Despite being already scheduled to fight at UFC 280 against Mateusz Gamrot, top lightweight contender Beneil Da♐riush has confirmed that he will be serving as the back up fighter to the main event which is Charles Oliveira vs Iꦆslam Makhachev for the UFC lightweight title — this and much more on Thursday's social media roundup.
Beneil Dariush reveals that he is the back up fighter for the main event at UFC 280
UFC 280 is shaping up to be one of the best fight cards of the year so far. There are many great f♋ights scheduled on this card which will be held in Abu Dhabi, some of them include Charles Oliveira vs Islam Makhachev for the UFC lightweight title, Aljamain Sterling vs T.J. Dillashaw for the UFC bantamweight title and an incredible bantamweight fight between form🌳er champion Petr Yan and Sean O'Malley.
Another one of the great fights which is scheduled on the card is Beneil Da✨riush 🤡vs Mateusz Gamrot which is a very important fight for the lightweight division.
Dariush today confirmed to that he will officially be serving as the back up fighter to the main ev🅘ent at UFC 280 despite being scheduled to fight o♒n the same card against Gamrot.
-- Beneil Dariush as told that he will serve as the backup for the lightwe🍨ight title main event at in Abu Dhabi despite being scheduled to face Mateusz Gamrot on the same card.
— The MMA Media (@The_MMA_Media)
This is once again very good plan🌱ning by the UFC as they will certainly not want a repeat of what went down this past weekend at UFC 279 where they h✅ad to re-shuffle the top three fights all around.
Leon Edwards achieves his black belt in BJJ
The recently crowned UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards has adꦑded another achievement to his resume as he has just achieved his black belt in BJJ.
-- Congratulations to UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards on rec💙eiving his BJJ black belt.
— The MMA Media (@The_MMA_Media)
David Feldman wants Nate Diaz in BKFC
After his win over Tony Ferguson this past weekend in the main event at UFC 279, Nate Diaz's c𒀰ontract with the UFC was officially up.
Diaz explained in his post fight interview that he was going to step 🍎away🌜 from the UFC for the time being and focus on his own promotion as well as competing in a different sport.
Many people instantly speculated that the sport which Diaz was alluding to was boxing and a potential fight a🀅gainst Jake Paul.
However, it seems Diaz has an offer on the table fജrom BKFC to꧑o.
The president of BKFC David Feldman has expressed his desire in wanting to bring Diaz to the promotion. See the post 🍨below to see what Feldman had to say regarding Diaz.
-- BKFC president David Feldman wants Nate Diaz.
— The MMA Media (@The_MMA_Media)
"I can't tell you whether he's coming or not, but I can tell you that we♚ want him here at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, and we're going to do everything we can do to get him a bare-knuckle fight," - Feldman
Do you think Diaz would be a good fit for BKFC?
Andy Ruiz teases a huge fight against Deontay Wilder
Mexican heavyweight boxer Andy ♓Ruiz has teased that a huge fight between himself and former world champion Deontay Wilder could take place next for them both.
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— AndyRuizJr (@Andy_destroyer1)
Despite both fighters not holding an❀y top titles in the heavyweight division rig🐼ht now, Ruiz vs Wilder would still be an awesome fight which all the fans would love to see.
Floyd Mayweather reportedly in talks to face YouTube star Deji in an exhibition boxing bout
It seems that Floyd Mayweather is continuing his exhibition boxing c🧔areer as he is reportedly in talks🃏 to face YouTube boxing star Deji.
-- Floyd Mayweather vs Deji in talks for an exhibition bout, multiple 🐲sources tell
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunchPromo)
It is unsurprising that Mayweather is continuing to fight in exhibition bouts as he will still be making good money but the choice of opponent ꧋seems bizarre.
Deji, who is slated to be Mayweather's next opponent is the younger brother𝐆 of fellow YouTube boxing star KSI who fought Logan Paul 🎃twice and will apparently be fighting Jake Paul next year.
Hasbulla signs 5 year deal with the UFC
Hasbulla Magomedov has taken the social ꦺmedia world by storm in the past year with his extremely funny videos and connওections to Khabib Nurmagomedov and other Russian MMA fighters.
It was recently reveale𓆏d that Hasbulla has just put pen to paper on a 5 year deal with the UFC to do PR and conten🦋t work.
Hasbulla -- UFC (per )
— Marcel Dorff -------- (@BigMarcel24)
Huge featherweight fight set for October 29
A huge featherweight fight between top contenders Arnold Allen and Calvi𓃲n Kattar is now official and will take place on October 29.
THIS FIGHT IS --
— UFC on BT Sport (@btsportufc)
No. Arnold Allen -- No. Calvin Kattar --
It doesn't get much better than this --
First reported by Brett Okamoto.
Whoever wins this fight will leave themselves in a good position to po💝tentially be the next challenger for Alexander Volkanovski.
The UFC officially requests 7 event licenses in Vegas for October 1 through until the end of the year
De💮spite the UFC now regularly doing overseas shows and shows around America, they have requested 6 event licenses for the UFC Apex.
The has officially requested event licenses from the Nevada State Athletic Commission for...
— Nolan King (@mma_kings)
UFC Apex: Oct. 1, Oct. 15, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 19, Dec. 17
T-Mobile Arena: Dec. 10 ()
In total the UFC have requested 7 event liඣc🌸enses, 6 for the UFC Apex and 1 for the T-Mobile Arena on December 10.
Muhammad Ali's grandson signs with the PFL
Biaggio Ali Walsh, who is the grandson🔥 of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali has officially signed with the PFL.
-- The PFL have announced the signing of Biaggio Ali Walsh, the grandson of Muhammad Ali.
— The MMA Media (@The_MMA_Media)
Ali Wa⛎lsh will make his PFL debut in November on the undercard of the 2022 PFL World Championship.
Bizarre story of how Tony Ferguson accepted the offer to fight Nate Diaz at UFC 279 is revealed
What went down prior to UFC 279 last weekend was bizarre, but something which might be even more strange is tꦯhe story which has su♍rfaced about how Tony Ferguson decided to accept the fight against Nate Diaz.
Ferguson apparently convinc🀅ed UFC Business Officer💃 Hunter Campbell to take his Bentley for a spin as it would make him think better about the situation.
Check out the post below to see the full details of this strange ye🐎t hilarious story.
Kinda feels like this interaction between UFC fighter Tony Ferguson and UFC exec Hunter Campbell is, I don'♋t know, some type of metaphor...
— Ben Fowlkes (@benfowlkesMMA)
