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MMAPFL 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.
MMAContender 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.
MMADWCS Week 2 preview: BJJ world champion Mahamed Aly gets a second shot at the contract that got away
The Meta APEX runs five more auditions tonight, and the one grappling fans will circle is the light heavyweight bout. A year ago, the IBJJF world champion walked into this show and got knocked out. Now, Aly is back on the same stage, one win from the door.
MMAUFC 330 breaks the Philadelphia arena’s all-time gate record, and the number tells a bigger story than the night
A sold-out 19,238 and $6.7 million in tickets, roughly $2 million past the building’s previous best, from a card with no marquee local draw, in a city the promotion had skipped for seven years. Dana White read the numbers out loud. The live-events business heard them.
MMADin Thomas retires on air minutes after Robertson’s title loss, absorbs two days of backlash, then apologizes: ‘I stole her moment’
The veteran coach used his own analyst chair on the UFC 330 post-fight show to end a two-decade cornering career, saying his longtime student may have gone as far as she can go. She had not yet spoken. By Sunday, Strickland, Anik, and a blindsided Dana White had all weighed in. By Monday, Thomas opened his own show with an apology he did not soften.
MMAMakhachev names his preference for the next defence. With both contenders in attendence, it leans towards Prates.
The record-holder wants to fight again by January, before Ramadan. Asked who deserves it, he picked activity over the unbeaten record. Prates and Morales, both in the building Saturday, found each other before the champion even left the cage.
MMAUFC 330 wrap: Makhachev breaks the record that stood above everyone, and Philadelphia’s very-own, chokes out a six-to-one favourite
Seventeen straight. The number belongs to one man now. Underneath the history: a challenger who lost with more grace than he ever promised, a champion who defended her belt and left with homework, and the man with the rebuilt airway authoring the upset of the summer.
UFC 330 weigh-ins: All 24 make weight in Philadelphia, both title fights official, and Morales is the insurance policy
PFL Tampa card set: Cyborg defends for the final time against Vieira in what is expected to be her farewell
UFC 330 preview: Two belts in Philadelphia, a champion chasing history, and a challenger thinking about strawberries
Gamrot breaks his silence after the Salkilld loss: ‘You can defeat me in one evening, but you won’t take away my faith’
Cerminara books her comeback at UFC Edmonton: ‘Mom’s back’
