$300 gets you cageside tickets for 'UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2' in Chicago
(mmajunkie.com)As far as major pay-per-view events go, UFC 225 won’t break the bank if you plan to attend in person.
UFC 225 tickets go on sale this week – and they include a pre-sale period that starts today – for the event, which takes place June 9 at United Center in Chicago. The main card airs on PPV following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.
Tickets for the event range from $63 for the nosebleeds to $303 for the floor and cageside (not including fees) through Ticketmaster.
Jose Aldo vs. Jeremy Stephens targeted for UFC event in Canada
()A pivotal fight at 145-pounds between Jose Aldo and Jeremy Stephens is being targeted for a UFC event in Canada on July 28th.
According to a report by Combate, a fight between Jose Aldo and Jeremy Stephens will co-headline a UFC event in Canada on July 28th, though a city has not yet been set. Both fighters have verbally agreed to the fight, but the contracts are yet to be signed.
Khabib Nurmagomedov receives hero’s welcome in return to Dagestan
(https:)Khabib Nurmagomedov has spoken often of the massive following he has in his native Dagestan, and if his return home on Monday was any indication, he wasn’t kidding.
The newly crowned undisputed UFC lightweight champion was swarmed by a legion of his fans as he touched down at Uytash Airport in Makhachkala on Monday.
UFC debuts in Boise, Lincoln among additions to summer schedule
(mmajunkie.com)The UFC will make visits to Boise, Idaho, and Lincoln, Neb., for the first time this summer.
The promotion on Saturday announced the new additions to its schedule during the broadcast for UFC 223 in Brooklyn, N.Y. In addition, a return to a still-to-be-announced location in Canada is on the docket.
The UFC’s first trip to Boise will take place July 14 at CenturyLink Arena. The event, expected to be UFC Fight Night 133, has no fights announced yet and is expected to air on FS1 following prelims on UFC Fight Pass.
Two weeks after that, the UFC will return to Canada for what is expected to be UFC on FOX 30. A precise city has not yet been announced, though. But the card will take place July 28 with a main card on FOX.
Nick Diaz accepts one-year USADA suspension for 2017 whereabouts violation
(https:)Nick Diaz has cleared up his latest issue with the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
On Monday, the drug testing organization announced that Diaz has accepted a one-year sanction for a whereabouts violation dating back to April 2017. The 34-year-old UFC welterweight failed to make himself available for out-of-competition testing on three occasions ranging from 2016-2017.
Invicta FC 29 fight card announced, including a quick turnaround for Pearl Gonzalez at flyweight
(https:)Invicta Fighting Championship has officially announced the complete fight card for its upcoming edition, scheduled for May 4 in Kansas City, and the event will feature the second promotional appearance of Pearl Gonzalez.
Invicta FC 29 will be headlined by Sarah Kaufman vs. Katharina Lehner for the vacant bantamweight championship. In the co-main event, former Cage Warriors champion Pannie Kianzad looks to snap a three-fight losing streak as she faces promotional newcomer Bianca Daimoni.
UFC on FOX 29: Poirier vs. Gaethje fight card
(https:)Feast your eyes on the glorious UFC on FOX 29 fight card in Glendale, Arizona.
On April 14th at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona, fans will be treated to an action-packed fight card officially known as UFC on FOX 29. The main event is a lightweight bout between Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier, which is destined to be great. Unfortunately, we lost out on the co-main event between Carlos Condit and Matt Brown due to Brown’s torn ACL, but his replacement is Alex Oliveira, coming off that epic clash with Yancy Medeiros in December.
UFC 223 Results: Bonus Winners, Highlights (VIDEO), Twitter Reaction, Attendance And Gate
(https:)Justice has been served. Khabib Nurmagomedov defeated Al Iaquinta in a lopsided unanimous decision that finally won him the UFC lightweight championship.
The performance featured a dominant wrestling performance through two rounds and a surprisingly effective striking game from Nurmagomedov. Early on, Nurmagomedov took down Iaquinta at will. In fact, he secured eight takedowns in all during the fight and dealt a good measure of damage to Iaquinta from top position.
Overall, the fight stats were drastically in favor of Nurmagomedov through the five rounds.
Iaquinta deserves a ton of respect for the performance he turned in after taking this fight on short notice. He was originally scheduled to face Paul Felder, but after the Conor McGregor drama stripped three fights from the card, and Max Holloway, Anthony Pettis, and Felder weren’t allowed to face Nurmagomedov for a variety of reasons, Iaquinta took the assignment.
Dana White says Brock Lesnar could fight for title in UFC return, and Daniel Cormier is ecstatic
(mmajunkie.com)UFC President Dana White says there’s a possibility Brock Lesnar will get a shot at regaining the UFC heavyweight title the next time he steps in the octagon.
