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Shavkat Rakhmonov was blatantly dismissive while responding to a callout from Ian Garry.

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Garry recently took to social media to suggest a matchup between the undefeated welterweight contenders at the end of 2024.

“December 2024, undefeated vs. undefeated, Garry wrote on Instagram. “Let’s make this happen! [Shavkat Rakhmonov].”

While Rakhmonov did not shut down a potential clash, he mocked Garry’s finishing rate in comparison to his own. The Kazakh contender believes Garry will be no match for him if the fight comes to fruition.UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad Saturday at 10 ET on ESPN+. Order Now! “100% finish rate VS 53% finish rate,” Rakhmonov wrote on X. “It won’t even be close if it happens [Ian Garry].”

100% finish rate VS 53% finish rate. It won’t even be close if it happens @iangarryMMA https://t.co/nJaglUmnBp

— Shavkat “Nomad” Rakhmonov (@Rakhmonov1994) July 21, 2024

Rakhmonov has finished all 18 of his caree…

At the very least, flyweight Nathan Maness wants an explanation if his contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship isn’t renewed.

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Maness completed his UFC contract with a unanimous decision win over Jimmy Flick last month. While “Mayhem” was expecting to hear from the UFC about a renewal, there has been radio silence since then.

“Honestly, we haven’t really heard anything,” Maness told MMAjunkie.com. “We sent out a couple of different messages. We gave them a couple of weeks after the fight and then we sent out a couple feelers, but we can’t even really get a response. Your guess is as good as mine.”

UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad Saturday at 10 ET on ESPN+. Order Now! Maness’ win over Flick put him on a two-fight winning streak, improving his overall promotional record to 5-2. Maness’ only two losses in the UFC have come against elite Dagestani prospects Tagir Ulanbekov and Umar Nurmagomedov. While Maness believes he has done enough to get…

Steve Garcia is doing everything he can to ensure all of his fights are appointment viewing.

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The Jackson-Wink MMA product dispatched Seung Woo Choi via first-round technical knockout in the UFC on ESPN 60 co-main event at the UFC Apex on Saturday nght, his fourth consecutive triumph via KO or TKO. It’s nothing new for “Mean Machine,” who has finished 13 of his 16 career triumphs in that same fashion.

“It’s just another one on my cap. It’s another [notch],” Garcia said at the post-fight press conference. “I’m blessed. I’m just trying to get more. Every single time I come in there, I want you guys to tune in. I want you guys to see Steve Garcia and just be like, ‘This guy’s bringing it, so let’s watch.’”

Garcia entered Saturday’s fight with a lot on his mind, so it was something of a relief to perform the way he did.

“It’s been a great ending to a long camp,” he said. “It’s my brother’s birthday so I got to get a ‘W’ on his birthday. I want to…

After an uneven beginning to her Ultimate Fighting Championship tenure, Virna Jandiroba has emerged as a serious title contender over the course of the past two years.

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The former Invicta FC strawweight queen earned her fourth straight victory on Saturday night, as she submitted ex-title challenger Amanda Lemos with an armbar in the second round of the UFC on ESPN 60 main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Jandiroba outgrappled and outscrambled her opponent for the majority of the contest before securing the fight-ending maneuver late in Round 2.

“She’s a fantastic striker. But on top of just being very technical and very good striker, she’s a knockout artist. So I had to be extremely careful with that because I know that any wrong movement could be the end,” Jandiroba said through a translator at Saturday’s post-fight press conference. “Luckily we were able to put everything in place, get the fight to the ground and work the way it did. She’s a …

Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight prospect Hyder Amil did not always plan on becoming a fighter.

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Amil scored his second UFC win on Saturday, besting Jeong Yeong Lee via first-round TKO at UFC on ESPN 60. “The Hurricane” subsequently shared how he got into combat sports after being raised to become an “intellectual” and an artist.

