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Jiu-jitsu black belt Craig Jones is on a wave all his own. The two-time Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) silver medalist and head of Austin, Texas’s B Team Jiu-Jitsu has become a prominent figure in MMA in recent years, in large part because he’s become a top grappling coach for fighters. Jones has worked extensively with former champions Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski, notably helping Volkanovski deal with Islam Makhachev’s dominant ground game.

Craig has also made it a habit of strangling UFC fighters in effortless fashion. In the highlight clip above, Craig takes on UFC Welterweight veteran Phillip Rowe — a black belt in his own right — at the Karate Combat 44 event in Mexico City, Mexico, which took place on Friday (Feb. 23, 2024).

Early in the match, Craig uses an overhook and wrist control to shove Rowe into the slanted walls of the Karate Combat pit. As Rowe leans into the wall, Craig jumps for a flying triangle, partially kicking off the pit in the process. It’s not quite the “Showtime” kick, but it is yet another impressive display of creativity from the Australian.

Insomnia

Tony Ferguson listened to this speech and heard, “Don’t ever retire. You can still be champion. CSO!”

Takeru is wildly tough, and Superlek’s shin must be like iron. How does shin beat knee?!?

I’m enjoying the rise of Georgian MMA. Poor Guram Kutateladze is bring the average down despite being quite good!

Yair Rodriguez has to be one of the most unique fighters in UFC history. Nobody kicks like him!

A less friendly Alex Pereira sparring clip than last night …

The last time a former Welterweight champion went up to Middleweight and fought Paulo Costa, it didn’t end so hot.

Watching high-level fighters goof around with martial arts is fun.

Inject top-notch unranked Lightweight match ups into my veins.

Slips, rips, and KO clips

Nasty neck crank angle on this anaconda choke:

How many Strawweight knockouts have you seen that look like THIS? Tina Black is probably UFC bound after that right hand.

Not for the squeamish!

Random Land

Panda diplomacy is my new favorite term.

Midnight Music: Doom metal, 2000

Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.

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MMA Fighting has UFC Mexico City results for the Moreno vs. Royval 2 fight card, live blogs of the top two fights, and more from Mexico City Arena in Mexico City.

In the main event, former UFC champion Brandon Moreno squares off against Brandon Royval in a rematch. Moreno knocked out Royval in the first round at UFC 255 on Nov. 21, 2020.

Yair Rodriguez and Brian Ortega clash in a featherweight rematch in the co-main event. Rodriguez defeated Ortega via first-round TKO due to Ortega’s shoulder injury at UFC on ABC 3 on July 16, 2022.

Check out UFC Mexico City results below.

Main Card (ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET)

Brandon Moreno vs. Brandon Royval

Yair Rodriguez vs. Brian Ortega

Daniel Zellhuber vs. Francisco Prado

Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Ricky Turcios

Yazmin Jauregui vs. Sam Hughes

Manuel Torres vs. Chris Duncan

Preliminary Card (ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET)

Cristian Quinonez vs. Raoni Barcelos

Jesus Aguilar vs. Mateus Mendonca

Edgar Chairez vs. Daniel Lacerda

Claudio Puelles vs. Fares Ziam

Ronaldo Rodriguez vs. Denys Bondar

Victor Altamirano vs. Felipe dos Santos

Muhammad Naimov vs. Erik Silva

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Multiple past and present fighters — including active lightweight star Michael Chandler — are scheduled to testify on behalf of the UFC in an upcoming class-action antitrust case, per a brief filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

As first reported by Bloody Elbow, Chandler and former UFC bantamweight champion Miesha Tate are listed as expected witnesses for the defendants in UFC parent company Zuffa’s trial brief. Also listed in the briefs as expected witnesses are Chael Sonnen and UFC Hall of Famers Michael Bisping and Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone.

The trial is expected to begin on April 15 in Las Vegas, though Zuffa counsel is attempting to push back the date due to a scheduling conflict.

“I don’t have a problem with the quote/un-quote ‘fighter pay’ argument,” Chandler said in a 2022 interview. “I think people think we should make a lot more money because the UFC makes a ton of money on their shows. Well, the UFC’s been at it since 1993.

“Dana White has had 10,000 sleepless nights when most of us fighters are just showing up to practice and going to bed, laying our head on the pillow and getting after it — and getting paid a decent wage for what we do.”