White recently said Lesnar (5-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC), who hasn’t fought for the promotion since the well documented UFC 200 debacle in July 2016, which led to a suspension for multiple failed drug tests, would “definitely” be making a return to the UFC in the future. The current WWE Universal Champion is currently an active member of the UFC roster and will reportedly be available following Sunday’s WrestleMania pay-per-view event in New Orleans.
Lesnar still has slightly more than six months to serve on his suspension, but that time will only begin to tick down once he re-enters the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency testing pool. Once his time is up, though, White said Lesnar could challenge the winner of July’s UFC 226 headliner between current heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic (18-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC) and Daniel Cormier (20-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC).
Ben Rothwell accepts two-year USADA sanction for failed drug test
(https:)It will be a while before we see Ben Rothwell back inside the Octagon.
The 36-year-old UFC heavyweight accepted a two-year sanction for failed out-of-competition drug tests taken back on Feb. 6 and Feb. 15, 2017, USADA officials announced Friday. Rothwell tested positive for “an anabolic androgenic steroid of exogenous origin” according to the release.
Rothwell explained that the test results were due to his physician prescribing him testosterone, but the USADA determined that did not meet the criteria to obtain a Therapeutic Use Exemption for the prohibited substance.
He will be eligible to compete again on Feb. 6, 2019.
Al Iaquinta meets Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223
(mmajunkie.com)The lightweight title still will be up for grabs in the UFC 223 main event.
Khabib Nurmagomedov (25-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) will stay in the headliner in New York and will fight Al Iaquinta (13-3-1 MMA, 8-2 UFC), who will move up from the main-card opening fight against Paul Felder (15-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) for the fight. A person close to the fight revealed the news to MMAjunkie today. The person requested anonymity because he was not authorized to reveal the booking news.
But because Iaquinta weighed in for his fight with Felder at 155.2 pounds, he will be ineligible to win the title since that number is two-tenths of a pound over the title-fight limit.
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Dana White just announced that Al Iaquinta, if he wins, will be considered UFC champion. White said that NYSAC may not recognize him as champ because of the .2 but he will. That is a new one.
Conor McGregor charged with three counts of assault, one count of criminal mischief for bus attack / Conor McGregor’s bail set for $50,000, has next hearing June 14
(https:)Conor McGregor and SBG teammate Cian Cowley were arrested in New York late Thursday night, a spokesman for the New York Police Department confirmed with MMA Fighting.
McGregor has been charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief due to his involvement in a fracas at the Barclays Center following the UFC 223 media day. Cowley, an SBG teammate of McGregor’s and a fellow MMA fighther, was charged with one count of assault and one count of criminal mischief.
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Conor McGregor’s bail set for $50,000, has next hearing June 14
In handcuffs, UFC superstar Conor McGregor stepped in front of a judge on Friday afternoon in Brooklyn.
The Irishman had a hearing on Friday afternoon at the Kings County Criminal Court. Heading into the hearing, the 29-year-old McGregor faced three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief due to his UFC 223 bus attack on Thursday.
The judge issued an order of protection in favor of Michael Chiesa, Ozzy Arias, Ray Borg, Ricardo Chico on both Conor McGregor and his SBG teammate Cian Cowley, who was also involved in the attack.
The judge also set a $50,000 bail on Conor McGregor and a $25,000 bail on Cowley. Both fighters will be allowed to travel. McGregor’s next hearing is set for June 14.
Max Holloway ‘medically unfit to fight,’ Anthony Pettis to step in against Khabib at UFC 223
(https:)The UFC 223 disasters continue to pile on.
A few days ago, the card was supposed to be headlined by Tony Ferguson vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov, before a freak incident left the interim champ injured.
Yesterday, Conor McGregor’s bus attack also led to three other cancelled bouts.
Max Holloway stepped in to try and save the main event, but there were concerns about his massive weight cut all week. Friday morning, the featherweight champion failed to make it to the weigh ins and was subsequently declared “medically unfit to fight” by the New York State Athletic Commission.
Dana White announced it as the early weigh-ins were happening.
Ray Borg's UFC 223 fight scrapped with eye issue reportedly from Conor McGregor bus attack
(mmajunkie.com)Conor McGregor never has claimed to have much interest in making friends, but his visit to New York today may have created a lot more enemies than he ever could have expected.
After the lightweight champion attacked a bus at Barclays Center following a media day for UFC 223, along with a group of other people with him, a total of three fights have been removed from the event.
Ray Borg (11-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) will miss his flyweight fight against Brandon Moreno (14-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC), a Borg team member told MMAjunkie.
According to Azevedo, Borg late today headed to the hospital because he was having difficulty opening his eyes from what he believed to be pieces of glass from the window McGregor broke out of the fighter and crew bus by throwing a dolly into it.
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