This Week In MMA – Israel Adesanya defends title, Brandon Moreno lifts gold, Leon Edwards bloodies Nate Diaz

Regardless of replying “quickly” to an Instagram consumer who requested him if the UFC had been planning on implementing future well being advantages for fighters, promotional president, White claimed he made a mistake and truly meant to answer “quickly” to a special message, successfully denying the promotion could be implementing some long run well being advantages for fighters. 

In the identical interview, White appeared to have modified his tune on a attainable return of Nick Diaz, claiming that he now believes the 37-year-old would make his highly-anticipated Octagon return this year following some earlier query marks raised over his intentions to really make a return. 

Supporting Costa’s determination to step away from their planning August matchup, Cannonier claimed that “any individual” must step up and try to assist the fighters safe the next share of the general income earned by promotions and organizations. 

Booked for UFC 266, an attention grabbing potential flyweight title-eliminator, as most up-to-date title challenger, former strawweight division finest, Jessica Andrade, and the #5 ranked contender, Cynthia Calvillo meet on September twenty fifth. 

Set to land on July twenty ninth. — lastly, the featherweight Bellator Grand Prix final clash between two-weight titleholder, Patricio Pitbull, and the promotional mainstay, the undefeated 17-0 surging contender, A.J. McKee. 

Scoring 5 dominant rounds of great strikes in opposition to Nate Diaz, Leon Edwards seems to be to have lastly secured his spot as a title challenger, seemingly after Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington II — nonetheless, it wasn’t utterly plain crusing, significantly within the last minute of the battle, with Edwards discovering himself on the receiving finish of some notable pictures from Diaz, leading to a pair of worrying wobbles. 

Clinching the undisputed UFC flyweight championship, Brandon Moreno turned within the efficiency of his skilled profession in opposition to Deiveson Figueiredo of their co-headlining title re-run — dropping the Brazilian first, earlier than finally locking up a 3rd spherical rear-naked choke, forcing a faucet from the Para native. 

Solidifying his standing because the king of the middleweights as soon as once more, Israel Adesanya countered Marvin Vettori expertly for 5 rounds on path to a 50-45 (x3) decision shutout and even swept occasionally when he discovered himself on his again, which occurred 4 occasions, in reality. Following his rematch win, by which he moved to 2-0 over Vettori, Adesanya welcomed one other re-run, within the type of a second conflict with former champion, Robert Whittaker.

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