Friday, September 30, 2022

UFC on December 17th
Michael Oleksiejczuk will replace Bruno Silva against Albert Duraev
Lightweight: Arman Tsarukyan v. Damir Ismagulov 


NCAA Equestrian
Berry College will be joining the National Collegiate Equestrian Association and the Eastern College Athletic Conference in addition to remaining in the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association 


Paris 2024 Qualification Updates
Boxing Qualifiers: The Pan-Am, European, Pacific and Asian Games next year and a TBD Africa multisport event

Men's Soccer: Croatia, Czech Republic, Israel and Ukraine take the final four spots for next year's U21 Euros and move a step closer to the Paris field 


UFC on January 14th
Middleweight Main Event: Kelvin Gastelum v. Nassourdine Imavov 
Men's Flyweight: Jeff Molina v. Jimmy Flick


Boxing on December 10th
Josh Warrington will defend his IBF featherweight belt against Luis Alberto Lopez  


UFC on November 5th
Men's Featherweight: Shayilan Nuerdanbieke v. Darrick Minner 


ONE on Prime Video 4 on November 18th
Welterweight Title Fight: Champ Kiamrian Abbasov v. LW champ Christian Lee 


UFC on November 19th
Heavyweight Main Event: Derrick Lewis v. Serghei Spivac 


UFC on October 15th
Welterweight: Daniel Rodriguez v. Neil Magny
Joanderson Brito v. TBD with Melsik Baghdasaryan off the card


Boxing on November 11th
Sunny Edwards will defend his IBF flyweight title against Felix Alvarado 
Super Bantamweight: 17-0 Jack Bateson v. 10-0 Shabaz Masoud  


UFC this weekend
Cody Garbrandt is off the card (this comes after the removal of his scheduled opponent Rani Yahya) 


Combat Sports News
With the combatants TBD, Bellator will have a lightweight Grand Prix next year 

Strawweight Jaqueline Amorim goes from defending her LFA title to joining the UFC in the span of a week 

Eddie Alvarez is no longer with ONE Championship after four years under their banner  


UFC 282 on December 10th
Men's Featherweight: TJ Brown v. Erik Silva 
Heavyweight: Jairzinho Rozenstruik v. Chris Daukaus
Middleweight: Chris Curtis v. Joaquin Buckley and Bo Nickal v. Jamie Pickett 


Boxing in December
Junior Middleweight: Troy Williams will defend his British title against Josh Kelly 


UFC 283 on January 21st 
Mounir Lazzez v. Gabriel Bonfim
Women's Featherweight: Josiane Nunes v. Zarah Fairn 
Middleweight: Brad Tavares v. Bruno Rodrigues 


Boxing on November 12th
Seniesa Estrada will defend her WBA strawweight title against Jazmin Gala Villarino 


UFC 280 on October 22nd
Jailton Almeida v. Shamil Abdurakhimov


UFC on October 29th
Ilia Topuria needs a new co-main opponent with Edson Barboza off the card   

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Bellator 289 on December 9th
Men's Featherweight: Cody Law v. Cris Lencioni 
*Law will look to rebound from his first pro loss after a 6-0 start while Lencioni will be looking for his fifth win under the Bellator banner 
Welterweight: Mark Lemminger v. Michael Lombardo 


Boxing on November 1st
Light Flyweight Title Unification: Kenshiro Teraji v. Hiroto Kyoguchi 
Jonathan Gonzalez defends his WBO belt at the same weight v. Shokichi Iwata 
Junto Nakatani v. Francisco Rodriguez Jr
Shuichiro Yoshino v. Masayoshi Nakatani at lightweight


Bellator 288 on November 18th
Men's Featherweight: Killys Mota v. Piotr Niedzielski
*Niedzielski will be looking to move to 2-0 under the Bellator banner while Mota has split his first four bouts with the promotion  


UFC 281 on November 12th
Men's Bantamweight: Julio Arce v. Montel Jackson 


Bellator 286 on October 1st
Lightweight: Dominic Clark will replace Chris Avila against Lance Gibson Jr 


Boxing on December 10th
Teofimo Lopez v. Jose Pedraza 


UFC on October 1st
Men's Featherweight: Don Shainis v. Sodiq Yusuf 
Lightweight: Viacheslav Borshchev will replace Uros Medic against Mike Davis  


Boxing on October 15th
Frank Sanchez v. Carlos Negron will replace Subriel Matias v. Jeremias Ponce 

Monday, September 19, 2022

Welterweight Boxing on November 19th
WBO champion Errol Spence Jr v. WBC/WBA/IBF champion Terence Crawford 


UFC on October 15th
Middleweight: Jordan Wright v. Dusko Todorovic 


Boxing on October 29th
Vasiliy Lomachenko's return fight v. Jamaine Ortiz
Featherweight: Robeisy Ramirez v. Jessie Magdaleno
Katie Taylor's return bout v. TBA 


Los Angeles 2028 Olympics
The rowing distance has been shortened from 2,000 meters to 1500 meters 


Combat Sports News
Leonardo Santos has retired from MMA competition, joining Luke Rockhold and Jose Aldo 

Marlon Moraes has joined the PFL roster and will compete in the 2023 featherweight season 

