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Michael Chandler is more than willing to wait for Conor McGregor after their canceled bout at UFC 303. Now, he teased a new date for the fight against the former two-weight champion. Originally supposed to headline 303, this weekend’s PPV, Chandler saw McGregor pull out of the fight due to injury. That was the first time he ever did so in his MMA career. But according to Chandler, a new date is on the way for the fight, or at least a fight featuring Chandler, in the works. “Time well spent in progress is never time wasted,” Chandler wrote on Twitter. “New date LOADING. Walk On. See you at the ...
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Former UFC double champion and Oklahoma State All-American Daniel Cormier was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. A native of Lafayette, Cormier was a three-time wrestling state champion for Northside High School. Once he went undefeated in two years of JUCO at Colby Community College, Cormier began his legend at Oklahoma State. Representing his home state, Cormier went 52-10 while with the Cowboys and was the NCAA runner-up in 2001 at 184 pounds. Cormier represented Team USA in freestyle wrestling every year from 2003-08 and was an Olympian in 2004, finishing 4th at the Games. He...
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Dana White wants to help Michael Chandler as much as possible in the wake of the postponed Conor McGregor fight at UFC 303. Chandler and McGregor were finally ready to square off June 29th until an injury forced the Irish superstar and former double champion to pull out of the fight. As far as the UFC president is concerned, White said Chandler still wants to wait for McGregor, whenever they can reschedule the fight this year. However, White won’t rule out Chandler getting a different fight and opponent in the meantime, if the former Missouri wrestling All-American wants it. “Uh Chandler, I th...
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Former Oklahoma State wrestler Nick Piccininni earned another win in his professional mixed martial arts career Sunday. Fighting at Fury 92, Piccininni won via rear naked choke in the fourth round, beating Jomar Pa-ac. The former Cowboy is now 5-0 in his career. The end of the fight can be seen below. Piccininni has four finishes in his five wins since June 18, 2021. All four finishes were by submission at the flyweight division (125 pounds). While at Oklahoma State from 2015-20, Piccininni was a three-time All-American (2017, ’19 and ’20). He finished four at 125 pounds in 2017, 5th in 2019 a...
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Jason Nolf will compete in the inaugural Craig Jones Invitational for a $1 million grand prize shortly after his professional grappling debut. The former Penn State wrestling star is a three-time NCAA champion and Olympic Trials qualifier. He recently made his pro grappling debut and won via submission. Jones, who began the tournament to coincide with ADCC, the premier grappling tournament for no-gi jiu jitsu, wanted to raise awareness over fighter pay and is also doing the CJI for charity. Nolf accepted his invitation and will compete in August. “It’s official!,” Nolf wrote on Instagram. “In ...
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Conor McGregor released a statement and broke his silence about his postponed fight against Michael Chandler at UFC 303. June 29th was expected to be McGregor’s return to the octagon after suffering a broken leg in his last fight against Dustin Poirier three years ago. McGregor and his fans will just have to wait a little while longer. McGregor confirmed he suffered an undisclosed injury and had to pull out of the fight. “Very tough to be ruled out of my scheduled return bout,” McGregor wrote on Instagram. “I picked up an injury prior to the press conference that required more time to heal tha...
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Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler will no longer fight at UFC 303. On Thursday, UFC president Dana White revealed McGregor suffered an injury and is the reason for the sudden cancellation. The UFC 303’s main event will now be a Light Heavyweight title match between champion Alex Pereira and No. 1 challenger Jiří Procházka. The co-main event will be a Featherweight bout between Brian Ortega and Diego Lopes. The road to UFC 303 has been littered with potholes. Last week, the UFC canceled a press conference between McGregor and Chandler in Dublin, Ireland for unspecified reasons. Over 10,000 fa...
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Former Oklahoma State wrestler Jacobe Smith will fight on Dana White’s Contender Series, according to a release. Smith is 8-0 as a pro MMA fighter and will now get an opportunity in front of the UFC president. Should he win his fight on DWCS, he could possibly be awarded a contract. Each Contender Series card has five fights and the new season begins August 8t and runs through October 10th. As of now, it is unclear when Smith will compete. However, as the latest high quality wrestler to enter the MMA world and get a shot at the big time, he could be very successful. He competes at welterweight...
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Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler will fight at UFC 303 as scheduled, Chandler said on The Pivot podcast. “The fight’s happening,” Chandler told Ryan Clark. “Obviously, where we are right now – there’s a lot of speculation, but the fight is on. June 29. It’s happening.” The news comes on the heels of the canceled press conference between McGregor and Chandler, scheduled in front of a Dublin, Ireland audience earlier this week. There were expected to be around 10,000 fans in attendance. With a much hyped fight, there was an understandable amount of confusion and worry over the card’s main eve...
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After a disappointing postponement, the boxing bout between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has officially been rescheduled with a new date set. According to MMA journalist Ariel Helwani, the rescheduled event will take place on Fri. Nov 15. The original date was July 20 for Tyson versus Paul, but a flare-up of Tyson’s ulcers prompted his medical team to advise him to take it easy and miss the summer date. However, Tyson and Paul is all set for November now, with AT&T Stadium hosting the event, and Netflix broadcasting it to the world, with millions of viewers expected to tune in to see if Tyson can ...
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