The famed octagon was back at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas for Saturday’s UFC Vegas 90 event. The live results from Sin City begin at 3 p.m. ET on MMAWeekly.com.
The event is headlined by a middleweight bout between sixth-ranked Brendan Allen and 14th-ranked Chris Curtis. Allen (23-5) will enter the bout riding a six-fight winning streak. Five of those wins came by way of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) won his last bout against Marc-André Barriault via split decision.
The main event bout is a rematch. Allen stopped Curtis with punches and knees in their first meeting back in December 2021. Curtis and Allen both officially weighed in at 186 pounds.
The octagon is back at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas for this week’s UFC Vegas 90 fight card and the athletes competing on it officially weighed in on Friday.
The event is headlined by a middleweight bout between sixth-ranked Brendan Allen and 14th-ranked Chris Curtis. Allen (23-5) will enter the bout riding a six-fight winning streak. Five of those wins came by way of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) won his last bout against Marc-André Barriault via split decision.
The main event bout is a rematch. Allen stopped Curtis with punches and knees in their first meeting back in December 2021. Curtis and Allen officially weighed in at 186 pounds.
Missed Weight
Alexander Hernandez missed weight by four pounds for his featherweight bout against Damon Jackson. Cynthia Calvillo missed weight by three pounds for her strawweight bout against Piera Rodriguez. Melissa Mullins came in two pounds heavy for her bantamweight bout against Nora Cornolle. Cornolle also missed weight coming in 2.5 pounds heavy.
UFC Vegas 90 Official Weigh-In Results
Main Card (6 p..m ET on ESPN+)
Brendan Allen (186) vs. Chris Curtis (186)
Alexander Hernandez (150)* vs. Damon Jackson (146)
Morgan Charriere (145) vs. Chepe Mariscal (145.5)
Ignacio Bahamondes (156) vs. Christos Giagos (156)
Valter Walker (264) vs. Lukasz Brzeski (236)
Trevor Peek (155.5) vs. Charlie Campbell (155)
Preliminary Card (3 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
Court McGee (170.5) vs. Alex Morono (171)
Norma Dumont (136) vs. Germaine de Randamie (135)
Pedro Falcao (136) vs. Victor Hugo (135.5)
Piera Rodriguez (116) vs. Cynthia Calvillo (119)**
Dan Argueta (136) vs. Jean Matsumoto (136)
Dylan Budka (185.5) vs. Cesar Almeida (185.5)
Nora Cornolle (138.5) vs. Melissa Mullins (138)***
*Alexander Hernandez missed weight by four pounds for his featherweight bout against Damon Jackson
**Cynthia Calvillo missed weight by three pounds for her strawweight bout against Piera Rodriguez
***Melissa Mullins came in two pounds heavy for her bantamweight bout against Nora Cornolle. Cornolle also missed weight coming in 2.5 pounds heavy.
Saturday’s UFC Vegas 90 fight card at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas was supposed to feature 13 fights. Following Friday’s official weigh-in, the fight card is down to 12 bouts.
Women’s strawweight Cynthia Calvillo missed weight for her bout with Piera Rodríguez by three pounds weighing in at 119 pounds. The bout was later cancelled.
It’s not the first time Calvillo has failed to make weight. Twice before she came in heavy for her scheduled fights. She also tested positive to marijuana metabolites following her UFC 219 loss to former two-time champion Carla Esparza. She’s also lost her last five fights. Rodriguez successfully weighed in at 116 pounds.
Four fighters in total missed weight on Saturday, including Calvillo, Alexander Hernandez, Melissa Mullins, and Nora Cornolle. Hernandez was the furthest from his mark weighing in four pounds over the featherweight limit for his main card match against Damon Jackson. Only the Calvillo versus Rodriguez bout was cancelled.
The event is headlined by a middleweight bout between sixth-ranked Brendan Allen and 14th-ranked Chris Curtis. Allen (23-5) will enter the bout riding a six-fight winning streak. Five of those wins came by way of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) won his last bout against Marc-André Barriault via split decision.
The UFC Vegas 90 Official Weigh-In took place on Friday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. After all the fighters weighed in, they faced off with their opponents ahead of Saturday’s event in the same venue.
The event is headlined by a middleweight bout between sixth-ranked Brendan Allen and 14th-ranked Chris Curtis. Allen (23-5) will enter the bout riding a six-fight winning streak. Five of those wins came by way of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) won his last bout against Marc-André Barriault via split decision.
The UFC Vegas 90 main event fighters, Brendan Allen and Chris Curtis, officially weighed in on Friday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. On Saturday, they’ll compete in the same venue.
Allen (23-5) will enter the bout riding a six-fight winning streak and ranked sixth in the 185-pound division. Five of those wins came by way of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) won his last bout against Marc-André Barriault via split decision and is ranked 14th. Both men tipped the scales at 186 pounds.
UFC 300 Countdown previews a Light-Heavyweight title match between champion Alex Pereira and former titleholder Jamahal Hill. Plus, a women’s Strawweight title fight between champion Zhang Weili and Xiaonan Yan.
