The Russian heavyweight Alexey Oleinik is about to fight against the former UFC champion Fabricio Werdum. Their fight will take place on May 9 at UFC 250. Oleinik has already commented on the news about the upcoming match.
The fight between Jon Jones and Dominic Reyes was held on February 9, and the controversy surrounding the results of the match do not cease to this day. For example, the light heavyweight Anthony Smith said that Reyes had won this fight. According to him, he counted 3:2 by rounds in favor of the Dominican.
On May 9 San Jose will host the Bellator 243 tournament. Today it became known that a very interesting bout will join this event: Douglas Lima will meet Gegard Mousasi in the cage. There will be a vacant middleweight title of the organization at the stake in this battle. This belt has been vacated by Rafael Lovato because of health problems.
Jared Canonniers will be a reserve fighter for the title fight between Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero. Dana White the president of UFC promotion informed this to the press. The duel between Adesanya and Romero will be held on March 7 and will headline the 248th event of the organization in Las Vegas at T-Mobile arena.
Khabib Nurmagomedov the UFC lightweight champion will carry out his preparation for the fight against Tony Ferguson in the United States. He said it yesterday during GFC 24 tournament. It should be noted that The Eagle attended the event as guest of honor.
Russian light heavyweight Shamil Gamzatov will return to the cage on April 26 at Lincoln. His opponent will be Ovince Saint Preux. The bout will take place as part of UFC Fight Night 173. Gamzatov briefly commented on the news, writing in his Instagram: "Well, let's go."
Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, the father and trainer of Khabib Nurmagomedov, said that he said the least about Conor McGregor. But UFC president Dana White, on the contrary, recalls the Irishman more and more.
A few days ago it was reported that the billionaire from Saudi Arabia is ready to present $100 million to UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov for his rematch against Conor McGregor. Khabib said that there are a lot of organizations to which the money will be a lot more useful than for him. In particular, Khabib named soccer for the blind people, wrestling and other sports for the disabled.
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones said that after his fight against Dominick Reyes, he can rise up to the cruiserweights, and fight the champion of the division Stipe Miocic. According to The Bones, the chances of this are very high. He also said that he did not need a warm-up bout at the new weight category. Finally Jones said that he was confident of his victory over Stipe Miocic.
Khabib Nurmagomedov's manager says some very powerful and rich men in Saudi Arabia have offered $100 million to get Khabib to box Floyd Mayweather in Riyadh but it's highly unlikely we'll see that fight go down in the Middle East.
