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23+ min ago (172+ words) The Official Weights Of The Athletes Competing December 13, 2025 At The UFC Apex In Las Vegas UFC hosts its final event of 2025 at UFC APEX with an all-action flyweight main event as No. 3 ranked contender'Brandon Royval goes toe-to-toe with No. 6'Manel Kape. Also on the card, No. 15 ranked featherweight contender'Giga Chikadze returns to the Octagon to take on rising prospect'Kevin Vallejos.' UFC FIGHT NIGHT: ROYVAL vs KAPE'takes place Saturday, December 13 in Las Vegas. The prelims will be available on ESPN+ (English and Spanish) beginning at 7pm ET/4pm PT and on ESPN2 which will join in progress at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT. The main card will be available on ESPN2, ESPN Desportes and ESPN+ beginning 10pm ET/7pm PT. Main event scheduled for five rounds. All other bouts scheduled for three rounds. MORE FIGHT NIGHT: Journey To Main Event | Megan Olivi Chats With Royval | Kape Interview | King Green: One…...

23+ min ago (893+ words) If there are two things Neil Magny is known for in his UFC career, they are serving as the human litmus test for the welterweight division'figuring out how far an emerging talent might go cannot be determined until after they share the Octagon with the 170-pound stalwart'and rallying to win fights. In each of his last two outings, the 38-year-old done the second of those two things, bouncing back from rough starts to earn stoppage wins over Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos and Jake Matthews. This weekend, he steps in with promotional newcomer Yaroslav Amosov, which makes it feel like we've reach peaked "Neil Magny doing Neil Magny things" heading into Saturday's 2025 finale. "Yeah, it feels good to be back to my old ways "getting back on the winning side of things," Magny said with a laugh on Wednesday. "Having two…...

27+ min ago (387+ words) Dec 12, 2025 | 1:29 PM EST Now, a UFC 322 fighter has made headlines, but this time more than 4,000 miles away from the U.S., in Turkey. Ranked No. 6 contender Carlos Prates defeated Leon Edwards last month at UFC 322 inside Madison Square Garden and so decided to take a break with a vacation in T'rkiye. However, things did not go as planned. While attending the regional MMA promotion "Kroc" at the Kroc"s Core CFC event, a fighter inside the cage tried to provoke "The Nightmare" on Instagram, and he nearly got into a brawl. "That guy gave up the fight and said he couldn"t fight because of an easy illegal kick, and 1 min after got mad with me and tried to fight me. Luck security didn"t let us fight, peace of s. Stop giving up when you start winning and getting tired, bro," Carlos…...

40+ min ago (435+ words) Kape gives brief weigh-in scare for final UFC event of year Manel Kape made everyone sweat at Friday's official weigh-ins for UFC Vegas 112. The flyweight contender made his walk to the scale with less than two minutes remaining in the one-hour weigh-in window, successfully registering at 126 pounds for Saturday's main event bout with Brandon Royval. Royval also made use of the one-pound allowance for a non-title fight, coming in at 126 pounds. In January 2024, Kape again missed weight, that time by 3.5 pounds for a rematch with Matheus Nicolau. That bout was subsequently postponed, though it later failed to come to fruition a second time for undisclosed reasons. However, as of now, Kape is on weight and his matchup with Royval is official. Currently both in the flyweight top 10, Saturday's main event winner could find themselves in position to challenge for flyweight…...

46+ min ago (415+ words) UFC lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan may have let slip the actual reason why he withdrew against Islam Makhachev earlier this year. Earlier this year, Arman Tsarukyan squandered his chance to fight for the lightweight title when he withdrew from his scheduled fight against Islam Makhachev just days before UFC 311. At the time, "Ahalkalakets" claimed that his withdrawal was due to an ongoing back injury, however, many fighters and even fans believed it was actually due to missing weight. Since then, the Armenian has been paying the price of his last-minute withdrawal, consistently being snubbed of title shots by UFC boss Dana White. Just a few weeks back, White announced that Paddy Pimblett will take on Justin Gaethje in an interim lightweight title fight, with Tsarukyan once again missing out. After picking up a win over Dan Hooker at UFC Qatar…...

