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UFC 300 Countdown previews a Light-Heavyweight title match between champion Alex Pereira and former titleholder Jamahal Hill. Plus, a women’s Strawweight title fight between champion Zhang Weili and Xiaonan Yan. 

Lightweight Justin Geathje looks to defend his BMF title against Max Holloway.  The fight card also features the top lightweight contender Charles Oliveira taking on fourth-ranked Arman Tsarukyan.  Rising undefeated middleweight star Bo Nickal faces Cody Brundage.  

Even the preliminary UFC 300 fight card is stacked.  A light heavyweight bout between fifth-ranked Aleksandar Rakic and former titleholder Jiri Prochazka is the featured preliminary card fight.    

Former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling makes his featherweight debut against Calvin Kattar.  Two-time Olympic Gold medalist and former PFL standout Kayla Harrison makes her octagon debut against former champion Holly Holm.   

UFC 300 takes place on April 13 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.  The event is the last of an 11-event run for the fight promotion.  

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The road to $ 1 million kicks off later TONIGHT (Thurs., April 4, 2024) as Professional Fighters League (PFL) is set begin its 2024 regular season inside Boeing Center in San Antonio, TX., which will be streaming on ESPN+ and ESPN 2 for US viewers, while in international fans can catch the action via DAZN starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.

Headlining the fight card will be a Heavyweight fight between PFL’s Ante Delija and Bellator’s former interim Heavyweight champion, Valentin Moldavsky. Delija won the championship in 2022 and is currently on a five-fight win streak, which includes a first-round knockout win over current champion, Renan Ferreira. In the co-main event, Denis Goltsov will represent PFL against Linton Vassell, who will step up for Bellator.

Also on the card, Bellator’s current women’s Flyweight champion, Liz Carmouche, will face off against Juliana Velasquez in a non-title trilogy fight, which will mark the first bout of the season for the weight class.

PFL San Antonio Quick Results:

265 lbs.: Ante Delija vs. Valentin Moldavsky
265 lbs.: Denis Goltsov vs. Linton Vassell
125 lbs.: Liz Carmouche vs. Juliana Velasquez
125 lbs.: Dakota Ditcheva vs. Lisa Mauldin
265 lbs.: Marcelo Golm vs. Daniel James – James via first-round TKO
265 lbs.: Blagoy Ivanov vs. Sergei Bilostenniy – Bilostenniy via unanimous decision
125 lbs.: Taila Santos vs. llara Joane – Santos first-round submission (rear-naked choke) 265 lbs.: Steve Mowry vs. Oleg Popov -Popov via second-round TKO
125 lbs.: Kana Watanabe vs. Shanna Young – Watanabe via unanimous decision
125 lbs.: Chelsea Hackett vs. Jena Bishop – Bishop via first-round submission (armbar)
145 lbs.: Lucas Brennan vs. Dimitre Ivy – Ivy via unanimous decision
135 lbs.: Ty Johnson vs. Bryce Meredith – Meredith via unanimous decision

PFL San Antonio Highlights:

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265 lbs.: Ante Delija vs. Valentin Moldavsky

Final result:

265 lbs.: Denis Goltsov vs. Linton Vassell

Final result:

125 lbs.: Liz Carmouche vs. Juliana Velasquez

Final result:

125 lbs.: Dakota Ditcheva vs. Lisa Mauldin

Final result:

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With UFC 300 just over a week away, take a closer look at the three title fights on the top of the card at the much-anticipated event on April 13 in Las Vegas.

In the ‘UFC 300 Countdown’ video above, the main event clash between UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira and former UFC champion Jamahal Hill, the co-main event showdown between UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili and Yan Xiaonan, and the BMF title fight between Max Holloway and beltholder Justin Gaethje are featured.

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Interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall gave British gymnast Nile Wilson a small taste of his power.

“I’m going to kick Nile Wilson in the leg, about 30% I reckon,” Aspinall said in a clip shared on his YouTube channel.

The Salford, England native tested the Olympic medalist first, throwing a feint to see whether or not Wilson would flinch. “He took my advice,” Aspinall said as Wilson held his position and braced for the worst. It was then that Aspinall uncorked a kick that immediately took Wilson off his feet.

