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1 day ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Eddie Law
PFL light heavyweight Phil Davis isn’t sure why Sullivan Cauley is talking about primes and experience as they get set to fight at the PFL World Tournament Semis in Chicago on Friday. “You are what to you tell yourself. If he’s in his prime…he’s framing it as a younger person,” Davis told reporters including Cageside Press on Wednesday. “Experience’s not everything. It’s something though. He speaks like a guy that hasn’t gone into the second round.”Davis (25-7) isn’t wrong.
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1 week ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Eddie Law
PFL welterweight Kendly St. Louis scored a massive victory in his first fight back in the promotion submitting Mukhamed Berkhamov in the third round at the PFL World Tournament Semis in Nashville on Thursday. St. Louis (11-4) became the first man to ever submit Berkhamov in a professional MMA bout. That capped off what ended up being a very successful week for the 34-year-old. “Feels good. Feels great. We trained pretty hard for this camp.
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1 week ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Jay Anderson
Nashville, TN — It’s back to another PFL tournament final for Jesus Pinedo, who will meet fellow former featherweight champ Movlid Khaybulaev later this summer, looking to win the PFL World Tournament, after having won the league’s 2023 season as well. To make it to the finale this year, Pinedo (25-6-1) finished rival Gabriel Braga, in the rubber match of the pair’s career series. Pinedo put the fight away via TKO barely a minute into the opening round.
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2 weeks ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Jay Anderson
Nashville, TN — Ahead of their third meeting at PFL Nashville, featherweight Jesus Pinedo downplayed his rivalry with Gabriel Braga. Sort of. “Nothing changes for me depending on the rival. I know it’s always a tough fight, but I’ve been saying this all week: This isn’t 1-1, it’s 2-0. The first fight, I won it, I’m very confident about that,” stated Pinedo (24-6-1), speaking with Cageside Press and other media outlets during the event’s media day on Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Eddie Law
UFC bantamweight Serhiy Sidey fought a very technical fight against heavy punched Cameron Smotherman and came out with the win at UFC Des Moines on Saturday night. Sidey (12-2) has had an up-and-down start to his UFC career. He lost his debut against Ramon Taveras via split-decision, and bounced back with a split-decision win over Garrett Armfield. He had mixed feelings about both fights, but was glad he clearly won in Iowa. “I felt like I won my first.
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1 month ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Eddie Law
UFC middleweight Azamat Bekoev made quick work of Ryan Loder at UFC Des Moines getting the TKO finish in the first round, and raising his UFC record to 2-0. Bekoev (20-3) took on a decorated wrestler in Loder in the state of Iowa where fans love them some wrestling. On top of that he took on an American in the US so the boos from fans weren’t at all a surprise. “I expected (that reaction from the crowd) because this is wrestling state.
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1 month ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Eddie Law
UFC flyweight Julianna Miller went into her fight against Ivana Petrovic at UFC Des Moines with a heavy heart, and emerged a new sense of belonging following her victory on Saturday night. Miller (4-3) recently lost her grandmother who raised her. Following the win Miller was overcome with emotion during her post-fight interview with Michael Bisping. She revealed what it meant for her to win with her grandmother’s memory fresh on her mind. “My grandma raised me.
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1 month ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Jay Anderson
Des Moines — Jeremy Stephens wasn’t the only fighter at UFC Des Moines making his return to the promotion. So to was Stephens’ opponent, Mason Jones, coming back to start his second stint with a thrilling three-round decision win. Jones vs. Stephens easily could have snagged Fight of the Night in Des Moines, had the UFC awarded one (instead, they handed out four Performance of the Night bonuses). Jones’ absence from the Performance bonus-list wasn’t for lack of effort either.
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1 month ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Jay Anderson
Des Moines — Bantamweight Cory Sandhagen got back in the win column, and back in the title picture, with a win over Deiveson Figueiredo in the UFC Des Moines main event on Saturday at the Wells Fargo Arena. The promotion’s debut in Des Moines came to a rather abrupt end when Figueiredo appeared to go down due to injury in the second round, clutching his knee. But as Sandhagen (18-5) later explained, the ailment was anything but a fluke.
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1 month ago | 
cagesidepress.com | Brett Cagle |Jay Anderson
Des Moines, Iowa — Welterweight Daniel Rodriguez knows just what his fight with Santiago Ponzinibbio at UFC Des Moines brings to the table this Saturday. “I was lined up to fight him a while back, and everybody’s been saying this fight’s a banger. It has the potential to be Fight of the Night [written] all over it, and I just plan to go out there and do what I do best,” Rodriguez (18-5) said during this week’s media day, speaking to reporters including Cageside Press.