The only male in the family growing up, Amil initially started training martial arts to protect his sisters and mother. Amil’s natural athletic abilities soon attracted people’s attention, who then introduced him to several sports. Amil, who claims to have a knack for anything art related, “blames” his friends for getting him into sports and MMA.

UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad Saturday at 10 ET on ESPN+. Order Now! “I was just myself, my two sisters and my mom. So, I wanted to learn martial arts originally, what motivated me to stay in it was to protect them,” Amil said during a post-fight media scrum. “Becau…

Trey Ogden has called for an “easy” opponent in Chase Hooper after his win over Loik Radzhabov atUFC on ESPN 60.

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Ogden dominated Radzhabov on the ground for three rounds to earn a unanimous decision victory at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Ogden subsequently called out Hooper, who “Shamurai” believes is overrated. According to the Marathon MMA head coach, Hooper is not a “scary” opponent.

“I want to fight Chase Hooper. I keep calling this dude out. I’ve been calling him out for three fights,” Ogden said during a post-fight media scrum. “I think he is overrated. I don’t think he’s that good. And I want to pick some of that low-hanging fruit… I’ll smash him easily. He’s not a scary dude, for a change.”

UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad Saturday at 10 ET on ESPN+. Order Now! Hooper has scored seven of 14 career wins via submission so far in addition to making a name for himself by competing in UFC Fight Pass Invitational grappling tourn…

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Tom Aspinall believes he can get the better the Alexander Volkov yet again in a potential rematch.

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Aspinall is slated to defend his interim heavyweight title in a rematch against Curtis Blaydes in the main event at UFC 304 on Saturday in Manchester, England. Meanwhile, Volkov is fresh off a unanimous decision win over Sergei Pavlovich at UFC Abu Dhabi last month. While a clash between Volkov and Ciryl Gane is reportedly in the works for UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi in October, “Drago” claimed to have not received a contract for the bout a week ago.

Meanwhile, lineal champ Jon Jones is currently sidelined with injury and slated to fight former champ Stipe Miocic upon his return. With Miocic having not fought in over three years, Volkov considers the Jones vs. Miocic matchup more of a fantasy fight rather than a real title fight. Volkov recently called for rematch against Aspinall, with a potential win putting him in a title unification bou…

Hyder Amil’s furious offensive onslaught paid off handsomely at UFC on ESPN 60.

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The El Nino Training Center export earned a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus for overwhelming Jeong Yeong Lee in a featured featherweight contest at the UFC Apex on Saturday night. Amil managed to land a total of 42 significant strikes en route to a stoppage victory just 65 seconds into the opening stanza. It was one of four performance bonuses handed out by the promotion after the event.

Elsewhere, Virna Jandiroba garnered a $50,000 check for her victory over former title challenger Amanda Lemos in the evening’s strawweight headliner. Jandiroba outgrappled her opponent throughout the fight before eliciting a tap with an armbar at the 4:48 mark of Round 2.

Meanwhile, Steve Garcia took home an additional $50,000 by adding Seung Woo Choi to his list of recent victims in the featherweight co-main event. “Mean Machine” stopped his foe at the 1:36 mark of Round…

Virna Jandiroba is becoming impossible to ignore in the Ultimate Fighting Championship strawweight title picture.

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In the main event of UFC on ESPN 60, Jandiroba (21-3, 7-3 UFC) soundly outgrappled Amanda Lemos (14-4-1, 8-4 UFC) for just under two rounds before cinching up the fight-ending armbar. The former Invicta Fighting Championships strawweight titleholder wasted little time in bringing the fight into her wheelhouse, shooting a double-leg takedown early in Round 1. Aided by Lemos jumping on a guillotine attempt, “Carcara” extracted her head from the choke, then settled into Lemos’s half guard, where “Amandinha” bucked and swept to top position. Jandiroba countered with a kneebar attempt, which Lemos escaped, but the resulting scramble ended with the jiu-jitsu ace in back control, where she rode out the rest of the frame. Round 2 got off to a better start for Lemos, who kept her countrywoman at arm’s length and touched her with clean punches fo…

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Cody Gibson may have placed his job as a history teacher on hold for now, but he clearly isn’t done schooling people.

