Tag: Guido Cannetti

Guido Cannetti hopes UFC signs ex-Combate Global champ and brother Bruno: ‘He deserves the opportunity’

Guido Cannetti wants the UFC to give ex-Combate Global champ and younger brother Bruno an opportunity to fight in the octagon.

[autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag] wants to see his little brother get the call to the big leagues.

The UFC bantamweight is hoping [autotag]Bruno Cannetti[/autotag], a former Combate Global champion, gets signed to the UFC because he sees him prime to compete against the world’s best. Cannetti (10-6 MMA, 4-5 UFC) says it would be a dream to witness his younger brother in the octagon, and he already has a date for him in mind if the UFC grants him that wish.

“I want to see my brother to be in the UFC and compete at UFC Rio with me in his corner there supporting him. That would be my dream,” Cannetti told MMA Junkie in Spanish.

Bruno trains with his brother at Our Town MMA gym in Buenos Aires. It wouldn’t be a long trip for Bruno if he were to compete at UFC 283 on Jan. 21 in Rio de Janeiro.

Bruno most recently competed in February, when he defeated Daniel Vega by split decision at Naciones MMA 4. The win put the 33-year-old Argentine on a two-fight wining streak and 6-1 in his past seven bouts.

Bruno’s biggest win came in 2019 when he defeated Andres Quintana for the Combate Global vacant featherweight title. It was the last time he fought for Combate Global. The pandemic hit and his contract reached its expiration date.

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Cannetti is not afraid to say his younger brother is a better fighter than him. He’s confident Bruno is UFC ready and would do much better than him if given the chance.

“It would close out the dream of both of us being in the UFC,” Cannetti said. “He would make more money, and he would be more motivated because lately he had three fights fall off because no one wants to fight with him. I think he’s easily at the UFC level, and he could fight with the best.

“He’s improved a lot lately, and he’s much stronger and faster. No one wants to fight him. In Combate Global, he defeated the guy that was unbeaten and no one beat him. He won the title not feeling his best, not doing weight cuts properly. He’s a fighter that has an opportunity to do a beautiful career.

“He’s got more power than me, more strength. He’s very fast, very strong and hits very hard. I think he deserves the opportunity. I would love to be his trainer in UFC and be there for his corners as a coach. I would love to live that experience. I want to be a fighter and coach at the same time.”

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42-year-old Guido Cannetti not ruling out UFC title run, wants test vs. ranked opponent

At 42 years of age, Guido Cannetti wants to make a run at the UFC belt.

[autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag] feels he’s hitting finally his stride at 42 years of age.

The UFC bantamweight has never felt better and his recent form in the octagon is proof of that. Cannetti (10-6 MMA, 4-5 UFC) fought this past Saturday at UFC Fight Night 211 where he submitted 28-year-old Randy Costa in a little over a minute. On top of getting his hand raised, Cannetti also left the octagon with a $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus.

Cannetti has been very open in the past with the changes he’s made nutritionally to get to this point. The Argentine, who’s now on a two-fight winning streak with back-to-back first-round finishes, feels he’s in his best career moment.

“I feel better than I felt in my 20s,” Cannetti told MMA Junkie in Spanish. “I’m making money now because before I was losing and with the training costs and all that I wasn’t making money. Now I won this fight, I won the bonus, and I won the fight prior, so now I’m financially a lot more comfortable.

“I want to keep fighting, so I can make money and not only help myself, but the people around me. I want to be more financially stable, and I feel I can achieve more.

“I’d love to fight for the belt. I always had in mind to fight for the title and be UFC champion. At one point I saw it getting away from me a lot. I had fights where it seemed I was on the edge of being cut. Now I’m on a two-fight winning streak, three in my mind, I want to be champion. I see the people fighting for the titles and I think I can fight with them. Obviously, they can beat me, but I want to do it because I feel good. I want to test this Guido at the highest level.”

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Guido is adamant that he won his bout against Mana Martinez in August 2021. He officially lost the bout by split decision, but feels like the winner.

Either way, Cannetti would like a ranked opponent next to test his current form and see how far he can get in the division.

“For me, I’m on a three-fight winning streak,” Cannetti said. “I thought I won the fight against Mana Martinez, it was a fight where I got terribly robbed. I think I’m on a three-fight winning streak and I want to fight someone who’s good and gets me closer to the top 10. I want to test myself there. Everyone is good at that level, so I want someone ranked, so I can climb quickly and get close to fight for the belt.”

Being in his early 40s and in arguably the toughest division of the UFC, many may doubt Cannetti and not like his chances of one day fighting for the belt. To those skeptics, Cannetti would like to tell them the infamous words Diego Maradona told reporter Toti Pasman when the Argentine national soccer team qualified for the 2010 World Cup after many expected them to be eliminated by Peru.

