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Ex-UFC fighter Kevin Lee set for MMA return at Sept. 28 Lights Out Championship event
Kevin Lee now has two fight dates marked on the calendar to close out 2024.
Promotional officials confirmed to MMA Fighting that Lee will make his return to MMA at Lights Out Championship 17 against Thiago Oliveira, which takes place Sept. 28 in Wayne, Mich. MMA Junkie first reported the booking.
The card streams on Spectation Sports.
Lee, who is also slated to compete on the Nov. 15 Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 8 event against an opponent yet to be announced, makes his first appearance in over a year after getting stopped in a second chance bout with the UFC against Rinat Fakhretdinov in July 2023. “Motown Phenom” will compete in his original home state of Michigan, and does so with a 2-3 record in his past five contests, and looks for his first MMA victory since a decision win over Diego Sanchez for Eagle FC in March 2022.
Oliveira, a 30-fight veteran, recently snapped an eight-fight pro MMA losing streak with a submission win in February, followed up by fighting to a draw in Canada’s BTC promotion in June.
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Champions League highlights: Bayer Leverkusen thrash Feyenoord in Rotterdam
Watch highlights as Florian Wirtz inspires Bayer Leverkusen to a comfortable 4-0 win in their opening Champions League match against Feyenoord at the Stadion Feijenoord.
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UFC could sign these 5 fighters with XXXX wins
Record: 11-2
Age: 30
Height: 5’8″
Weight: Lightweight
Birthplace: Canada
Next fight: Sept. 6 def. David Briones (4-6) via unanimous decision at BFL 81 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (UFC Fight Pass)
The skinny: Jamie Siraj needed an outlet away from a “rough” home life. That’s when he joined Revolution Martial Arts. Former UFC fighter Kajan Johnson, who served as one of the head coaches. Siraj had his first fight at age 15 and was immediately hooked. After a 7-2 amateur career, Siraj turned pro in 2014. Since a 3-2 start, Siraj hasn’t lost. In 2019, Siraj was on the doorstep for a UFC call, aligned for Dana White’s Contender Series. However, Siraj fell ill and doctors didn’t know why. After a long, grueling period of his body failing, Siraj was diagnosed with hyper IGE Syndrome, an immunodeficiency disorder. It rendered him largely unable to function, septic, and near death. Through treatment, Siraj is now back to a largely normal life. In June 2023, for the first time in four years, Siraj fought and won for Battlefield Fight League. He was offered a spot on “The Ultimate Fighter 32,” but was one of the final cuts from the roster – a move that surprised him, considering he flew all the way out to Las Vegas. In May, he finished then-8-1 Tariel Abbasov by submission. In September, he defeated David Briones by unanimous decision.
In his own words: “I think this fight was 10 days notice or something like that. I was actually joking, but it was kind of how I felt. I was like, ‘Well, I’m not doing anything else that weekend, so I might as well. I have been training.’ After my last fight, I was just a little mentally burnt out from not getting a call to the Contender Series. I was just like, ‘Man, am I ever going to get in the UFC? Holy f*ck this just feels like I have to physically kill someone in a ring for them want to sign me.’ … Then, I took the fight on short notice, just for the f*ck of it. Thank God it all worked out and paid off, but it wasn’t my favorite performance of my career.
“… There’s no 145 fights on the card. But I’ve been working slowly on getting back down to 135, so if that way there is a short-notice pullout, I can jump in at 135. Unfortunately, there’s no fights at my division. But yeah, if that’s my opportunity to jump in at 135, then that’s kind of where my mindset is at being able to jump in and make weight at 135. I know there are quite a few 135ers on the card. A lot of them are kind of entry level guys, guys you’d be getting on your first fight or two in the UFC. I kind of have my eye on everyone that’s at 135 from top to bottom. There’s a lot of good 135 matchups. Physically, when I was at 135, I just felt so much stronger and so much faster and bigger than everyone. So if I can make that division again and make weight, yeah I feel like I’d be such a problem at 135, too.”
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UFC fighter Conor McGregor announces retirement
He busted the nose of Cerrone in the fight’s first skirmish before finishing him in a first-round TKO.
McGregor had not won since November 2016 when he stopped Eddie Alvarez, the lightweight, to become the first fighter in UFC history to hold two championship belts at the same time.
McGregor then fought his only boxing match with Floyd Mayweather in 2017 before losing a one-sided UFC bout to lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018.
UFC President Dana White has already said McGregor is next in line for a title shot at the winner of lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov’s bout with Justin Gaethje this summer.
The UFC’s schedule is in upheaval due to the coronavirus pandemic, but McGregor was expected to get his title shot later this year, and he recently had been talking to White about taking another fight even earlier. Earlier this week, McGregor posted photos and videos of himself training for fights.
White was still willing to take McGregor’s retirement announcement at face value – at least publicly – when he learned about it at his news conference following UFC 250 in Las Vegas.
“If Conor McGregor feels he wants to retire, you know my feelings about retirement,” White said.
“You should absolutely do it. And I love Conor.
“There’s a handful of people that have made this really fun for me, and he’s one of them.”
Retirements are a time-honoured device for gathering attention and increased bargaining power in combat sports. From Muhammad Ali and Floyd Mayweather to Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, countless champions of boxing and MMA have gone back on their solemn announcements whenever need or ego brought them back to the sport.
The 31-year-old retires with a 22-4 record.
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