54+ min ago (891+ words) Melissa Croden is trying to make sure that she appreciates every moment of her UFC adventure to the fullest and takes advantage of every opportunity that comes her way, which is why the 34-year-old Alberta resident volunteered to step in against Luana Santos when the Brazilian was in need of an opponent on November 8. Though she had just fought three weeks earlier, collecting a third-round stoppage win over Thainara Lisboa in her promotional debut in Vancouver, Croden raised her hand and accepted the matchup, which was later shuffled to this weekend's year-end finale at the UFC APEX. "It was very validating in a lot of ways," she said of the win over Lisboa, which elevated her record to 7-2, pushed her overall winning streak to three, and maintained her 100-percent finishing rate. "There is always that fear that I had in…...

56+ min ago (376+ words) France is a country that has a solid showing in the UFC. There are 10 fighters in the UFC at the moment across eight different weight classes. However, what recent fans might not realize it was that it was just under six years ago when MMA became legal in the country. UFC Vegas 112s Morgan Charriere looks back to the time prior to legalization. "The sport is growing so fast here in France. When I started, we were so not many people doing MMA. It was not called MMA in France," Charriere recalled. "It was called "free fight and then pancrase. We were not allowed to throw a ground strike. We were fighting in a ring and not an octagon, all that kind of stuff." Not only was it hard for him to compete in the sport that he wanted, but it…...

57+ min ago (1077+ words) Giga Chikadze has fought at world level in two different combat sports, and he plans on leveraging that elite experience against hot prospect Kevin Vallejos at UFC Fight Night: Royval vs Kape. Chikadze is a lifelong martial artist, with experience that stretches far beyond his 15-5 pro MMA record. A former kickboxer who parlayed his elite striking into a mixed martial arts career, the Georgian quickly established himself as one of the most dangerous strikers in the featherweight division. Preview Every Matchup At UFC Fight Night: Royval vs Kape Now, after taking back-to-back losses for the first time in his MMA career, 15th-ranked Chikadze is ready to bounce back and show Vallejos that there are levels to this game as he puts his ranking on the line on Saturday night. "He's up and coming, a good fighter who was on a…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago (494+ words) Dec 12, 2025 | 12:50 PM EST Dana White has successfully turned the UFC into a billion-dollar giant that serves as the ultimate platform for MMA fighters chasing glory. For years, the UFC has relied on a network of smaller promotions to season its future stars, but in a surprising move that signals a major strategic shift, White is cutting off a major promotion." Next year, the UFC will enter its historic Paramount+ CBS era, and many anticipated that roster changes and a seismic shift in content would be reviewed as the promotion transitions to its new broadcasting partners. However, the head honcho cutting Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA) and four other MMA promotions from Fight Pass has caught everyone off guard." Each of these promotions has worked as a platform for the UFC to scout talented fighters for their roster. But it won't be…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (165+ words) I did it: Thor Chuan Leong celebrates after winning gold in the 6 red snooker event. " GLENN GUAN/The Star BANGKOK: Thor Chuan Leong reclaimed his men's snooker 6-red crown in style, shutting out host country cuiest Poramin Danjirakul in the final at Thunder Dome in Muang Thong Thani on Friday (Dec 12)." The 37-year-old overpowered the Thai player 5-2 to regain the SEA Games gold medal he last won in the event when Myanmar hosted the SEA Games in 2013." Chuan Leong thus extended Malaysia's outstanding record in the 6-red singles event after the feats by Lim Kok Leong and Moh Keen Hoo in Vietnam (2022) and Cambodia (2023)." Chuan Leong now has a chance to add to his gold medal tally if he and teammates Kok Leong and Keen Ho can reach the men's team snooker final." But they first must beat hosts Thailand…...