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•Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier on 4/13 at UFC 236 for interim lightweight belt
•Alistair Overeem vs. Alexander Volkov confirmed headliner on 4/20 at UFC on ESPN+ 7 in St. Petersburg.
•Anderson Silva vs Jared Cannonier on 5/11 at UFC 237 in Curitiba
•Bethe Correia vs. Irene Aldana on 5/11 at UFC 237 in Curitiba
•Paige VanZant vs. Poliana Botelho on 4/13 at UFC 236
•Wilson Reis vs. Alexandre Pantoja on 4/13 at UFC 236
•Elias Theodorou vs. Derek Brunson on 5/4 at UFC on ESPN+ 8 in Ottawa
•Sarah Moras vs. Leah Letson on 5/4 at UFC on ESPN+ 8 in Ottawa
•Arjan Bhullar vs. Juan Adams on 5/4 at UFC on ESPN+ 8 in Ottawa
•Aiemann Zahabi vs. Vince Morales on 5/4 at UFC on ESPN+ 8 in Ottawa
Hardy and Gooden break down Blachowicz vs. Marreta in main event of ESPN+ 3 (22:48)
Zoila Frausto: Combate is the perfect promotion for MMA return on Friday
Zoila Frausto, who fights Jaimee Nievera at 125 on Friday at Combate 31 in Fresno, California: “Since Combate is coming back to California, Fresno, that’s like my hometown. ... I got so far away from it because of things that had happened in my personal life. I feel like it’s something that I need to do to show that — not just to myself, but everybody else — I’m still very much here. I’m winning big fights in Muay Thai, in kickboxing, against really good opponents, but I want to be able to go back and do that with MMA as well. It’s the perfect opportunity, perfect opponent, perfect promotion, and perfect place, so it just kind of all came back together.” h/t MMA Fighting
Vid from Nate Diaz training camp for Dustin Poirier prior to fight cancellation
Imanari wins via Imanari Roll in seconds at ONE
Mackenzie Dern announces pregnancy, fighting career on hold but will return
GSP's coach laments return of embarrassing MMA superstars
Firas Zahabi: “The way the market changed, the way that the personalities changed, we went back to our Tito Ortiz days, and even worse to greater degrees. Georges was such a breath of fresh air because he brought class to our sport. We were not embarrassed of our sport when he was there … I was happy to say I’m part of the sport. But nowadays, you have so many superstars who are getting in trouble with the law. The way they behave, it makes the sport look uncivilized. And it’s not the case – 99 percent of our athletes are good people. But it’s unfortunate when the megastars embarrass us all." h/t MMAjunkie • Watch
Black breaks down formative GSP fight
6' 4", 225, former fighter and founder of 600-employee company on lessons from MMA
BlueGrace Logistics CEO Bobby Harris: "I have to quote Rob Kahn - he's kind of like the godfather of (Mixed Martial Arts) in Tampa — when you're in a dominating position, dominate. In business, it's a critical thing to remember: When you're in a position to do something great, don't let it pass you by. Do it. We feel we're in a real interesting time when we can make a lot of impact, and we mean to do that." h/t Tampa Bay Times
EFC signs new deal with SABC, following SuperSport partnership
Both SABC (free television) and SuperSport (Pay TV channel) will televise the promotion's main-card bouts this year, starting with EFC 77 at Time Square in Pretoria, South Africa on 3/16. The partnership will see 1 hour of EFC programming every Saturday evening from 20:00-21:00 on SABC 3, plus 10 live EFC events broadcast per year. On the evening of every live EFC event, SABC 3 will broadcast the full 3-hour event delayed live from 21:30-00:30, featuring the 5 main-card bouts. In the USA the event streams on DAZN.
Headbutts are coming to UFC Fight Pass on Friday night
Nurmagomedov sees your whiskey, and raises a perfume
UFC 234 PPV estimated at 175,000
UFC 234, the show headlined by Anderson Silva vs. Israel Adesanya after the Robert Whittaker vs. Kelvin Gastelum main event fell through, on 2/9 from Melbourne, Australia, is currently estimated at doing 175,000 buys on PPV. All things considered, that isn’t a bad number. However, it was the show that did the best prelims numbers in more than two years so it’s a case where the prelim numbers (and Google numbers, likely due to so many searches regarding Whittaker’s late pullout) did not correlate with final numbers. The prelim rating was more based on the basketball lead-in than the UFC show itself. h/t WON (subscription)
Paul Felder undergoes surgery on collapsed lung
In the closing moments of his unanimous decision win over James Vick on Sunday night in Phoenix, Paul Felder believes his lung was punctured when he took a shot to the ribs. The collapsed lung did not heal on its own, so he was forced to undergo surgery at a local Phoenix hospital Wednesday afternoon; the surgery was a success. It is hoped that Felder will be discharged next week, Butler said. The UFC is currently working on flying his family from Philadelphia to be with him. h/t ESPN