“I’d tell them what Maradona told Pasman: ‘You have it inside. Because the one playing for it, and looking to win it, it’s me.'”

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UFC Fight Night 211 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: 2022 total hits $6.5 million

UFC has paid out $6.5 million in Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay to its athletes this year after UFC Fight Night 211.

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 211 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $164,500.

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

The full UFC Fight Night 211 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Mackenzie Dern[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Yan Xiaonan[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Francisco Trinaldo[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Raoni Barcelos[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Trevin Jones[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Sodiq Yusuff[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Don Shainis[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Mike Davis[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Viacheslav Borshchev[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Daniel Santos[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]John Castaneda[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Ilir Latifi[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Aleksei Oleinik[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Joaquim Silva[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Jesse Ronson[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Brendan Allen[/autotag]: $6,000
[autotag]Krzysztof Jotko[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Chelsea Chandler[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Julija Stoliarenko[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Randy Costa[/autotag]: $6,000

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 2117 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2111 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 2022 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $6,491,000
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $12,658,500

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 211.

UFC Fight Night 211 video: Guido Cannetti quickly taps Randy Costa with hookless rear-naked choke

The 42-year-old bantamweight Guido Cannetti needed just over a minute to finish Randy Costa at UFC Fight Night 211.

The opening bout of UFC Fight Night 211 ended in just over a minute.

[autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag] caught fellow bantamweight Randy Costa with a rear-naked choke, but his squeeze was so tight that he didn’t worry about hooking in his legs, as typically seen with the submission technique.

At 1:04, Costa (6-4 MMA, 2-4 UFC) tapped from the tight squeeze, and the celebration for the 42-year-old Cannetti (10-6 MMA, 4-5 UFC) was on.

Watch video of the submission below (via Twitter):

Cannetti makes it two-straight first-round finishes with tonight’s result. He previously defeated Kris Moutinho by TKO from a series of punches just over two minutes into their UFC Fight Night 203 bout in March.

On the other side, Costa, 28, drops his third result in a row, entering on a two-fight skid. All three losses during this stretch have come by stoppage.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 211.

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UFC’s Guido Cannetti finally at peace after struggling to cope with fighting career: ‘I’m happy with how far I’ve come’

Guido Cannetti enters UFC Fight Night 211 with a new mentality.

[autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag]’s outlook on his purpose and fighting career has vastly changed for the better.

The 42-year-old UFC bantamweight struggled for many years to feel fulfilled and content with his MMA career after suffering disappointing setbacks. However, making another return to the octagon this Saturday against Randy Costa (6-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 211, Cannetti (9-6 MMA, 3-5 UFC) feels happy and at peace with not only what he’s done in the sport, but also for what may be ahead.

It’s a feeling that evaded Cannetti for many years, but mentally speaking, he’s finally arrived at the place he’s long been searching for.

“Man, we’ve done interviews with me crying and others like today where I’m feeling my best, I’m happy, smiling, and giving it my all,” Cannetti told MMA Junkie in Spanish.

“With that alone, I’m at peace. Feeling great, that for me, it’s glory – being able to get to where I wanted to get and how I wanted to feel. Because I just wasn’t able to find a way to show up in a way where I could feel good and give it 100 percent. Now that I’m doing it, I feel joyful. I know Randy Costa is going to fight the best Guido ever.”

Everything changed for Cannetti after his most recent bout in March. With a first-round TKO over a tough Kris Moutinho, the Argentine was able to snap a three-fight losing streak that spanned almost four years.

It was a huge relief for Cannetti, as he hadn’t tasted victory since 2018 and felt he was fighting for his UFC job. But beyond being a winner, the true liberation came from the way Cannetti felt in the cage.

Cannetti, who entered the UFC with a lot of promise after competing in the first season of The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America, felt he was underperforming and never thought he lived up to expectations – even in his UFC wins. It was a strange feeling that had him doubting if he was cut out anymore to fight at the UFC level.

A radical change in nutrition and training ahead of his last fight, had Cannetti finally feeling like himself, which is all he asked for.

“In this last one, I showed up like never before,” Cannetti explained. “I felt incredible. And for this one, I think I’m coming in a little better, so I think this fight will show me where I’m truly at.

“If I win, then there’s more to give. And if I lose, well, I’m happy with how far I’ve come, but I’ll probably keep training, keep getting better and fight again. This is a decisive fight to see if the Guido that made those changes can continue in this manner or if it was, I don’t know, a luck factor, which I don’t think it was – I truly feel great.”

Cannetti feels the best he’s ever felt in his career – even now being in his early 40’s. He’s hoping this could be the start of a run of victories to finish out his fighting career.

“I hope that things turn out well, I really deserve it,” Cannetti said. “Maybe I’m not champion, but I could win a few consecutive fights and end my career with a little more money in the bank, so I could be more at ease and finish feeling happy, which is what I looked for the most.”

