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Henry Moya and Eidy Macias | Photo via Brave CF

Eidy Macias is out of Saturday’s Brave Combat Federation 73 card in Bogota, Colombia, after a pre-fight test indicated that she is pregnant, company officials told MMA Fighting on Friday.

Vicente Luque | Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC

Vicente Luque will return from the longest layoff of his MMA career this Saturday at UFC Vegas 78, and his inactivity was caused by a scary, career-threatening injury,

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Watch the Bellator 298 live stream online on MMA Fighting for the preliminary card at 6:30 p.m. ET on Friday. The fight card for this portion of the event is as follows:

Tafon Nchukwi | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC

Rafael dos Anjos’ welterweight journey continues to go smoothly at the scale.

Dana White | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

The UFC has put on some big fights in 2023 with their pay-per-view events, which included the highly anticipated return of Jon Jones, Israel Adesanya regaining his middleweight title in highlight-reel fashion, and Fight of the Year contenders. But for the fanbase that has to pay $80 per premium event, has the product delivered on that end?

Rafael dos Anjos will step on the scales at UFC Vegas 78 weigh-ins Thursday. | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC

At the UFC Vegas 78 weigh-ins, all 26 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Las Vegas will step on the scale Friday. MMA Fighting has a live stream of the official weigh-ins above courtesy of Ag. Fight, plus highlights of the weigh-ins, which can be seen below.

Elon Musk | Getty

Elon Musk has his own plans for a fight with Mark Zuckerberg, and they don’t involve the UFC or Dana White.

Li Yixuan and Xu Wanying at a Jue Cheng King event in Shanxi, China, on Aug. 5, 2023 | @mmaecosystem, Twitter

Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day.

James Gallagher | Lucas Noonan, Bellator MMA

By almost every measure possible, James Gallagher should probably be seething with anger and frustration as he prepares to make his return at Bellator 298.

Michael Chandler | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

Rafael dos Anjos isn’t sold on Michael Chandler vs. Conor McGregor being the fight to make for “The Notorious.”

MMA Fighting has Bellator 298 results for the Storley vs. Ward fight card and more from Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Friday night.

John Dodson will return to the BKFC ring Friday night. | Photos by Phil Lambert

MMA Fighting has BKFC 48 results for the Dodson vs. Ridge fight card and more from the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, N.M.

Kleber Koike will fight Masanori Kanehara | Photo via RIZIN

Former RIZIN featherweight champion Kleber Koike will get another chance at 145 pounds when he returns to the ring on Sept. 24 opposite Masanori Kanehara. Koike was the featherweight champion but lost his title on the scale in June, missing weight for his title bout with Chihiro Suzuki.

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Logan Paul will set foot in the boxing ring for the first time in two years when he returns in October but that’s still less time spent away from action than his upcoming opponent Dillon Danis.