Tag: Adrian Yanez

John Castaneda calls out Adrian Yanez after UFC 295 win: ‘Stylistically I think we can put on a banger’

John Castaneda doesn’t typically call people out, but he’d like love a “banger” with Adrian Yanez coming out of UFC 295.

NEW YORK – [autotag]John Castaneda[/autotag] doesn’t typically call people out, but he has his eye on one particular bantamweight.

Castaneda (21-6 MMA, 4-2 UFC) continued his rise up the 135-pound ranks when he defeated Kyung Ho Kang by unanimous decision this past Saturday at UFC 295.

Hoping for an active 2024, Castaneda thinks [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag] (16-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC) would make for an entertaining next fight.

“I want to have at least three fights next year, minimum,” Castaneda told MMA Junkie and other reporters at a post-fight news conference. “I won four out of my last (five) fights. I feel like I’m at least due for – put me in the conversation for a top-15 guy. I’m always analyzing the top 15 guys, especially 10 through to 15.

“Stylistically, I feel like I match up well against them, a lot of them. I’m not one to call people out, but if I were to call somebody out, I really, really would love a fight with Adrian Yanez. Not because it’s like a disrespect thing, but stylistically I think we can put on a banger. Absolutely.”

After a hot start to his octagon tenure with five straight wins, four by knockout, Yanez has dropped two straight by TKO – most recently by leg kicks against Jonathan Martinez at UFC Fight Night 230 this past October.

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For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 295.

MMA Junkie’s Fight of the Month for October: Edson Barboza sets Fight of the Night record

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best fights from October 2023.

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best fights from October 2023: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Fight of the Month award for October.

At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting on your choice.

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UFC Fight Night 230 post-event facts: Edson Barboza sets record for Fight of the Night bonuses

Check out all the facts and figures from UFC Fight Night 230, where Edson Barboza set a new record for most Fight of the Night bonuses.

The UFC’s second event of October got off to a slow start, but UFC Fight Night 230 closed with one of the best fights of the year.

The main event saw [autotag]Edson Barboza[/autotag] (24-11 MMA, 18-11 UFC) rally from a vicious first-round beatdown to secure a unanimous decision win over [autotag]Sodiq Yusuff[/autotag] (13-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) in a thrilling Fight of the Night matchup of ranked featherweights.

Check below for MMA Junkie’s post-event facts from that fight and the rest of the UFC Fight Night 230 card from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

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UFC Fight Night 230 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Program total passes $21 million

UFC Fight Night 230 fighters took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay, a program that continued after the UFC’s deal with Venum.

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 230 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $167,500.

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.

UFC Fight Night 230 took place at the UFC Apex. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 230 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Edson Barboza[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]Sodiq Yusuff[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Viviane Araujo[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Jennifer Maia[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Jonathan Martinez[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Michel Pereira[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Andre Petroski[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Christian Rodriguez[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Cameron Saaiman[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Darren Elkins[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]TJ Brown[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Tainara Lisboa[/autotag]: $4,000
def. autotag]Ravena Oliveira[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Terrance McKinney[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Brendon Marotte[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Melissa Dixon[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Irina Alekseeva[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Chris Gutierrez[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Heili Alateng[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Emily Ducote[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Ashley Yoder[/autotag]: $11,000

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Venum’s multi-year sponsorship with the UFC, fighters are paid based on their total number of UFC bouts, as well as Zuffa-era WEC fights (January 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2301 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,500; 6-10 bouts get $6,000; 11-15 bouts earn $11,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $16,000; and 21 bouts and more get $21,000. Additionally, champions earn $42,000 while title challengers get $32,000.

In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-30 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.

Full 2023 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $6,651,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $21,170,00

UFC Fight Night 230: Jonathan Martinez vs. Adrian Yanez odds, picks and predictions

Analyzing Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 230 odds between Jonathan Martinez vs. Adrian Yanez, with MMA picks and predictions.

