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31-year-old Douglas Dedge was an American mixed martial artist who was the first known American competitor to be fatally injured in an MMA fight and the first death in the modern era of MMA. On March 16, 1998, Dedge competed at an unsanctioned "World Super Challenge" event in Kyiv , Ukraine .
List of UFC events is a list of events held and scheduled by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. UFC's first event, UFC 1 , took place on November 12, 1993.
Event Date Venue Location 77 PFL Europe 4: December 14, 2024: LDLC Arena: Lyon, France: 76 PFL 10: November 29, 2024: King Saud University Stadium: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 75 PFL Super Fights: Battle of the Giants: October 19, 2024: The Mayadeen Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 74 PFL Europe 3: September 28, 2024: OVO Hydro: Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. 73 PFL ...
This is a list of events held and scheduled by Bellator MMA (formerly known as "Bellator Fighting Championships"), a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States. The first event, Bellator 1, took place on April 3, 2009. [1] Upcoming events are italicized.
The list below is based on fighters suspended either by (1) United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) or World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for violation of taking prohibited substances or non-analytical incidents, (2) by local commissions on misconduct during the fights or at event venues, or (3) by the UFC for reasons also stated below.
On August 9, 2023, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware granted class action status to more than 1,200 former UFC fighters who competed between December 2010 and June 2017 and are suing for $800 million upward to $1.6 billion in wages, as the lawsuit claims Zuffa had abused its power to suppress UFC fighters' wages.
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a form of competitive combat sport, akin to boxing, muay thai, or kick boxing. MMA titles, or championship belts, are given to those fighters deemed by a promotional organization to have met a certain standard of athletic accomplishment in a specific weight class (most often by means of a championship fight ...
The event marked the promotion's fifth visit to the American capital and first since PFL 10 (2023) in November 2023. [4] The event featured the semifinal of 2024 PFL playoffs in a welterweight and featherweight divisions. [5] The semifinal of the 2024 Welterweight tournament between Don Madge and Magomed Umalatov was scheduled