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PFL MENA will go down later TODAY (Fri., May 10, 2024) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the first-ever event for the promotion’s second European League. Headlining the event is a Featherweight fight between Abdullah Al-Qahtani vs. Yazeed Hasanain. In the Bantamweight co-main event, Ali Taleb will face Nawras Abzakh, while Xavier Alaoui will tangle with Rachid El Hazoume one fight prior.

The event is not viewable stateside, but checkout all the viewing options for other countries below. In addition, if you can’t stream the event live, don’t fret because MMAmania.com will deliver live results and highlights of all the action below, beginning at 11 a.m. ET.

PFL MENA QUICK RESULTS:

145 lbs.: Abdullah Al-Qahtani vs. Yazeed Hasanain
135 lbs.: Ali Taleb vs. Nawras Abzakh – Taleb via unanimous decision
135 lbs.: Xavier Alaoui vs. Rachid El Hazoume — El Hazoume via second-round submission
145 lbs.: Islam Reda vs. Adam Meskini – Reda via unanimous decision
135 lbs.: Tariq Ismail Vs. Jalal Al Daaja – Majority draw
135 lbs.: Elias Boudegzdame vs. Hassan Mandour – Boudegzdame via second-round submission (guillotine)
105 lbs.: Hattan Alsaif vs. Nada Faheem – Alsaif via second-round knockout
145 lbs.: Maraoune Bellagouit vs. Mido Mohamed -Bellagouit via third round knockout
145 lbs.: Ahmed Tarek vs. Abdelrahman Alhyasat – Alhyasat via unanimous decision
125 lbs.: Malik Basahel vs. Harsh Pandya – Basahel via unanimous decision

PFL MENA Highlights:

For all the latest PFL news and notes click here.

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Michel Pereira will not be fighting Roman Dolidze at UFC Louisville after all.

Pereira took to Instagram on Friday to reveal he agreed to compete on the June 8 card in Kentucky, but turned down the offer when the UFC said Dolidze would be his opponent. Both middleweights train at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas.

“I didn’t agree to this fight,” Pereira said in Portuguese. “The man trains with me every day at the P.I., at Xtreme Couture. He agreed to it, but I haven’t. To me, it’s not the moment to fight him. If he agreed to it, that’s his problem. I was surprised he agreed to it, really. To me, in my head, he’s a training partner, a friend. I see I’m not.”

Pereira said he knows he will have to end up facing training partners in the UFC eventually, but was not prepared to find a new gym to prepare for a fight in less than a month.

“I would have to find another gym and organize everything to fight him,” Pereira said. “That’s why I didn’t accept it. He trained at Xtreme, and since I’m new there, I would have to go out and train somewhere else. I don’t even know where I would train. It’s too much logistics to fight in a month.”

Pereira was recently victorious twice in a span of two months in the UFC, beating Michal Oleksiejczuk and Ihor Potieria in bonus-winning performances to boost his win streak to eight straight. Dolize lost his past two bouts to Marvin Vettori and Nassourdine Imavov.

“I’ll remove him from [a list] of those I won’t fight and add to [a list] of those I’d fight,” Pereira said. “I’ll organize myself to fight him. When they offered me a fight [at UFC Louisville], they didn’t say the opponent. It was a bummer when they said the opponent, and I said no.”

UPDATE: Dolidze chimes in.

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Is Conor McGregor getting ready to drop a diss track on Michael Chandler?

On Saturday, June 29, the Irishman will make his long-awaited return to the Octagon for a showdown with the former Bellator MMA champion in the UFC 303 main event. It will be McGregor’s first fight since breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier nearly three years ago.

In the time since his last outing, ‘Mystic Man’ has stayed busy with a series of projects. He unloaded his Proper No. 12 brand of Irish Whiskey for a whopping $ 600 million, made his big screen debut in a remake of the 1989 action classic Road House, and became a part owner of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.

Now, it looks like McGregor is ready to drop a few bars for his next pet project.

Taking to Instagram, the former two-division champion shared an image of himself in the studio with the caption, “Big announcement incoming…”

Fans convinced conor McGregor is going take a page out of ryan garcia’s playbook

With the feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar dominating headlines, maybe we’ll see the Irishman put his own Irish twist on the rap game and slam a few Sucker MCs in the process.

Or it could be something else entirely, but fans online are pretty convinced that McGregor is trying to take a page out of Ryan Garcia’s playbook.

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UFC bantamweight champ Sean O’Malley decided to release a new video from a 2016 sparring session with flyweight titleholder Alexandre Pantoja, where O’Malley delivered a devastating body kick that led to the spar being halted.

On an all-new edition of Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck reacts to Friday’s video release from O’Malley, and if it was the right call. Additionally, listener topics include Jon Jones pitching a fight with Alex Pereira over Tom Aspinall, if Jones’ legacy changes with a win over Stipe Miocic when they end up fighting, Saturday’s UFC St. Louis card, if the PFL should sign Jose Aldo, and much more.

You can listen live to Heck of a Morning Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. ET on the MMA Fighting Twitter Spaces.

If you miss it live, audio-only versions of the podcast can be found below, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

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The UFC returns to St. Louis for the first time since 2018 with a card headlined by heavyweights Derrick Lewis and Rodrigo Nascimento.

Before they square off in the octagon, Lewis, Nascimento and all of the rest of the fighters competing on Saturday’s card hit the scale with the official weigh-ins set to begin at 10 a.m. ET on Friday.

Watch highlight clips of the weigh-ins below.

In addition to Lewis vs. Nascimento, Joaquin Buckley gets his wish for a hometown booking as he clashes with Nursulton Ruziboev in a welterweight co-main event showdown almost guaranteed to produce some fireworks.

Viral sensation Robelis Despaigne also makes his second appearance in the UFC when he kicks off the main card on Saturday against Waldo Cortes-Acosta.

Ceremonial weigh-ins begin at 6 p.m. ET. Watch a live stream of the event above.

Here’s the full card for UFC St. Louis with weigh-in results starting at 10 a.m. on Friday.

Main Card (ESPN, ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)

Derrick Lewis (264) vs. Rodrigo Nascimento (265)

Joaquin Buckley (170) vs. Nursulton Ruziboev (170.25)

Alonzo Menifield (205.5) vs. Carlos Ulberg (205)

Diego Ferreira (155) vs. Mateusz Rebecki (155.25)

Alex Caceres (145) vs. Sean Woodson (145)

Waldo Cortes-Acosta (262) vs. Robelis Despaigne (262.5)

Preliminary Card (ESPN, ESPN+, 4 p.m. ET)

Chase Hooper (155) vs. Viacheslav Borshchev (155)

Terrance McKinney (155.25) vs. Esteban Ribovics (155)

Tabatha Ricci (115) vs. Tecia Pennington (115)

Billy Goff (170.25) vs. Trey Waters (170)

Charles Johnson (125.5) vs. Jake Hadley (125)

Jared Gooden* vs. Kevin Jousset (170.5)

JJ Aldrich (125.25) vs. Veronica Hardy (126)

*Gooden did not weigh in due to a medical issue. His bout with Kevin Jousset has been cancelled, per UFC.

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