Tag: Norma Dumont

Norma Dumont calls for top 5 opponent after Germaine de Randamie win: ‘I came looking for a title shot’

Norma Dumont wants a top 5 opponent after defeating Germaine de Randamie at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 240.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Norma Dumont[/autotag] has made her plans clear with her return to the bantamweight division – she wants to be UFC champion.

Dumont (11-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC), who competed in the UFC’s women’s featherweight division, defeated former champion Germaine de Randamie this past Saturday in her return to 135 pounds. Dumont beat de Randamie (10-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC) by unanimous decision on the preliminary card of UFC Fight Night 240.

Now, with a win over a former champion and a three-fight winning streak in the weight class above, Dumont is looking for a big test that will bring her closer to the UFC belt.

“I want a title shot, and I’m not shy about it,” Dumont said at the UFC Fight Night 240 post-fight interview. “I think the fact that I came down to bantamweight means a lot, and it means I came looking for a title shot. I want a top five (opponent).

“It doesn’t matter how dangerous she is. You know I’m going to be out there standing and imposing my game. Whoever the UFC puts in front of me, I’m going to dominate. I want to ensure that I will make it the most uncomfortable and bring the biggest level of discomfort that this fighter is going to face.”

This was a big win for Dumont, as it was the first time she faced and beat a former UFC champion. The Brazilian was very emotional after the win.

“It was a very emotional fight, one of the most emotional fights that I’ve ever had here and certainly in my career against Germaine, who’s such a tough opponent,” Dumont said. “I mean she’s such a tough fighter, and also it’s so special to go in there and to face someone that you admire in your career.

“She’s such a great fighter and I do hope she doesn’t retire again, and I hope she stays. She’s such a good fighter, and she’s got so much to offer still to this division.”

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UFC Fight Night 240 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: 2024 total passes $2 million

UFC Fight Night 240 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 240 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $162,500.

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

The full UFC Fight Night 240 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Brendan Allen[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Chris Curtis[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Damon Jackson[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Alexander Hernandez[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Chepe Mariscal[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Morgan Charriere[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Ignacio Bahamondes[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Christos Giagos[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Charlie Campbell[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Trevor Peek[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Alex Morono[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Court McGee[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Lukasz Brzeski[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Valter Walker[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Norma Dumont[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Germaine de Randamie[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Victor Hugo[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Pedro Falcao[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Jean Matsumoto[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Dan Argueta[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Cesar Almeida[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Dylan Budka[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Nora Cornolle[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Melissa Mullins[/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 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2401 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 2024 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $2,005,000
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $24,742,000

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 240.

Matchup Roundup: New UFC fights announced in the past week (Jan. 8-14)

There were 35 UFC 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.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie or officially announced by the promotions from Jan. 8-14.

Former UFC champion Germaine de Randamie set to return in April vs. Norma Dumont

After a 42-month absence, former UFC women’s featherweight champ Germaine de Randamie is set to return in April vs. Norma Dumont.

[autotag]Germaine de Randamie[/autotag], the UFC’s inaugural women’s featherweight champion, is set to make her return to action after 42 months away.

On April 6, De Randamie will take on [autotag]Norma Dumont[/autotag] at a UFC Fight Night event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. MMA Junkie confirmed the matchup with a person with knowledge of the booking following a social media post by Dumont. The news first was reported by Laerte Viana on Instagram.

While both women have competed in the bantamweight and featherweight divisions during their UFC careers, De Randamie (10-4 MMA, 7-2 UFC) and Dumont (10-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) will meet at 135 pounds.

After she gave birth to her son in March 2023, De Randamie targeted a return in the fourth quarter of the year. While that timeline didn’t come to fruition, she now is set to enter the octagon the first time since UFC on ESPN 16 in October 2020.

The Dutch striker submitted Julianna Peña in the third round of their bantamweight bout. It was a Performance of the Night-winning finish, which marked a return to the win column after a bantamweight title challenge loss to then-champion Amanda Nunes. De Randamie was booked to fight Irene Aldana more than a year later, but had to withdraw due to injury.

Dumont, currently No. 7 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie women’s featherweight rankings, has been active. She made two appearances in 2023, and currently is on a three-fight winning streak with wins over Danyelle Wolf, Karol Rosa and Chelsea Chandler. Dumont, 33, will face a former UFC champion for the first time in her tenure with the promotion.

With the addition, the current lineup on April 6 includes:

  • Marvin Vettori vs. Brendan Allen
  • Norma Dumont vs. Germaine de Randamie
  • Lukasz Brzeski vs. Valter Walker

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UFC in 2023: A ridiculously robust look at the stats, streaks, skids and record-setters

Check out a full recap of 2023’s most significant footnotes and milestones from the events, the fights and individual performances.

