Julia Budd has a new opponent for her Bellator debut.
Undefeated Brazilian grappler Talita Nogueira, scheduled to take on Budd at the Bellator 133 card in Fresno on Feb. 13, will be replaced by Gabrielle Holloway, who makes her promotional debut on a 10 days’ notice.
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Titan FC is stacking the deck for its next card.
With three title fights already scheduled, another one will be added to Titan FC 33 on March 20 at AeroFest in Mobile, Ala., COO Lex McMahon told MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani on Tuesday.
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While no announcement has been made yet, The Sports Network (TSN) in Canada sent out schedule revisions for January to television listings services on Friday which included extensive UFC coverage.
TSN, the country’s equivalent to ESPN, was the leading candidate to get the UFC contract, which had been held by Sportsnet, a rival sports network run by Rogers Cable, since the sport’s popularity explosion.
UFC officials would not confirm the deal at this time.
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UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will answer questions from the fans during the UFC Fight Night 58 Q&A on Friday morning. The session is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. ET.
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Renan Barao is scheduled to meet Mitch Gagnon in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night 58 in Barueri, Brazil, on Dec. 20, and he believes it’s a matter of time until he faces T.J. Dillashaw one more time.
Barao, who lost his UFC bantamweight title to Dillashaw in May, was forced out of the rematch in August after passing out while cutting weight for UFC 177.
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PHOENIX, Ariz. — Friday’s UFC on FOX 13 weigh-ins went off with no hitch, except for one glaring exception.
Lightweight co-headliner Nate Diaz badly missed ahead of his scheduled fight against Rafael dos Anjos, tipping the scales at 160.6, more than four pounds over the section’s 156-pound limitation.
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Kelvin Gastelum is scheduled to be the featured guest for the UFC on FOX 13 Q&A on Friday day. This video is anticipated to begin at 3 p.m. ET.
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Mark Munoz is going to be making his return to the Octagon in February.
The long time UFC veteran, that has endured back to back stoppage losses in the UFC, is scheduled to return in action on Feb. 28 against Nova Uniao middleweight Caio Magalhaes at UFC 184 in Los Angeles. The UFC declared the matchup Thursday.
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PHOENIX — Nate Diaz’s return to the limelight got off into a rocky beginning, as the popular and frank UFC lightweight was a clearly absent existence from Wednesday’s UFC on FOX 13 open work outs occasion at Phoenix’s U.S. Airways Center.
among the four featured combatants to the Dec. 13 card, Diaz (17-9) was scheduled to appear at the buff occasion alongside headliners Junior dos Santos and Stipe Miocic, and coming competition, Rafael dos Anjos. All three other combatants revealed. Diaz was expected to as well, yet he never did.
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Bellator CEO Scott Coker said lately that if he could, hewant to set Melvin Manhoef on a show every month. While that might be excessive, Manhoef (29-12-1, 1 no contest), coming off a knockout loss to Joe Schilling to the Nov. 15 show in San Diego, Calif., is scheduled for his third fight in a five-month span in Bellator’s only announced second show of 2015, on Feb. 13 in Fresno, Calif. at the Save Mart Center. Manhoef will headline against former Bellator middleweight champ Alexander Shlemenko (50-9).
The promotion declared the fight on Friday night.
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The UFC’s large card in Boston took a little bit of a hit Wednesday.
Jorge Masvidal needed to pull from his scheduled lightweight fight with Norman Parke at UFC Fight Night 59: McGregor vs. Siver on Jan. 18 due to a back injury, the UFC declared. In Masvidal’s area will step his American Top Team training partner Gleison Tibau.
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Invicta FC’s third show on UFC Fight Pass is down a fight.
Swearing Mexican bantamweight Irene Aldana is out of her Invicta FC 10 fight Friday night with Marion Reneau in Houston due to your serious case of bronchitis that necessitated hospitalization, Invicta declared Monday. The fight will likely be rescheduled on a card in early 2015.
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UFC bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey is scheduled to defend her title against Cat Zigano on Feb. 28, and Bethe Correia is expecting to get a chance at the UFC star next.
Driven to refuse a fight with Miesha Tate as a result of an injury, Correia eyes a return to the Octagon in March, and vows to complete any competition in the primary round — even Rousey.
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John Lineker and Ian McCall are set to meet … again.
The pair of flyweight competitors, who have been scheduled to meet at UFC Fight Night 56 in Uberlandia, Brazil, on Nov. 8, will square off at UFC 183 in Las Vegas on Jan. 31, the promotion declared Wednesday.
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Former Bellator title contender Rick Hawn is headed to Titan FC.
According to Titan FC CEO Jeff Aronson, Hawn has signed a four-fight deal with the promotion and is scheduled to make his debut at Titan 32 on Dec. 19 in Lowell, Mass. His opponent has yet to be signed.
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“These fights lead to bigger fights.”
After an injury-laden 2014 campaign, that message seemed to be UFC president Dana White’s promise to fans for next year’s schedule.
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The 2015 UFC schedule was released by UFC officials during their “Time is Now” press conference in Las Vegas on Monday.
There will be 45 total events. There will be 13 pay-per-view events, four events on UFC on FOX, 18 events on FOX Sports 1, and 10 events on UFC Fight Pass.
The UFC calendar will kick off with UFC 182 where Jon Jones will defend his light heavyweight title against Daniel Cormier on Jan. 3 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev.
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The UFC ‘The Time is Now’ press conference will feature some of the UFC’s biggest stars as the upcoming schedule for 2015 will be announced Monday evening at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nev.
Jon Jones, Chris Weidman, Ronda Rousey, Conor McGregor, Anderson Silva, Nick Diaz, Alexander Gustafsson, Anthony Johnson, Lyoto Machida, CB Dollaway, Daniel Cormier, Dennis Siver, Vitor Belfort and Cat Zingano, as well as UFC president Dana White, are expected to attend.
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SAN DIEGO – Four title fights highlight the first three events on the Bellator 2015 schedule.
The first event under the company’s new monthly schedule, Bellator 132, will be held on Friday, January 16, at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, Calif., as Patricio “Pitbull” Friere (22-2) will defend his Bellator featherweight title against former champion Daniel Straus (23-5).
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Back to the win column at UFC 179, Darren Elkins makes his return to the Octagon less than two months after his last win.
The UFC announced on Tuesday that Elkins is scheduled take on Brazilian featherweight Hacran Dias at the UFC Fight Night 58 card in Barueri, Brazil, on Dec. 20.
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