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Cory Sandhagen’s year may have ended with back-to-back losses, but the 29-year-old bantamweight isn’t deterred. He knows how close he was to authoring a different story.

Lightweight David Rickels talks about his Bellator 139 match-up with John Alessio on Friday, June 26 in Kansas.

Bellator 260: Lima vs. Amosov Preview and Predictions June 9, 2021 With plenty of stacked MMA events going on this weekend, Bellator MMA needed to assemble a fight card that would stand out. Well, mission accomplished. Bellator 260 looks to be one of the best promotional events of the year. The event includes welterweight kingpin Douglas Lima, who will defend his belt against Yaroslav Amosov, as well as rising star Aaron Pico, a potential “Fight of the Year” between Paul Daley and Jason Jac...

All the best, most interesting, and unquestionably coolest fights the UFC needs to book following their latest event in Las Vegas, NV.

Kamaru Usman, Gilbert Burns Cross Paths At Sanford MMA UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and his former teammate and last opponent Gilbert Burns, have recently crossed paths at Sanford MMA. The two were teammates for years at the South Florida gym but Usman left to start training at Team Elevation under Trevor Wittman in Colorado. Soon after the fight between Usman and Burns was booked for the welterweight belt. They finally met in February at UFC 258. Burns came out surging and dropped U...

Then Kunitskaya won the fight in the final 30 seconds. The 31-year-old Russian reversed position and immediately began raining down elbows to the head, and when the horn sounded, Vieira was a mess, her face a mask of crimson, a hematoma on her forehead. What a weird fight to score, Viera controlled significantly more but threw almost no strikes!— Funky (@Benaskren) February 21, 2021 It was a sight to see, and the judges saw it as enough to give the round to Kunitskaya, who won the fight with ...

Mallory Martin discusses her upcoming fight with Polyana Viana at UFC 258.

Coming off a sensational knockout over Gerald Meerschaert, UFC middleweight Ian Heinisch believes he only has more to give in 2021. Now ranked at number 15 in the 185lb division, Heinisch is set to take on his biggest test to date. Competing on the main card of UFC 258, ‘The Hurricane’ will face off against 9th ranked Kelvin Gastelum. Gastelum has been a mainstay of the middleweight division for some time now, having even fought for a belt in 2019. However, since losing that fight to curren...