Canadian rapper Drake is backing Nigeria-born UFC champion Israel Adesanya to retain his middleweight title when he challenges Sean Strickland in tonight's UFC 293. Drake placed a bet worth $500,000 on Adesanya to come out victorious which a potential winning of $920,000. Drake has not hidden his admiration for Adesanya's fighting skills and it won't be first time the music star is banking on the MMA...
Nigeria-born Mixed Martial Artiste Israel Adesanya will defend his UFC middleweight title against Sean Strickland at UFC 293. The fight is Strickland's first UFC title fight and it will come up in the Australian city of Sydney on September 10. The Last Stylebender was initially scheduled to face South Africa's Dircus du Plessis but the opponent is yet to recover from an injury. Adesanya stamped his...
The Extreme Fighting Championship returns on Thursday, July 13 with 11 thrilling bouts involving 22 fighters on EFC 105 card. The main fight card will see South African duo Shannon van Tonder and Musa Sethwape face off for the golden bantamweight belt. Congolese powerhouse Mark Bacharge Kamba will make a return to the EFC's Hexagon in a new welterweight division to slug it out against South...
Cameroon's MMA star Francis Ngannou has joined America's mixed martial league company - Professional Fighters League (PFL) after quitting the Ultimate Fighting Championship in January. The former UFC heavyweight champion joined PFL to gain a minority equity and also become the inaugural chairman of PFL Africa even as he chases his fighting career with a PFL pay-per-view Super Fight scheduled for 2024. The new deal is...
South Africa's Mark Hulme became the new EFC welterweight champion after beating Democratic Republic of Congo's Ziko Makengele in round one of Thursday's fight. It was Hulme's first fight at the Hexagon in over seven years and he showed exceptional skills in the opening seconds of the fight. After keeping his opponent at bay, Hulme later locked in a tight choke that forced Makengele to tap...
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