Petr Yan: Last News

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Fresh off Logan Paul vs. Nate Diaz, the UFC is back with another hotly anticipated fight this weekend between Aljamain Sterling and Sean O’Malley.

UFC champion Aljamain Sterling was left baffled after realising Tyson and Tommy Fury are brothers.The bantamweight received a shock when he learned that Jake Paul’s next opponent is in fact the WBC heavyweight champion’s sibling. It came while ‘The Funk Master’ spoke about Paul’s upcoming clash with Tommy on his YouTube channel, with the highly-anticipated bout now scheduled to take place on August 6 at Madison Square Garden.His co-host mentioned the elder Fury’s gigantic net worth and the revelation provoked a confused response from Sterling, who defended his UFC bantamweight in April with a decision victory over Petr Yan.READ MORE: Jake Paul brands Tommy Fury 'scared little b****' after rival is denied entry to USSterling asked: “Who’s his brother? [Tyson Fury] is Tommy Fury’s brother? There’s no f****** way.

UFC MMA action is on the horizon, as Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski looks to hold onto his Featherweight title by fighting off The Korean Zombie at UFC 273.The fight will see 35-year-old Jung Chan-sung take what is likely to be his final shot at the title, while Volkanovski will be looking to hold onto the championship title he has held since 2019.Some have argued that Jung is lucky to have this fight, with the Korean taking the place of Max Holloway - the original challenger - after he was forced out of the bout due to injury.The odds are firmly stacked in Volkanovski’s favour, with UFC giving him +720 to Jung’s +500.The evening’s entertainment promises big action throughout with up and comer Khamzat Chimaev in action also, while in what could easily have been the main event in itself the Bantamweight title will finally be decided as Aljamain Sterling takes on Petr Yan.Volkanovski vs Korean Zombie isn’t the only title fight set to take place at UFC 273, in what promises to be a huge night.Also promised is Sterling Vs Yan 2, as Aljermain Sterling and Petr Yan battle it out for the Bantamweight title.What is fascinating about this fight is that both Yan and Sterling currently hold the incumbency as the Bantamweight champion.The reigning champion is Sterling, who will be looking to make his first title defence against interim champion Yan.The beef between the two is no secret, with the first volume of the two’s war ending in Yan being disqualified for an illegal knee to Sterling’s head, costing Yan the title despite looking likely to win the fight based on how it was going.Speaking about the fight, Aljermain said: “There is a part of me that would really like to hurt this guy”.Yan beat Cory Sandhagen in his

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UFC, with huge fights, upsets and glory across both sexes and all weight categories.And 2022 promises to be no different, with a host of huge names already set to take to the Octagon.With new events constantly being worked on by the promotion, we expect more huge fights to be added to the calendar frequently.Championship fights like Alexander Volkanovski vs Chan Sung Jung (featherweight) and Aljamain Sterling vs Petr Yan (Bantamweight) promise fireworks.Meanwhile, huge name fights like Charles Oliveira vs Justin Gaethje are expected to draw big crowds.Read on for the full list of UFC events confirmed by the promotion so far for 2022. Main card Alexander Volkov vs Tom Aspinall - heavyweightArnold Allen vs Dan Hooker - featherweightPaddy Pimblett vs Kazula Vargas - lightweightShamil Abdurakhimov vs Sergei Pavlovich - heavyweightNikita Krylov vs Paul Craig - light heavyweightGunnar Nelson vs Takashi Sato - welterweight Prelims Jai Herbert vs Ilia Topuria - lightweightMuhammad Mokaev vs Cody Durden - flyweightMike Grundy vs Makwan Amirkhani - featherweightMolly McCann vs Luana Carolina - women’s flyweightJack Shore vs Timur Valiev - bantamweightCory McKenna vs Elise Reed - women’s strawweightNathaniel Wood vs Liudvik Sholinian - bantamweight Main card Curtis Blaydes vs Chris Daukaus - heavyweightJoanne Wood vs Alexa Grasso - women’s flyweightAskar Askarov vs Kai Kara-France - flyweightMatt Brown vs Bryan Barberena - welterweightIlir Latifi vs Aleksei Oleinik - heavyweight Prelims Nate Landwehr vs David Onama - featherweightJennifer Maia vs Manon Fiorot - women’s flyweightNeil Magny vs Max Griffin - welterweightMarc Diakiese vs Viacheslav Borschchev - lightweightTucker Lutz vs SeungWoo Choi - featherweightSara McCann vs Karol

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Petr Yan's illegal knee in their bout at UFC 259. Yan and Sterling were four rounds into their Bantamweight clash when the Russian fighter made the illegal move.'No Mercy' was informed by the referee that Sterling was on the floor, meaning he could not be hit.But that didn't stop Yan, who threw a knee which left his American challenger flat on the canvas and all-but knocked out.After several minutes of treatment, Sterling was deemed unable to continue.

UFC 259 by becoming the promotion’s first ever champion to lose his title by disqualification.Yan was defending his bantamweight strap against Aljamain Sterling in Las Vegas on Saturday night and was ahead on two of the three judges’ scorecards when the fight moved into the fourth round.The Russian seemed to be in full control, but he soon found himself disqualified for landing a bizarre illegal knee to the head of Sterling in the fourth.With Sterling crouched to the ground, Yan unleashed a brutal knee that snapped his opponent’s head back and sent him tumbling to the floor.Referee Mark Smith had warned him that the Jamaican-American was a downed fighter with at least one knee on the canvas, meaning his strike was considered a deliberate

Israel Adesanya  bids to become the fifth fighter in UFC history to hold two titles at the same time when he takes on light-heavyweight world champion Jan Blachowicz tonight.

Khabib Nurmagomedov has predicted who will leave UFC 251 with a belt after next month's 'Fight Island' event.