MMA NEWS
ONE strawweight MMA world champion Joshua Pacio will challenge flyweight titleholder Yuya Wakamatsu at ONE 173 on Sunday, November 16, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
ONE Championship returns to Tokyo on Sunday, November 16, with one of their biggest-ever fight cards, with seven championship bouts confirmed for the Ariake Arena.
BRAVE Combat Federation have announced the return of their Kombat Kingdom series, starting with BRAVE CF 101, which follows hot on the heels of the promotion’s landmark BRAVE 100 event.
Willie van Rooyen enters ONE Championship on November 7 carrying a perfect 7-0 record and EFC flyweight championship, but his debut against Avazbek Kholmirzaev represents the ultimate test. He’s facing an opponent who has already proven himself at this level.
The UFC APEX played host to the final round of the current season of Dana White’s Contender Series, as UFC boss White awarded five more contracts on a night of crazy finishes at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas.
Tengnueng Fairtex learned the hard way through his knockout loss to Maksim Bakhtin in August that fighting at a weight class where his frame couldn’t compete was a bad choice. Now, his October 17 return at ONE Friday Fights 129 against Tun Min Aung represents more than a comeback — it’s a strategic reinvention built on finding his optimal competitive weight.
Former featherweight champion Jordan Vucenic is back in Cage Warriors, and is set to return to action at Cage Warriors 196 at the scene of some of his biggest successes – the Indigo at The O2 – on November 15.
UFC 323 will feature two championship fights, and the return of two former UFC champions, as the promotion brings down the curtain on its pay-per-view era partnership with ESPN in Las Vegas, on December 6.
BRAVE Combat Federation’s landmark event BRAVE 100 now has its main event, with one of Bahrain’s finest fighters set to challenge for championship gold on home soil.
The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) gathered its global membership in Tbilisi for the 2025 General Assembly – a reflection of the sport’s continued growth and unity under IMMAF’s leadership.
Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira produced a vintage performance to submit Polish lightweight contender Mateusz Gamrot in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, then called for an epic BMF title bout with Max Holloway.