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In the top prelim of UFC on ESPN 60 on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Gibson (20-10) overwhelmed Brian Kelleher (24-16) on the feet as well as on the canvas on his way to a first-round submission win. Gibson jumped on “Boom” right away, rocking him with a right hand in the opening seconds of the fight, and never let up. Kelleher tried valiantly to rally, but Gibson never gave him a moment’s peace, hurting him with punches and long kicks at range and mugging him up close with knees. Kelleher jumped on a guillotine attempt late in the round, but Gibson kicked out of it immediately, moved to half guard and locked up an arm-triangle choke. Kelleher tapped out in seconds, putting the stamp on a dominant performance for Gibson. The win brought Gibson’s record in the organization to 2-5 across multiple s…

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It appears that Nick Diaz’s Ultimate Fighting Championship return has run into some complications.

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During the UFC on ESPN 60 broadcast on Saturday night, it was announced the Diaz vs. Vicente Luque bout that was scheduled for Abu Dhabi on Aug. 3 has been postponed due to “travel issues.” As a result, a middleweight clash between Sharabutdin Magomedov and Michal Oleksiejczuk has been added to the UFC on ABC 7 lineup and will serve as the card’s new main event. It was also revealed that the promotion hopes to reschedule Diaz vs. Luque, but a date for that is currently unknown.

Commonly known as “Shara Bullet,” Magomedov is undefeated in 13 professional outings. The 30-year-old Dagestani has kicked off his promotional tenure with a unanimous decision win over Bruno Silva at UFC 294 and a third-round TKO of Antonio Trocoli at UFC on ABC 6.

Poland’s Oleksiejczuk has dropped three of his las…

While his fighting career has been dormant for the past three years, Conor McGregor continues to find other endeavors to keep him occupied.

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According to a report from Sunday World, the former UFC two-division champion will launch a record label, entitled Greenback Records, in his native Ireland. McGregor will partner with Richard Buck, will serve as CEO, and Julian O’Brien, who is creative director and head of A&R, for what is the first major record label based in Dublin. Greenback Records has reportedly signed several artists, who will be officially announced in the coming weeks.

“I am excited to create Ireland’s first major record label in an industry that I have had great interest in for some time,” McGregor said. "To be able to come in and offer music artists a fair deal and properly reward them for their talent.

"This industry, like others, has needed an overhaul for a long time. I am excited for myself, McGregor Sports & Entert…

Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight Irina Alekseeva has been suspended for one year after testing positive for testosterone more than a year ago.

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Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD) announced the sanction while taking a shot at the UFC’s previous anti-doping partner, USADA, in a statement on Friday:

Alekseeva tested positive for values consistent with the administration of testosterone of exogenous origin in a urine sample collected by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on June 21, 2023, while USADA was still the independent administrator of the UFC’s Anti-Doping Program (UFC ADP). However, USADA failed to report the results of this sample to her and to UFC until October 31, 2023, more than four (4) months after the sample was collected and AFTER Alekseeva was allowed to compete in a UFC event in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 14, 2023. USADA collected two additional samples from Alekseeva BEFORE her October 14, 2023, fight, (August …

Tomorrow night's main event is locked in 🔐@VirnaJandiroba makes it official coming in at 115.5 pounds!

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— UFC (@ufc) July 19, 2024 While every Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter made weight ahead of this weekend's card, it still lost one fight.

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Headlining UFC on ESPN 60 is a five-round fight between Amanda Lemos and Virna Jandiroba. Both women successfully made weight and came in under the 116-pound limit. All other fighters made weight as well, but one bout will not make it to the finish line. Brad Tavares (185.5) and Jun Yong Park (186) both hit their proper marks, but Park failed his medical exams and was not cleared to compete.

