Former UFC bantamweight challenger, Sijara Eubanks has landed back at the flyweight limit with a victory — stopping promotional newcomer, Elise Reed with a series of flurrying ground strikes in the opening round of their UFC Vegas 32 preliminary bout. Eubanks, a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 26 back in 2017 — returned to the […]
Former UFC bantamweight challenger, Sijara Eubanks has landed back at the flyweight limit with a victory — stopping promotional newcomer, Elise Reed with a series of flurrying ground strikes in the opening round of their UFC Vegas 32 preliminary bout.
Eubanks, a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 26 back in 2017 — returned to the flyweight limit for the first time since November of 2018 at UFC 230 where she scored a unanimous decision win over veteran division mainstay, Roxanne Modafferi.
Immediately imposing her will and sheer size advantage inside the Octagon, the Massachusetts native secured an early takedown against Reed before unloading with a series of ground strikes.
With just over a minute and change remaining in the opening round, the 36-year-old forced referee, Mark Smith to call a halt to proceedings as she winged at Reed with multiple hooks having sliced and blackened the latter’s right eye with elbows earlier in the round.
Below, catch the highlights from Eubanks’ devastating victory over Reed.
Former UFC bantamweight challenger, Sijara Eubanks has landed back at the flyweight limit with a victory — stopping promotional newcomer, Elise Reed with a series of flurrying ground strikes in the opening round of their UFC Vegas 32 preliminary bout. Eubanks, a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 26 back in 2017 — returned to the […]
Former UFC bantamweight challenger, Sijara Eubanks has landed back at the flyweight limit with a victory — stopping promotional newcomer, Elise Reed with a series of flurrying ground strikes in the opening round of their UFC Vegas 32 preliminary bout.
Eubanks, a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 26 back in 2017 — returned to the flyweight limit for the first time since November of 2018 at UFC 230 where she scored a unanimous decision win over veteran division mainstay, Roxanne Modafferi.
Immediately imposing her will and sheer size advantage inside the Octagon, the Massachusetts native secured an early takedown against Reed before unloading with a series of ground strikes.
With just over a minute and change remaining in the opening round, the 36-year-old forced referee, Mark Smith to call a halt to proceedings as she winged at Reed with multiple hooks having sliced and blackened the latter’s right eye with elbows earlier in the round.
Below, catch the highlights from Eubanks’ devastating victory over Reed.
UFC Bantamweight Sijara Eubanks is currently under fire for allegedly abusing her ex-girlfriend, Lilly Ruiz. The internet has been sent on a whirl after a video of Eubanks hitting Ruiz surfaced on Twitter. This would later be followed by pictures of Ruiz bruised up from the beating. Late last week, Ruiz cried out for help […]
UFC Bantamweight Sijara Eubanks is currently under fire for allegedly abusing her ex-girlfriend, Lilly Ruiz.
The internet has been sent on a whirl after a video of Eubanks hitting Ruiz surfaced on Twitter.
This would later be followed by pictures of Ruiz bruised up from the beating.
Late last week, Ruiz cried out for help to get out of the situation and exposed her former partner. She is believed to have accessed Eubanks’ Twitter account and released the following statement:
“This is Sijara Eubanks beating on her ex-girlfriend @lilly__ru that she mentions on her IG… she beat her for years now and she is bullying her and keeping all her belongings.”
During this time, Ruiz released video evidence filmed from her phone of an aggressive Eubanks striking her repeatedly, muttering insults and growling at her.
A video of professional UFC Fighter @sarjncharge domestically abusing my mother in law in front of my mother in laws daughter DISGUSTING tag @TheShadeRoom@TMZ@Akademiks please reshare and help this gain attention from the media she needs to be stopped pic.twitter.com/RX2z9MjtS2
“For the last 5 years I have been in an abusive relationship.” stated Eubanks on Instagram. “I have never said anything before because of my appearance and career, no one ever believed me. No one ever believed that someone like me could be a victim. So for years, I suffered emotion verbal and sometimes physical abuse at the hands of my now ex partner. I suffered in silence and often still managed a smile in public and still a decent professional career despite the trauma I faced at home.”
“As many of you know I have a daughter with this person and she is the sole reason I stayed as long as I did. Sure enough, the abuse slowly started to turn to my daughter and that’s when I had enough. Earlier this year I ended the relationship with this person and requested a custody arrangement. I knew my story would be hard to believe, but God is amazing and sent me an attorney who is fighting diligently for me and my daughter. I can’t get into the details because the legalities are still playing out. However, I am confident in the protection of our Lord Jesus Christ over me my daughter and my family and I am confident in our judicial system.”
“The truth will prevail and I will have my daughter back with me soon.” Eubanks added. “She’s what matters to me most. I can deal with defamation and lies later, for now all I think about, all I work for everyday is the health and safety of my daughter. Mama will not stop fighting for you baby!! Thank you all for your continued love and support.”
