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Ali Bagautinov vs. Geane Herrera Set For UFC Fight Night 89 In Ottawa

UFC announced a new bout featuring a former Flyweight Title contender for their upcoming UFC Fight Night 89 event in Ottawa on Thursday.

UFC.com reported a bout between former UFC 125-pound title contender Ali Bagautinov and Geane Herrera for the ev…

UFC announced a new bout featuring a former Flyweight Title contender for their upcoming UFC Fight Night 89 event in Ottawa on Thursday.

UFC.com reported a bout between former UFC 125-pound title contender Ali Bagautinov and Geane Herrera for the event, which will go down next month in Canada’s capital.

Bagautinov (13-4) and Herrera (9-1) will be featured on the undercard of the event, which will be headlined by Rory MacDonald vs. Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson.

UFC Fight Night 89 is scheduled for June 18, 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Stephen Thompson “Definitely” Planning Champion Call-Out After Beating Rory MacDonald

Stephen Thompson is coming off the biggest win of his career, having finished former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks.

Now, Thompson will meet fellow top contender Rory MacDonald in a title-eliminator later this year at UFC Fight Night 89.

With Tyron Woodley expected to challenge champion Robbie Lawler, Thompson has plans to make sure he is guaranteed the next shot after that, as he told Submission Radio.

“Definitely. I mean, after I just beat the No. 2 guy, former welterweight champion (Hendricks). When I beat the No. 1 guy (MacDonald, they have to give it to me,” he said. “I’m definitely going to go out there and put my foot down and say, listen guys, I deserve the title shot. Give it to me.”

Thompson added that he if he was passed over, it would be “really disappointing.”

“I mean, if they don’t give me the title shot, something’s wrong. That’s just not right,” he continued. “I believe I’ll definitely be making some noise – you know (laughs), or try to at least. I’m not really… you know; people don’t really take me serious because I am a nice guy. But man, something’s gotta be wrong if they don’t give it to me after this.”

The 33-year-old Thompson (12-1) has won six in a row, including four finishes vs. Hendricks, Jake Ellenberger, Robert Whittaker and Chris Clements since a 2012 decision loss to Matt Brown.

Stephen Thompson is coming off the biggest win of his career, having finished former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks.

Now, Thompson will meet fellow top contender Rory MacDonald in a title-eliminator later this year at UFC Fight Night 89.

With Tyron Woodley expected to challenge champion Robbie Lawler, Thompson has plans to make sure he is guaranteed the next shot after that, as he told Submission Radio.

Thompson added that he if he was passed over, it would be “really disappointing.”

The 33-year-old Thompson (12-1) has won six in a row, including four finishes vs. Hendricks, Jake Ellenberger, Robert Whittaker and Chris Clements since a 2012 decision loss to Matt Brown.

UFC Fight Night 87 Bonuses: Overeem Banks $50,000 After Knockout Victory

UFC Fight Night 89 is now in the books, as the event took place earlier today (May 8, 2016) live on FOX Sports 1 from Rotterdam, Netherlands. The card produced some fantastic fights, and some electrifying finishes which was proven true when the promotion handed out four $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonuses to Germaine

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UFC Fight Night 89 is now in the books, as the event took place earlier today (May 8, 2016) live on FOX Sports 1 from Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The card produced some fantastic fights, and some electrifying finishes which was proven true when the promotion handed out four $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonuses to Germaine De Randamie, Gunnar Nelson, Stefan Struve, and Alistair Overeem.

De Randamie took on Anna Elmose on the main card, putting her lethal striking skills on full display. After battering Elmose early on, De Randamie finished the fight with a brutal body knee in the first round.

Nelson then met the previously surging Albert Tumenov and came out firing, looking very sharp and elusive in the first round. It was in the second frame, however, when “Gunni” put his elite level submission skills to work, earning a rear-naked-choke victory.

In the co-main event of the evening, Struve faced off with powerful striker Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva, but it was the Dutchman who lit Silva up, scoring a breathtaking 15-second knockout victory.

Overeem was able to keep the momentum going for the Dutch when he clashed with former champion Andrei Arlovski in the evening’s main event. After a first round that likely went his way, “The Reem” came out in the second and finished the job, picking up his fourth straight victory with a TKO stoppage.

