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BKB 58’s seismic rewrite: Terrill flies in on three days’ notice to challenge Trujillo for the heavyweight title

Terrill was booked to sit cageside with a headset. Then the visa news broke, the former champion demanded his way into the main event, and the promotion said yes.

Andrew Weissmann13 hours ago5 min read

MMA

DWCS wrap: Apodaca authors the biggest upset in the show’s history, and five fighters leave with contracts

Alex Apodaca took the fight a month after her last one, walked in as high as +1500 against the most heavily favoured prospect the series has ever staged, and out-fought the NCAA champion for fifteen minutes. The broadcast called it the biggest upset the show has ever aired.

Andrew Weissmann1 day ago5 min read

MMA

Cyborg wins No. 30 in her billed farewell, keeps the belt, and declines to say goodbye: ‘I’m ready for anybody. Any time, any weight.’

The legend outworked Ketlen Vieira over five hard rounds in Tampa, closed the three-fight farewell she announced two years ago, and then spent her retirement speech calling out a boxing world champion. The greatest résumé in women’s MMA history added a round number on Saturday. It did not add an ending.

Andrew Weissmann2 days ago4 min read

Wrestling

Cejudo pins Dvalishvili in 36 seconds at RAF 12, takes the belt, and calls his next shot: ‘Cody Garbrandt, you’re next’

The Olympic champion waited six weeks for the rematch and needed barely half a minute to end it: single-leg, four-point slam, trapped arm, shoulders flat. Then both men danced. The wrestling rivalry is level at one apiece, the trilogy is already being negotiated on the mic, and retirement keeps getting busier.

Andrew Weissmann3 days ago4 min read

MMA

UFC Sacramento wrap: Rodrigues spoils the homecoming and banks the card’s biggest check, while De Ridder announces himself at 205

The hometown main event went to the visitor on the scorecards, the commission sheet says the win was worth exactly double, and the night’s heaviest news arrived a day later.

Andrew Weissmann3 days ago5 min read

MMA

Volkanovski’s coach says the hole in Ruffy’s game is closed before UFC 331: ‘Arman’s in for a fight’

The man who built The Great’s career has watched the Brazilian knockout artist retool his wrestling inside the Freestyle MMA room, and his verdict on the Tsarukyan matchup is blunt.

Andrew Weissmann4 days ago4 min read

UFC

UFC Sacramento preview: Hernandez gets his home game, with the champion who beat him now in his corner

Seven years after its last visit, the promotion returns to Golden 1 Center with a NorCal headliner whose eight-fight run ended against the man currently holding the middleweight belt. His response was to join that man’s camp. A win at home restarts the climb. Across the cage: a surging Brazilian knockout artist with every reason to spoil the party.

Andrew Weissmann5 days ago5 min read

UFC BJJ 10 wrap: Tackett cranks his way to a record fourth defence, Ste-Marie takes the featherweight crown in her debut

The Bowl reopened Thursday night and nobody in it heard a final horn that mattered. The welterweight king needed 104 seconds, a Canadian took a belt in her first walk, both Tackett brothers submitted their men in the first round, and the flyweight tournament produced a final between two champions from different divisions of the sport’s map.

5 days ago4 min read

MMA

BKB plants its flag in Newcastle behind Terrill’s homecoming, in the same arena where he won a rival promotion’s belt in March

The North Shields heavyweight headlines BKB’s first Tyne card on October 10, seven months after becoming BKFC’s inaugural UK champion in the very same building. A title defence sits underneath, a former IBF world champion returns, and the UK’s two bare-knuckle promotions are now openly shopping in each other’s aisles.

6 days ago5 min read

MMA

A belt for a maybe: how Kaik Brito read the market and won

The two-time OKTAGON welterweight champion vacated his belt six weeks ago, cancelled a September title defence, and walked into the Meta APEX with nothing guaranteed. He walked out with a walk-off knockout, a UFC contract, and the sharpest possible illustration of what the European title picture is actually worth when the Apex calls.

6 days ago5 min read

MMA

PFL boss pumps the brakes on the Usman-to-UFC noise: ‘They’re not legally allowed to’ make an offer

John Martin used Helwani’s show to remind the sport that free agency has rules, and the exclusive window still belongs to his company. The broadcast graphics, the White and Campbell handshakes, and Cormier’s on-camera pleading, all of it, in Martin’s telling, is staged noise until the clock runs out.

Aug 204 min read

Boxing

Cejudo books a Misfits Boxing debut for September, five weeks after wrestling Dvalishvili again

The Olympic champion and two-division UFC king crosses into his third ruleset in a year, meeting former Misfits lightweight champion Deen the Great in Miami on September 26. First, he wrestles Merab this Saturday.

Aug 204 min read

MMA

Contender Series wrap: Six contracts on a wild night of upsets, a walk-off haymaker, and a Von Flue choke

The underdogs went three-for-three, the main event ended with one punch twelve seconds into the final round, a losing fighter earned a deal anyway, and the show handed out more contracts in one episode than it sometimes gives in three. The second-chance stories split exactly in half, and both halves deserve telling.

Aug 194 min read

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BKB 58’s seismic rewrite: Terrill flies in on three days’ notice to challenge Trujillo for the heavyweight title

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BKB 58’s seismic rewrite: Terrill flies in on three days’ notice to challenge Trujillo for the heavyweight title

DWCS wrap: Apodaca authors the biggest upset in the show’s history, and five fighters leave with contracts

Cyborg wins No. 30 in her billed farewell, keeps the belt, and declines to say goodbye: ‘I’m ready for anybody. Any time, any weight.’

Cejudo pins Dvalishvili in 36 seconds at RAF 12, takes the belt, and calls his next shot: ‘Cody Garbrandt, you’re next’

UFC Sacramento wrap: Rodrigues spoils the homecoming and banks the card’s biggest check, while De Ridder announces himself at 205

Volkanovski’s coach says the hole in Ruffy’s game is closed before UFC 331: ‘Arman’s in for a fight’

UFC Sacramento preview: Hernandez gets his home game, with the champion who beat him now in his corner

UFC BJJ 10 wrap: Tackett cranks his way to a record fourth defence, Ste-Marie takes the featherweight crown in her debut

BKB plants its flag in Newcastle behind Terrill’s homecoming, in the same arena where he won a rival promotion’s belt in March

A belt for a maybe: how Kaik Brito read the market and won

PFL boss pumps the brakes on the Usman-to-UFC noise: ‘They’re not legally allowed to’ make an offer

Cejudo books a Misfits Boxing debut for September, five weeks after wrestling Dvalishvili again

Contender Series wrap: Six contracts on a wild night of upsets, a walk-off haymaker, and a Von Flue choke