Not everybody believed the story, especially with the footage provided by Ruiz of the professional fighter hitting her in an outburst of rage. This wasn’t the only evidence of the alleged violence taking place at their residence however.
Lou, a family member to Lilly Ruiz released photos of his beaten and bruised mother-in-law on his Twitter.
pictures of what sijara has done to my mother in law and this is nothing compared to the months of abuse she’s endured sijara eubanks is toxic and disgusting and the public needs to see her for who she really is pic.twitter.com/Klmq4yv9dO
Destiny, Ruiz’s daughter, gave her testimony on the situation at hand:
“My mom has been on and off with Sarj for years. My mom tried to leave plenty of times but Sarj always asked her to come back and that ‘she’ll get better.’ She never has. Abuse has been going on for years but my mom never said anything to the public because the cops never handled the abuse in favor of my mom.”
“My mom is a great mom, she’s in college and a full time mom to my baby sister and me.”
The UFC has not yet made a comment on Eubank’s current situation and it is uncertain at this time whether it will affect the Bantamweight contender’s future inside the Octagon, despite making waves outside of the cage.
Next up on the UFC 253 main card is a women’s bantamweight clash between Ketlen Vieira and Sijara Eubanks. Round 1: Vieira wastes no time in clinching Eubanks up against the fence. Eubanks escapes and they go to striking. Eubanks lands some good punches. Vieira goes for the clinch but Eubanks does well to defend […]
Next up on the UFC 253 main card is a women’s bantamweight clash between Ketlen Vieira and Sijara Eubanks.
Round 1: Vieira wastes no time in clinching Eubanks up against the fence. Eubanks escapes and they go to striking. Eubanks lands some good punches. Vieira goes for the clinch but Eubanks does well to defend and separate. Vieira is employing a consistent jab before both fighters start to swing. Vieira lands a nice body shot. She follows it up with a right hook that lands. Vieira shoots but it was telegraphed. However, she follows it up with strikes and lands a takedown to end the round.
Round 2: Eubanks lands a body kick. Vieira, however, returns with strikes and times a takedown successfully. Vieira is in Eubanks’ guard but hasn’t really advanced her position or landed strikes. Referee Jason Herzog eventually stands them up just when Vieira looked like she was starting to work. They start to strike and Vieira seems to be getting the better of Eubanks. The round comes to an end and it looks like Eubank is down 2-0.
Round 3: Both fighters are swinging early on in the third. Eubanks lands a stinging jab and is pressuring forward. Eubanks is landing a lot more and even lands a big head kick. Vieira lands a stiff jab. Eubanks connects with a leg kick. Both fighters continue to swing but neither are seriously hurt. Vieira fails with a takedown attempt. Eubanks counters a clinch attempt and has Vieira’s back. Vieira counters with an attempted leg lock but Eubanks escapes and ends the fight with some ground strikes.
Official result:Ketlen Vieira defeats Sijara Eubanks via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
The updated card for UFC 249 has rolled out. On April 18, the UFC will be holding an event at a location that still has not been unveiled. The promotion announced that the new main event will be Tony Ferguson taking on Justin Gaethje for the interim UF…
The updated card for UFC 249 has rolled out. On April 18, the UFC will be holding an event at a location that still has not been unveiled. The promotion announced that the new main event will be Tony Ferguson taking on Justin Gaethje for the interim UFC lightweight title. Khabib Nurmagomedov was scheduled to […]
UFC Mexico City will feature the return of former women’s bantamweight title challenger Bethe Correia. According to a report from Combate’s Raphael Marinho, Correia will be facing Sijara Eubanks on the card: Correia is currently on a two-fight losing streak and hasn’t won a fight since 2016. Her last two fights were defeats to Holly […]
Correia is currently on a two-fight losing streak and hasn’t won a fight since 2016. Her last two fights were defeats to Holly Holm and Irene Aldana, where she was finished in both in the third round. Eubanks just had a two-fight win streak snapped by Aspen Ladd in May.
She initially had back-to-back wins over Lauren Murphy and Roxanne Modafferi. Eubanks missed weight her last time out at flyweight, so she’ll jump back up to 135 pounds to take on Correia. The UFC has yet to officially announced the bout for the card, but we’ll keep you updated as we learn more.
What do you think about the matchup between Correia and Eubanks at UFC Mexico City?
UFC Bantamweight Sijara Eubanks is currently under fire for allegedly abusing her ex-girlfriend, Lilly Ruiz. The internet has been sent on a whirl after a video of Eubanks hitting Ruiz surfaced on Twitter. This would later be followed by pictures of Ruiz bruised up from the beating. Late last week, Ruiz cried out for help […]
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Next up on the UFC 253 main card is a women’s bantamweight clash between Ketlen Vieira and Sijara Eubanks. Round 1: Vieira wastes no time in clinching Eubanks up against the fence. Eubanks escapes and they go to striking. Eubanks lands some good punches. Vieira goes for the clinch but Eubanks does well to defend […]