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Fight day cancellations stink, don’t they?

The co-main event for UFC Vegas 24 is kaput.

As relayed by the UFC broadcast team on ESPN+, lightweight Drakkar Klose suffered an undisclosed injury and his fight with Jeremy Stephens has been scratched. You just knew that we were due for another day-of cancellation after going a couple of shows without one, and unfortunately it’s one of the more anticipated bouts on the card.

Klose hadn’t fought since a dramatic KO loss to Beneil Dariush last year at UFC 248, whereas Stephens was searching for his first victory since 2018. Stephens shoved Klose at the weigh-ins on Friday but that definitely wasn’t an injurious push.

Update: I was wrong. It was an injurious push.

The UFC intends to rebook this fight ASAP, ideally sans shove.

Andrei Arlovski vs. Chase Sherman is the new co-main event, while Tracy Cortez vs. Justine Kish gets bumped from the preliminary card to the main card. There are only 10 fights left on the docket compared to the 13 at the start of the week, and the first fight won’t begin until 7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT.

Live, blow-by-blow updates for today’s UFC event in Vegas on ESPN and ESPN+, which features a middleweight tilt on top.

Join us today on Bloody Elbow for live results, discussion, round scoring, and full play-by-play as UFC Vegas 24: Whittaker vs. Gastelum goes down in Sin City.

The headliner comes in the middleweight division, with former champion Robert Whittaker trying to earn another shot at Israel Adesanya when he takes on Kelvin Gastelum. It was supposed to be Paulo Costa, but he had to pull out due to linger effects from Covid.

The co-main event will see Jeremy Stephens taking his first lightweight bout in forever when he meets Drakkar Klose. Things got a little heated at the weigh-ins yesterday when Stephens shoved Klose during the face-off.

This is an big network ESPN show and is kicking off at the usual time. The six-fight preliminary card is scheduled to start at 7pm ET/4pm PT on big ESPN and ESPN+. The five-fight main card is scheduled to kick off at 10pm ET/7pm PT and will also air on big ESPN and ESPN+.

We’ve purchased the FITE.tv pay-per-view (PPV) and with it our dynamic tag team duo, Matt Ryan and Harry Terjanian, will deliver the best possible “radio style” play-by-play broadcast imaginable throughout the “Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren”-led main card, starting at 8:45 p.m. ET in the video player below!

Tonight, Ben Askren the man who went from the most dominant welterweight to never fight in the UFC to the dude who got clowned in front of Lemmy and everybody when Jorge “Bathrobe” Masvidal kneed his head into another voting district, takes on Jake Paul.

The Vine star, turned Disney star, turned YouTube and Digital Marketing succubus, is not that great of a human being. In the same way that Tucker Carlson, Joel Osteen, and other cult of personality figures have curated this image and identity to market specifically to a lucrative demographic, Paul has done that with young kids via his YouTube channel. Writing terrible rap songs, a fake marriage to fellow carny Tana Mongeau (who ran a very FYRE style convention when people still went to things), that whole thing with the Tik Tok influencer that came out last week, the whole documentary series about whether or not he is a sociopath and copping to having EARLY STAGES OF CTE is all kinda just small doses of who Jake Paul is.

All that aside, who doesn’t love freak fights, the Black Keys, and carny nonsense? Which is all a part of this event tonight that Matt Ryan will be calling from the studio. We hope you join him on our Combat Culture YouTube Live Stream because this could go really well or really bad… i.e.: Frank Mir is boxing… BOXING.

Join us live tonight and please prepare yourself for whatever this is.

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The Bellator welterweight title will be at stake on June 11th.

After a failed attempt to become a double champion, Bellator welterweight champion Douglas Lima will return to his familiar weight class in June.

The Brazilian striker is set to face undefeated Ukrainian Yaroslav Amosov in the main event of Bellator 260 on June 11th at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. It’ll be Lima’s first title defense since 2019 and Amosov’s first title fight.

Lima (32-8) challenged Gegard Mousasi for the vacant middleweight title last year, losing a rather lackluster unanimous decision in the Bellator 250 main event. He has won the welterweight belt three times, most recently avenging a prior title defeat to Rory MacDonald by winning the rematch in the Grand Prix final. Lima’s highlight-reel moments include a leg kick demolition of Rick Hawn, two finishes of Andrey Koreshkov, and a brutal KO of Michael Page.

Amosov (25-0) is coming off a split decision win over Logan Storley, who was also unbeaten at the time of their bout. The 27-year-old began his Bellator career with consecutive decisions over Gerald Harris and Erick Silva before submitting David Rickels. As part of his three-fight 2020 slate, Amosov got the better of former NCAA wrestling standout Ed Ruth by decision.

Additionally, the promotion announced Tywan Claxton vs. Justin Gonzales and Nick Newell vs. Bobby King as preliminary card fights. The main card, as is the case for all Bellator shows for the foreseeable future, will be televised on Showtime.