The submission finishes at UFC Vegas 23 just keep on coming. In the second round of his middleweight fight with veteran Sam Alvey, Julian Marquez hurt Alvey with strikes before securing a no-hooks rear-naked choke that put Alvey all the way out. Watch cageside video of the brutal finish below.
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Mackenzie Dern extended her win streak to four fights when she submitted Nina Nunes in the first round at UFC Vegas 23. Nunes was Dern’s highest-ranked UFC opponent to-date, positioning Dern for a high-leverage fight in her next outing. The submission came in the final seconds of the first round.
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Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou might be the biggest fight in UFC history, but it’s not entirely clear that fight will ever happen. Immediately following Francis Ngannou’s title-winning knockout performance against Stipe Miocic, Jones tweeted that he wanted to fight the new heavyweight champion, but the UFC would have to
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Mackenzie Dern might be jiu-jitsu’s best current hope of capturing a UFC title. On Saturday, April 10, Dern could take one massive step closer to a title shot when she meets no. 5-ranked strawweight Nina Ansaroff at UFC on ABC 2. Mackenzie Dern is, undoubtedly, one of the best female
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Some feuds will simply never die. That seems to be the case with Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, who went back and forth on Twitter on Wednesday, reminding fans of the rivalry that began in 2016. McGregor started things innocently enough, suggesting that his rumored trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier
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Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza will look to snap a three-fight losing skid, as he is now slated to fight Andre Muniz on May 15 at UFC 262. News of the booking was first reported by Combate. The event is set to take place at Houston’s Honda Center and will be the
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Ryan Hall’s MMA career has certainly been a successful one, but it has also been a frustration due to inactivity and numerous fight cancellations. Yet again, the jiu-jitsu ace is scheduled for his return to the Octagon, this time against Ilia Topouria at UFC 264 on July 10. News of
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Extreme weight cutting is undeniably one of the most dangerous aspects of MMA. At the weigh-ins for UFC Vegas 22, UFC bantamweight Julija Stoliarenko collapsed on the scale two times in a scary scene. Watch the entire incident in the video below, from MMA Junkie. One Stoliarenko’s first attempt, she
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For what feels like the hundredth time, (now former) UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has officially retired from MMA. Naturally, Conor McGregor couldn’t let him do that without speaking up. On Thursday, Nurmagomedov confirmed what he has been saying since his October 2020 win over Justin Gaethje: he is officially
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Just a few days after one of his long-time students won a UFC title, Matt Serra has announced he is retiring from cornering fighters. At UFC 259, Aljamain Sterling won the UFC bantamweight title when he defeated Petr Yan by disqualification. Serra was not in Sterling’s corner for the fight.
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