Now that the year has come to a close, and with a major assist from UFC research analyst and live statistics producers Michael Carroll, here are some of 2023’s most significant milestones from the events, the fights and individual performances.

First UFC event of 2024 hit with multiple changes

The UFC’s 2024 campaign will soon kick off – and the first card of the year has experienced a makeover.

The first UFC event of 2024 has been hit with multiple lineup changes.

UFC Fight Night 234 takes place Jan. 13 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and streams on ESPN+. The lineup currently sits at 13 fights.

Over the past three days, however, that number has fluctuated with three withdrawals and two additions, as follows:

Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (Oct. 2-8)

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 Oct. 2-8.

Norma Dumont on that Chandler altercation, her mid-fight sprint, UFC women’s featherweight future

Whatever bad blood was going on between Norma Dumont and Chelsea Chandler, Dumont may have put an end to it Saturday.

LAS VEGAS – Whatever bad blood was going on between [autotag]Norma Dumont[/autotag] and Chelsea Chandler, Dumont may have put an end to it Saturday.

Dumont (10-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) turned in a dominant performance to sweep Chandler (5-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) on the scorecards for a unanimous decision on the main card at UFC on ESPN 49 in Las Vegas. The bout was just the 29th women’s featherweight fight in UFC history.

Amanda Nunes’ recent retirement while she held both the women’s featherweight and bantamweight belts has thrown some chaos into the title pictures in both divisions. Dumont appeared to have taken another big step forward as a contender and said she wants to fight for the vacant belt.

But the big talk right after her win was the Friday backstage altercation between Dumont and Chandler after their ceremonial weigh-in faceoff.

“She reached out to me on Instagram before when she started in the UFC,” Dumont said at her post-fight news conference at the UFC Apex. “We talked. We chatted a bit and we even tried to get a fight together to fight each other, but the UFC didn’t want it at that time – saying that she didn’t have the level to actually fight me at that time. And then she even asked me for some tips. Then all of a sudden, this fight was scheduled and she started saying some things such as, ‘I don’t think (her past) opponents did what they needed to do. I don’t think people put pressure on her. I don’t think people did enough’ – that I wasn’t everything that people thought I was.

“We’re doing weigh-ins. She would look looking down when I talked to her, when I looked over to her. I just went up there and said, ‘Listen, if you’re going to talk, let’s do this. You can’t talk and not back it up.'”

Dumont, from Brazil, said the spat didn’t make a difference to her come fight night, though. And true to that, she appeared to fight without a lot of the emotion that came with the previous day’s run-in, in which both fighters were shown on video being held back from each other.

“Frankly, it doesn’t make a difference,” she said. “I always told people it doesn’t matter to me. I’ve always said all those people from outside Brazil, they wouldn’t even step foot into the climate that we actually have down there, all the stuff that we do. It’s always the war, always the tension, always the brawl. That’s what it’s like, and it doesn’t matter. When I get in there, it doesn’t matter if it’s a friend or a foe. I’m there to hurt. I’m there to strike. I’m there to do everything I can.”

Now Dumont will hope the UFC has reason to keep women’s featherweight around without Nunes ruling it the division. There have been rumors for years that the promotion would ditch the weight class eventually because it’s been a challenge to keep it populated with enough roster members to have frequent contenders.

Without Nunes, the rumors started to ramp up. But Dumont said if the UFC takes away 145, she’ll just bounce down 10 pounds.

“I’m here in the 145 division. I’m here to be the cage at 145, or at 135,” she said. “If Ronda (Rousey) comes back, I’ll go to any division she’s in. I think it would be, simply, the fight of my life since we don’t have Amanda active at the moment.”

Check out Dumont’s complete post-fight interview in the video above.

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UFC on ESPN 49 post-event facts: Mayra Bueno Silva ties Ronda Rousey’s longstanding record

Check out all the post-fight facts from UFC on ESPN 49, where Mayra Bueno Silva put herself in the same category as Ronda Rousey.

UFC on ESPN 49, which took place Saturday at the UFC Ape in Las Vegas, had a slow start to the event, but ultimately ended with a bang.

[autotag]Mayra Bueno Silva[/autotag] (11-2-1 MMA, 6-2-1 UFC) continued her rise up the women’s bantamweight contender list when she scored a second-round submission of former champion [autotag]Holly Holm[/autotag] (15-7 MMA, 8-7 UFC) to become a true title contender.

For 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 on ESPN 49.