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All the fights for the Super Rizin 3, Manny Pacquiao vs Rukiya Anpo card on Sunday, July 28th, 2024. With betting odds, start time, date, fight card, and information on how to watch.

• Event: Super Rizin 3 (Manny Pacquiao vs Rukiya Anpo)
• Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2024
• Location: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan
• Broadcast: RIZIN PPV

Super Rizin 3: Full Fight Card

• Mikuru Asakura vs. Ren Hiramoto (MMA)
• Hiromasa Ougikubo vs. Makoto Shinryu (MMA)
• Yutaka Saito vs. Yuta Kubo (MMA)
• Ryusei Ashizawa vs. Koji Tanaka (MMA)
• Hiroaki Suzuki vs. Ren Sugiyama (MMA)
• John Dodson vs. Takaki Soya (Bareknuckle)
• Tai Emery vs. Charisa Sigala (Bareknuckle)
• Hideo Tokoro vs. Hiroya Kondo (MMA)
• Rena Kubota vs. Kate Oyama (MMA)
• Suguru Nii vs. Kazumasa Majima (MMA)
• Manny Pacquiao vs. Rukiya Anpo (Boxing)

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

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Start date and time

Manny Pacquiao vs Rukiya Anpo takes place on July 28th at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan The Prelims will be at 12 a.m. ET (5 a.m. UK time) with the ring walks for Pacquiao vs. Anpo scheduled for 5 a.m. ET (10 a.m. UK time).

Betting Odds

• Rukiya Anpo: (+300)
• Manny Pacquiao: (-400)

Tickets

If you are lucky enough to be nearby or in Japan or have plans to be there on the 28th of July at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan to see Manny Pacquiao vs Rukiya Anpo, tickets will be available here.

Manny Pacquiao vs Rukiya Anpo Promo Trailer

PPV price and Live streams

Manny Pacquiao vs Rukiya Anpo will be live on RIZIN PPV

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UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis and Israel Adesanya finally go to battle inside the octagon next month, as the promotion’s latest fight poster reminds us.

The heated rivals headline UFC 305 on Aug. 17 at RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia. Du Plessis puts his 185-pound title on the line for the first time, while Adesanya looks to become a three-time champ following the longest layoff of his UFC career.

Check out the official UFC 305 poster below.

Du Plessis captured the title in January with a decision win over Sean Strickland in the main event of UFC 297 in one of the closest fights in recent memory. The No. 1 middleweight in MMA Fighting’s Global Rankings enters the matchup on a nine-fight win streak, including a 7-0 start to his UFC run.

Adesanya returns for the first time since losing the title to Strickland in a stunning upset at UFC 293 this past September. The No. 3-ranked 185-pound fighter in MMA Fighting’s Global Rankings went 1-1 in 2023, which included winning the middleweight title for a second time with the Knockout of the Year against Alex Pereira at UFC 287.

In the co-main event — which is also featured on the UFC 305 poster — Steve Erceg gets his hometown fight as he faces Kai Kara-France. This is Erceg’s first outing since losing a competitive decision to flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja at UFC 301 in May.

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Alex Pereira and Jake Paul could meet in the boxing ring under Dana White’s wishes, claims Henry Cejudo.

Jake has been terrorizing the sport of mixed martial arts since his rise to fame inside the boxing ring. He has fought and beaten five former UFC athletes, with two of those being former champions in the promotion.

Following his recent win over Mike Perry, Jake Paul announced his new target. The 27-year-old wants to test himself against the UFC light heavyweight king Alex Pereira, despite the Brazilian’s devastating knockout power.

Dana White has been clear on not allowing his fighters compete in boxing, but that may be different now. According to former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo, Dana might see the positives in allowing ‘Poatan’ to take the fight.

“Pereira would hurt him, like you see Pereira going up against heavyweights,” Cejudo said during a recent episode of his Pound4Pound Podcast. “If Dana White will give a guy like Alex Pereira the bag to freaking pretty much wipe him out say, ‘Hey man, go out there and hurt him.'”

“But that’s an equal lot of pay-per-view points for a guy like Jake Paul… I think I can see Dana White allowing Alex Pereira to take out the dirty work…”

Related: Tom Aspinall ‘absolutely’ wants to fight Alex Pereira if the Brazilian moves to heavyweight

“Will the fight with Alex Pereira happen? Dana White just has to say yes and, you know, we will no longer see Jake Paul, Jake ‘The Snake’ Paul, on our social media platforms.”

Check out Henry Cejudo and Kamaru Usman’s thoughts on the fight below.

While the fight could be a possibility in the future, it seems the two have their sights set on different opponents at this time. 

Jake Paul is still hoping to reschedule his fight against Mike Tyson for later this year, while Alex Pereira has a title to defend.

Though his next opponent or fight date is yet to be revealed, Magomed Ankalaev likely has the strongest case at the next shot at the South American 

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Jean Silva joined the exclusive club of UFC fighters to win twice in a span of 14 days and wants to stay active following his back-to-back finishes of Charles Jourdain and Drew Dober.

Silva displayed his striking against the latter in an exciting battle at UFC Denver, ultimately opening a gruesome cut over Dober’s eye and forcing the doctor to stop the bout, which earned both athletes Fight of the Night bonuses.

