MMA Junkie analyst Dan Tom goes in depth to break down the biggest fights in the UFC. Today, he takes a closer look at the UFC on ESPN 56 main event between former heavyweight title challenger Derrick Lewis and rising contender Rodrigo Nascimento . Jul 29, 2023; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Derrick Lewis (red gloves) reacts to defeating Marcos Rogerio De Lima (blue gloves) during UFC 291 at Delta Center. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Swinger-USA TODAY Sports Staple info: Height: 63 Age: 39 Weight: 265 lbs. Reach: 79 Last fight: Decision loss to Jailton Almeida (Nov.
Derrick Lewis (born February 7, 1985) is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he currently holds the record for most knockouts in UFC history. A professional competitor since 2010, Lewis has also competed for Bellator MMA and Legacy FC, where he was the Heavyweight Champion. As of March 12, 2024, he is #12 in the UFC heavyweight rankings.
UFC on ESPN: Lewis vs. Nascimento (also known as UFC on ESPN 56) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on May 11, 2024, at the Enterprise Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis (also known as UFC Fight Night 231 and UFC on ESPN+ 89) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on November 4, 2023, at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil.
UFC St. Louis is set to have 13 bouts for betting and viewing pleasure, with the card headlined by Derrick Lewis vs. Rodrigo Nascimento. Lewis is favored against Nascimento, with odds on Lewis by decision at 16/1. Another match features Joaquin Buckley against Nursulton Ruziboev, with Ruziboev inside the distance being picked at +175. The main card starts at 7 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on ESPN. Other fights on the card include Alonzo Menifield vs. Carlos Ulberg, Diego Ferreira vs. Mateusz Rebecki, Alex Caceres vs. Sean Woodson, and Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Robelis Despaigne.
At UFC 301, Alexandre Pantoja successfully defended his UFC flyweight title against Steve Erceg in Brazil, winning by a unanimous decision. Jose Aldo returned from retirement with a dominant win over Jonathan Martinez. Anthony Smith also secured a victory, refusing to be a stepping stone for other fighters.
UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on February 17, 2024, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, United States.
UFC 301 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, featuring multiple Brazilians fighting in their home country, including a surprising title shot for challenger Steve Erceg against Alexandre Pantoja in the flyweight division. Jose Aldo, a UFC legend, returns to Brazil to face Jonathan Martinez. The event is expected to have a heavy emphasis on pleasing the Brazilian crowd, with four out of five main card fights featuring Brazilians as the favorites.
UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on April 13, 2024, at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
Alex Pereira took down UFC commentator Daniel Cormier during a hallway tussle. What started off as sparring ended up with security arriving after Cormier jokingly called for them. Pereira isn't competing in UFC 301 but he is still in attendance in Brazil for the card. He bumped into former Olympic wrestler Cormier, which led to a wrestling exchange between the pair. Pereira eventually managed to secure a takedown before a UFC official intervened.
Derrick Lewis is an American MMA fighter.Derrick Lewis may also refer to:Derrick Lewis (American football) (born 1975), American football playerDerrick Lewis (basketball) (born 1966), American basketball player
UFC fighter William Gomis weighed in at 143lb, 2lb under the required weight for his featherweight fight against Jean Silva at UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro. Fans were puzzled by his appearance on the scales, where he seemed unwell and wobbly. Gomis vomited before weighing in and was closely monitored by commission doctors. The fight may be at risk of cancellation due to his condition. Silva, his opponent, made weight at 146 pounds. The main event features Alexandre Pantoja versus Steve Erceg for the flyweight title.
UFC on ESPN: Nicolau vs. Perez (also known as UFC on ESPN 55 and UFC Vegas 91) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on April 27, 2024, at the UFC Apex facility, in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro includes the flyweight championship fight between Alexandre Pantoja and Steve Erceg, a bantamweight battle with Jose Aldo facing Jonathan Martinez, a light heavyweight fight between Anthony Smith and Vitor Petrino, and two middleweight events. The event will be broadcast on PPV, with prelims on ESPN and ESPN+. Viewers in the UK can access the fight through TNT Sports Box Office for $25 USD.
Below is a list of records held in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Marcos Rogério de Lima (born May 25, 1985) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional since 2009, he formerly competed for Strikeforce, Shooto, and was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3. As of February 20, 2024, he is #14 in the UFC heavyweight rankings.
UFC on ABC: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida (also known as UFC on ABC 4) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on May 13, 2023, at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Michel Pereira secured a quick first-round submission win over Ihor Potieria at UFC 301 with a backflip kick to the head, despite the move raising questions of legality due to UFC rules prohibiting kicks to the head when an opponent is grounded. Officials ultimately deemed the move legal, awarding Pereira the victory. The backflip kick landed on Potieria's chest with a glancing blow to the head. Pereira followed up with a standing guillotine to secure the win in 54 seconds, extending his winning streak to eight and bringing his UFC record to 31-11 (2 no contests).
Francis Zavier Ngannou (born 5 September 1986) is a Cameroonian and French professional mixed martial artist and professional boxer who is currently signed to the Professional Fighters League (PFL). He also competed in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he was the reigning UFC Heavyweight Champion at the time of his departure from the promotion. Known for his punching power, Ngannou was widely viewed as the most destructive pure puncher in the UFC's heavyweight division; Only five of his thirteen UFC fights eclipsed the two-minute mark in the first round, with the remaining eight ending in an Ngannou finish. In 2017, he set the world record for the hardest punch ever recorded at 129,161 units.
