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UFC 285
''UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane'' was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on March 4, 2023, at the T-Mobile Arena facility in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. Background A UFC Heavyweight Championship bout for the vacant title between former two-time UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones and former interim champion Ciryl Gane headlined the event. Former champion Francis Ngannou was stripped of the title on January 14 and released from the promotion due to a contract dispute. Sergei Pavlovich served as backup and potential replacement for this fight. A UFC Women's Flyweight Championship bout between current champion Valentina Shevchenko and Alexa Grasso served as the event's co-main event. A women's strawweight bout between former UFC Women's Strawweight Championship challenger and inaugural Invicta FC Atomweight Champion Jessica Penne and Tabatha Ricci took place at the event. They wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultimate Fighting Championship
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 Zuffa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. It is the largest MMA promotion company in the world as of 2011. It produces events worldwide that showcase 12 weight divisions (eight men's and four women's) and abides by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. , it had held over 600 events. Dana White has been its president since 2001. 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 early Ultimate Fighting Championship competitions was to identify the most effective martial art in a contest with minimal rules and no weight classes between competitors of different fighting d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFC Women's Strawweight Championship
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions are fighters who have won UFC championships. Historical notes At the time of the UFC's inception in 1993, mixed martial arts was not sanctioned in the United States, and did not include weight classes. Instead of the traditional championship model, the UFC held tournaments with the winner receiving a permanent appellation. In response to criticism from Senator John McCain that saw the loss of its television deal and the banning of the sport in thirty-six states, the UFC increased its cooperation with state athletic commissions and introduced weight classes in 1997, starting with UFC 12, and began introducing weight-specific titles. The original codification for weight classes introduced only two divisions: heavyweight, which grouped together all competitors above , and lightweight, which encompassed all competitors 199 pounds (90 kg) and under. At UFC 14 the lightweight division would be renamed to middleweight, though it would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Arce
Julio Andres Arce (born October 27, 1989) is an American mixed martial artist (MMA). He was the former Ring of Combat bantamweight and featherweight champion. He also won the Golden Gloves 2011 Championship. Arce currently competes in the Bantamweight division in the UFC. Background Arce was born in Florida but moved to Colombia as a child, returning stateside around the age of ten. He graduated from Benjamin N. Cardozo High School and got his associate degree in business afterwards. At fourteen and weighing 200 pounds, Arce joined Team Tiger Schulmann combat gym to lose weight. He started training, competed in kickboxing, and won the New York Golden Gloves championship in 2011 in boxing prior to transitioning to MMA in 2012. Mixed martial arts career Early career Arce started his professional MMA career since 2012 and fought most of his fights in Ring of Combat promotion and he was the bantamweight and featherweight champion. He amassed a record of 8–1 before signed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cody Garbrandt
Cody Garbrandt (born July 7, 1991) is an American professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the flyweight and bantamweight divisions of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Garbrandt is a former UFC Bantamweight Champion. Background Garbrandt was born and raised in Uhrichsville, Ohio, on July 7, 1991, mostly by his mother Jessica. Cody is ten months younger than his brother Zach, who he grew up constantly fighting. Garbrandt has claimed in several interviews that his drug addict father was never in the picture, spending most of his life in prison. Garbrandt's parents separated after a domestic abuse incident when Cody was one year old. Eventually, Cody was adopted by his mother's now ex-husband at the age of 10. At the ages of four and five, Cody and Zach, respectively, had already been dabbling into boxing with their uncle Robert Meese who was an Olympic alternate in the sport. However, their mother was concerned about the boys becoming punch-drunk thus fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFC Bantamweight Championship
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions are fighters who have won UFC championships. Historical notes At the time of the UFC's inception in 1993, mixed martial arts was not sanctioned in the United States, and did not include weight classes. Instead of the traditional championship model, the UFC held tournaments with the winner receiving a permanent appellation. In response to criticism from Senator John McCain that saw the loss of its television deal and the banning of the sport in thirty-six states, the UFC increased its cooperation with state athletic commissions and introduced weight classes in 1997, starting with UFC 12, and began introducing weight-specific titles. The original codification for weight classes introduced only two divisions: heavyweight, which grouped together all competitors above , and lightweight, which encompassed all competitors 199 pounds (90 kg) and under. At UFC 14 the lightweight division would be renamed to middleweight, though it would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFC 282
''UFC 282: Błachowicz vs. Ankalaev'' was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It took place on December 10, 2022, at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. Background A UFC Light Heavyweight Championship rematch between then current champion Jiří Procházka (also former Rizin Light Heavyweight Champion) and former champion Glover Teixeira was originally expected to headline the event. The pair previously met at UFC 275 in June, with Procházka winning the back and forth fight (and championship) by submission in the fifth round. However, on November 23, Procházka pulled out due to a shoulder injury that will require surgery and at least six months of rehabilitation. He decided to vacate the title, and Teixeira subsequently refused a replacement fight against Magomed Ankalaev. Therefore, the co-main event bout between former champion Jan Błachowicz (also former KSW Light Heavyweig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Pickett