Lemos (14-3-1) recently bounced back from losing her title bout against champion Weili Zhang by winning a decision over Mackenzie Dern. Prior to the setback, "Amandinha" had won seven of her eight UFC fights w…

Six of the seven billed fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship show on Mexican Independence Day have one competitor repping Mexico.

Iridium Sports Agency, the management team of Raul Rosas Jr. (9-1), announced on Friday that Rosas would be squaring off against Qileng Aori (25-11, 1 NC) at UFC 306. The Sept. 14 event, also titled “Noche UFC,” will take place inside of The Sphere in Las Vegas as part of a 10-bout attraction. The bantamweight affair has since been confirmed by other outlets.

“El Nino Problema” burst onto the scene after picking up a contract on Dana White's Contender Series by becoming the youngest UFC fighter to pick up a win. Currently 19 years of age, Rosas Jr. suffered his first pro loss in April 2023 against Christian Rodriguez. He bounced back with a first-round knockout of Terrence Mitchell, and most recently tapped Ricky Turcios in June.

With a .500 record in the Octagon, Aori’s last outing in the cage went poorly when he was bludge…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has started building its Salt Lake City event.

The first fight of UFC 307 is on the books, as Movsar Evloev (18-0) will come to blows with Aljamain Sterling (24-4) in a pivotal featherweight affair. While the two hinted at this fight coming together this past month, French social media account MMA Propagande first reported on the matchup on Wednesday. Sterling confirmed the bout on social media on Friday. This fight card is expected to take place at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Oct. 5, and the double championship main event is rumored to be Ilia Topuria vs. Max Holloway with the co-headliner of Raquel Pennington vs. Julianna Pena.

Evloev has not tasted defeat as a pro, including eight appearances in the Octagon since debuting in 2019. The Russian has gone the distance in eight straight outings as well, accounting for the lion’s share of his career decision wins. Now training out of American top team, Evloev celebrates recent…

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship champ Cody Garbrandt is getting back on the horse after his first career submission loss.

Eurosport NL broke the news on Thursday that Garbrandt (14-6) would be returning to the Octagon against Miles Johns (15-2, 1 NC) at a currently unnamed UFC Fight Night card on Oct. 12. The fighters have confirmed this collision at the UFC Apex on their Instagram pages. There is currently no main event on the books for this show.

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Garbrandt saw a two-fight win streak—his longest since 2016—come to a crashing halt when former flyweight king Deiveson Figueiredo tapped him out at UFC 300. In the process, “No Love” suffered the first submission defeat as a pro, and he has still not registered a sub in the win column. His two wins came in 2023 came over Trevin Jones on the scorecards and Brian Kelleher via blistering one-punch knockout. Garbrandt came into the promotion undefeated and won a belt against Dominick Cruz in 2016, but h…

Let the record show that Ultimate Fighting Championship up-and-comer Jean Silva is tough beyond words.

On Thursday, days after a three-round thriller against Drew Dober at UFC on ESPN 59, Silva shared on Instagram X-ray images of his hands. While Silva ended up finishing Dober due to a doctor stoppage technical knockout due to elbows slashing open a massive cut on Dober’s eyebrow, Dober was not the only one with a souvenir. Silva revealed that he broke both hands in the first round of their “Fight of the Night”-winning encounter.

“As everyone saw, the fighter with Dober was very tough,” Silva said in a video on Instagram. “[Between] the first and second round, I told my corner that I had broken both hands, and they instructed me to continue using knees and elbows, and that’s what I did. No way I was going to lose that fight, and no way I was going to lose [for] any of you. I am coming [back].”

The three-fight run for Silva with the promotion has been as memo…

Two all-time great Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters have been selected as some of the best athletes this century.

Revealing the list of 100 athletes by sections of 25 at a time, ESPN concluded its Top 100 list of pro athletes since 2000 on Thursday. Two MMA fighters were listed: Jon Jones (66) and Georges St. Pierre (76). In ESPN’s past list of SportsCentury for the 20th century, no fighters were selected although multiple boxers including Muhammad Ali (3) and Joe Louis (11) made the list. Jones and GSP were passed by Floyd Mayweather (25) but the former was ranked higher than Manny Pacquiao (71) and both came in above Bernard Hopkins (78).

