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Vancouver Sun
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Vancouver Sun
UFC returns to Vancouver with Oct. 18 Fight Night show at Rogers Arena
The UFC is returning to Vancouver for an Oct. 18 Fight Night show at Rogers Arena . It will mark Vancouver's seventh UFC event since 2010, tying Toronto for the second-most UFC events in Canada (behind Montreal). The UFC's most recent visit to the city was UFC 289 in June 2023, drawing 17,628 fans and a $5.14-million live gate. The mixed martial arts promotion has held 35 shows across 11 cities in Canada, debuting with UFC 83 in Montreal in 2008. In other Canadian UFC news, flyweight Jamey-Lyn Horth of Squamish has a new opponent in American Vanessa (Lil Monster) Demopoulos, replacing Czechia's Tereza Bleda, on the UFC's June 14 Fight Night card in Atlanta. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Horth (7-2-0) is coming off a December loss to American Miranda (Fear The) Maverick, who is ranked 11th among 125-pound contenders. Horth is 2-2-0 in the UFC. Demopoulos (11-7-0) is 5-4-0 in the UFC but has lost her last two outings.
Hamilton Spectator
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
UFC returns to Vancouver with Oct. 18 Fight Night show at Rogers Arena
VANCOUVER - The UFC is returning to Vancouver for an Oct. 18 Fight Night show at Rogers Arena. It will mark Vancouver's seventh UFC event since 2010, tying Toronto for the second-most UFC events in Canada (behind Montreal). The UFC's most recent visit to the city was UFC 289 in June 2023, drawing 17,628 fans and a $5.14-million live gate. The mixed martial arts promotion has held 35 shows across 11 cities in Canada, debuting with UFC 83 in Montreal in 2008. In other Canadian UFC news, flyweight Jamey-Lyn Horth of Squamish, B.C., has a new opponent in American Vanessa (Lil Monster) Demopoulos, replacing Czechia's Tereza Bledá, on the UFC's June 14 Fight Night card in Atlanta. Horth (7-2-0) is coming off a December loss to American Miranda (Fear The) Maverick, who is ranked 11th among 125-pound contenders. Horth is 2-2-0 in the UFC. Demopoulos (11-7-0) is 5-4-0 in the UFC but has lost her last two outings. —- This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 9, 2025 Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Winnipeg Free Press
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
UFC returns to Vancouver with Oct. 18 Fight Night show at Rogers Arena
VANCOUVER – The UFC is returning to Vancouver for an Oct. 18 Fight Night show at Rogers Arena. It will mark Vancouver's seventh UFC event since 2010, tying Toronto for the second-most UFC events in Canada (behind Montreal). The UFC's most recent visit to the city was UFC 289 in June 2023, drawing 17,628 fans and a $5.14-million live gate. The mixed martial arts promotion has held 35 shows across 11 cities in Canada, debuting with UFC 83 in Montreal in 2008. In other Canadian UFC news, flyweight Jamey-Lyn Horth of Squamish, B.C., has a new opponent in American Vanessa (Lil Monster) Demopoulos, replacing Czechia's Tereza Bledá, on the UFC's June 14 Fight Night card in Atlanta. Horth (7-2-0) is coming off a December loss to American Miranda (Fear The) Maverick, who is ranked 11th among 125-pound contenders. Horth is 2-2-0 in the UFC. Demopoulos (11-7-0) is 5-4-0 in the UFC but has lost her last two outings. — This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 9, 2025
Montreal Gazette
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Montreal Gazette
Georges St-Pierre back at Bell Centre as UFC returns to Montreal for first time in 10 years
Fighting By The UFC certainly knows how to put on a show. That was on display again Thursday afternoon at the Bell Centre for a pre-fight news conference ahead of Saturday night's UFC 315 card. The news conference, which was open to the public, attracted a few thousand UFC fans who either cheered or booed loudly while the 10 fighters on the stage — along with UFC president Dana White — were answering questions. It was quite a spectacle. The are two events on the main card Saturday, which is available on pay-per-view starting at 10 p.m. Russia's Valentina Shevchenko will defend her UFC women's flyweight title against France's Manon Fiorot, followed