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Claim you’re Robert Whittaker. Claim you have actually obtained a huge battle reserved versus the unbeaten Khamzat Chimaev as the headliner of Saturday’s UFC Saudi Arabia (3 p.m ET, ABC/ESPN+). It’s a battle that, if you win, nearly assures you one more chance at the middleweight title you when held, to make sure that’s a quite large offer. You invest …

UFC 305 in Australia has its centerpiece. Dricus Du Plessis will certainly protect his middleweight title versus previous champ Israel Adesanya on Aug. 17 in Perth at RAC Sector. The South African boxer, 30, won the champion at UFC 297 in January, gaining a split choice over Sean Strickland. His UFC document is 7– 0 with a general 21– 2 …

Conor McGregor launched his initial public declaration considering that taking out from his UFC 303 suit with Michael Chandler on Thursday. The two-time champ supplied no information on the injury that required him to take out from the welterweight, non-title round, just stating that the choice was made in examination with physicians, the UFC and his reps. ” Really challenging …

The largest loser of Conor McGregor taking out of UFC 303 had not been McGregor, it was the person that waited greater than a year and a fifty percent to eliminate him. That individual is Michael Chandler, a prominent light-weight that is all of a sudden encountering the possibility of losing on what would certainly have likely been one of …

It was intended to be champion vs. champ, according to Cris Cyborg. The Bellator females’s lightweight champ claims she authorized a round contract to eliminate versus 2023 PFL period champion Larissa Pacheco in September. The champ face-off was a vital missing out on item of the huge PFL vs. Bellator: Champions occasion, which occurred in February in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …

Conor McGregor has appeared in additional Hollywood movies than UFC fights for the reason that summer time of 2022. (Photograph by Samir Hussein/WireImage) Conor McGregor’s practically three-year layoff from the UFC will change into even longer, because the Irishman withdrew from his UFC 303 battle in opposition to Michael Chandler on Thursday. UFC president Dana White announced McGregor’s exit, solely …

Tim Johnson earned his win over Danilo Marquez at PFL 4 2024. (Photograph by Cooper Neill/Getty Pictures) It is onerous to seek out 90 seconds of combating extra eventful than what went down between Tim Johnson and Danilo Marques at Thursday’s PFL card. And it began with low blow that was downright mesmerizing. Two minutes into the primary spherical, Johnson …

Before YouTube existed, Chael Sonnen waited for it. The ultimate practitioner awaiting his ultimate trade. All those years in the UFC? The years on the wrestling mats before that? Now it seems like it was just a preamble, all designed to give him stories to tell and expertise to lean on as he holds court for his 1.28 million subscribers. …