Often considered to be the greatest MMA fighter of all time, Jones’ lone loss as a professional came against Matt Hamill via disqualification in a fight he was dominating. Failed drug tests, criminal activity and legal issues plagued a career that could have been even more exceptional without lengthy patches of inactivity a…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship matchmakers decided this ranked heavyweight match needed five more rounds.

On the prelims of 2020’s UFC Fight Night 169 card, Marcin Tybura (25-8) faced and defeated Sergey Spivak (16-4) via grinding decision. Since then, the two have gone on similar runs of 7-2 and 6-2, respectively, to establish themselves in the top 10 at heavyweight. News broke in June that the two would run it back at the UFC Fight Night event on Aug. 10 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, and the promotion announced Thursday morning that it would serve as the main attraction.

The win over Spivak in 2020 was the start of a run for Poland’s Tybura, who won his next four after the Spivak victory to put himself in title contention. Alexander Volkov spurred him at UFC 267, but he bounced back to claim decisions over Alexander Romanov and Blagoy Ivanov to stay in the picture. “Tybur” went on to headline UFC Fight Night 224 against Tom Aspinall, and the Brit smashed him in…

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Cody Durden recently revealed why he accepted a fight against teammate Bruno Silva after initially turning it down.

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Durden (16-5) and Silva (13-5) are slated to lock horns in a flyweight bout at UFC on ESPN 60 at The Apex in Las Vegas this weekend. Durden revealed that he was initially hesitant to accept a fight against his American Top Team teammate.

However, when their manager Ali Abdelaziz proposed the matchup, Silva allegedly accepted it, saying they were adults. That permanently flipped the switch for Durden who now wants to see blood come fight night. The 33-year-old said on the UFC on ESPN 60 media day:

“I didn’t really want to fight a teammate but we got the same manager Ali Abdelaziz,” Durden said at UFC Media Day. “And at first I turned the fight down. I don’t want to fight a teammate. But then Bruno, he accepted the fight and said we’re not boys. And that really lit a fire in me. I was like, ‘Alright motherfuc*…

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Brad Tavares jokingly expressed disappointment in teammate Dan Ige for accepting a short-notice fight at UFC 303.

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Tavares (20-9) is scheduled to fight Jun Yong Park (17-6) in a middleweight matchup at UFC on ESPN 60 at the Apex in Las Vegas this weekend. Tavares was originally scheduled to share the card with Xtreme Couture teammate Ige, who was slated to trade leather with Jose Mariscal.

However, Ige ended up replacing Brian Ortega against Diego Lopes on four hours’ notice in the co-main event at UFC 303 last month. While Ige went on lose by unanimous decision, he gave Lopes a run for his money, putting the Brazilian in survival mode in the final frame. Ige subsequently asked for a spot on the highly sought-after UFC 306 card in September at the Sphere, which he was guaranteed by Dana White.

Tavares revealed that he and Ige had discussed potentially fighting at UFC 306 even before “50k” accepted the short-notice matchup.…

Ramon Taveras announced on Instagram that he is out of his UFC 304 booking against Caolan Loughran due to an injury.

Newcomers Taveras (10-2) and Loughran (9-1) were scheduled to trade leather in a bantamweight matchup at UFC 304 on July 27 at Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, England. The bout is now off.

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Ireland’s Loughran hopes to stay on the pay-per-view card close to home and is open to fighting anyone.

Catch deez hands just pulled out

I text him a few days after the bout was signed saying he would

This Games not for everybody

The UFC are the best in the world and they’ll sort it 👍

Been here before will fight anyone

Yeno that ☘️

— Caolan Loughran (@DonCaolan135) July 17, 2024

Taveras holds a unanimous decision win over Serhiy Sidey in his promotional debut at UFC 297 this past January, avenging a Contender Series knockout loss from last year. Meanwhile, Loughran suffered the…