Hunter Azure, Mickey Gall and Mason Jones are no longer on the UFC roster 


UFC next weekend
Rani Yahya is out of a bout v. Cody Garbrandt 


UFC Men's Featherweight Division
October 29th Main Event: Calvin Kattar v. Arnold Allen
November 5th: Bryce Mitchell v. Movsar Evloev 


Bellator 289 on December 9th
Men's Bantamweight Title Fight Main Event: Raufeon Stots v. Danny Sabatello (GP semifinal)
Women's Flyweight Title Fight Co-Main: Liz Carmouche v. Juliana Velasquez rematch  
Men's Bantamweight GP Semifinal: Magomed Magomedov v. Patchy Mix 


Boxing this weekend
Leigh Wood v. Mauricio Lara has been scratched (Kid Galahad v. Maxi Hughes is the new main event) 
A WBA title fight between Hannah Rankin and Terri Harper is also still on


UFC on December 17th
Middleweight: Sean Strickland v. Jared Cannonier (rebooked from October 15th)   


Boxing News
The Shields-Marshall card has been postponed to October 15th 

Friday, September 9, 2022

UFC 281 on November 12th
Michael Chandler v. Dustin Poirier is official for the card; Chandler also recently signed a new multi-fight deal to remain with the promotion 


Flyweight Boxing
IBF champ Sunny Edwards has his next mandatory challenger in Felix Alvarado 


UFC on November 19th
Jack Shore is out of his fight against Kyler Philips


Professional Fighters League
Thiago Santos has joined the light heavyweight division ahead of the 2023 season 


Soccer News
Robert Lewandowski is the first person to record a Champions League hat trick for three different teams (Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and now Barcelona). He's also the third-best goal scorer in Europe's top competition with 89 goals. Only Lionel Messi (125) and Cristiano Ronaldo (140) are ahead of him  


UFC 282 on December 10th
Middleweight: Darren Till v. Dricus du Plessis


Boxing Schedule
JoJo Diaz v. William Zepeda has been moved from November 5th to October 29th  


UFC next weekend
Giga Chikadze is out of his co-main clash against Sodiq Yusuf; however, the Sandhagen-Song main event is still on 


BKFC 29 tomorrow
Charisa Sigala will replace Fani Peloumpi against Britain Hart for the inaugural strawweight title 


UFC on October 15th
Alexa Grasso v. Viviane Araujo at flyweight has been moved to the main event after Strickland's withdrawal from a bout against Jared Cannonier 


Combat Sports News
After a 20-fight career with 11 in the UFC including wins over Joaquin Buckley, Julian Marquez, Oluwale Bamgbose and Garreth McLellan, Alessio di Chirico announced his retirement from MMA 

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Middleweight Boxing
Janibek Alimkhanuly will be upgraded to WBO champion as Demetrius Andrade will move up to super middleweight for a matchup with Zach Parker 


Boxing on October 29th
Former cruiserweight champ Mairis Breidis v. unbeaten heavyweight Justis Huni


Paris 2024 Qualifiers
Women's Basketball: The FIBA World Cup will start on the 22nd of this month and will award one qualifier spot for the tournament  


Boxing News
Deontay Wilder v. Robert Helenius on October 15th has been named a WBC eliminator with the winner facing Andy Ruiz Jr
The interim WBO belt will be on the line in the Joe Joyce-Joseph Parker fight 


ONE Championship on October 21st
Main Event: Reinier de Ridder (c) v. Shamil Abdulaev 
Co-Main: John Lineker (c) v. Fabricio Andrade 


Boxing on December 3rd
Juan Francisco Estrada v. Chocolatito Gonzalez 3 
Estrada has won 43-of-46 while Gonzalez has won 51-of-54 


UFC News
Marina Rodriguez v. Amanda Lemos at strawweight has been moved from October 22nd to November 5th

Sean Strickland v. Jared Cannonier has been scrapped from the October 15th fight card  


Boxing on November 5th
Super Featherweight: Joe Cordina (c) v. Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov
Super Lightweight: Unified champ Chantelle Cameron v. Jessica McCaskill  

Monday, September 5, 2022

UFC 282 on December 10th
Middleweight: Edmen Shabazyan v. Dalcha Lungiambula
Men's Featherweight: Billy Quarantillo v. Alexander Hernandez


Combat Sports News
Harry Hunsucker, Claudio Silva and Wu Yanan have all been removed from the UFC roster 

Daniel Roman has announced his retirement from boxing after tallying 29 wins in 34 bouts 


UFC 279 this weekend
Anton Turkalj will replace Shamil Abdurakhimov against Jailton Almeida in a 220 catchweight bout 


UFC on November 19th
Women's Flyweight: Jennifer Maia v. Maryna Moroz  


Boxing on October 15th
Wilder v. Helenius undercard
Subriel Matias v. Jeremias Ponce for a vacant IBF title
Gary Antonio Russell v. Emmanuel Rodriguez rematch 


UFC on October 1st
Jessica Penne will replace Cheyanne Vlismas against Tabatha Ricci 


Bare Knuckle FC on October 1st
Ben Rothwell (BKFC debut) v. Bobo O'Bannon 


UFC on December 17th
Men's Flyweight: Alex Perez v. Amir Albazi
Middleweight: Bruno Silva v. Albert Duraev