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Tom Aspinall reveals his UFC 328 main event prediction

BAD MMA News — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:52:06 +0000

We’re deep into UFC 328: Chimaev vs.

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Paddy Pimblett reveals timeframe for octagon return

BAD MMA News — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:38:02 +0000

Lightweight contender Paddy Pimblett suffered his first UFC loss on Jan. 24 in the UFC 324 main event. He was defeated by Justin Geathje for the interim 155-pound championship via unanimous decision.

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Conor McGregor wants Islam Makhachev title fight

BAD MMA News — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:46:33 +0000

As he nears his return, Conor McGregor has set himself a monumental task. If all goes well in his first outing in almost half a decade, the former two-division UFC champion wants to add Islam Makhachev ‘s title to his resume. McGregor is seeking to add further success to an already established career inside the octagon, after he was the first in UFC history to hold belts in two separate divisions simultaneously.

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Israel Adesanya provides UFC 321 heavyweight title bout prediction

BAD MMA News — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:33:13 +0000

Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall puts his title on the line for the first time since being elevated from interim titleholder to undisputed champion in the UFC 321 main event on Saturday.

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Israel Adesanya provides UFC 312 heavyweight title bout prediction

BAD MMA News — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:59:52 +0000

Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall puts his title on the line for the first time since being elevated from interim titleholder to undisputed champion in the UFC 321 main event on Saturday. The 32 year-old Brit takes on former interim titleholder Ciryl Gane in his first fight in 15 months. After winning the interim championship at UFC 295 and defending it at UFC 304, Aspinall was sidelined waiting for then-champion Jon Jones to accept a title unification bout

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Tabatha Ricci reacts to Amanda Ribas’ facial injury suffered in UFC Abu Dhabi fight

BAD MMA News — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Tabatha Ricci finished Amanda Ribas with an elbow in the clinch | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Amanda Ribas will have to go under the knife after a knockout loss this past Saturday at UFC Abu Dhabi , and Tabatha Ricci feels bad for the fellow Brazilian. Ricci connected a vicious elbow to Ribas’ face in the second round of their strawweight bout on July 26. The strike displaced a metal plate that was inserted in the area in 2023, when Ribas suffered a mid-fight orbital bone fracture against Maycee Barber .

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Arman Tsarukyan: UFC should ‘delete’ Paddy Pimblett from the lightweight rankings

BAD MMA News — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Arman Tsarukyan | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Arman Tsarukyan doesn’t think Paddy Pimblett should be anywhere near the UFC lightweight title. At the moment, current champion Ilia Topuria awaits his first challenger, though Pimblett has made a strong case for himself with a 7-0 record in the UFC and an in-cage confrontation with “El Matador” at UFC 317

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Carlos Leal aims to destroy Muslim Salikhov and avoid another UFC Abu Dhabi robbery

BAD MMA News — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Rinat Fakhretdinov raises Carlos Leal’s hands after their 2024 fight in Abu Dhabi | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Brazilian welterweight Carlos Leal is 1-1 under the UFC banner, but he will have a different answer if you ask him for his octagon record. Set to face Muslim Salikhov in the preliminary portion of UFC Abu Dhabi on July 26, Leal admits he hasn’t moved on from this late-notice debut loss to Rinat Fakhretdinov . They met in October 2024, inside the same venue he returns to this weekend, and Leal lost a highly controversial decision when Hadi Mohamed Ali, Michael Bell and David Lethaby unanimously awarded Fakhretdinov the win.

Stephen Thompson reacts to Islam Makhachev’s welterweight move: ‘If I was in the top 5, I would be very upset’

BAD MMA News — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC As a fighter who has competed for UFC welterweight gold on two occasions, Stephen Thompson would understand current top-ranked divisional fighters being upset that Islam Makhachev is moving up. Thompson, who competes in the co-main event of UFC Nashville this Saturday against Gabriel Bonfim , was asked about Makhachev vacating the lightweight title to pursue an opportunity to face new welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena for a second divisional title later this year. “Well, number one, if I was in the top-five, I would be very upset that this guy who just got the title is already looking at somebody from a different division,” Thompson told MMA Fighting.