LAS VEGAS – Junior Tafa beat Sean Sharaf with a second-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC Fight Night 244 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Tafa, who struggled in the first, but came on in the second to spoil Sharaf’s short-notice UFC debut. Junior
Day: October 14, 2024
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Umar Nurmagomedov is convinced Merab Dvalishvili is ducking him. Nurmagomedov (18-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) claimed the No. 1 contender spot when he defeated Cory Sandhagen in his first UFC headliner in August. One month later, Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) dethroned Sean O’Malley to become bantamweight champion at UFC 306. Dvalishvili has been dismissing Nurmagomedov as a
LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie was on scene and reporting live from Monday’s official Dana White’s Contender Series 76 weigh-ins, where everyone hit their marks. For the 10th and final event of the season, 10 fighters will vie for UFC contracts in their fights, including middleweights Nick Klein (5-1) and Heraldo Souza (9-1-1), who headline the
The UFC stays put for another home show this week with a pair of middleweight standouts at the top of a card that features nine bouts at featherweight or lighter. Here’s how to watch UFC Fight Night 245 with 185-pounders in the headlining spot, plus bantamweights in the co-feature. Broadcast and streaming info Karyn Bryant and Michael
PFL will crown its first superfight champions on Saturday at PFL: Battle of the Giants, and the design for the new belts have arrived. The upcoming event at The Mayadeen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which streams on ESPN+ pay-per-view and DAZN, featured a doubleheader of former UFC champ Francis Ngannou vs. Renan Ferreira and former
Conor McGregor last fought in July 2021. He’s been on the comeback trail since then. And in that time, after presumably healing a broken leg he suffered in a second straight TKO loss to Dustin Poirier, McGregor has promised his return seemingly countless times. A fight against Michael Chandler had been presumed for the better
The UFC continued its jam-packed October schedule on Saturday with UFC Fight Night 244 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, and the main event produced one of the best fights of 2024. Flyweight contenders Brandon Royval (17-7 MMA, 7-3 UFC) and Tatsuro Taira (16-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) went to battle for 25 minutes, with
Ilia Topuria and Belal Muhammad have beef. Topuria is the UFC featherweight champion while Muhammad holds the welterweight title, and given there’s an entire weight class between the two champions, you might not expect the two to have problems with one another. You would be wrong. Though Topuria is just weeks away from his first
LAS VEGAS – UFC gold if the goal for Chidi Njokuani, but he understands several steps need to be taken before that can turn into reality. The UFC veteran is now 2-0 since dropping to the welterweight division, as he defeated Jared Gooden in a unanimous decision in the main card of Saturday’s UFC Fight
LAS VEGAS – Grant Dawson wants to get back in the UFC official rankings, and he hopes to do so by beating someone on that list. Dawson (13-2-1 MMA, 10-1-1 UFC) was briefly ranked prior to his quick KO loss to Bobby Green in October 2023, but since has picked up two consecutive wins. Saturday,
(ALSO SEE: Mick Maynard’s Shoes: What’s next for Tatsuro Taira after first loss at UFC Fight Night 244?) Brandon Royval had the utmost confidence he would end Tatsuro Taira’s undefeated run in the UFC Fight Night 244 main event, and he ended up doing just that. Royval (17-7 MMA, 7-3 UFC) showed an unbreakable level