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Sedriques Dumas is in trouble with the law again.

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According to Escambia County (Florida) inmate records, the UFC middleweight was arrested on April 28 on multiple charges, including felony robbery home invasion without a weapon, misdemeanor battery, possession of weapon by a convicted felon and felony drug possession. Dumas is currently in Escambia County Jail with bond set at $558,000. His next court date is scheduled for May 6 with Judge Jennie Kinsey.

Dumas was last arrested in February 2024 on a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly slapping the mother of his child. That charge was dropped four months later.

Dumas has a lengthy criminal history that was brought to light prior to his UFC debut. This includes allegedly punching a woman during an incident that began at a bar in Pensacola, Florida in August 2022 a few days before Dumas fought on Dana White's Contender Series. According to a police report, the brawl spilled out of the b…

Welterweight veterans Michael Chiesa and Court McGree will square off when the Ultimate Fighting Championship heads to Atlanta.

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The Las Vegas-based promotion on Tuesday confirmed that bout as well as the following additions to the June 14 card: Mansur Abdul-Malik vs. Cody Brundage at middleweight; Tereza Bleda vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth at flyweight; Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Andre Petroski at middleweight; Cody Durden vs. Jose Ochoa at flyweight and Alonzo Menifield vs. Oumar Sy at light heavyweight.

UFC Atlanta — also known as UFC on ESPN 69 — takes place at the State Farm Arena and is headlined by a welteweight showdown pitting Joaquin Buckley against Kamaru Usman.

The winner of “The Ultimate Fighter 15,” Chiesa is coming off a 2-0 campaign in 2024. After scoring a first-round submission of Tony Ferguson at UFC on ABC 7 in August, “Maverick” tapped Max Griffin in the third stanza at UFC 310 this past December. Prior to that, the 37-year-old Spokane, …

UFC Des Moines is down a fight following injuries to light heavyweights Junior Tafa and George Tokkos.

The promotion announced the news on Tuesday but did not disclose the nature of the ailments suffered by either athlete. UFC Des Moines — also known as UFC on ESPN 67 — will proceed with 12 bouts. The card takes place at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday and is headlined by a bantamweight scrap pitting Cory Sandhagen against Deiveson Figueiredo.

Tafa, the younger brother of Justin Tafa, is 2-3 thus far during his promotional tenure. He is coming off a second-round technical knockout victory against Sean Sharaf at UFC Fight Night 244 this past October.

England’s Tukkos began his UFC career with back-to-back losses against Oumar Sy and Navajo Stirling. “Tuco” also went 0-2 during a brief Bellator stint from 2019 to 2020.

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Khabib Nurmagomedov checks in with Patrice @Evra ahead of the former French football captain’s PFL MMA Debut on Friday 23rd May 👀

LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN! 🫵… pic.twitter.com/G4xHBOmnvt — PFL Europe (@PFLEurope) April 28, 2025

Patrice Evra has the option to enlist some high-profile coaching for his Professional Fighters League debut.

The retired French soccer star will make his MMA debut at the PFL Europe 2 event scheduled for May 23 in Paris. In a recent phone conversation captured by the promotion, former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov offers his services to Evra as he prepares for his new endeavor.

“I’m here in Dubai. I told you many times, send me location, and I'm going to find you," Nurmagomedov said. "Send location, tell me where are you? When I see you, you have to be ready and that's it. Other things I'm going to take care of. I'm going to teach …

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The first full trailer for “The Smashing Machine,” featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Mark Kerr, is now available for public consumption.

Produced by A24 and directed by Benny Safdie (of “Uncut Gems” fame), the biopic chronicles the mixed martial arts journey of Kerr, who rose to fame while competing in the UFC and Pride Fighting Championships before being derailed by opoid addiction. The film is based on the 2002 documentary of the same name.