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Alistair Overeem: Andrei Arlovski Isn’t My ‘Cup Of Tea’

Jackson-Winklejohn trained UFC heavyweights Alistair “The Reem” Overeem and Andrei “Pitbull” Arlovski will do battle in the main event of this Sunday’s (May 8, 2016) UFC Fight Night 89 from Rotterdam, Netherlands. Although training at the same facility, both men have made it clear that they aren’t necessarily friends, nor training partners. Arlovski, however, recently

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Although training at the same facility, both men have made it clear that they aren’t necessarily friends, nor training partners. Arlovski, however, recently said that Overeem made it awkward between the coaching staff by asking for the fight.

Telling his side of the story, “The Reem” claims that he wasn’t given too much of a choice as to who his opponent would be:

“It’s a very simple and basic story,” Overeem explained when speaking to FOX Sports on Wednesday from Holland. “Lorenzo (Fertitta) texted me, he said ‘we want you to headline the first ever UFC in Holland and who do you want to fight? Basically we have Andrei Arlovski and Cain Velasquez available but Cain Velasquez is injured so in all probability it will be Andrei Arlovski.

“I replied OK that’s fine. Andrei’s a teammate but we’re not really friends, we don’t hang out, we hardly train together so expect that fight to be fireworks. So the fight got made.”

As far as their relationship goes, Overeem admits that while he doesn’t know the “Pitbull” too well, Arlovski just isn’t his ‘cup of tea’:

“I didn’t know him that well. I know he’s pretty emotional, but other than that I don’t know that much,” Overeem said. “We trained a couple of times together and he is how he is. He’s not my cup of tea. It’s not that I hate him, it’s not that we’re enemies but we don’t train together.”

Responding to Arlovski’s claims regarding the coaching staff, “The Reem” doesn’t sense any awkwardness at all, saying that he also has his own separate coaches that he works with:

“No it’s not awkward. It is what it is,” Overeem said about the coaching situation. “I’ll be working with several coaches I’ve been working with for some time now. The main wrestling coach at Jackson’s and then I have a BJJ (Brazilian jiu-jitsu) coach from Jackson’s, he’s also part of Gracie-Barra in Albuquerque, New Mexico and then I have two other coaches that I’ve worked with extensively before in previous fight camps against Brock Lesnar, Frank Mir, Junior dos Santos.

“So I’m very proud and very confident in my coaches. They’re already proven and we’ve been through a lot together.”

Which heavyweight slugger do you see winning this weekend?

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First-Ever UFC Female Flyweight Bout Set For UFC Fight Night 89

History will be made at UFC Fight Night 89, as Joanne Calderwood takes on Valerie Letourneau in the first-ever female flyweight contest.

Set for June 18 from The Arena at TD Place in Ottawa, the card features a main event between Rory MacDonald and …

History will be made at UFC Fight Night 89, as Joanne Calderwood takes on Valerie Letourneau in the first-ever female flyweight contest.

Set for June 18 from The Arena at TD Place in Ottawa, the card features a main event between Rory MacDonald and Stephen Thompson.

Calderwood (10-1) has been fighting in the strawweight division, going 2-1 since signing with the UFC. She scored a recent victory over Cortney Casey and has also topped Seo Hee Ham.

Letourneau (8-4) won three of four, but was unsuccessful in her bout with UFC champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. She owns UFC wins over Elizabeth Phillips, Jessica Rakoczy and Maryna Moroz – who defeated Calderwood.

The UFC is still looking into plans to possibly create a female flyweight division.

First-Ever UFC Women’s Flyweight Bout Booked For UFC Fight Night 89

At the UFC Fight Night 89 event scheduled for this June in Ottawa, history will be made inside the Octagon.

It was announced this week that at UFN 89, the first-ever UFC Women’s Flyweight bout will take place.

Former TUF veteran Joanne Calderwood…

At the UFC Fight Night 89 event scheduled for this June in Ottawa, history will be made inside the Octagon.

It was announced this week that at UFN 89, the first-ever UFC Women’s Flyweight bout will take place.

Former TUF veteran Joanne Calderwood will meet former UFC Women’s Strawweight title contender Valerie Letourneau in a Women’s Flyweight bout.

It was noted that this is a “special attraction fight” and not the “launch of a new UFC division,” however it has been said that UFC is looking into the possibility of adding the diviison in the future.

UFC Fight Night 89 is scheduled for June 18, 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.