Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya declared his readiness to once again fight with Alex Pereira, who knocked out today at the UFC 295 tournament Jiri Prochazku and took over the vacant title in the light heavyweight division.
The fight card of the 297th UFC tournament has been supplemented with another interesting confrontation. Jan Blachowicz And Alexander Rakich will meet in a rematch. This was announced today by UFC officials.
Bellator lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov failed a drug test after his fight with Brent Primus. Famous journalist Ariel Helwani reported this on Twitter. He also reported that Nurmagomedov was disqualified for 6 months, and the result of the fight with Primus was cancelled.
John Jones current UFC heavyweight champion, congratulated Tom Aspinall with an early victory over Sergei Pavlovich and winning the interim champion belt in the heavyweight division.
Max Holloway, former UFC featherweight champion, reacted to the knockout in the fight between Sergei Pavlovich And Tom Aspinall.
Jiri Prochazka commented on his early defeat in the fight against Alexa Pereira.
Alex Pereira after winning the UFC light heavyweight championship belt, he challenged Israel Adesanya. Alex noted that at one time Izzy seriously motivated him, literally pulling him out of the bar with the words that “Pereira is now sitting in the bar and is jealous of him.” Now ...
Merab Dvalishvili, a top UFC bantamweight fighter, criticized referee Mark Goddard, who officiated the fight between Jiri Prochazka and Alex Pereira. In Merab's opinion, Makr stopped the fight too early.
Tom Aspinall, the newly crowned interim UFC heavyweight champion, commented on his victory over Sergei Pavlovich.
After the 295th UFC event, which took place this morning in New York, the promotion has traditionally handed out bonuses. Thus, Vyacheslav Borshchev and Nazim Sadikhov received $50,000 bonuses each for showing “Fight of the Night.”
