw 2 million buys, which would be a record for the company.

While there hasn’t been much in the way of promotion just yet, the events leading up to the bout have built plenty of hype on their own, most notably McGregor’s attack on a bus carrying a group of fighters — including Nurmagomedov — prior to UFC 223. McGregor was arrested but reached a plea …

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner @halleberry is making her directorial debut with 'Bruised,' a mixed martial arts action drama in which she’s also starring https://t.co/AKGLCGBsZ4

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 11, 2018

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry will direct and star in a mixed martial arts themed film set to begin production next year, according to Deadline.

Entitled “Bruised,” the plot of the film centers on disgraced MMA fighter Jackie Justice, who is played by Berry. “When 6-year-old Manny, the son she walked out on years ago, returns to her doorstep, Jackie has to conquer her own demons, face one of the fiercest rising stars of the MMA world, and ultimately fight to become the mother this kid deserves,” according the Deadline report.

The movie marks Berry’s directorial debut and will include the team that does the fight choreography for the John Wick films. Production for the film is expected to begin in March.

“Br…

Last month, former Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight king Cody Garbrandt suffered his second consecutive loss to bitter rival and former teammate T.J. Dillashaw at UFC 227 in an unsuccessful attempt to recapture his bantamweight title.

Since that loss, the 27-year-old has disappeared from social media, which has led to speculation about his mental health and his future in the sport, especially given his revelation earlier this year that he struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts as a teen.

Garbrandt’s coach at the Team Alpha Male gym in Sacramento and former UFC fighter Uriah Faber was recently questioned about his fighter and reassured fans that everything is fine and that Garbrandt is using his time away from the spotlight to recharge and focus on his family.

“Cody is enjoying being a family man right now,” Faber told MMA Fighting on Monday. “He was in the gym the other day and he was in good spirits. I know he’s been working out still.”…

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The card for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first-ever visit to Argentina is filling up rapidly, as the Las Vegas-based promotion recently confirmed a number of bouts for the Nov. 17 event.

Three recently revealed contests are expected to take place on the main card: Khalil Rountree vs. Johnny Walker at light heavyweight; Enrique Barzola vs. Nad Narimani at featherweight and Jared Cannonier vs. Alessio Di Chirico at light heavyweight.

Meanwhile, five bouts were announced for the prelims: Poliana Botelho vs. Cynthia Calvillo at strawweight; Veronica Macedo vs. Maryna Moroz at flyweight; Michel Prazeres vs. Bartosz Fabinski at welterweight; Marlon Vera vs. Guido Cannetti at bantamweight a…

Jessica Andrade’s one-punch knockout of Karolina Kowalkiewicz at UFC 228 may have earned her another strawweight title shot down the road, but “Bate Estaca” would have been willing to fight for championship gold on Saturday in Dallas.

The 26-year-old Brazilian told reporters at the post-fight press conference that she offered to step in and face Valentina Shevchenko in the co-main event after flyweight champion Nicco Montano withdrew from the bout due to weight-cut issues. However, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation nixed that idea.

In the end, the co-main event encounter between Montano and Shevchenko was canceled. UFC President Dana White announced that Montano would be stripped of the belt and Shevchenko would face a different opponent for the vacant title at a later date.

“I even offered to fight for the belt if they agreed to, but since they had already weighed me and done all the work, I wasn’t allowed by the athletic commission,” Andrad…

A welterweight clash pitting Lorenz Larkin against Erick Silva has been added to the Bellator 207 lineup.

ESPN.com was first to report the booking. Silva, who recently signed with the California-based promotion, will serve as a replacement for the injured Yaroslav Amosov. Bellator 207 takes place at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., on Oct. 12 and is headlined by a heavyweight grand prix semifinal clash between Ryan Bader and Matt Mitrione. Larkin vs. Silva is an alternate bout for the Bellator welterweight grand prix.

Larkin halted a two-bout skid in his most recent outing, as he outpointed Fernando Gonzalez at Bellator 193 on Jan. 26. The UFC and Strikeforce veteran began his promotional tenure with back-to-back losses against Douglas Lima and Paul Daley.

After a 7-8 stint in the UFC that ended with consecutive losses to Jordan Mein and Yancy Medeiros, Silva returned to the win column with a first-round submission of Nick Barnes at Legacy Fighting A…

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Nicco Montano has broken her silence for the first time since being stripped of the flyweight title. “The Ultimate Fighter 26” winner released a lengthy statement via Instagram, criticizing both the UFC for taking her belt and proposed opponent Valentina Shevchenko for making statements Montano claims are “completely false.”

“I want to say thank you to all my supporters, unfortunately my first time ever missing weight means the loss of my title that I’ve worked my ass off for,” Montano wrote. “And if you ask me that is completely uncalled for. There have been plenty other fighters who have not been punished for a lot more. Unfortunately, I’m not the one to be running my mouth, so I don’t bring in the big bucks.”

Montano was supposed to face Shevchenko in the UFC 228 co-main event on Saturday in Dallas, but the fight was scratched after the FIT-NHB product was transported to the hospital prior to Fri…

Jessica Andrade put in a career-defining performance at UFC 228 on Saturday, scoring a brutal first-round knockout over Karolina Kowalkiewicz to become the first woman to ever finish the Polish fighter with strikes.

Andrade was vocal about her quest for a title shot against incumbent champion Rose Namajunas, and made that case emphatically as she takes her place as the No. 1 strawweight contender inan ever-growing division.

The Brazilian striker broke down her performance at the post-fight press conference following her dominant knockout victory, and gave her thoughts on a potential showdown with strawweight champion Rose Namajunas as well.