Jerome Max Kelii Holloway (born December 4, 1991) is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Featherweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Featherweight Champion. As of February 20, 2024, he is #2 in UFC featherweight rankings, and as of January 24, 2024, he is #14 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.
This is a list of events held and scheduled by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. UFC's first event, UFC 1, took place on November 12, 1993. Each UFC event contains several fights. Traditionally, every event starts off with a preliminary card followed by a main card, with the last fight being known as the main event.
Boxer Art Jimmerson, who famously fought with one boxing glove in the first UFC competition in 1993, has passed away at age 60. He had a professional record of 33-18, with 17 victories by knockout. After his fighting career, he became a head boxing coach at a UFC Gym in California. Jimmerson declined a stake in the UFC, now valued at $12 billion, in exchange for $20,000 upfront. He recently had a chance encounter with Conor McGregor at a Target store in California.
Jailton Jesus Almeida Júnior (born 28 June 1991) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of November 7, 2023, he is #7 in the UFC heavyweight rankings.
The year 2024 is the 31st year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. It is the largest MMA promotion in the world as of 2023. It produces events worldwide that showcase 11 weight divisions (eight men's and three women's) and abides by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. As of 2022, it had held over 600 events. Dana White has been its president since 2001 and CEO since 2023. Under White's stewardship, it has grown into a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise.The UFC was founded by businessman Art Davie and Brazilian martial artist Rorion Gracie, and the first event was held in 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado. The purpose of the UFC's early competitions was to identify the most effective martial art in a contest with minimal rules and no weight classes between competitors of different fighting disciplines. In subsequent events, more rigorous rules were created and fighters began adopting effective techniques from more than one discipline, which indirectly helped create a separate style of fighting known as present-day mixed martial arts.The UFC was initially owned by the Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG) until it had financial issues and it was sold to the brothers Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta in 2001, who formed the company Zuffa to operate the UFC, and placed Dana White as the president of the company. In 2016, UFC's parent company, Zuffa, was sold to a group led by Endeavor, then known as William Morris Endeavor (WME–IMG), including Silver Lake Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and MSD Capital for US$4.025 billion. In 2021, Endeavor bought out Zuffa's other owners at a valuation of $1.7 billion. The organization had 578 fighters contracted as of January 2023.With a TV deal and expansion in Australia, Asia, Europe, and new markets within the United States, the UFC has achieved greater mainstream media coverage. It earned US$609 million in 2015, and its next domestic media rights agreement with ESPN was valued at $1.5 billion over a five-year term.In April 2023, Endeavor Group Holdings announced that UFC would merge with the wrestling promotion WWE to form TKO Group Holdings, a new public company majority-owned by Endeavor, with Vince McMahon serving as an executive chairman of the new entity and White remaining as UFC president. The merger was completed on September 12, 2023.
This list of current UFC fighters records current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters' information, country origins, recent fighter signings and departures, fight schedules and results and the champion of each division. As of 21 July 2023, the UFC roster consisted of fighters from 73 countries.
UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev thinks he has a pretty good idea how his fight with Dustin Poirier at UFC 302 is going to go. In fact, he can see it all laid out before him, from the opening moments to the finish and it doesnt take that long. We will start and I will try to take him down, Makhachev told Yahoo Sports. He will try to get me in a guillotine (choke). I will defend the guillotine.
UFC 302 is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on June 1, 2024, at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
Marcelo Luis Do Nascimento (born 20 October 1980) is a Brazilian professional boxer. At regional level, he has challenged once for the PABA heavyweight title in 2012, and the PABA interim heavyweight title in 2014.
Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov (born 20 September 1988) is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He was the longest-reigning UFC Lightweight Champion ever, having held the title from April 2018 to March 2021. With 29 wins and no losses, he retired with an undefeated record. Nurmagomedov is widely considered to be among the greatest mixed martial artists of all time, and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on June 30, 2022.A two-time world champion in combat sambo, Nurmagomedov has a background in wrestling, judo, and sambo. Nurmagomedov was ranked #1 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings at the time of his retirement, until being removed following his title vacation in March 2021. Fight Matrix ranks him as the #1 lightweight of all time. In 2019, Forbes ranked Nurmagomedov as the No. 1 most successful Russian athlete; Nurmagomedov also topped the list of the 40 most successful Russian show business and sports personalities under 40.Nurmagomedov is also a mixed martial arts trainer and promoter, known for founding Eagles MMA and promoting the Eagle Fighting Championship (EFC). After retirement, he transitioned to being a full-time coach and cornerman before retiring from the sport completely in January 2023. Throughout his career, Nurmagomedov has become the subject of many controversies, including a longstanding affiliation with Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, questionable affiliations with oligarchs, advocacy for increased cultural censorship and misogynism.
Sergei Vladimirovich Pavlovich (born 13 May 1992) is a Russian professional mixed martial artist. Pavlovich is a one-time champion of Russia in Combat Kung Fu. He was also the former Fight Nights Global heavyweight champion and currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of November 14, 2023, he is #3 in the UFC heavyweight rankings.
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