Carla Esparza’s 2014 may have felt long, but it also has to feel good.
The former Invicta strawweight championship not only matriculated to the UFC by being the top-seeded cast member on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 20, she won the show and in the process, became the first-ever UFC women’s strawweight champion when she defeated Rose Namajunas at the TUF 20 Finale.
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Roxanne Modafferi won’t face Vanessa Porto after all at Invicta FC 10 after Porto had an “unforseen delay in visa processing,” according to a Invicta press release Thursday.
Modafferi (16-11) will now face Andrea Lee (2-0) at the event at the Arena Theatre in Houston. Lee won her Invicta debut with a unanimous decision victory over Shannon Sinn at Invicta FC 9 earlier this month.
Modafferi recently snapped a six-fight skid with a unanimous decision win over Tara LaRosa at Invicta FC 8 on Sept. 8.
Michele Waterson will defend her atomweight title against Herica Tiburcio in the Invicta FC 10 main event.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Scott Jorgensen returned to the win column after a 1-5 jog in the UFC using a triumph over Danny Martinez, however he has not forgotten the last guy who beat him. Talking to the Brazilian media in Rio de Janeiro, Jorgensen talked about his need to confront Jussier Formiga one more time, his ideas on the Brazilian MMA Commission procedure when he requested his controversial loss to be overturned into a no contest, his coming fight with Wilson Reis at UFC 179 and much more.
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When UFC middleweight Cung Le was given a year-long suspension for a positive HGH test taken following his August 2014 bout with Michael Bisping in Macau, China, he had no choice but to accept it. Unlike the United States or other select territories where mixed martial arts (MMA) is regulated by some sort of athletic commission, China currently has no regulatory oversight. When the UFC holds events in this territory and others like it, they are forced to self-regulate. That practice is earnest, but also nascent and, as Le’s predicament illustrates, incomplete.
Whereas fighters have the opportunity to seek out an appeals process in areas with established commissions, those avenues do not exist in unregulated territory. That is, until now.
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With news that the UFC will give him the chance to appeal his one-year suspension after testing positive for excess levels of Human Growth Hormone (HGH), middleweight Cung Le maintains the result was due to flawed testing methods.
“I’m glad I’m able to appeal and am very confident,” Le told Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times. “The facts are out there. If the right test had been done, this would have never happened.”
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If time is money, then Conor McGregor did pretty well for himself at UFC 178. The Irish featherweight ace brought in a little over $1,415 per second in purse winnings alone in only his fourth UFC fight, cashing in a $150,000 check for his sub two-minute triumph over Dustin Poirier on the night’s pay per view card, according to information released to MMAFighting.com by the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Throughout weeks of pre-fight hype, McGregor called he’d knock out Poirier inside the initial round, and finally he did just that, earning himself an added Performance of the Nighttime bonus in the procedure which brought his disclosed gains to $200,000. Poirier took home $34,000 in the losing effort.
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UFC welterweight Nick Diaz was arrested in California on September 6 on charges of suspicion of DUI, obstructing a police officer, destruction of signs and driving with a suspended permit, MMAFighting.com affirmed on Friday following a preliminary report from the Lodi News-Sentinel.
Diaz was detained at 2:20 a.m. by Corporal Eric Bradley while driving down the 600 block of East Pine Street, according to Sergeant Steve Maynard of the Lodi Police Department. Diaz was later processed at Lodi City Jail.
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