Lightweight Justin Geathje looks to defend his BMF title against Max Holloway. The fight card also features the top lightweight contender Charles Oliveira taking on fourth-ranked Arman Tsarukyan. Rising undefeated middleweight star Bo Nickal faces Cody Brundage.
Even the preliminary UFC 300 fight card is stacked. A light heavyweight bout between fifth-ranked Aleksandar Rakic and former titleholder Jiri Prochazka is the featured preliminary card fight.
Former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling makes his featherweight debut against Calvin Kattar. Two-time Olympic Gold medalist and former PFL standout Kayla Harrison makes her octagon debut against former champion Holly Holm.
UFC 300 takes place on April 13 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event is the last of an 11-event run for the fight promotion.
Mike O’Hearn is beginning to put plans into motion and is now ramping up his training for his upcoming clash against Rampage Jackson.
O’Hearn is a man of many talents. Model, bodybuilder, actor, and viral internet sensation are just a few ways to describe the Washington native. Despite excelling in the things he’s passionate about in life, that seemingly isn’t enough to keep the man satisfied.
While some people would pick up a new hobby or take a vacation, O’Hearn has decided to step into the ring against the powerhouse Rampage Jackson to fulfill his ambitious urges.
Rampage has long been competing in combat sports and has the accolades to show for it. The fan-favorite held UFC gold after knocking out Chuck Liddell at UFC 71. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest light heavyweights of his generation.
As the bout moves closer, Mike O’Hearn has released a short snippet of what he’s been working on ahead of his meeting with Rampage Jackson.
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It looks like Mike O’Hearn is training under the tutelage of pro wrestling legend Billy Gunn. Gunn is 1/3 of the current AEW World Trios Champions but is best known for his work in the WWF/WWE.
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On June 22nd, O’Hearn will collide with Rampage at Bloodsport Bushido. Bloodsport is essentially a mix between mixed martial arts and professional wrestling.
Each winner is pre-determined and the entirety of the fight is scripted. However, instead of winning by pinfall, competitors will get their hands raised by either knocking out or submitting their opponent.
The Bloodsport Bushido event will be the promotion’s first international venture. For those interested in watching Mike O’Hearn take on Rampage Jackson inside the Bloodsport ring, you can do so when it airs live on Trillertv.com.
Welterweights Ian Garry and Colby Covington have hurled insults back and forth on social media, called each other out, and Covington has gone so far as to insult Garry’s wife with some pretty disrespectful allegations.
Garry is undefeated and climbing the 170-pound ranks. He’s currently ranked inside the Top 10 at seventh. Covington, a perennial contender, is ranked fourth in the weight class. It’s a matchmakers dream, and former two-division UFC champion Daniel Cormier doesn’t understand why it hasn’t been booked yet.
“We have a guy in Colby Covington and another guy in Ian Garry who seem to be doing the dance. The dance that says, I want to fight you. We just don’t have a specific date where they’re going to fight, or at least they say they want to fight. They just don’t know when and they don’t know where,” Cormier said on his YouTube channel.
“What’s the hold up? Because we have made social media posts. We have called each other out. We have grabbed the microphone wherever the microphone is located and we have spoken that other man’s name. Why have we not come to some sort of conclusion, or start moving in a direction of a fight date and a fight location? I don’t get it,” Cormier continued. “Ian Garry said that he wants to leave this man in a pool of blood.”
Garry has made it clear that he’s willing to fight Covington anywhere. He just needs a date. Covington has not committed as of yet. Cormier believes it’s time for that to change.
“If there is anything in the world that points to two guys that need to fight each other, it’s all the actions being displayed by these two gentlemen: Ian Garry and Colby Covington,” said Cormier. “When you look at them in terms of matching up, this would seem to be the ideal path for Ian Garry while it would seem to be very dangerous for Colby Covington.”
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“Colby Covington, after the fight with Leon Edwards, may not be looking forward to being in there with another long, rangy striker. He just might not be, but the actions say let’s fight. Now it’s time to put pen to paper. We have got to find a way now to get these athletes locked into an octagon to fight each other. That’s just the way it is. They have to fight,” Cormier continued.
“I believe that we’re at a point now where Colby’s got to fight. I think Colby has to fight,” Cormier added. “I think we’re at a point now with this Ian Garry thing where he has to fight him because with all the insults, with all the things he said personally, professionally now you’ve got to go and fight him.”
“Colby’s got to stand up on his words now and go fight that man. And if he beats him, now we’ll still continue to think he’s in the championship picture.”
Former UFC and Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey opened up in an interview with Valeria Lipovetsky about her final days in the UFC.
After her UFC 193 knockout loss to Holly Holm, Rousey felt obligated to return for another fight. In that fight, she was mercilessly beaten by Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 and finished in just 48 seconds. It was the last time “Rowdy” graced the inside of the octagon.
“I felt like I had to come back for another fight because I felt like I owed it to the fans and everyone that believed in me. Maybe I needed to give them an example of overcoming adversity,” Rousey said.
“I was so done fighting after that loss [to Holly Holm],” Rousey continued. “I’d had so many concussions, I literally couldn’t take a jab without getting a concussion at that point.”