“The Smashing Machine” is scheduled for an Oct. 3 release in theaters and stars Emily Blunt as Kerr’s ex-wife, Dawn Staples. Ex-Bellator MMA champion Ryan Bader will play Mark Coleman, who helped Kerr turn his career around, and boxing heavyweight title holder Oleksandr Usyk stars as former Kerr opponent Igor Vovchanchyn. Meanwhile, Bas Rutten will play himself in the film. Other fighters such as Satoshi Ishii, James Moontasri and Roberto Abreu also make cameos in the movie.

After suffering his first defeat in the bantamweight division in his last fight against Petr Yan, former flyweight champion Deiveson "Daico" Figueiredo sought reinforcements from Eastern Europe.

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“A fighter can never be in his comfort zone,” Figueiredo told Sherdog ahead of his headlining bout with Cory Sandhagen at UFC Des Moines on Saturday. “I hired two ‘Russians’ to help me in this camp here at Pitbull Brothers. In fact, these two fighters brought by [Eric] Albarracin here to Natal are even taller than [Sandhagen]. Both are good at both striking and wrestling. These training sessions demanded a lot from me. And leaving my comfort zone made me evolve daily.”

The two fighters to which Figueiredo is referring are the Kazakh brothers, Idris Idrissov and Chingis Idrissov. They are part of the Broadstreet Global Combat Elite Athletes fighter exchange program promoted by Albarracin at Pitbull Brothers in Natal.

Figueiredo came from Belem, Brazil, …

👀🏆Dustin Poirier says Paddy Pimblett can be a UFC champion:

“Paddy’s legit, man."🤝

🎥 @arielhelwani ▫️ pic.twitter.com/WBgHSvQJ6q

— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) April 28, 2025

Dustin Poirier’s opinion of Paddy Pimblett has changed recently.

Pimblett scored the biggest win of his career so far by finishing Michael Chandler at UFC 314 earlier this month. Ahead of the fight, Poirier predicted that former foe Chandler would beat “The Baddy” and suggested bettors to go heavy.

Poirier was admittedly surprised as Pimblett completely outclassed “Iron” en route to a third round technical knockout. “The Diamond” believes Pimblett can be a UFC champ one day if he continues on his current path.

“Of course [I was surprised]. I really thought Chandler was gonna beat [Pimblett],” Chandler told Ariel Helwani. “But I was wrong. Paddy’s legit, man… Yeah, if he believes it and works hard enough and keeps doing what he’s doing, he ca…

👀Ian Garry fires back at Joaquin Buckley:

"He can’t generate enough talk about himself… so he tries all this piggyback off other things. It’s okay. Let him be him."

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🎥 @arielhelwani ▫️ pic.twitter.com/QoYFWSViRL — Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) April 28, 2025

Ian Garry and Joaquin Buckley seem to be developing a little bit of a beef.

Buckley was unimpressed by Garry’s unanimous decision win over Carlos Prates at UFC Kansas City last weekend. Garry maintained distance and put on a one-sided technical masterclass before surviving a last-round flurry from “The Nightmare.” Buckley accused Garry of playing it safe and running away from Prates throughout the fight. Buckley believes Garry could have produced a “Performance of the Night” kind of bout but was too scared to do it.

Garry dismissed Buckley’s comments as mere clout chasing. The Irishman claims “New Mansa” cannot generate enough hype by himself and tries t…

Dustin Poirier wants to walkout with Lil Wayne for his retirement fight in New Orleans at #UFC318 👀

🎥 @arielhelwani #UFC #MMApic.twitter.com/v7Xeb6sHd4

— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) April 28, 2025

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Dustin Poirier walking out with Lil’ Wayne for his last fight would be quite the spectacle.

Poirier will step into the Octagon for the last time in a trilogy against Max Holloway at UFC 318 on July 19 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Poirier had welcomed Holloway to the UFC in his debut in 2019, and now “Blessed” will be his last opponent.

Poirier also has a special wish for his walkout music at UFC 318. While Poirier usually walks out to “The Boss” by James Brown, he used a mashup with Willie Spence's cover of Rihanna's “Diamonds” for his last fight against Islam Makhachev. Poirier is considering the same track for UFC 318 but would like Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., — aka Lil’ Wayne — to do h…

For the first time since June 20, 2019, Carlos Prates tasted defeat in a mixed martial arts bout.

