This Week In MMA – Rumble returns, Rodriguez outworks Waterson, and Pettis lifts gold

Within the fallout of his launch from his UFC contract final week following a sixteen-year stint with the promotion, Diego Sanchez revealed that he’s fearful for his life and believes the UFC may come after him in the future for speaking out against him.

Following Jiri Prochazka’s beautiful spinning again elbow win over Dominick Reyes at UFC Vegas 25 final weekend, Aleksandar Rakic claimed that he would be open to a title-eliminator against the #2 ranked contender in a bid to meet the victor of the UFC 266 title clash between Jan Blachowicz and Glover Teixeira.

Ranked at #3 within the official strawweight rankings upon her elimination on account of inactivity, Tatiana Suarez has famous her curiosity in an Octagon return at flyweight. The undefeated wrestling ace has but to function since a July 2019 unanimous resolution win over Nina Nunes again at UFC 238. 

Headlining UFC 264 on July tenth. — former two-weight champion, Conor McGregor predicted a “flawless” performance against Dustin Poirier as he makes an attempt to tug away within the rubber match and avenge a January knockout loss. 

In video footage rising on Friday night time throughout social media, School of Self Awareness leader, Joshua Fabia, the head coach and manager of the aforenoted, Sanchez can be seen punching and kicking the head and body of the Albuquerque native as he is hung inverted — with the video garnering enormous backlash from the MMA neighborhood.

Making his first skilled look since 2016, Anthony Johnson returned underneath the Bellator MMA banner towards brief discover substitute, Jose Augusto, and regardless of some first spherical adversity, through which he was dropped on the fence, the Dublin, Georgia veteran recovered to cease the Brazilian with an enormous proper hand within the second. The victory earned him a spot within the Grand Prix semi remaining bracket — reverse defending champion, Vadim Nemkov.

Headlining the Bellator 258 card, Sergio Pettis efficiently dethroned Juan Archuleta in his first tried title defence at bantamweight, taking dwelling a unanimous resolution victory — handing the Californian simply his third skilled loss from twenty-eight outings.

Taking major occasion honours on brief discover in a flyweight pairing at UFC Vegas 26, top-ten strawweight contenders, Marina Rodriguez and Michelle Waterson turned in a massively entertaining back-and-forth over 5 rounds, with the previous setting a blistering tempo within the opening three rounds, on her option to a unanimous resolution success. 

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