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UFC On ESPN 48
''UFC on ESPN: Strickland vs. Magomedov'' (also known as ''UFC on ESPN 48'' and ''UFC Vegas 76'') was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on July 1, 2023, at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. Background A middleweight bout between Sean Strickland and Abusupiyan Magomedov headlined the event. A middleweight bout between Abdul Razak Alhassan and Brunno Ferreira was originally expected to take place at UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill but was moved to this event for unknown reasons. In turn, Alhassan pulled out in late June and was replaced by promotional newcomer Nursulton Ruziboev. Vinc Pichel and Benoît Saint-Denis were scheduled to meet in a lightweight bout. However, Pichel pulled out in late-May due to injury and was replaced by Ismael Bonfim. A flyweight bout between Clayton Carpenter and Stephen Erceg was expected to take place at this event, but i ... [...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] |
Macy Chiasson
Macy Chiasson (born July 27, 1991) is an American mixed martial artist (MMA). She was the Women's Featherweight winner of '' The Ultimate Fighter 28'' and currently competes in the Bantamweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of October 3, 2022, she is #8 in the UFC women's bantamweight rankings. Background Chiasson started mixed martial arts at the age of 19, after being bed-ridden for three and one-half weeks recovering from a car accident to get back the fitness level she once was when she was a softball player in high school. After attending some Krav Maga classes at the martial arts gym, she was attracted to the physical aggressiveness and the tough mental side of the combat sport and started teaching Krav Maga after one year of training. Chiasson transitioned to mixed martial arts, training under Mushin MMA and Mid City MMA, as Krav Maga is not a competition combat sport. Not long after she started training mixed martial arts, she started competin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Romanov (fighter)
Alexander Romanov (born December 11, 1990) is a Moldovan mixed martial artist and freestyle wrestler, who competes in the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of March 13, 2023, he is #15 in the UFC heavyweight rankings. Wrestling career Romanov started training in freestyle wrestling at age seven. He has made four Moldovan World Teams (two as a senior and two as a junior) and eight European Teams (five as a senior, three as an age-group wrestler). His best result has been a bronze medal at the 2016 World University Championships. His last performance to date took place at the 2020 European Wrestling Championships, where he placed twelfth. He is also a two-time UWW grappling European bronze medalist. Romanov studied at law faculty of Comrat State University and pedagogical faculty of Chișinău Sport Institute. Alexandr Romanov also competed in sumo for a brief time. While his time in the sport was not long, he won silver in the OPEN Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luana Carolina
Luana Carolina Carvalho de Souza (born June 11, 1993) is a female Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Mixed martial arts career Early career Starting her career in 2015, Carolina went 4–1 on the regional Brazilian scene before she was invited to Dana White's Contender Series Brazil 3 on August 11, 2018. She faced Mabelly Lima and won the bout via unanimous decision, getting an UFC contract in the process. Ultimate Fighting Championship Carolina made her UFC debut, as a short notice replacement for Wu Yanan, on two days notice against Priscila Cachoeira at UFC 237 on May 11, 2019. Carolina went on to defeat Cachoeira by unanimous decision. Carolina was scheduled to face Ariane Lipski on May 16, 2020 at UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakić However, on April 9, Dana White, the president of the UFC, announced that this event was postponed to UFC on ESPN: Eye vs. Calvillo on June 13, 2020. Instead the pair e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Lee
Kevin Jesse Lee Jr. (born September 4, 1992) is an American professional mixed martial artist who competes in the Lightweight and Super Lightweight divisions of Eagle Fighting Championship (EFC). He formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Background Lee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 4, 1992, and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Lee has a sister and two younger brothers, one of whom is Keith, also a professional mixed martial artist signed to Bellator who has been training with Kevin previously at Xtreme Couture and currently at Tristar. He competed in basketball growing up and began wrestling during his junior year at Southfield High School. Lee continued his wrestling career at Grand Valley State University, where he was a national tournament qualifier and went 37–0 as a sophomore. However, with two years left of wrestling eligibility at the school, Lee dropped out to focus on a career in mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinat Fakhretdinov
Rinat Ryashitovich Fakhretdinov tt, Ринат Рәшит улы Фәхретдинов (born 28 September 1991) is a Russian professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Early life Rinat Ryashitovich Fakhretdinov was born into a Volga Tatar family on 28 September 1991, in the village of Belozerye in the Romodanovsky District of the Mordovian ASSR, an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He started freestyle wrestling and Kūdō at the age of 13. In 2011, he moved from Saransk, Mordovia to Moscow and jointed the "sparta combat sambo club". To support himself, he held multiple jobs while studying law at Mordovia State University through correspondence. Mixed martial arts career In his early 20s, he transitioned to mixed martial arts (MMA), participating in amateur tournaments and gaining experience. He secured the SFC championship and later received an invitation to compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Gatto