Despite the finish coming at lightweight — and Silva previously missing weight two weeks earlier for a featherweight fight — the 27-year-old prospect rules out staying at 155 pounds.

“I’m a featherweight and all these featherweights are going to get beat up,” Silva told MMA Fighting. “My team and I know [Silva] likes challenge,s and as soon as they heard Dober needed an opponent, they called my manager and suggested volunteering because they knew Dober is a knockout artist. We knew this was the best opportunity to send a message to my division, because there’s no one knocking people out like Dober in my weight class.

“I mean, there is now — me.”

Silva explained that he missed weight for the Jourdain bout on June 29 at UFC 303 after falling down the stairs during fight week and hurting his shoulder, but vows to work on his weight cut to ensure there are no more hiccups on the scale going forward.

A talent out of the Fighting Nerds gym, Silva said he only took the Dober fight on such short notice because it was at lightweight, but still plans to fight three more times in 2024 to be crowned MMA Fighting’s Rookie of the Year with a 6-0 run this year in the promotion.

“I’ll knock out a lot of people in the UFC,” Silva said. “Let’s be honest, based on that fight [with Dober], there’s no featherweight to beat [me]. The featherweights who just got to the UFC won’t take this fight. They’re smart. Even if they say they will, in their hearts they know they won’t take it.

“Veterans might take this fight. Josh Emmett would easily take this fight. All I know is that [my manager] Ivan Jatoba and Sean Shelby will have a hard time finding people to fight me. I feel like featherweights are in shock right now. Maybe down the line Max Holloway would be one that accepts to fight me because he’s tough, but I’d knock him out. If he stops in the middle and calls me like he called Justin Gaethje, he’s screwed, brother. I’ll knock him out.”

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UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards and No. 2-ranked title contender Belal Muhammad came face-to-face at the conclusion of the UFC 304 press conference earlier today in Manchester, just two days ahead of their five-round championship main event at Co-op Live. Similarly, interim heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall stared down Curtis Blaydes ahead of their co-main event rematch, not long after Paddy Pimblett and King Green locked eyes in front of their lightweight main card pay-per-view (PPV) fight.

Have a look below.

Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad 2:

Tom Aspinall vs. Curtis Blaydes 2:

Paddy Pimblett vs. King Green:

To rewatch the UFC 304 press conference video click here.

MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC 304 fight card RIGHT HERE, starting with the early ESPN+ “Prelims” matches at 6 p.m. ET, followed by the remaining undercard balance on ESPN2/ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET, before the PPV main card start time at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV.

To check out the latest and greatest UFC 304: “Edwards vs. Muhammad 2” news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right here. For the updated and finalized UFC 304 fight card and PPV lineup click here.

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Alexander Volkanovski doubts Ilia Topuria has as much pull as he claims to have.

The reigning featherweight champion recently tweeted that his first title defense is booked, suggesting that the UFC matchmakers “forced” Max Holloway to accept a fight date.

The comment is a continuation of a recent war of words between Topuria and Holloway, in which Topuria claimed that his fight with Holloway had been delayed due to issues on the challenger’s side. Holloway responded, saying that he’s open to fight Topuria at UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas on Sept. 14.

Volkanovski weighed in on the drama in an interview with MMA Fighting’s José Youngs.

“Let’s be real, you’re not forcing Max to fight,” Volkanovski said. “I think it’s common knowledge that Max wants to fight him and I think he wanted to fight him sooner rather than later. There’s holdups. I’m pretty sure there’s holdups, and I don’t think it’s on Max-I’m not trying to pick sides, I’m just stating facts. I’ve got nothing against Ilia, but you’re not forcing Max in this one. Let’s be real.”

Topuria’s next fight, whether its against Holloway or someone else, is still to be officially announced.

Volkanovski dropped his featherweight title to Topuria after being knocked out in the second round of their UFC 298 main event contest. It was the first loss ever for Volkanovski competing at 145 pounds, and the win elevated Topuria to another level of stardom. However, he has yet to compete since the February contest, and Volkanovski wonders if his behavior in interviews and on social media is having a negative effect on his image.

“The way [Topuria] approaches some things, I find it quite funny,” Volkanovski said. “Not funny, like, ‘I’m going to play the bad guy’ and do that and play the game. With luck, playing that, and then you end up getting a knockout of me, it worked out perfect for him, that was great. I feel like he got everyone on board, now you just play your cards right.

“I just don’t feel like he’s playing his cards right right now. He’s starting to lose a bit of the fans that might have jumped on. Or maybe this is a big master plan of his to stir it up even more, maybe try to get in Max’s head, I don’t know what it is. But you didn’t force Max, we sort of know this.”

Volkanovski is also yet to fight since losing to Topuria. He has previously said that his plan is to wait for a chance to regain the featherweight belt, which he successfully defended five consecutive times. He also holds a perfect 3-0 record in championship fights against Holloway.

Should Topuria vs. Holloway be officially booked, it sounds like Volkanovski still plans to wait for his turn.

“I wanted them to fight earlier so I can fight sooner,” Volkanovski said.

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