Managers of MMA fighters are also listed as expected witnesses on behalf of Zuffa, including Ali Abdelaziz, Jason House, Josh Jones, Dan Lambert, and Ed Soares. Abdelaziz is best known for representing some of the best pound-for-pound fighters like Khabib Nurmagomedov, Henry Cejudo, Kamaru Usman, and Kayla Harrison. Lambert has worked as a manager but is best known as the proprietor of one of the most prestigious gyms in the MMA world — American Top Team.

Current UFC CEO Dana White is expected to be called as a witness alongside former Zuffa co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta and matchmakers Joe Silva, Sean Shelby, and Mick Maynard.

The plaintiffs, made up of former UFC fighters Cung Le, Nathan Quarry, Jon Fitch, Brandon Vera, Luis Javier Vazquez, and Kyle Kingsbury, are claiming the UFC engaged in a scheme “to acquire and maintain monopsony power in the market for elite professional MMA fighter services” by eliminating competition and suppressing wages. If found guilty, the UFC could be on the hook for damages anywhere between $ 894 million and $ 1.6 billion.

After being granted a class certification in August, the entire group of defendants is any fighter who competed in the UFC during the bout class, which runs from December 16, 2010, to June 30, 2017. Thus far, no fighter has opted out of receiving compensation should the plaintiffs win the case or there is a settlement.

Transcription courtesy of ESPN’s Marc Raimondi

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Sean Strickland recently rubbed many people the wrong way when he beat up popular influencer Sneako during a sparring session. He received a lot of backlash for his actions, and Joe Rogan is the latest to share his views on the controversy.

Despite being one of the best mixed martial artists in the world, the former middleweight champion didn’t hold back when sparring with the inexperienced Sneako. The social media star received a violent beating for far too long before Forest Griffin was forced to step in and stop the altercation.

In a recent episode of The JRE podcast, Joe Rogan spoke out against Strickland. The popular MMA commentator insisted that any trained fighter that beats up an untrained fighter is a bad person.

“If I know that I can f*** you up and I f*** you up, I’m probably a bad person,” Rogan said in reaction to Strickland sparring Sneako. “It’s never good that a guy who is some trained killer goes after some regular guy, picks a fight with him, and f***s him up.”

“It’s never thought of as good. It’s always negative. Like, almost entirely negative. Like, the entire fan base will recognize that terrible behavior.”

Sean Strickland wasted no time in responding to those comments. In a post shared on Instagram, the brash UFC standout had much to say back to Joe Rogan.

“It bothers them because they want to be special. They want me to be special. You go and look at sporting events, you go look when they eat dinner, they are treated like they are special. But that is designed that way.”

“They want you guys to know that you’re not special. They want you guys to know that when you’re sitting in that f***ing nosebleed seat, you’re not special.”

Related: Sean Strickland cancelled, will not attend or participate in upcoming event

“Even though you are the motherf***ers that finance this sport, they want you guys to know that you suck. When I go and wrestle a guy on the ski slopes, that is f***ing awesome, man.”

“I love the fact that you woke up, you went snowboarding, you saw me and say, ‘I want to fight this man.’ I f***ing love it. I respect it.”

“I respect Sneako for getting his a** kicked. So he got his f***ing a** kicked, we all get our a**es kicked. I get my a** kicked every day in life, in training, in fights, by f***ing the government. We all get our a**es kicked.”

Check out Joe Rogan’s comments and Sean Strickland’s subsequent rant in the video below.

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MMA Fighting has PFL vs. Bellator results for the Ferreira vs. Bader fight card, live blogs of the top two fights, and more from Freedom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday.

In the main event, PFL heavyweight champion Renan Ferreira will clash with Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader for the fight to be the first opponent to face former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in the PFL.

PFL light heavyweight champion Impa Kasanganay will try to hand Bellator middleweight champion Johnny Eblen his first career loss in the co-main event.

Check out PFL vs. Bellator results below.

Main card (ESPN+ PPV at 3 p.m. ET)

Renan Ferreira vs. Ryan Bader

Impa Kasanganay vs. Johnny Eblen

Ray Cooper III vs. Jason Jackson

Bruno Cappelozza vs. Vadim Nemkov

Thiago Santos vs. Yoel Romero

Clay Collard vs. AJ McKee

Prelims (ESPN+ at 12 p.m. ET)

Henry Corrales vs. Aaron Pico

Biaggio Ali Walsh vs. Emmanuel Palacio

Claressa Shields vs. Kelsey DeSantis

Abdullah Al-Qahtani vs. Edukondala Rao

Vinicius Pereira vs. Malek Basahel

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