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“The Nightmare” had an 11-fight professional winning streak snapped in the UFC Kansas City headliner on Saturday night, as he fell to Ian Garry via unanimous decision at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. While Prates put together a late push, it wasn’t enough to offset the work Garry had done for much of the first four rounds.

Prates, who was originally supposed to face Geoff Neal at UFC 314 before his opponent withdrew from the event, posted a statement regarding the bout on social meda.

"Guys, this is crazy. Six years without losing, I had forgotten how much it hurts, how it hurts the heart, the soul, more than any other part of the body, all day thinking 'what if I had caught the back,' 'what if I knocked him down,' what if I touched him more" … and so on,” Prates wrote on Instagram (translation via Google Translate).

“Time t…

Vinc Pichel is calling it a career.

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The 42-year-old lightweight announced his retirement from MMA on Monday in a post on social media. “From Hell” competed on Season 15 of “The Ultimate Fighter” and went 7-5 over the course of a UFC stint that began in 2012. Pichel exits the sport with a 14-5 career mark.

“There is so much to say. The short version: At 42 years old, I’m officially retiring from competing in MMA,” Pichel wrote in an announcement that spanned multiple posts on X.

“The long version: I’m sad, I’m excited, I’m happy, I’m afraid. I’m grateful to everyone who was with me or part of my MMA career and there are too many to list….As I walk away I’ll leave you with this: Do what feels right, don’t apologize for being you, be yourself, learn what you can from who you can, no regret’s and most importantly, HAVE FUN.”

There is so much to say.The short version: At 42 years old, I’m officially retiring from compet…

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— Siemiński Tomek 🏊🚴 (@SieminskiTomek) April 26, 2025

One of the most buzzworthy fights of the past weekend took place under the Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki banner, when Eddie Hall dispatched longtime promotional favorite Mariusz Pudzianowski via technical knockout in just 30 seconds.

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Hall isn’t looking to climb to the top of the sport following a successful mixed martial arts debut at KSW 105, however. Instead, the 37-year-old former World’s Strongest Man is realistic about his future prospects going forward. (The bout is classified as an exhibition, per the Sherdog database).

“Jon Jones. Just kidding. No Jon Jones,” Hall said in a post-fight scrum. “I’ve got to step back. I’ve got to evaluate. If the rematch with Mariusz is there, I’d like to do the rematch with Mariusz. Two-minute rounds, like we agreed on the first time. But I’v…

𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Your Updated PFL World Tournament 4 Fight Card 👊

• Linton Vassell is out• 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗽: Oleg Popov vs. Karl Williams

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[ #PFLWorldTournament | Thursday , May 1st | 📺 10PM EST | ESPN 2 ] pic.twitter.com/eyZJAwsaNI — PFL (@PFLMMA) April 28, 2025

Professional Fighters League’s heavyweight bracket has undergone a shakeup on the week of its next event.

The promotion announced on Monday that Karl Williams will replace Linton Vassell and face Oleg Popov in a heavyweight tournament matchup. A reason for Vassell’s exit was not announced. PFL World Tournament 4 takes place on Thursday at Universal Studios in Orlando and features first-round pairings at heavyweight and light heavyweight. The main card airs on ESPN2 and ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, while prelims begin on ESPN+ at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT.

Fighters only get one shot! Watch the PFL World Tournament LIVE Thursday, May 1 at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN2 …

American Top Team training partners Antonio Carlos Jr. and Bo Nickal have taken advantage of the close proximity of their upcoming fights to help each other in sparring during their respective camps.

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Carlos Jr., a jiu-jitsu world champion, will face Karl Moore in a first-round light heavyweight bout at PFL World Tournament 4 at Universal Studios in Orlando on Thursday. Nickal, meanwhile, will square off against Reinier de Ridder at UFC Des Moines two days later. The 2021 PFL champion told Sherdog that Nickal continues to adapt well to MMA and expects the three-time NCAA national champion wrestler to perform well against de Ridder.

