Tag: Allan Nascimento

With Allan Nascimento out, Tim Elliott steps in to face Su Mudaerji at UFC Fight Night 233

Tim Elliott continues to prove he’s willing to fight anyone.

[autotag]Tim Elliott[/autotag] continues to prove he’s willing to fight anyone.

[autotag]Allan Nascimento[/autotag] has been forced out of UFC Fight Night 233, and Elliott (19-13-1 MMA, 8-11 UFC) will step in on less than a week’s notice to face [autotag]Su Mudaerji[/autotag](16-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC) in a bantamweight bout on Saturday’s main card at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card streams on ESPN+.

MMA Junkie verified the matchup with a person close to the situation after an initial report from Patrick McCorry. Nascimento’s withdrawal was first reported by Ag Fight.

Elliott will look to rebound from his submission loss to undefeated Muhammad Mokaev at UFC 294 in October. Prior to that, the 36-year-old former title challenger scored back-to-back wins over Tagir Ulanbekov and Victor Altamirano.

Mudaerji hasn’t competed since his Fight of the Year contender against Matt Schnell in July 2022. The loss snapped his three-fight winning streak, which included a 44-second knockout of Malcolm Gordon.

With the change, the current UFC Fight Night 233 lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET)

  • Song Yadong vs. Chris Gutierrez
  • Anthony Smith vs. Khalil Rountree
  • Su Mudaerji vs. Allan Nascimento
  • Nasrat Haqparast vs. Jamie Mullarkey
  • Andre Muniz vs. Junyong Park

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)

  • Kevin Jousset vs. Song Kenan
  • Carlos Hernandez vs. Tatsuro Taira
  • HyunSung Park vs. Shannon Ross
  • Stephanie Egger vs. Luana Santos
  • Talita Alencar vs. Rayanne Amanda
  • Daniel Marcos vs. Carlos Vera
  • Melquizael Costa vs. Steve Garcia

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 233.

Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (Sept. 25-Oct. 1)

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 the promotions from Sept. 25-Oct. 1.

Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (April 24-30)

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 from April 24-30.

Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (March 13-19)

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 from March 13-19.

MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month for January: Gabriel Bonfim joins brother as award winner

Gabriel Bonfim wins MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month after his older brother claimed KO of the Month honors.

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

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

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New black belt Allan Nascimento picked a perfect time for his first UFC submission

Allan Nascimento got his jiu-jitsu black belt in December and wasted no time showing it against Carlos Hernandez at UFC Fight Night 217.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Allan Nascimento[/autotag] beat Carlos Hernandez with a first-round submission Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC Fight Night 217 in Las Vegas.

Take a look inside the fight with Nascimento, who won for the second straight time for his first winning streak since 2016.

UFC Fight Night 217 post-event facts: Sean Strickland joins exclusive three-division club

Sean Strickland accomplished something only two other men in history have done with his win at UFC Fight Night 217.

The UFC kicked off another busy year of action Saturday with UFC Fight Night 217. It was the first of an expected 42 events from the promotion in 2023, and it went down at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

Although six fights on the card ended in a stoppage, the main event went the distance as [autotag]Sean Strickland[/autotag] (26-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) managed to outwork and outpoint [autotag]Nassourdine Imavov[/autotag] (12-4 MMA, 4-2 UFC) to win a unanimous decision on short notice in the light heavyweight headliner.

Fore more on the numbers behind the headliner, as well as the rest of the card, check below for MMA Junkie’s post-event facts from UFC Fight Night 217.

UFC Fight Night 217 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Program total passes $14.5 million

UFC Fight Night 217 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 217 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $137,000.

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 217 took place at the UFC Apex. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 217 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

* * * *

[autotag]Sean Strickland[/autotag]: $16,000
[autotag]Nassourdine Imavov[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Dan Ige[/autotag]: $11,000
[autotag]Damon Jackson[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Punahele Soriano[/autotag]: $6,000
[autotag]Roman Kopylov[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Ketlen Vieira[/autotag]: $6,000
[autotag]Raquel Pennington[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Umar Nurmagomedov[/autotag]: $4,500
[autotag]Raoni Barcelos[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Claudio Ribeiro[/autotag]: $4,000
[autotag]Abdul Razak Alhassan[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Javid Basharat[/autotag]: $4,000
[autotag]Mateus Mendonca[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Mateusz Rebecki[/autotag]: $4,000
[autotag]Nick Fiore[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Allan Nascimento[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Carlos Hernandez[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Dan Argueta[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Nick Aguirre[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Charles Johnson[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Jimmy Flick[/autotag]: $4,000

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 2177 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2171 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:

  • “UFC Fight Night 217: Strickland vs. Imavov” – $137,000

Year-to-date total: $137,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $14,656,000

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 217.

UFC Fight Night 217 video: Hear from each winner backstage

Check out what the UFC Fight Night 217 winners and guest fighters had to say backstage at Saturday’s event in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS – UFC Fight Night 217 took place Saturday with 11 bouts on the lineup. We’ve got you covered with backstage winner interviews from the UFC Apex.

You can hear from all the UFC Fight Night 217 winners by checking out their post-fight news conferences below.

UFC Fight Night 217 video: Allan Nascimento gets standing choke in front of coach Charles Oliveira

With the UFC’s all-time submission wins leader Charles Oliveira in his corner, Allan Nascimento got a slick finish at UFC Fight Night 217.

[autotag]Allan Nascimento[/autotag] showed off his grappling skills at UFC Fight Night 217 – all with the UFC’s all-time submission wins leader Charles Oliveira in his corner.

The Chute Box product Nascimento (20-6 MMA, 2-1 UFC) proved to be too much for opponent Carlos Hernandez (8-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) to handle on the mat in Saturday’s flyweight bout at the UFC Apex, locking in a standing rear-naked choke at the 3:16 mark of Round 1.

It was clear Nascimento was chasing the submission from the get-go. He got the fight to the ground and took the back, then as Hernandez tried to escape to his feet, the choke locked in deep and he was forced to tap.

Check out the replay of the finish below (via Twitter):

After losing his UFC debut in October 2021, Nascimento has rebounded strong. He won his sophomore octagon appearance by decision in May, then picked up his first stoppage win with the promotion with a confident team in his corner.

“How could I not get the submission with this man in my corner?” Nascimento said of Oliveira during his post-fight interview with Paul Felder.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 217.

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