For those unfamiliar, Nile Wilson won an Olympic bronze medal in the men’s horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Games. He also etched his name in the history books a year earlier at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships by being part of the first world men’s team to medal in British gymnastics history.

Tom Aspinall is moving on from a fight with the winner of Jones vs. Miocic?

Tom Aspinall’s vicious 69-second knockout of Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 seemingly set the stage for an epic showdown between himself and the promotion’s undisputed heavyweight titleholder, Jon Jones.

Sadly, it appears as though UFC fans may never see that fight come to fruition. Following Apsinall’s big win, ‘Bones’ and UFC head honcho Dana White made it clear that their top priority was to rebook a previously scheduled clash between Jones and former two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic — a decision that could leave Aspinall waiting on the bench for a year or more.

Adding insult to injury, both Jones and Miocic have teased their potential retirement once they settle the great heavyweight GOAT debate. Again, where does that leave Tom Aspinall?

Instead of sitting around waiting for something that may never come, Aspinall seems intent on defending his interim belt this summer with the likeliest opponent being Curtis Blaydes who is coming off a massive second-round knockout win over Jailton Almeida. It also helps that ‘Razor’ is the only man to hold a win over Aspinall inside the Octagon, even if it was the result of a freak injury.

“Curtis Blaydes it is then,” Aspinall said in an interview with JN Media. “I’m easy, I’m the easiest person ever to entice into a fight. I’ve never turned one down yet. So anything that’s stopping me from fighting right now is not down to me, it’s down to the UFC. So I’m just waiting for the UFC to let me know who and when and I’ll be ready.”

Perhaps we’ll know more about Aspinall’s future once UFC 300 is in the books. For now, we’ll make the most out of his leg-kicking tumblers half his size.

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Joe Rogan had a good laugh about Sage Steele’s recent podcast flub with UFC CEO Dana White.

Why does Rogan, one of the world’s most popular podcasters, have empathy for the new-to-the-podcasting-game Steele? He’s been there – making mistakes and getting mistaken for bald UFC employees.

“People call me Dana,” Rogan said Thursday on the JRE MMA podcast with co-hosts (and regular UFC contributors) Din Thomas and Matt Serra. “I’ve been called Dana before. Some dude goes, ‘Yo, Dana!’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m the other dude. I’m Joe.’

“It happens all the time. I think she just made a mental flub. … When you’re doing a podcast and you’re interviewing someone, especially if you haven’t done a lot of them, and it’s like a high-profile thing, you’re doing Dana White, you’re always thinking of what to say. Even the question, ‘What’s your dream?’ That’s a crazy question. That’s like, I don’t know what to ask you, so I’m going to just going to do, ‘What’s your dream?’

“So she was probably floundering a little bit there and doesn’t know what to say. It’s f****** weird having a conversation with someone live.”

Steele was wrapping up her interview with White when she asked the UFC exec, “What’s Joe Rogan’s dream?”

A confused White responded, “Joe Rogan’s dream?”

“Joe Rogan … Dana White,” replied Steele. “What’s Dana White’s dream?”

“Did you just think I was Joe Rogan?” White said. “She just called me f****** Joe Rogan! You thought I was f****** Joe Rogan! I was bald before Joe Rogan was ever bald! I just did a two-hour podcast, flew here from Vegas, and she thought she was interviewing Joe Rogan!”

White later posted the clip of the mixup, indicating he took the whole thing in stride. Rogan was impressed that Steele, a former ESPN anchor, didn’t try to cover her mistake in post-production.

“She handled it the right way, too,” he said. “She kept it in there. She didn’t edit it out. It’s funny. It’s just a flub. I’ve done it all the time. It happens. People f*** up.”

Serra, a former UFC welterweight champion and bald guy, could also relate to getting mixed up.

“At UFC events, or the weeks of events, when I’m doing a ‘Looking for a Fight,’ you’ve been there – [Someone will say], ‘Hey! Can I have a picture?’” Serra told Thomas. “I’m like, ‘Ah well, alright.’ And then [they’ll say], ‘Thanks a lot, Mr. White,’ or, ‘thanks a lot, Joe Rogan.’”

“They always think he’s either Joe or Dana,” Thomas said with a smile.

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