“We wanted to make a statement in this fight. We knew standing with Karolina was important, so she [Jessica] had private muay Thai classes every day. We were looking for the knockout, it came quicker than expected but it came so all the hard work paid off.

“I noticed I got her a little bit wobbly early into the fir…

Now that UFC 228 is in the books, Colby Covington has some thoughts on what reigning welterweight champion Tyron Woodley should do next.

Woodley retained his belt with a second-round submission of Darren Till in Saturday’s headliner at American Airlines Arena in Dalllas, giving him his fourth successful championship defense. “The Chosen One” was originally scheduled to face Covington at the event, but “Chaos” could not compete on the desired date after undergoing surgery to correct a nasal issue.

Covington, who was stripped of the interim title he won by defeated Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 225 earlier this year, took to Twitter to call for a showdown with Woodley at Madison Square Garden. That of, course, is the site of UFC 230, which takes place on Nov. 3 and does not yet have a headliner confirmed.

.@Twooodley Tyrone! You didn't blow it!!! Time for you to come see me in @TheGarden. America's Champ has another promise to keep. #ufc228 #th…

UFC 228 is now available on Amazon Prime.

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"The Panda" Jingnan Xiong forces Samara Santos to tap to strikes, defending her ONE strawweight title & improving to 13-1. The standing hammer fist was first given credit for the finish, but it was the turning back kick to the body that apparently did the damage #BeyondTheHorizon pic.twitter.com/bNJL3oZbwF

— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) September 8, 2018

Jingnan Xiong retained her One Championship women’s strawweight title with a dominant performance against Samara Santos Cunha to set up the biggest fight of her career. With her performance at “ Beyond the Horizon,” Xiong will now go on to meet atomweight champion Angela Lee in Singapore this November.

Xiong looked immediately to assert dominance over her Brazilian opponent on Saturday at Baoshan Sports Center in Shanghai, China, who was making her One Championship debut. Marching forward in a boxing-like stance, throwing out looping overhead punches, the champion seemed like she wanted to…

The latest gem produced by the powerhouse Roufusport camp planted his flag in Legacy Fighting Alliance soil.

Raufeon Stots was stellar in his organizational debut, as he disposed of Ryan Lilley with punches in the third round of their LFA 48 headliner on Friday at the Viaero Center in Kearney, Nebraska. A protégé of former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight titleholder Bas Rutten, Lilley (9-4) succumbed to blows 3:00 into Round 3.

It took some time for Stots (10-1) to crack his counterpart’s code, but he slowly imposed his well. He staggered Lilley with a crisp right hand in the second round, delivered a takedown and applied his ground-and-pound, nearly finishing it with a rear-naked choke. Stots secured another takedown in the third, climbed to full mount and let the punches fly until referee Bobby Wombacher had seen enough.

Stots, 29, has recorded back-to-back victories since his 15-second knockout loss to Merab Dvalishvili in June 2017.

In…

STATEMENT ON #UFC228: As a precautionary measure, UFC flyweight Nicco Montaño was transported to a medical facility Friday morning due to health concerns. The scheduled championship bout between Montaño & Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 228 has been cancelled.https://t.co/C8PeYFSxNI

— UFC News (@UFCNews) September 7, 2018

UFC 228 is now available on Amazon Prime.

The weigh-ins nowadays have become a big part of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s overall show; with so many fighters missing weight at the last minute, every weigh-in is a gamble.

That kind of weigh-in trepidation was justified this morning when the first-ever women’s flyweight champion, Nicco Montano, was transported to the hospital Friday ahead of the weigh-ins. She has been removed from the card and her bout against No. 1 contender Valentina Schevchenko (124.5) is officially off.

There was no such drama for the main event, as Tyron Woodley (170) and Darren Till…

Darren Till weight update: His nutritionist says he's sitting at 178lbs. #UFC228

— Shaheen Al-Shatti (@shaunalshatti) September 6, 2018

UFC 228 is now available on Amazon Prime.

Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight No. 1 contender Darren Till is preparing for the biggest fight of his mixed martial arts career as he takes on champion Tyron Woodley in the main event of UFC 228 on Saturday night.

Till has notoriously faced weight-cutting issues in the past, having most recently come in four pounds overweight in his last fight against Stephen Thompson back in May.

Fight fans and pundits have expressed concern over whether or not the massive welterweight will be able to make the 170 pound limit at tomorrow’s weigh-ins, but his nutritionist says he’s only 178 pounds on Thursday, just a day before he’s set to weigh in.

Till himself has told the press he’s “a light heavyweight frame fighting at welterweight,” saying he rou…

Conor McGregor has not fought in the Octagon since capturing the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight belt from Eddie Alvarez in November 2016.

Since that fight, McGregor has taken on one of the greatest boxers of all-time in Floyd Mayweather Jr. Despite losing the bout, McGregor took home a purse estimated at over $100 million.

Many fans believed the Irishman was done with MMA after the fight with Mayweather but despite being scheduled to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov next month, the question of retirement is again a hot talking point. “The Notorious” has accrued an enormous amount of money in his relatively short career -- but is known to live extravagantly -- and he’s realistically accomplished everything he could in the UFC by becoming a dual-division champion.

McGregor’s striking coach at Straight Blast Gym (SBG), Owen Roddy, was a guest on a recent episode of Eurobash and admitted that he’s unsure if McGregor will hang up the gloves after Oct. 6. Read more about Owen Roddy Doesn’t Think Conor McGregor Will Retire After UFC 229