Entering the Apex for Saturday's UFC Fight Night, Dan Ige was already known as a tough, fiery, and talented competitor in the featherweight division. But coming off a loss to Bryce Mitchell and placed toward the bottom of the rankings, the Hawaiian needed a strong performance to maintain any sort of realistic path in the direction of the gold.
Sometimes when two close friends square off in the cage, it makes for a less-than-stellar product on fight night. That wasn’t the case in the UFC Fight Night 236 co-main event, where Dan Ige authored a vicious knockout of friend and onetime training partner Andre Fili at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Dan Ige lived up to his “50K” moniker in a major way on Saturday night. The Dana White's Contender Series alum pocketed a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” for his first-round knockout of Andre Fili in the UFC Fight Night 236 co-main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Dan "50K" Ige scored one of the most spectacular knockouts of the night at UFC Vegas 86. The Hawaiian native sparked his opponent, Andre Fili, with a crisp overhand that detached him from consciousness, Ige followed up with a ground strike that secured the victory.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship will pitch its tent inside the familiar haunts of the UFC Apex for a second consecutive week with UFC Fight Night 236 on Saturday in Las Vegas.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship trots out the middleweight division with a well-matched lineup that sees only one betting favorite at -300 or higher this Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Center stage is primed for a featherweight co-main event between two seasoned contenders in Dan Ige and Andre Fili, as the spotlight shines brightly on UFC Fight Night 236 this Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
The co-main event of UFC Vegas 86 takes place at featherweight between Dan Ige and Andre Fili. This matchup came to be after Ige’s original opponent, Lerone Murphy, was forced out but it’s still a tremendous matchup that’s a top contender for fight of the night.
No. 14 ranked UFC featherweight contender Lerone Murphy (13-0-1) has been forced from his upcoming The post Andre Fili replaces Lerone Murphy, faces Dan Ige at UFC Fight Night 236 first appeared on MyMMANews.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has found a replacement for its lost co-headliner on Feb. 10. MMA Junkie first broke the news on Friday that Andre Fili (23-10, 1 NC) would be stepping in for Lerone Murphy at UFC Fight Night 236 on Feb.
UFC featherweight contender Dan Ige has a new opponent for the co-main event of UFC Vegas 86 on February 10. The UFC Fight Night event is set to take place at the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas and features #10-ranked middleweight Jack Hermansson vs.
A featherweight bout has been added to the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s last event of the year. Andre Fili (22-10) and Lucas Almeida (14-2) are set to trade leather at UFC 296 on Dec.
UFC featherweight Nathaniel Wood suffered a nasty facial injury in his unanimous decision win over Andre Fili. Wood defeated Fili by unanimous decision at UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to us today, July 22, 2023, for our second UFC The post Nathaniel Wood survives two knockdowns to defeat Andre Fili in back-and-forth war at UFC London first appeared on MyMMANews.
Andre Fili will not be fighting at UFC Vegas 70. Fili was set to return The post Andre Fili withdraws from UFC Vegas 70 after undergoing emergency eye surgery first appeared on MyMMANews.
Andre Fili has led a two-steps-forward-one-step-back kind of existence since he joined the Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight roster nearly nine years ago.
Stuck in a logjam within the Ultimate Fighting Championship division’s middle tier, Andre Fili and Bill Algeo hope to soon gain some separation from one another at 145 pounds.
A featherweight showdown pitting Lando Vannata against Andre Fili is on tap for an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Sept. 17.
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