There wasn’t much this last weekend in MMA but this coming weekend it’s going to be busy. Here are the events:
Previews
Bellator 156: Galvao vs. Dantas
Bellator MMA hosts an event at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California on Friday, June 17th broadcast on Spike:
Bantamweight Marcos Galvao (c) vs. Eduardo Dantas
Welterweight Chidi Njokuani vs. Thiago Jambo
Middleweight Brandon Halsey vs. John Salter
Middleweight Chris Honeycutt vs. Mikkel Parlo
Middleweight A.J. Matthews vs. Ben Reiter
Welterweight Ricky Rainey vs. TBA
Light Heavyweight Jermaine McDermott vs. Blake Watkins
Catchweight (140 pounds) Paul Ruiz vs. C. Buron-Navarro
Heavyweight Javy Ayala vs. JR Lugo
Lightweight Nick Bustamante vs. Antoine Smith
Lightweight CJ Keith vs. Carrington Banks
Featherweight Chris Avila vs. Justin Smitley
Light Heavyweight John Paul Elias vs. Jose Cabesas
Heavyweight Chris Lewis vs. Ernest James
Lightweight Luis Jauregui vs. Ryan Tobar
World Series of Fighting 31: Ivanov vs. Copeland
WSOF hosts an event at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Manshantucket, Conn on Friday, June 17th to be on NBCSN:
Heavyweight Blagoy Ivanov (c) vs. Josh Copeland
Lightweight Jason High vs. Mike Ricci
Featherweight Luis Palomino vs. Sheymon Moraes
Middleweight Phil Hawes vs. Joshua Key
Welterweight John Howard vs. Michael Arrant
Heavyweight Lorenzo Hood vs. Tyler King
Lightweight Saul Almedia vs. Bruce Boyington
Heavyweight Juliano Coutinho vs. Justin Willis
Lightweight Tom Marcellino vs. Devin Powell
Welterweight Robert Fonseca vs. Sean Lally
Featherweight Rodrigo Almedia vs. Ben Pierre-Saint
Lightweight Christian Torres vs. Sam Watford
EFN 50: Emelianenko vs. Maldonado
Eurasia Fight Nights hosts an event at the Sibur Arena in St. Petersburg, Russia on June 17th on UFC Fight Pass:
Fedor Emelianenko vs Fabio ‘Caipira de Aco’ Maldonado
Vitaly Minakov vs Peter ‘The Chief’ Graham
Mikhail Mokhnatkin vs Unknown Fighter
Kirill Sidelnikov vs Unknown Fighter
Rasul ‘Black Tiger’ Mirzaev vs Unknown Fighter
Sergey Pavlovich vs Unknown Fighter
UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson
The UFC hosts an event at the TD Place Arena in Ottawa, Canada on Saturday, June 18th broadcast on Fox Sports 1:
Welterweight Rory MacDonald vs. Stephen Thompson
Welterweight Donald Cerrone vs. Patrick Cote
Light Heavyweight Steve Bossé vs. Sean O’Connell
Lightweight Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Thibault Gouti
Women’s Flyweight Valérie Létourneau vs. Joanne Calderwood
Lightweight Jason Saggo vs. Leandro Silva
Light Heavyweight Misha Cirkunov vs. Ion Cutelaba
Middleweight Tamdan McCrory vs. Krzysztof Jotko
Bantamweight Chris Beal vs. Joe Soto
Middleweight Elias Theodorou vs. Sam Alvey
Women’s Strawweight Randa Markos vs. Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger
Welterweight Colby Covington vs. Jonathan Meunier
Flyweight Ali Bagautinov vs. Geane Herrera
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