by American Belal Muhammad defending his UFC welterweight title against Australia's Jack Della Maddalena. This is the first UFC event in Montreal since UFC 186 in 2015. While there was an impressive turnout for Thursday's news conference, there were still plenty of tickets available for UFC 315 on Friday morning. The cheapest tickets in the upper deck cost $300.25, while floor seats are $963. White said after the news conference that UFC 315 will be a sellout. The event would have been sold out already if local UFC superstar Georges St-Pierre hadn't retired in 2019 after winning three championship belts while posting a 26-2 record. St-Pierre beat Matt Serra for the UFC welterweight championship at UFC 83 in 2008 at the Bell Centre — the first UFC event held in Canada — and the Saint-Isidore native won all four times he fought in front of his adoring fans at the Bell Centre. St-Pierre will be back at the Bell Centre on Saturday, but this time as a cornerman for Laval native Aiemann Zahabi, who will fight UFC Hall of Famer José Aldo of Brazil in one of the three undercard bouts. Zahabi's older brother, Firas, used to train St-Pierre at his Tristar Gym in Montreal. #UFC fans waiting outside Bell Centre to get in for news conference ahead of UFC 315 card Saturday night. News conference is open to the public. — Stu Cowan (@StuCowan1) May 8, 2025 Zahabi wore a snazzy three-piece, blue pinstriped suit at the news conference with a Canadian flag stitched inside the jacket. He has a 12-2 record in the bantamweight division and has won his last five fights. Aldo is 32-9 and is coming off a loss to Mario Bautista at UFC 307 last October. 'I'm proud to be fighting José Aldo, he's a legend of the sport,' Zahabi said. 'I'm even more proud to do it here at home in Montreal. I know that he said he was disappointed in his last performance, but it's a good thing my brother (Firas) and I prepared for the best Jose Aldo possible. So I'm excited.' Muhammad, a Chicago native, wore a Chris Chelios Blackhawks sweater from the 1992 Stanley Cup final at the news conference with the Hockey Hall of Famer's name and No. 7 on the back. Muhammad is 24-3 in the welterweight division and is unbeaten in his last 11 fights, dating back more than six years. His opponent, Della Maddalena, is 17-2 with 17 straight wins going back more than nine years. 'I love this energy over here, man,' Muhammad said. 'I'm excited. I've been waiting for my first title defence. It is finally here. You're about to see the greatest MMA performance you've ever seen in your life.' Muhammad predicted he would knock Della Maddalena out in the third round. Among the fans in attendance Saturday will be Canadiens forward Jake Evans, who will watch UFC live for the first time. 'I've always enjoyed the sport and I think I got more into it when my good friend Jeff (Malott, who plays for the Los Angeles Kings) told me his brother (Mike) is in the UFC and fighting in it, and then we just started paying more attention to it,' Evans said on the Canadiens' website. Mike Malott, who is from Burlington, Ont., will fight American Charles Radtke in one of the preliminary bouts Saturday (8 p.m., RS360, TVA Sports 2). 'We got to train with him for a couple of summers in a row and do some boxing classes,' Evans said. 'So I wouldn't say I'm following it along very much, but I'm always following him, Michael, around, making sure he's doing well. 'I like the sport in general,' Evans added. 'I think they're crazy athletes and you have to get into such a crazy mental state to get into the octagon and fight it out.' One person who won't be at the Bell Centre Saturday is Joe Rogan, the popular American podcaster who is normally the voice of UFC pay-per-view events as a colour commentator. Rogan, who like White is a huge supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, said on his podcast in March that he'd rather go to Russia than Canada. 'I will not be there. I don't go to Canada anymore,' Rogan said. Rogan will be replaced by two-time UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz on the pay-per-view broadcast. White was asked when the UFC might come back to Montreal again. 'We haven't even left yet,' he said. 'The fight hasn't even happened yet. We'll be back here on Saturday.'
