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Jiu-jitsu legend Marcus Buchecha wants to get back in the ONE Championship cage but says the promotion is not offering him fights.

A 13-time IBJJF world champion and two-time ADCC gold medalist, Buchecha hasn’t competed for the Asia-based promotion since August 2023, when he lost a decision in a wild brawl with “Reug Reug” Oumar Kane.

Buchecha was 4-0 in MMA prior to that with four first-round stoppages under the ONE banner over Anderson “Braddock” Silva, Ji Won Kang, Simon Carson, and Kirill Grishenko.

“A lot of people are asking me lately if I retired,” Buchecha wrote on social media. “The answer is of course not, the reason I’m not fighting it’s not my choice, I’ve been out waiting for a fight for almost one year but I don’t have luck getting a fight, that’s the reason I’m away from cage or the mats.

“The right question you should ask me is when I’m fighting again? But right now I’m asking to some people the same thing, to be more precise 13 months. It’s been 13 months of waiting, to be in a situation like that it’s sucks, I don’t wish this to anybody! So if you want this answer, you know who to ask and tag ONE Championship.”

Fellow American Top Team fighters reacted in the comment section asking ONE to give him a fight, and ATT coach Marcos Parrumpa went a step further to call ONE Championship the “worst show ever.”

“Please release him,” Parrumpa wrote. “We want to see him in a good show.”

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The UFC 306 broadcast team is set for the historic event at the Sphere in Las Vegas, with plans to celebrate Mexican Independence Day throughout the night.

After missing out on UFC 305 in Australia because he doesn’t travel to international cards, Joe Rogan returns to serve as color commentator alongside UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier. Like usual, Jon Anik handles play-by-play duties for the event.

In the arena, Megan Olivi handles reporting with Din Thomas serving as the sideline coach throughout the broadcast on ESPN’s networks, including the ESPN+ pay-per-view.

UFC officials confirmed the broadcast plans to MMA Fighting on Thursday.

While the broadcast team is largely the same for every major pay-per-view event, this card isn’t the typical UFC show, as elaborate plans for production are being built around the Sphere.

With massive LED screens surrounding the circular arena, the UFC production team in coordination with ESPN plans to roll out a much different look for the pay-per-view that kicks off next Saturday night from Las Vegas.

The fights on the card will also feature different backgrounds throughout the show, with the LED screens being utilized even when the action is taking place inside the octagon.

UFC CEO Dana White revealed recently that the promotion has invested more than $ 20 million for the event, which is an unprecedented investment for a single pay-per-view. It’s likely this is the first and only card that UFC will produce at the Sphere as the company still maintains a relationship with MGM, who owns and operates the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

UFC 306 is headlined by a pair of title fights as Sean O’Malley defends his bantamweight championship against Merab Dvalishvili, and Alexa Grasso faces off with Valentina Shevchenko with the flyweight title on the line in the co-main event.

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What happens when the lightweight “God of War” meets the division’s most dangerous submission fighter? Fireworks! UFC Paris on ESPN+ will feature a five-round banger between Benoit Saint Denis and Renato Moicano with a spot in the division title chase up for grabs!

Event: UFC Paris: “Moicano vs. Saint Denis”
Date: Sat., Sept. 28, 2024
Location: Accor Arena in Paris, France
Broadcast: ESPN+
Start Time: 12 p.m. ET Prelims | 3 p.m. ET Main Card

UFC Paris Main Event On ESPN+:

155 lbs.: Renato Moicano vs. Benoit Saint Denis

UFC Paris Main Card On ESPN+ (3 p.m. ET):

185 lbs.: Nassourdine Imavov vs. Brendan Allen
205 lbs.: Ion Cutelaba vs. Ivan Erslan
145 lbs.: William Gomis vs. Joanderson Brito
135 lbs.: Germaine de Randamie vs. Nora Cornolle
135 lbs.: Darya Zheleznyakova vs. Ailín Perez

UFC Paris Prelims Card On ESPN+ (12 p.m. ET):

155 lbs.: Fares Ziam vs. Matt Frevola
125 lbs.: Daniel Barez vs. Victor Altamirano
205 lbs.: Oumar Sy vs. Da Woon Jung
170 lbs.: Kevin Jousset vs. Bryan Battle
145 lbs.: Morgan Charriere vs. A.J. Cunningham
155 lbs.: Bolaji Oki vs. Chris Duncan
155 lbs.: Ľudovít Klein vs. Roosevelt Roberts

*Fight card, bout order and number of fights remain subject to change.*

To check out the latest and greatest UFC Paris: “Moicano vs. Saint Denis” news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right here.

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A past winner of The Ultimate Fighter will compete in a familiar building in November.

Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that a bantamweight bout between Ricky Turcios and Bernardo Sopai is set for the UFC’s Fight Night event on Nov. 9 at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas.

Turcios, the bantamweight winner of TUF 29 in 2021, makes his fifth walk to the octagon, and hopes to get back to his winning ways. In his most recent outing, Turcios was submitted by Raul Rosas Jr. in the second round at June’s UFC Louisville event. That was Turcios’ first fight since a win over Kevin Natividad in November 2022.

Sopai is searching for his first UFC victory. In his promotional debut, the 23-year-old was on the receiving end of one of the most vicious knockouts of the year when he was stopped via flying knee by Vinicius Oliveira at UFC Vegas 87 in March.

Damon Martin contributed to this report.

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Merab Dvalishvili recently voiced his belief that a former UFC champion is far more deserving of the next bantamweight title shot than rising star Umar Nurmagomedov. Dvalishvili is gearing up for his first title opportunity against bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley in the main event of UFC 306, which is set to go down next weekend […]

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Just when you thought the Dana White promotional push of Jon Jones’ UFC greatness would slow down a touch, it got taken to another level this week with a promo dedicated to Jones being the greatest fighter in the promotion’s history. Was this a move that should be taken as a positive one, or negative?

On an all-new episode of Between the Links, the panel reacts to the airing of the Jones promo during Tuesday’s edition of DWCS, how White has been handling the situation, along with the UFC heavyweight champ. Additionally, topics include Alex Pereira teasing a move to middleweight to fight Dricus du Plessis after his UFC 307 main event with Khalil Rountree Jr., Shavkat Rakhmonov claiming Belal Muhammad declined a title fight for October, and the back-and-forth continuing between the two, the UFC bringing UFC Vegas 97 headlined by Gilbert Burns vs. Sean Brady, while Bellator counters with Bellator San Diego with a lightweight title fight between Usman Nurmagomedov and Alexander Shabily, and more.

Host Mike Heck moderates the matchup between MMA Fighting’s Jed Meshew and Shaun Al-Shatti.

Watch the show live at 12:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. PT in the video above.

If you missed the show live, you can still watch above, or listen to the podcast version, which can be found below and on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your pods.

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