Author: MMA Fighting Newswire

MMA Fighting has the Invicta FC 6 fight card for the Invicta FC event on July 13 at the Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, Mo.

In the main event, Cris Cyborg will square off against Marloes Coenen for the inaugural Invicta FC featherweight title. In the co-main event, Carla Esparza will defend her strawweight title against Ayaka Hamasaki.

Check out the Invicta FC 6 fight card below.

Main Card (Online PPV at 10 p.m. ET)
Cris Cyborg vs. Marloes Coenen
Carla Esparza vs. Ayaka Hamasaki
Sarah D’Alelio vs. Lauren Taylor
Leslie Smith vs. TBA
Jessica Penne vs. Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc
Joanne Calderwood vs. Claudia Gadelha
Ediane Gomes vs. Julia Budd
Bec Hyatt vs. Mizuki Inoue
Miriam Nakamoto vs. Duda Yankovich

Undercard (Online PPV at 8 p.m. ET)
Tecia Torres vs. Rose Namajunas
Ashley Cummins vs. Emily Kagan
Mollie Estes vs. Veronica Rothenhausler
Laura Sanko vs. Livia Von Plettenberg

In Dana White’s first vlog for UFC 159 fight week, the UFC president gives a behind the scenes look at UFC 158.

On the UFC 159 conference call Monday, Jon Jones, Chael Sonnen, Alan Belcher and Michael Bisping discussed their upcoming fights this Saturday night at the Prudential Center.

Southeast Asia’s leading and most active promoter ONE FC announced three bouts for their upcoming event, ONE FC 9: Rise to Power, which takes place May 31 at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, Philippines.

An announcement from the organization states the finals of their bantamweight grand prix will be held at this event and will feature finalists Kevin Belingon against Masakatsu Ueda. The Filipino Belingon advanced to this position with wins over Thanh Vu and Yusup Saadulaev while Ueda was able to get past Jens Pulver and Min Jung Song.

ONE FC also announced a featherweight bout between Filipino standout Eduard Folayang against WEC and UFC veteran Kamal Shalorus. Folayang is 1-2 in his last three bouts and 12-3 overall in professional MMA. He is 2-1 inside the ONE FC cage. This upcoming bout marks the ONE FC debut for Shalorus who lost his last three professional MMA contests, all of them his UFC appearances. He holds a 7-3-2 record in MMA.

Lastly, PRIDE, UFC and Strikeforce veteran Phil Baroni will return to the ONE FC cage when he takes on Nobutatsu Suzuki. Baroni has not competed in MMA since losing to Hayato Sakurai in December of 2012. He is 15-16 overall in MMA, but 1-1 in his two appearances for ONE FC. Suzuki is 9-1-2 in professional MMA. He most recently competed in December of 2012 where he lost by via first-round submission against UFC and Sengoku veteran Keita Nakamura.

ONE FC 9 will be broadcast live as an Internet pay-per-view event.

UFC president Dana White was recently interviewed for the Global Speaker Series at Stanford Business School. In the video above, White talks about the growth of the organization, its history, the FOX deal, his favorite movie, and much more.

SAN JOSE — The UFC on FOX 7 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the California Theatre. Watch the highlights above.