“Nickal has been improving a lot in terms of striking and, to be honest, his jiu-jitsu surprised me a lot,” Carlos Jr. said. “He brought a body awareness from wrestling that is very important to MMA. He gets into good positions and doesn’t lose. I think he has everything to surprise de Ridder.”

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Andy Aspinall, the father of UFC interim heavyweight champ Tom Aspinall, is frustrated with his son’s lack of activity.

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Jon Jones was scheduled to defend his heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic at UFC 295 in November 2023 before being forced out at the last minute with an injury. Aspinall went on to knock out Sergei Pavlovich in a short-notice interim title fight at the same event.

Aspinall has since been rallying for a title unifier with Jones. Aspinall even defended his interim title against Curtis Blaydes in July 2024. Meanwhile, Jones went on to defend his title against Miocic at UFC 309 in November 2024.

UFC CEO Dana White has promised that Jones’ next fight will be against Aspinall, although “Bones” seemingly hasn’t received a lucrative enough offer yet. Andy, who has dedicated his entire life to his son’s MMA career, is frustrated with the wait. Andy wants his son to stay active in his prime years. However, the UF…

Anthony Smith should have fought this dude in the crowd before retiring #UFCKansasCitypic.twitter.com/oyM4cyWMka

— Delinquent MMA (@DelinquentMMA) April 27, 2025

Apparently not everyone in attendance at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City was there to pay tribute to Anthony Smith as he officially called it a career on Saturday night.

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Shortly after the former light heavyweight title challenger suffered a bloody technical knockout loss to Mingyang Zhang in the UFC Kansas City co-main event, “Lionheart” walked to one side of the Octagon, where he appeared to yell and flip the bird to someone in the crowd.

As it turns out, the fan in question had been taunting Smith even before the fight began.

“There was a guy in a Nebraska shirt and he was like booing me and flipping me off and kind of talking trash before the fight,” Smith said on ESPN+ post-fight show. “But I was really focused on what I had to do. Then after the …

If anything goes awry with the UFC 315 headliner, Ian Garry will be on hand to step in.

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Shortly after he defeated Carlos Prates via unanimous decision in the UFC Kansas City headliner, “The Future” announced his plans to travel to Montreal for the welterweight title fight between Belal Muhammad and Jack Della Maddalena on May 10.

“Twenty-one days’ notice against Shavkat [Rakhmonov]. 25 days’ notice against this man tonight. He’s a beast. Well, in two weeks’ time, I’m flying to Canada,” Garry said during his post-fight interview. “I’m the official backup for the world title fight, and I’m next in line for that world title.”

Shortly after that statement, UFC CEO Dana White confirmed that Garry would indeed be the championship alternate for the upcoming 170-pound title clash.

“Credit to Ian, [he] takes these fights on short notice,” White said at the UFC Kansas City post-fight press conference. “He’ll fight anybody. He looked good tonight.…

Max Holloway recently expressed gratitude to Chan Sung Jung for being an important part of his career.

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Two of the biggest fan favorites in the sport, Holloway and “The Korean Zombie” were extremely respectful toward each other even before sharing the Octagon. And they have since developed a friendship, which was on display during Holloway’s recent visit to South Korea.

Holloway was seen sparring with a teammate of Jung at the Korean Zombie gym, where they re-enacted his iconic slugfest with Justin Gaethje. “Blessed” then shared his respect for former rival Jung, whom he idolized growing up. Holloway also urged fans to lookout for his YouTube videos featuring him and his wife Alessa proving swimming lessons to Jung.

“I looked up to this man. When I was in high school I watched him fight many times,” Holloway said. “This guy’s an inspiration, without a ‘Korean Zombie’ there wouldn’t be a Max Holloway. So at the end of the day I’m super grateful…

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Malcolm Wellmaker followed his spectacular Dana White's Contender Series win with a similar effort in his Octagon debut.