Melissa Gatto Regonha (born May 2, 1996) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who currently fights in the women's flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Background Gatto was born and grew up in Toledo, Paraná, Brazil, with an older and a younger brother. Following her big brother, she started training Kung Fu at the age of eight. Gradually she picked up also other disciplines eventually drifting to mixed martial arts in order to challenge herself. She attended Western Paraná State University from where she graduated with bachelor's degree in languages. Mixed martial arts career Early career Gatto racked up a record of 6–0–2 in Brazilian regional circuit before signing a contract with the UFC. In her last bout before the UFC, she submitted fellow future UFC fighter Karol Rosa with a first round kimura at Nação Cyborg 3. Ultimate Fighting Championship Gatto was scheduled to make her UFC debut replacing injured Jessica Rose-Clark on short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariane Lipski
Ariane Lipski (born January 26, 1994) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. She is a former KSW Women's Flyweight Champion and currently competes in the flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Background Lipski was born in Curitiba, Brazil with Polish heritage. Her grandfather migrated to Brazil before the Second World War for security reasons. Lipski started training Muay Thai at a young age and became the Brazilian Muay Thai champion prior to her transition to MMA. Mixed martial arts career Early career Lipski fought most of her early MMA career primary in Brazil and Poland, notable under Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki promotion. After winning her debut in KSW, she faced Sheila Gaff at KSW 36, where she won via knockout in the first round. She then faced Diana Belbiţă for the KSW Women's Flyweight Championship at KSW 39: Colosseum, winning the bout via armbar at the end of the first round. She defended the title against Mariana Morais on October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Griffin
Max Griffin (born November 29, 1985) is an American professional mixed martial artist. Griffin currently competes in the Welterweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional competitor since 2009, Griffin has also competed for Tachi Palace Fights, where he was the welterweight champion. Background Griffin was born in Santa Barbara, California, United States. He has a black belt in Bok Fu (a blend of Kenpo, Tae-Kwon-Do, and Kung Fu). Mixed martial arts career Early career Griffin started his MMA career on October 10, 2009. He fought for many promoters, notably Gladiator Challenge, West Coast Fighting Championship, the Warriors Cage, and Tachi Palace Fights in California. He was the former West Coast Fighting Championship welterweight and middleweight champion. Griffin was also the Tachi Palace Fight welterweight champion, and he amassed a record of 12–2 prior joining UFC. The Ultimate Fighter Griffin was selected as one of the contestants for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damir Ismagulov
Damir Amangeldyevich Ismagulov (russian: Дамир Амангельдыевич Исмагулов; born February 3, 1991) is a Russian mixed martial artist, who competes in the Lightweight division. He has previously competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship and was the former M-1 Global lightweight champion. Background As a child, he played football, was fond of horseback riding, tried himself in track and field athletics. Subsequently, he moved to Orenburg for permanent residence, enrolling in the Institute of Physical Culture and Sports of the Orenburg State Pedagogical University. As a student, he was engaged in various types of martial arts, fulfilled the standards of a master of sports in universal combat and in army hand-to-hand combat. Since 2011, he practised MMA at the amateur level. In 2014, after winning the Russian Cup, he was awarded the title of Master of Sports in mixed martial arts. Ismagulov is a practising Muslim and is ethnic Kazakh. Mixed martial ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Dawson
Grant Dawson (born February 20, 1994) is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of December 19, 2022, he is #15 in the UFC lightweight rankings. Background Dawson was born in Cambria, Wisconsin, but grew up mostly in Stromsburg, Nebraska. Initially dreaming of football career, Dawson started wrestling to aid his primary sport. After realizing he wasn't good enough at football, he dropped the sport and concentrated solely in wrestling. He was homeschooled until his teens, and attended Cross County Community School where he competed in high school wrestling, finishing his senior season with a record of 40–8. After graduating from high school but skipping college due to dyslexia, Dawson decided to pursue a career in mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts career Early career After compiling an amateur record of 8–1, Dawson started his professional MMA career in 2014. He amassed a professional rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karol Rosa
Karolline Rosa Cavedo (born December 30, 1994) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. A professional since 2012, she currently competes in the Bantamweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of October 3, 2022, she is #9 in the UFC women's bantamweight rankings. Background Rosa started training Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of 13, winning multiple international competitions in the sport before transitioning to mixed martial arts at the age of 17. Mixed martial arts career Early career Starting her career in 2012, Rosa compiled a 11–3 record fighting for a wide variety of regional Brazilian promotions, most notably fighting for the Watch Out Combat Show Featherweight Championship against Professional Fighters League finalist Larissa Pacheco, which Rosa lost by guillotine choke. Ultimate Fighting Championship Rosa made her UFC debut against Lara Procópio at UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang on August 31, 2019. She won a close back and forth fight by spl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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