UFC 274 fight card: Charles Oliveira vs. Justin Gaethje set for lightweight title fight in May
The Brazilian champion will put his title on the line on May 7 from the Footprint Center in Phoenix
Charles Oliveira vs. Justin Gaethje is on for UFC 274.
UFC 274 battle card: Charles Oliveira versus Justin Gaethje set for lightweight title battle in May
The Brazilian hero will risk his title on May 7 from the Footprint Center in Phoenix
Charles Oliveira versus Justin Gaethje is on for UFC 274.
The UFC affirmed the session during the UFC 272 compensation for every view broadcast. UFC 274 card will happen at Footprint Center in Phoenix. The city has played host to three past UFC occasions, however UFC 274 will be the primary compensation per-view occasion held in Phoenix.
Oliveira (32-8, 1 NC) scored the primary protection of his 155-pound title in December at UFC 269 when he submitted fan-most loved Dustin Poirier in the third round. CBS Sports' Fighter of the Year second place has won 10 battles in succession with nine wraps up, including a TKO triumph over Michael Chandler to guarantee the empty tie and an accommodation of Kevin Lee.
Gaethje (23-3) enters the fend falling off his 2021 Fight of the Year against Chandler at UFC 268 on Nov. 6. The previous UFC between time lightweight boss has won five of his last six battles with four TKOs. The main mishap in that stretch was a title unification session versus Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 254, where he was submitted before the Russian reported his retirement.
A UFC light heavyweight title battle pitting champion Glover Teixeira versus Jiri Prochazka was initially gotten ready for the occasion however it was at last pushed to UFC 275.
Blended combative techniques (MMA), at times alluded to as enclosure fighting,[1] no limits (NHB),[2] and extreme fighting,[3] is a full-contact battle sport in view of striking, hooking and ground battling, fusing procedures from different battle sports from around the world.[4] The initially recorded utilization of the term blended combative techniques was in a survey of UFC 1 by TV pundit Howard Rosenberg in 1993.[5] The topic of who really begat the term is liable to debate.[6]
During the mid twentieth century, different interstylistic challenges occurred all through Japan and in the nations of the Four Asian Tigers. In Brazil, there was the game of Vale Tudo, wherein warriors from different styles battled with practically no principles. The Gracie family was referred to advance Vale Tudo matches as a method for advancing their own Brazilian jiu-jitsu style.[7] A forerunner to current MMA was the 1976 Ali versus Inoki presentation session (which finished in a draw after 15 rounds), battled between fighter Muhammad Ali and grappler Antonio Inoki in Japan, where it later roused the groundwork of Pancrase in 1993 and the Pride Fighting Championships in 1997.
In 1980, CV Productions, Inc. made the first controlled MMA association in the United States, called Tough Guy Contest, which was subsequently renamed Battle of the Superfighters. The organization authorized ten competitions in Pennsylvania. In any case, in 1983 the Pennsylvania State Senate passed a bill forbidding the sport.[8][9] In the 1990s, the Gracie family brought their Brazilian jiu-jitsu style, first created in Brazil from the 1920s, to the United States - which finished in the establishing of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) advancement organization in 1993. The organization held an occasion with practically no guidelines, generally because of the impact of Art Davie and Rorion Gracie endeavoring to duplicate Vale Tudo battles that existed in Brazil[7] and would later execute an alternate arrangement of rules (model: wiping out kicking a grounded rival), which contrasted from different associations which were more for sensible, road like fights.[10]
Initially elevated as a rivalry to observe the best hand to hand fighting for truly unarmed battle, contenders from various battling styles were set in opposition to each other in challenges with generally not many rules.[11] Later, individual warriors consolidated numerous combative techniques into their style. MMA advertisers were forced to embrace extra guidelines to build contenders' wellbeing, to conform to brandish guidelines and to widen standard acknowledgment of the sport.[3] Following these changes, the game has seen expanded prevalence with a compensation for each view business that adversaries boxing and expert wrestling.[12]