Jamie Russell Pickett (born August 29, 1988) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Background Pickett lived with his grandparents growing up in Chinquapin, North Carolina, due to his father being in prison and his mom, a drug user, leaving the family when he was young. His mother returned for Pickett and his two half brothers when he was eight, however she was still using drugs. The government eventually got involved, and after a battle in court, Pickett ended up living with his father's parents, while his two half-brothers lived with his mom's parents, beginning at the age of nine or ten. Pickett initially started training Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of 19 and dabbled into mixed martial arts in 2009. Jamie ended up dropping out of high school at East Duplin High School in North Carolina Mixed martial arts career Early career Making his professional debut at Conflick Cage Fighting against Tyler Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Nickal
Bo Dean Nickal (born January 14, 1996) is an American professional mixed martial artist, former Freestyle wrestler, freestyle and graduated Collegiate wrestling, folkstyle wrestler who currently competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC Middleweight (MMA), middleweight division. In freestyle wrestling, he claimed the 2019 U23 World Wrestling Championships, 2019 U23 World Championship and the US Open National championship, and was a finalist at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials (wrestling), 2020 US Olympic Team Trials and a Final X: Rutgers, Final X contestant in 2019. As a collegiate wrestler, Nickal was a NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships#1999–2020, three-time NCAA Division I National Champion (finalist in 2016 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, 2016) and a three-time Big Ten Conference champion out of Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling, Pennsylvania State University. Considered one of the most accomplished Nittany Lions of all-time, Nickal earned the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strickland Vs
Strickland may refer to: Name * Strickland (surname) Places Australia * Strickland, Tasmania, a locality Canada * Fauquier-Strickland, Ontario * Mount Strickland, Yukon Papua New Guinea * Strickland River, Western Province United Kingdom Places in Cumbria, England: * Strickland Ketel * Strickland Roger * Great Strickland * Little Strickland United States * Strickland, Wisconsin, a town * Strickland (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community within Strickland, Wisconsin Court cases * '' Strickland v Rocla Concrete Pipes Ltd'', a 1971 High Court of Australia case * ''Strickland v. Sony'', a 2005 case in Alabama * ''Strickland v. Washington'', a 1984 US Supreme Court case Other uses * Strickland Propane, a fictional business run by Buck Strickland in the television series '' King of the Hill'' * Strickland's Frozen Custard, a frozen treats franchise based in Akron, Ohio * USS ''Strickland'' (DE-333), a US Navy destroyer escort, in service 1944–1960 See also * St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shavkat Rakhmonov
Shavkat Bakhtibaevich Rakhmonov (born October 23, 1994) is a Kazakh professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Rakhmonov is also a former M-1 Global Welterweight Champion. As of February 27, 2023, he is #9 in the UFC welterweight rankings. Background Being born in Uzbekistan, Rakhmonov received citizenship of Kazakhstan in 2017. His grandfather's name was Rahman, so while living in a neighboring state, he had to take a surname with a local flavor. His father is a Kazakh of Altynbay tribe and his mother is a Kazakh of Konyrat tribe. Shavkat is from the Altynbai clan of the Junior Zhuz. Shavkat's sister, Sora Rakhmonova, is also a mixed martial artist. Mixed martial arts career Early career As an amateur, Rakhmonov won the WMMAA World and Asian Championships titles. Rakhmonov's professional career began in October 2014, debuting with a first round triangle choke victory against Adam Tsur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Neal
Geoffrey Charles Neal (born August 28, 1990) is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of December 6, 2022, he is #7 in the UFC welterweight rankings. Background Neal was born in Austin, Texas, United States. He played football at private university Texas Lutheran. However, he did not like the football program there and transitioned to compete in MMA, coached under Sayif Saud. Career Early career Neal made his amateur debut in 2010, a second-round win by knockout against Bobby Hernandez. He competed in a total of 7 amateur matches, ending with a 6–1 amateur record. Before being signed by the UFC, Neal competed in a total of 10 mixed martial arts matches, winning 8 and losing 2 of them. Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series Neal appeared on Dana White's Contender Series 3 and faced Chase Waldon. He won the fight via technical knockout in the first round and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dern Vs (1896–1966), American author
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Dern is the surname of the following people: * Anne-Kathrin Dern (born 1987), German film composer *Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor * Daisy Dern, American country music artist * Georg Dern (1901–?), German sports shooter * George Dern (1872–1936), American politician, mining man, and businessman * Harry Dern (1929–2009), Australian rules footballer * Laura Dern (born 1967), American actress, director, and producer * Mackenzie Dern (born 1993), American mixed martial artist * Nate Dern (born 1984), American writer and actor *Peggy Dern Peggy Gaddis Dern (born Erolie Pearl Gaddis; March 5, 1895 - June 14, 1966)Peggy Gaddis; LibraryThing website http://www.librarything.com/author/gaddispeggy was an American writer of traditional romance novels, so-called "nurse novels," as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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