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Paddy Pimblett reminds us of the stupidity of rushing to judgment early in a fighter's career
Watching Paddy Pimblett's destruction of Michael Chandler at UFC 314, and then seeing the aftermath of fans and fighters and pundits alike all trying to come to terms with the possibility that this mouthy Scouser might actually be among the lightweight elite, I couldn't help but remember the arc of another fighter from the same island nation. You see, back in about 2008 the fighter known as 'Chainsaw' Charles McCarthy was trying anything he could think of to fight his way closer to a UFC title. He reached out to Joe Silva, the UFC's primary matchmaker at the time, and asked who he could fight in order to gain some meaningful ground on that goal. Advertisement The reply was immediate and direct: Would he accept a fight with Michael Bisping? Absolutely he would. McCarthy almost couldn't believe his luck. Bisping? The sneering Brit who'd won season four of 'The Ultimate Fighter?' The guy who'd won one close decision over Matt Hamill and then lost the next one to Rashad Evans? Sure, he'd fight that guy no problem. 'A lot of it was his personality,' McCarthy told me some years after the fight. 'He just seemed like an annoying prick to me, and I didn't think he was very good. I was just wrong about him. He was better than I gave him credit for. I let my dislike for his antics take away from my respect for his ability, and it ended up costing me in the fight.' Michael Bisping would get his revenge on Dan Henderson in a UFC middleweight title defense in 2016. (Action Images / Matthew Childs Livepic) (REUTERS / Reuters) McCarthy wasn't the only one who thought this about Bisping back then. Even years later, well after Bisping had notched a knockout victory over McCarthy at UFC 83, people were still saying a lot of the same things about him. Advertisement "Pillow Hands" Bisping? The guy who got meme-ified by Dan Henderson in one of MMA's most brutal knockouts? The MMA world felt it had seen all it needed to see on that guy. Final judgment had been rendered. I remember Chael Sonnen telling me that he accepted a fight with Bisping feeling utterly confident that there was nothing this man could do to hurt him. It was only when he heard a scouting report from Henderson that he started to revise his expectations. "Dan told me, 'Don't believe what people say about him having no power, because everything he hit me with hurt,'" Sonnen later relayed to me. You probably already know how the Bisping story ends. He went on to win the UFC middleweight title and become a UFC Hall of Famer. He proved a lot of people wrong in the process, over and over again, mostly because so many of us just refused to get the message even as he got better before our eyes. Advertisement It's hard not to be struck by some parallels to the Paddy Pimblett situation, and not just because of their shared national origins. It's also that they're both fighters who many MMA fans and fighters arrived at early snap judgments about, in part for personality reasons, only to then be forced to revise those takes later on. Pimblett's mind-changing moment seems to have come this past Saturday at UFC 314 in Miami. Over the course of nearly three rounds in the co-main event, 'Paddy the Baddy' beat the Muscle Milk out of former Bellator champion Michael Chandler en route to a TKO stoppage. It was a shocking performance, honestly. Not necessarily because people expected Pimblett to lose, but because almost no one expected him to look that good. Advertisement The Pimblett we saw just a little over two years ago looked like Bambi on ice compared to the one in the cage on Saturday. Other UFC lightweights watched his questionable win over Jared Gordon and saw a meal waiting to be devoured. They were lining up to be the first to pop this hype balloon. Now, after seeing his win over Chandler, a lot of them are probably feeling glad they didn't get the call. But we sometimes have a hard time altering our opinions in this sport. Or, more accurately, we have a hard time admitting someone is good after we've already decided that they kind of suck. We have a lot less trouble doing it in the other direction. Even if we've thrown your name into various GOAT conversations before, one bad night might be all it takes for us to decide you're washed. Paddy Pimblett's one-sided win over Michael Chandler at UFC 314 has forced us to reevaluate his prospects in the UFC's lightweight division, which isn't always easy. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images) (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect / Reuters) Revising upwards, though, that's trickier for us. It's like we have a hard time with the concept of growth and improvement. We really shouldn't, since we see it often enough. It's not just Pimblett, whose striking was worlds better against Chandler than it was against Gordon. Just look at the undercard, where Chase Hooper showed up looking like a grown man against a … well, I'm not going to call Jim Miller old, since he's four years younger than me, so let's just say distinguished man. Advertisement Fighters get better all the time. It's the whole reason they put in all those long, grueling days in the gym. And since fighters necessarily do so much more training than fighting, this might be the sport where we should expect to see the most growth between competitions. We see these guys in action for, what, maybe 15 minutes every four or five months? In between then, they're in the gym. You know, ideally. They're honing the craft, adding some tools and sharpening others. There might be no other sport that has this kind of imbalance between time spent preparing and time spent competing. But that's also probably a big part of why we have such a hard time changing our own assessments of fighters. We get this brief glimpse of them in the cage and we tell ourselves that's who they are. Then they disappear from view for a few more months and that opinion solidifies. After that, especially if we've taken a certain malicious glee in accusing someone of being worse than their marketing suggests, it's tough for us to go back and reopen their file. The good news is, the right butt-kicking, delivered at the right time, can do wonders. Even if you think Chandler isn't the fighter he used to be, you have to admit that Pimblett really put it on him. That moment late in the fight, with Chandler looking up through a mask of his own blood with a certain helplessness in his eyes, that's bound to stick. That was Paddy Pimblett doing that. That was the new and improved version. Once we allow for the possibility that he's still getting better at all this, then we have to ask where he might get to before it's all over. And it might just be far higher up the ladder than we ever thought.