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In a 3-round bantamweight bout on the main card, Jonathan Martinez and Adrian Yanez meet Saturday at UFC Fight Night 230 — also known as UFC Vegas 81 — at UFC Apex. Let’s analyze FanDuel Sportsbook’s around the UFC Fight Night 230: Martinez vs. Yanez odds, and make our expert picks and predictions.

The prelims can be viewed on ESPN+ starting at 4 p.m. ET with the main card following on ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET.

Records: Martinez (18-4-0) | Yanez (16-3-0)

Martinez suffered a 2nd-round KO/TKO loss to Davey Grant back on March 13, 2021 at UFC Vegas 21. He has since rebounded with 5 straight victories, including 4 unanimous-decision wins and a 2nd-round KO/TKO against veteran Cub Swanson. His win last time out against Said Nurmagomedov in March was impressive, too.

Yanez is looking for redemption after getting dropped by Rob Font in a 1st-round knockout at UFC 287. That halted a 5-0 run to begin his UFC career, a rise which was rather meteoric. He can get some respect back with a win over Martinez in a fairly even fight.

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UFC Fight Night 230: Jonathan Martinez vs. Adrian Yanez odds

Provided by FanDuel Sportsbook; access USA TODAY Sports Scores and Sports Betting Odds hub for a full list. Lines last updated at 10:37 a.m. ET.

  • Fight result (2-way line): Martinez -116 (bet $116 to win $100) | Yanez -102 (bet $102 to win $100)
  • Over/Under: 2.5 rounds (Over +108 | Under -136)
  • Will the fight go the distance? (Yes +132 | No -172)

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UFC Fight Night 230: Jonathan Martinez vs. Adrian Yanez picks and predictions

Fight result (2-way line or moneyline)

YANEZ (-102) is worth a look as the slight underdog in this fight. He has tremendous punching power, registering 6.75 significant strikes landed per minute. While he is a bit of a whirling dervish, landing just 41.04% of those strikes, if he lands them, they’re going to count.

Martinez (-116) will want to try and get in close to use his knees and kicks to tenderize the legs of Yanez and break him down. But that’s a dangerous strategy getting close to those fists.

Yanez has been involved in 6 KO/TKO fights since Dana White’s Contender Series in Aug. 2020, winning 5 of those knockouts, while losing to Font. Martinez is more technical, doing enough to wow the judges. But he won’t get that opportunity here, as YANEZ BY KO/TKO (+230) is worth a look for the chance to double up.

Over/Under (O/U)

UNDER 2.5 ROUNDS (-136) is worth a roll of the dice, and I like it better than No (-172): Will the fight go the distance? The Under is a much better value, as I think Yanez does the work, and gets the KO/TKO sometime in either Round 1 or Round 2.

As a result, play a “KO/TKO Round Combo” prop, rolling with YANEZ TO WIN BY KO/TKO IN ROUNDS 1 OR 2 (+320) for the chance to triple up.

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Jonathan Martinez sees win over Adrian Yanez boosting career, leading to top 10

Jonathan Martinez is looking to capitalize on the opportunity of facing Adrian Yanez.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Jonathan Martinez[/autotag] is looking to capitalize on the opportunity of facing [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag].

Martinez (18-4 MMA, 9-3 UFC) meets Yanez (16-4 MMA, 5-1 UFC) in a bantamweight bout in Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 230 main card at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The event streams on ESPN+.

Martinez sees a win over a fan favorite like Yanez give him more recognition, and a higher spot in the rankings.

“A win with this, it’s going to help a lot,” Martinez told MMA Junkie and other reporters at a pre-fight news conference Wednesday. “I could go up to the top 10 and stuff.”

Yanez suffered his first octagon loss in April when he was knocked out by Rob Font. Prior to that, he won nine straight fights – including bonuses in his first five UFC wins.

Martinez has quietly climbed up the rankings, scoring a marquee finish of Cub Swanson in his most recent outing last October. He explained how his booking with Yanez came together.

