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UFC 264 card: Gilbert Burns vs Stephen Thompson full fight preview Share this story Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight talents Gilbert Burns and Stephen Thompson will collide this weekend (Sat., July 10, 2021) at UFC 264 inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Burns ascended up the 170-pound ladder with remarkable speed, meeting his former teammate Kamaru Usman for the title just four victories after his weight class switch. Despite a strong st...

UFC 264 record rundown: Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor 3 Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor meet in a rubber match at UFC 264 Share this story Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Somewhere between September 2014 and January 2021, Dustin Poirier evicted Conor McGregor from his brain. The brash and belligerent McGregor who knocked out Poirier in 2014 had gotten inside Poirier’s head in the lead up to that fight. With McGregor no longer residing inside Poirer’s head in January of this year, Poir...

MMA Best Bets: Chris Picks for UFC 264 Written by  This article is part of our MMA Best Bets series. This edition of Best Bets doesnt have my typical number of underdog plays, but the matchmakers couldnt prevent me from delivering four reasonably priced spots ripe for the picking. This includes getting a rebate on a slick flyweight boxer by selecting her most likely method of victory. As always, I have limited my looks to lines below (-200), as I feel that anything more expensive is supposed ...

Dustin Poirier has a reason as to why he will finish Conor McGregor again at UFC 264. Poirier and McGregor had their highly-anticipated rematch on Fight Island in January at UFC 257. Early on in the fight, the Irishman had success but Poirier kept landing leg kicks which opened up the head, and “The Diamond” capitalized with a second-round TKO win. “July 10, I’m going to stop Conor McGregor again,” Poirier said in a UFC promo that aired during UFC Vegas 30. “You can have all the mon...

MMA fighter Fau Vake died after being hit from behind. Photo: Instagram / Fau Vake The twenty-five-year-old rising MMA fighter died in hospital after he was hit from behind on Symonds Street on 16 May. Four men appeared at the Auckland High Court today in front of a packed public gallery of Vakes friends, family and team mates, including UFC star Dan Hooker. One man, Ofa He Mooni Folau, pleaded guilty to two assault charges, and a sentencing date has been set down for August. However the three...

Dan Hooker Expresses Interest In A Fight Against Ferguson Or Dariush Credit: Adam Hagy-USA TODAY Sports In a recent interview with Submission Radio, top ten lightweight contender Hooker believes a fight against Ferguson would make for a fan-friendly fight as the thought of fighting “El Cucuy” gets him excited. “Those are two great fights for me,” said Hooker. “Those are two fights that I would really love. I feel like Tony is just a guy that I would love to fight. I feel like the fan...

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Dan Hooker wants either Tony Ferguson or Beneil Dariush as his next opponent as he looks to snap a two-fight losing streak.

With nobody else willing to fight him, Dan Hooker wants to put an end to Beneil Dariush’s winning streak.