Rousey blamed the loss to Holm on a ‘bad mouth guard,’ a pre-fight concussion, and a ‘terrible weight cut.’
During the interview, Rousey said something that caught the attention of former UFC, Bellator MMA, Strikeforce, and Invicta FC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg.
“I know that I’m the greatest fighter that has ever lived,” Rousey claimed. “But when it got to a point where I’d just taken so much neurological damage that I couldn’t take it anymore, suddenly everything that I accomplished meant nothing.”
Cyborg responded to Rousey’s comments via social media. “Poor girl still suffering from CTE,” Cyborg wrote. “I hope she finally got a good mouth guard.”
Poor girl still suffering from CTE.
I hope she finally got a good mouth guard. https://t.co/JwHQxUSxJA
— CrisCyborg.Com (@criscyborg) April 3, 2024
Cyborg returns to boxing to face Widnelly Figueroa in the main event of Green Bay Fight Night at The Watering Hole in Green Bay, Wis on April 27.
Who do you consider the greatest female fighter to ever live? Holm held multiple boxing titles and the UFC bantamweight crown. Amanda Nunes defeated two divisions of fighters including Cyborg. Cyborg held the 145-pound women’s title for essentially nine years. Valentina Shevchenko held the flyweight championship for five years successfully defending it seven times.
Ronda Rousey was considered the greatest women’s mixed martial artist to ever live during her height in the sport. The judo specialist looked unstoppable, boasting a 12-0 record heading into her bout with Holly Holm, but the UFC 193 headliner was the beginning of the end for her career in the sport.
‘Rowdy’ would suffer a devastating head kick loss less than one minute into the second round, losing her undefeated streak and women’s bantamweight title in the process. Although it occurred over eight years ago, Ronda Rousey has now detailed exactly why she believes she lost on the night.
Recent reports are suggesting that Rousey had been suffering from concussions throughout her UFC career and she has now spoken about her struggles in a recent interview.
“I was so done fighting after that loss [to Holly Holm],” Rousey said in an interview with Valeria Lipovetsky. “I’d had so many concussions, I literally couldn’t take a jab without getting a concussion at that point.”
“I got to the point where I just neurologically wasn’t fit to fight anymore. I’d given everything that I had until my body and mind started to fall apart. And when I couldn’t give anything anymore, they hated me for it.”
“I felt like I had to come back for another fight because I felt like I owed it to the fans and everyone that believed in me. Maybe I needed to give them an example of overcoming adversity.”
“It was to the point where the next fight, the first time I got touched I was out on my feet. It was so hard because I’d never been faster, never been stronger, never had a better grasp of the game. I’d never been so much better than everybody else.”
“Your brain doesn’t callous. It doesn’t heal back stronger after a break, it’s just an inevitable decline and I just couldn’t keep fighting at that level anymore.”
She later insisted that said brain injury, alongside a faulty mouthguard, cost her the fight against Holly Holm.
“My mouth guard was bad. I literally came into that fight concussed from slipping down some stairs already after all these years of concussions.”
“Then, I had an absolutely terrible weight cut, which means you have less fluid in your brain to protect it.”
“I was just trying to make it look like I wasn’t hurt, but I wasn’t there cognitively. I couldn’t think as fast. I couldn’t judge distance, and just from that one fight, everybody felt like, ‘Oh, she’s a fraud.'”
Ronda Rousey later stated that she was desperate to make the fans happy, though has felt the brunt of how fickle people can be once you lose.
“I know that I’m the greatest fighter that has ever lived,” Rousey claimed. “But when it got to a point where I’d just taken so much neurological damage that I couldn’t take it anymore, suddenly everything that I accomplished meant nothing.”
“So then after that second fight, and I saw how all these people that I was coming back to fight for had suddenly turned against me, all of my appreciation for them turned into resentment, and I just didn’t want to have anything to do for them and with them anymore.”
“I didn’t want to do anything for them anymore, because I gave them everything that I had and they hated me for not being able to give them more.”
According to Rousey, her reasoning for not disclosing her problems much sooner was solely to protect her career.
“I think people would have thought I was just making excuses. And I couldn’t say anything after the first fight, because I’d literally just be putting a target on my head.”
“After the second fight, I didn’t want to say anything to anyone, because the media were just trying to sensationalize everything and chop everything up into a headline.”
“They weren’t trying to help me tell my story, and it’s the kind of thing I think that could only have been told in a book. Only in that long form, because there was just so much that happened, and so much that went into at that time.”
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Her concussions were so bad that she believes WWE would have never allowed her to compete in professional wrestling had they known the severity of it.
“Then I also wanted to go into WWE, that they have a very complicated history with concussions in CTE and things like that, and if they knew how bad it was, I don’t think they ever would have hired me.”
“If they knew that I was getting concussions from an open hand slap from Stephanie McMahon or Nikki Bella, they wouldn’t allow me to perform.”
“So I had to keep these things to myself, to keep my destiny in my own hands, and to be able to make my own decisions, because if my coach or Dana [White] knew how bad things had gotten, they would have made me retire, and I wasn’t ready.”
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