LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Combat sport returned to Las Vegas on Saturday (May 30) as Brazil's Gilbert Burns defeated former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial arts card.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LOS ANGELES - Combat sport returned to Las Vegas on Saturday as Brazil's Gilbert Burns defeated former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts card.
But it heralded the return of combat sports to Vegas, where the Nevada State Athletic Commission last week gave the green light not only to UFC but also to boxing cards in June. Stevenson, the World Boxing Organisation featherweight champion, had been scheduled to make the first defence of his belt on March 14 against Miguel Marriaga in New York, but that event was cancelled because of the pandemic.
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