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No matter the result on Saturday, Cannetti is just happy he was able to persevere all these years, and finally get the type of performance he wanted. He hopes his story is an example to those who are struggling to live their dreams.

“The worst part about this sport is the result,” Cannetti said. “Winning and losing is what makes you compare yourself with others, and that can truly hinder you from really finding yourself and finding growth, as you’re looking at others. When you truly can judge yourself not based on your success and be able to look at the person who started training vs. the person that’s living today, and see how you improved over the course of time, that’s what’s truly important.

“If you’re going through a tough time, and bad things are happening, those are all just learning lessons. Keep moving forward because one day the sun will rise. All those things that are a struggle, in time it will be glory. Even if it seems that moment will never come, it will.”

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 211.

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

UFC Fight Night 203 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Program total passes $7.5 million

The UFC paid out just shy of $200,000 to the athletes at UFC Fight Night 203 under its Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay program.

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 203 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $198,000.

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

The full UFC Fight Night 203 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Magomed Ankalaev[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Thiago Santos[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Song Yadong[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Marlon Moraes[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Sodiq Yusuff[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Alex Caceres[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Khalil Rountree[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Karl Roberson[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Drew Dober[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Terrance McKinney[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Alex Pereira[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Bruno Silva[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Matthew Semelsberger[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]A.J. Fletcher[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]JJ Aldrich[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Gillian Robertson[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Javid Basharat[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Trevin Jones[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Damon Jackson[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Kamuela Kirk[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Miranda Maverick[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Sabina Mazo[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Cody Brundage[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Dalcha Lungiambula[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Kris Moutinho[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Azamat Murzakanov[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Tafon Nchukwi[/autotag]: $4,500

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 2037 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2031 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 2022 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $1,528,000
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $7,695,500

UFC Fight Night 203 video: Guido Cannetti overwhelms Kris Moutinho in first-round TKO

Guido Cannetti returned to the win column for the first time since 2018 in a big way at UFC Fight Night 203.

[autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag] was relentless in his first win in a long time.

The UFC bantamweight picked up a quick TKO over Kris Moutinho on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 203 in Las Vegas. Cannetti (9-6 MMA, 3-5 UFC) officially put away Moutinho (9-6 MMA, 0-2 UFC) at the 2:07 mark of Round 1.

Both Cannetti and Moutinho traded heavy shots early. Although Moutinho landed a few solid strikes of his own, Cannetti’s did more damage and wobbled him a little over a minute into the fight. The 42-year-old stepped on the gas and overwhelmed Moutinho with strikes.

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Still standing but unable to defend himself, Moutinho was badly hurt, and the referee was forced to step in.

The win ended a three-fight losing streak for Cannetti, who earned his first victory since 2018.

You can watch Cannetti’s TKO finish below (via Twitter):

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UFC Fight Night 203 pre-event facts: Can Marlon Moraes buck his brutal skid?

The best facts and figures about UFC Fight Night 203, which features Thiago Santos vs. Magomed Ankalaev in the main event.

The UFC schedule rolls on Saturday with UFC Fight Night 203 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The entire card streams on ESPN+.

A clash of light heavyweight contenders gets the spotlight in the main event. Former title challenger [autotag]Thiago Santos[/autotag] (22-9 MMA, 14-8 UFC) get back on a winning streak when he takes on [autotag]Magomed Ankalaev[/autotag] (16-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC), who is riding the longest active run of octagon victories of any fighter in his weight class.

For more on the numbers behind the headliners, as well as the rest of the card, check below for 45 pre-event facts about UFC Fight Night 203.

UFC targets Kris Moutinho vs. Guido Cannetti for March 12 event

Kris Moutinho is set for his second octagon appearance.

[autotag]Kris Moutinho[/autotag] is set to make his second UFC appearance – a second time.

Moutinho (9-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC) is expected to meet [autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag] (8-6 MMA, 2-5 UFC) at UFC Fight Night on March 12, which does not have an announced venue or location.

MMA Junkie confirmed that verbal agreements are in place with two people close to the situation. They requested anonymity because the UFC has yet to make an official announcement. MMA Argento was first to report the news.

Although he lost his promotional debut, Moutinho’s popularity skyrocketed after showing incredible durability in a unanimous decision loss to Sean O’Malley this past July at UFC 264. The 29-year-old was scheduled to face Aaron Phillips in October but withdrew due to injury.

Argentina’s Cannetti will look to snap a three-fight losing skid, most recently a split decision to Mana Martinez in August. “The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America” alum’s last octagon victory came in May 2018 over Diego Rivas.

With the addition, the UFC Fight Night lineup for March 12 includes:

  • Magomed Ankalaev vs. Thiago Santos
  • Guido Cannetti vs. Kris Moutinho

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