The Ultimate Fighting Champions (UFC) will return to the French capital city of Paris in September for another mouth-watering fight night, Afrosport reports. The UFC has announced a fight night on Saturday, 6 September at the prestigious Accor Arena in Paris. Organisers, however, have yet to announce the event’s lineup or headliner, but it marks the fourth straight year the UFC has held an event in...
Six main card athletes faced-off at the World Sports Betting Arena for the first time ahead of Wednesday’s weigh-in and Thursday’s EFC 122 fight night. With bantamweight champion Faeez 'Troublemaker’ Jacobs engaging in a war of words with his challenger, Sibusiso Sovendle, and the heavyweight title-holder Anthony ‘Big’ Morel squaring up to his EFC 122 main-event adversary, Elvis Moyo, the tension in the arena was palpable,...
Zambia’s Ken ‘The Takeover’ Sekeletu on Thursday emerged victorious in the main event at EFC 121, remaining undefeated to snatch the featherweight title from South Africa’s Roedie Roets in one spectacular round. Roets came out fast from the bell with the aim of grappling Sekeletu, but the Zambian was able to maneuver, subsequently landing heavy elbow shots to the side his opponent’s head, leaving the champion...
The World Sports Betting Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa, played host to the first weigh-ins of 2025, as all bouts for the Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC) 121 card are locked and loaded, Afrosport reports. Fans inside the WSB Arena, who have been anticipating Africa’s first major combat sports event of 2025, watched along as the interim featherweight champion Roedie ‘Relentless’ Roets stared down his undefeated challenger...
Former welterweight champion Leon Edwards has been given a new opponent in the main event at UFC 255 Fight Night in London on 22 March, Afrosport reports. Edwards, who was initially supposed to fight No. 4 ranked Jack Della Maddalena at O2 Arena, will now face fifth-ranked American Sean Brady as part of several changes announced by CEO Dana White. Maddalena, meanwhile, has been given a...
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