“He’s a really good opponent,” Martinez said. “When his name came up, because we were all hanging out at International Fight Week, but I know he was looking for an opponent. I was looking for one too, and then: Now we’re fighting.”

Watch Martinez’s full pre-fight interview in the video above.

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Adrian Yanez ‘got away’ from himself in first UFC loss: ‘I forgot who I had in front of me’

UFC bantamweight contender Adrian Yanez had a rude reminder he’s not invincible last time out – a lesson he’ll take with him.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag] didn’t want to wait this long to return, but the silver lining is he’s had plenty of time to assess how he screwed up last time out.

Ahead of his UFC Fight Night 230 fight Saturday, Yanez (16-4 MMA, 5-1 UFC) has waited over six months to get his chance to prove he’s learned from the mistakes he made in his UFC 287 loss to Rob Font in April. Yanez lost by first-round TKO, his first UFC defeat.

“I got away from myself,” Yanez told MMA Junkie and other reporters at a pre-fight news conference Wednesday. “I wasn’t doing the right things. I was doing the right things in that first minute. But again, it’s only one minute of the fight, one minute of the fight. As soon as I got him rocked, I instantly tried to go for the kill.

“It was that weird thing because leading up to the fight, I was like, ‘I know who I have in front of me. This guy is a f*cking cockroach. He doesn’t die. He just won’t f*cking die.’ I said that with the utmost respect. That’s no disrespect to Rob. That’s a compliment, because not a lot of guys can do that. But yeah, I forgot who I had in front of me.”

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Yanez was frustrated with the defeat from seconds after the referee pulled Font off him. His anger was referenced on the broadcast and Yanez later revealed the person he was solely mad at was himself.

The disappointment still exists, but he’s channeled it in a way he feels proper ahead of his bout on Saturday vs. Factory X bantamweight Jonathan Martinez (18-4 MMA, 9-3 UFC).

“I had to go back and work on the basics,” Yanez said. “I had to work on the mental part as well, too. Because I’ve got to stay within my game plan. If it’s working, keep letting it work, you know? … Just being able to mentally stay within a game plan or mentally don’t just throw everything out the window, you know?”

“… To me, it’s going to be fun for the fans. It’s going to be really, really fun for the fans because we’re both strikers. We both want to knock each other out. The way I see the fight playing out obviously is me getting my hand raised. It’s going to be fun, though. It’s going to be really, really fun.”

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 230.

Video: ‘UFC Fight Night 230: Yusuff vs. Barboza’ media day interviews

Before UFC Fight Night 230 on Saturday, watch as the main card athletes fighters speak to reporters at media day.

LAS VEGAS – UFC Fight Night 230, which takes place at the UFC Apex with a card that streams entirely on ESPN+, goes down Saturday.

Before fight night arrives, though, notable athletes from the main card spoke to reporters Wednesday at media day.

If you happen to miss any of the individual sessions on the live stream, check below for the archived videos of each media day.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 230.

UFC Fight Night 230 pre-event facts: Edson Barboza’s dazzling KO credentials

The best facts and figures about UFC Fight Night 230, which features one of the greatest knockout artists of all time in the main event.

The UFC’s loaded October schedule continues on Saturday with UFC Fight Night 230, which takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and streams on ESPN+.

Ranked featherweights collide in the main event, and there’s major potential for a violent ending. [autotag]Sodiq Yusuff[/autotag] (13-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) will look to add a signature win to his resume when he takes on octagon legend [autotag]Edson Barboza[/autotag] (23-11 MMA, 17-11 UFC) in a showdown scheduled for five rounds.

For more on the numbers behind the headliner, as well as the rest of the card, check below for MMA Junkie’s pre-event facts about UFC Fight Night 230.

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Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (July 31-Aug. 6)

All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were first reported or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past week.

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.

But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.

Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie or officially announced by a promotion from July 31-Aug. 6.