Wellmaker earned a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus for his knockout of Cameron Saaiman in a preliminary bantamweight clash at UFC Kansas City on Saturday night. The Augusta, Georgia, native sent his foe crashing to the floor with a counter right hook, abruptly ending their bout at the 1:59 mark of Round 1. Wellmaker earned a UFC deal with a first-round KO of Adam Bramhald on the Contender Series this past August.

Elsewhere, Mingyang Zhang received a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” award for spoiling Anthony Smith’s retirement bout in the evening’s light heavyweight co-main event. Zhang busted his opponent open with an elbow early and went to work from there, ultimately finishing “Lionheart” with a barrage of elbows on the canvas 4:03 into the opening stanza.

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Ian Garry had just enough in the tank to avoid disaster in the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight division.

The former Cage Warriors Fighting Championship titleholder quelled a late rally and held on for a unanimous decision over Carlos Prates in the UFC on ESPN 66 main event on Saturday at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Garry (16-1, 9-1 UFC) swept the scorecards with 48-47, 48-47 and 49-46 marks from the judges.

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Prates (21-7, 4-1 UFC), who entered the cage on an 11-fight winning streak, was slow out of the gate. Garry called upon kicks to the legs, body and head, leaned heavily on his jab and kept the Brazilian off-balance with level changes and deft footwork. Later, he fired off accurate punches in combination and secured multiple takedowns. The Irishman entered back half of the fight in front by a significant margin. Prates, however, turned up the heat, forced him onto his back foot and started to connect with increasing i…

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Matt Schnell willed his way to the winner’s circle and reasserted himself in the Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight division.

Sound submission defense, unshakable resolve and damaging ground-and-pound carried the Fortis MMA rep to a unanimous decision over former Legacy Fighting Alliance champion Jimmy Flick in the featured UFC on ESPN 66 prelim on Saturday at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. All three judges scored it the same: 29-28 for Schnell (17-9, 7-7 UFC), who closed the book on a three-fight losing streak.

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Flick (17-9, 2-4 UFC) completed multiple takedowns and moved to advantageous positions on more than one occasion but always seemed to leave his opponent an escape route. Schnell slowly but surely seized the reins—he opened a cut on Flick’s hairline with an elbow strike in the second round—and forced his counterpart to play defense as they drifted into deeper water. He threatened with a guillotine late in the third, rolle…

🚨Dricus Du Plessis’s coach confirms he’ll fight Khamzat Chimaev next — just NOT at International Fight Week on June 29th:

"[UFC] plans something else for [International Fight Week]. But we’re fighting Khamzat… It’s a done deal… We are waiting for the contract."

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🎥… pic.twitter.com/lBWYstsj3W — Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) April 24, 2025

Dricus Du Plessis coach Morne Visser says they’re waiting on a contract for a title defense against Khamzat Chimaev.

While Chimaev getting the next middleweight title shot has long been expected, the matchup hasn’t been finalized yet. There were rumors of a Du Plessis injury causing a delay in the booking, which were recently dismissed by Visser.

The matchup was originally being considered for UFC 317, which goes down on June 28 during the International Fight Week. However, Visser confirmed that while Chimaev is undoubtedly getting the next gold bid, it won’t be at UFC 317.

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Homecoming at #UFCBaku 🇦🇿@RafaelFiziev takes on @JaulaBahamondes in the co-main event! pic.twitter.com/GYtzB96FkA

— UFC (@ufc) April 25, 2025

A matchup of lightweight strikers has been added to UFC Baku.

Rafael Fiziev (12-4) and Ignacio Bahamondes (17-5) are set to trade leather at UFC on ABC 8 on June 21 at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan. The promotion announced the pairing on Friday.

After suffering his first career loss in his UFC debut in 2019, Fiziev went on a six-fight winning streak with victories over the likes of Bobby Green, Renato Carneiro and Rafael dos Anjos. However, “Ataman” is now on a three-fight skid, which includes two decision losses against Justin Gaethje.

Meanwhile, Bahamondes earned his UFC contract with a spectacular finish over Edson Gomez on Dana White's Contender Series in 2020. “La Jaula” has since gone 6-2 in the UFC with five finishes and is currently riding a three-fight winning str…