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- Daniel Dubois explains why he told Don Charles to calm down against Fabio WardleyThe WBO champion, who stopped Fabio Wardley in the second round of their rematch, says fight-week pressure was behind his corner exchange with his coach and now wants unification fights.
- Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua hospitality packages available for £249 a headSeat Unique, the official hospitality partner for the all-British heavyweight fight in Cardiff on Friday 11 December, is selling ticket-and-bar packages after general admission seats sold out in 40 minutes.
- Movsar Evloev's message for Arman Tsarukyan ahead of UFC 333: make 145Movsar Evloev, who challenges Alexander Volkanovski for the UFC featherweight title in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, said he would fight Arman Tsarukyan if the lightweight cuts to 145lb and the UFC wants the bout.
- Arman Tsarukyan turns down Movsar Evloev's featherweight invite to stay at lightweightThe lightweight number one contender expects his title shot early next year, in February or March, and says he wants to be “the best ever lightweight fighter”.
- Mandel Nallo says UFC Edmonton weigh-in nose-pick was for his sons before Dana White handshakeThe Canadian lightweight gave White a finger point instead of a handshake, then stopped Nate Landwehr for his first UFC win.
- Khamzat Chimaev laughs off Colby Covington's Abu Dhabi complaints: 'I'm happy to beat him'The pair wrestle for Covington's RAF cruiserweight crossover title at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi on Saturday 14 November.
- Josh Thomson says the ship has sailed on a Nate Diaz fight after Diaz chose Mike PerryThomson said he had offered to box Diaz with 10 or 12-ounce gloves instead of an MMA fight, and that he is not training at the level he would need to fight.
- Movsar Evloev calls out Arman Tsarukyan ahead of Volkanovski title fightThe unbeaten Russian said featherweight is his territory and told the lightweight number one contender to make 145lbs if Evloev takes the title from Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi.
- Alexander Volkanovski vs Movsar Evloev: coach Eugene Bareman expects close fightVolkanovski's coach Eugene Bareman says Evloev's style is misunderstood, arguing the unbeaten Russian keeps punching in grappling exchanges where Islam Makhachev would hold opponents down.
- Amanda Nunes says Kayla Harrison still makes the same mistakes from sparringNunes, who returns from retirement to challenge Harrison for the UFC bantamweight title at UFC 334 on 14 November, said the champion has evolved but repeats the errors she saw when they trained together.
- Merab Dvalishvili eyes Henry Cejudo wrestling trilogy after Petr Yan title fightDvalishvili wants a third Real American Freestyle match with Cejudo, who beat him in 36 seconds in August, but must first face Yan for the UFC bantamweight title in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
- Henry Cejudo vs Song Yadong to headline RAF 15 in ChicagoCejudo returns to Real American Freestyle after beating Merab Dvalishvili in 36 seconds in their RAF rematch in August.
- Brendan Allen rejects Dricus du Plessis coach's claim that UFC turned down their fightAllen said the pair were meant to fight at the start of the year before Du Plessis moved on to Kamaru Usman, and insisted: "I want to fight."
- Brendan Allen says staph infection hurt his performance in Christian Leroy Duncan winAllen, who submitted Duncan in the fifth round of the UFC Vegas 122 main event, said his main worry at the time was whether he would still make weight.
- Merab Dvalishvili open to Henry Cejudo RAF trilogy, says Abu Dhabi would be a great placeThe pair are 1-1 in Real American Freestyle after Cejudo won their rematch in 36 seconds in August, and Dvalishvili first faces Petr Yan at UFC 333 on Saturday.
- Ben Askren says Dillon Danis clearly tried to choke out Khamzat Chimaev in RAF wrestling matchDanis lost 10-0 to Chimaev at RAF 10 in June, and Askren said that if Danis wants extracurriculars, he could always get in a cage.
- Alex Pereira rules out stepping-stone role and will retire if losses mountThe 39-year-old former light-heavyweight returns against Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 335 in Las Vegas in December, after being knocked out by Ciryl Gane in a heavyweight title fight in June.
- Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli still on in Riyadh despite US travel warningTurki Alalshikh has published a fight-week schedule for the WBC super-middleweight title fight at Kingdom Arena, after a Houthi attack on Riyadh's main airport killed at least 12 people.
- Ryan Garcia says Floyd Mayweather has agreed to fight him for the WBC welterweight titleGarcia wrote that the fight would be at 147lb with Mayweather's 50-0 record on the line. Mayweather has not publicly confirmed it, and no contract, date or venue has been announced.
- Alex Pereira says Josh Hokit would be a much easier fight than Sergei PavlovichPereira, who faces Pavlovich at UFC 335, also picks Ciryl Gane to beat Hokit when they meet for the heavyweight title at UFC 334 next month.
- Jon Jones saw Ilia Topuria as likely next greatest before Justin Gaethje lossJon Jones said he regarded Ilia Topuria as invincible before the UFC White House card, where Justin Gaethje stopped the unbeaten two-division champion in the fourth round.
- Paul Felder steps in for Joe Rogan on UFC 333 commentary in Abu DhabiFelder will call Saturday's card at Etihad Arena alongside Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier, with Alexander Volkanovski defending the featherweight title against Movsar Evloev in the main event.
- Rizvan Kuniev thinks AI does the UFC rankings and says he wants to fight Alex PereiraKuniev, who fights Alexander Volkov at UFC 333 on Saturday, puts Pereira ahead of Sergei Pavlovich because he would not want to fight a countryman.
- Rizvan Kuniev says Alexander Volkov and his team are trembling before UFC 333Kuniev says Volkov's pre-fight remarks hide his fear, and predicts Volkov's camp will be relieved once their heavyweight fight on Saturday is over.
- Aaron Pico says he is ready for a UFC title and prepared to win if called to face VolkanovskiThe featherweight, who faces Losene Keita at UFC 333 on Saturday, says a good win would not hurt his title chances and that he will be champion one day.
- Losene Keita says he took Lerone Murphy's UFC doubts personally before Aaron Pico fightThe featherweight, who meets Pico at UFC 333 on Saturday, says he will beat whoever is put in front of him before he gets the Manchester fighter.
- Farid Basharat says Dana White comments on his UFC exit damaged himBasharat, who went 7-0 in the UFC and was ranked in the top 10 before not being offered a new contract, has not ruled out a return but said he does not need the promotion to succeed.
- Filip Hrgovic calls Dubois, Wardley, Kabayel and Gassiev "fake champions"The Croatian heavyweight told Ariel Helwani that Wardley's win over Parker was "a big robbery" and that Kabayel and Gassiev received their belts without fighting.
- Alexander Volkanovski backs himself to beat Movsar Evloev in pure grapplingThe featherweight champion faces the unbeaten Russian at UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi on 24 October, where a win would give him the most title wins in UFC featherweight history.
- Amanda Nunes reveals she will not retire again if she beats Kayla HarrisonThe former two-division champion faces Harrison for the UFC women's bantamweight title at UFC 334 on 14 November, a return delayed by Harrison's neck surgery.
