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MMA Fighting has Jake Paul vs. Ryan Bourland live round-by-round updates for the anticipated showdown on Saturday at Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The co-main event is expected to begin around 9 p.m. ET on DAZN. Check out our Paul vs. Bourland results page to find out what happened on the undercard.

Jake Paul (8-1, 5 KOs) continues his campaign against opponents with professional boxing experience following his first-round knockout of Andre August this past December.

Ryan Bourland (17-2, 6 KOs) steps into the biggest spotlight of his career as he seeks to upset Paul in his first professional appearance since September 2022.

Get the Paul vs. Bourland round-by-round live blog below:

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Jake Paul is willing to lay out the red carpet for Sean Strickland.

A budding rivalry between Paul and Strickland has seen the two trade verbal shots at one another, with Strickland claiming that the UFC won’t allow him to accept a fight with Paul, and Paul now firing back by saying that the former middleweight champion should be free to spar whoever he wants.

Strickland was recently caught on camera roughing up popular streamer Sneako in a spar, which is why Paul doesn’t understand why they can’t meet in a similar arrangement.

“‘Seany’ Strickland, the guy seems to be having some sort of quarter-life crisis there, just spazzing out on everyone, trying to beat up some influencers and such,” Paul said on his podcast. “But it’s a typical story of these UFC guys who call me out and then go quiet.

“I said I’ll send you the P.J. [private jet], I’ve got DMs, I’ll put the DMs up on the screen. I said, ‘I’ll send you the P.J. Let me know where. We can spar for a million dollars,’ and then all of the sudden it’s, ‘Oh, I would get sued by the UFC if I sparred Jake.’ But you just sparred Sneako. You could spar anyone. Contractually, in your UFC contract, it has nothing to do—it says nothing about sparring.”

During the recording of his show, Paul’s team threw up an alleged DM exchange between he and Strickland, which can be seen below (h/t MMA Uncensored):

The screenshots appear to show Paul and Strickland having an amicable conversation, with Strickland pushing for a sanctioned fight and Paul insisting that they spar due to his skepticism over the UFC allowing Strickland to pursue such a contest.

Paul questioned not only Strickland’s willingness to work with him, but also the brash persona that has become a major part of Strickland’s brand.

“So you spar an influencer, but then all of the sudden when I challenge you and want to send you a private jet, he’s making up excuses, saying he’s going to get sued by people, spazzing on MGK for no reason,” Paul said. “Even Dana White—I disagree with Dana a lot on many, many things—but we agree also on a lot of things and even Dana himself said you can’t put Sean Strickland around any human being.

“I feel bad for the guy. I see a very insecure, lost, wannabe alpha male that’s hiding behind the tough man complex. He needs a hug.”

Paul then joked that he’d be willing to be the person to give Strickland said hug and also tossed in a call-out to popular UFC lightweight Paddy Pimblett, who he’d also like to go a few rounds with.

“When Mr. Seany, I put my soft little hands on his little bald head and make him feel the love that his mother or his father never gave him, it could be a nice moment,” Paul said. “And maybe Paddy Pimblett can finally stop running from my spar offer too and I’ll just get all of them, two-for-one. Just the UFC’s once-could-be-a-star who failed, just put them on the JV sparring team.”

Update: Strickland responded on Twitter.

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The weigh-in for Saturday’s UFC Vegas 87 fight card took place on Friday in Las Vegas.  All fighters made weight including main event fighters Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Shamil Gaziev.  

Gaziev was the first fighter to step on the scales and weighed in at 261 pounds.  Rozenstruik was the last fighter to weigh in and tipped the scales at 257 pounds.  

Rozenstruik (13-5) looks to rebound from a submission loss to Jailton Almeida last May.  Gaziev (12-0) hopes to keep his undefeated record intact.  

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Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 7 is set to go down tomorrow night (Sat., March 2, 2024) inside KIA Center in Orlando, Florida featuring a Heavyweight title fight between former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) veterans, Junior dos Santos and Alan Belcher.

Dos Santos — the former UFC Heavyweight champion of the world — is 1-0 under Jorge Masvidal’s promotion, defeating Fabricio Werdum via split-decision in Sept. 2023. That was “Cigano’s” first win since knocking out Derrick Lewis in March 2019 (see it again here). As for Belcher, he is also one-for-one with the upstart promotion, defeating Roy Nelson via split-decision in Nov. 2023. That was Belcher’s first taste of action in nearly a decade after leaving UFC with two straight defeats.

Watch them staredown in the Embedded video above.

In the co-main event, former UFC Heavyweight veteran, Chase Sherman, returns for his second fight with the promotion to face off against Alex Nicholson. Sherman defeated Carl Seumanutafa via first-round knockout in Nov. 2023, while Nicholson knocked out Prince McLean in just 19 seconds on the same night.

Watch them staredown below:

The weigh-ins will took place earlier today (Fri., March 1, 2024) and all fighters in the mai nand co-main events hit their respective marks.

265 lbs.: Junior dos Santos (250) vs. Alan Belcher (233.4)
265 lbs.: Chase Sherman (264.8) vs. Alex Nicholson (223.8)

For more on Gamebred Bareknuckle and the upcoming event this weekend in Orlando click here.

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