Bellator has rescheduled their featherweight finals originally from season 7 between Rad Martinez and Shabulat Shamhalaev. The two tournament finalists will square off at Bellator 90 on February 21 at the Maverick Center in West Valley City, Utah, the promoted announced Friday. Martinez and Shamhalaev were initially scheduled to face one another in the main [...]
Two featherweight match-ups have been added to bolster the depth of UFC 157, including one featuring a pair of former No. 1 contenders. Fresh off his win at last week’s UFC on FX 6 event, Chad Mendes didn’t wait long for his next assignment. He’s agreed to take on Manvel Gamburayn at the Feb. 23 [...]
After a brief drop to featherweight, Ross Pearson returned to where he came from, the 155-pound division, with a challenging match against former lightweight contender Georges Sotiropoulos. The bout had been long simmering, as the two coached against each other on the UK vs. Australia edition of The Ultimate Fighter, and grew a dislike for [...]
Perennial Japanese contender Tatsuya Kawajiri (31-7-2) is set to meet UFC veteran Michihiro Omigawa (13-12-1) in a featherweight match-up at DREAM/GLORY’s co-promoted year-end event. Promotion officials confirmed the booking on Thursday. The bout will be added to the DREAM.18 portion of the night’s card, which already includes the likes of Shinya Aoki vs. Antonio McKee, [...]
The UFC’s fight card for its return to the United Kingdom continues to fill out. The promotion announced a featherweight bout between Dennis Siver and Cub Swanson will serve as that night’s co-main event bout. Siver, 33, is on a two-fight win streak since dropping to featherweight after losing handily at lightweight to Donald Cerrone [...]
Friday night was bizarro night for Bellator, a nightmare kind of evening that simply needs to be left in the rear view mirror. A current champion lost, a former champion lost, a key star was injured, and a bizarre incident led to a last-minute main event cancellation. Taking the last first, Shahbulat Shamhalaev was not [...]
BURBANK, Calif. — Jose Aldo Jr. is excited for his UFC 156 main event against Frankie Edgar for the same reasons fans look forward to the bout: The fight between the current UFC featherweight champion and former lightweight champ promises fireworks. “It’s a fight between two very explosive guys,” Aldo said through an interpreter on [...]
Resurrection Fighting Alliance puts its featherweight title up for grabs when it returns this week. The show is set for Friday’s RFA 5 event in Nebraska with a seven-bout main card, including Jared Downing vs. Jordan Rinaldi for the 145-pound title and WEC vet James Krause vs. Joe Jordan. RFA 5 takes place Friday at [...]
Ticket’s for the UFC’s traditional Super Bowl weekend event go on sale this week. “UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar” takes place Feb. 2 at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center and features a featherweight title fight between current champ Jose Aldo and former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, as well as Antonio Silva vs. Alistair [...]
Erick Silva said he was hoping to fight on Super Bowl weekend, and now he will. UFC officials today announced that Silva will take on Jay Hieron at UFC 156, the UFC’s traditional Super Bowl-weekend fight card. Featuring a featherweight title fight between current champ Jose Aldo and former lightweight title holder Frankie Edgar, UFC [...]