Fight-size MMA Update: Bellator Title Fight, Casey vs. Herrig, Calderwood vs. Rawlings, More Fights

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Your MMA Fight-size update for August 24!

- You can see highlights of last week's SnoopCast from the Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series above!

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- #11 Strawweight Joanne Calderwood (11-3) will take on Bec Rawlings (7-6) at Flyweight at UFC Fight Night Sydney on November 18.

- Marcin Held (22-7) will face Teemu Packalen (8-2) at UFC Fight Night Poland on October 21, per MMADNA.com.

- #12 Cortney Casey vs. #9 Felice Herrig (13-6) has been added to the UFC 218 show in Detroit on December 2.

- Sean O'Malley (8-0) vs. Terrion Ware (17-6) will take place at the TUF 25 Finale December 1 in Las Vegas. 

- Boston Salmon (6-1) faces Augusto Mendes (6-2) on October 28 at UFC Fight Night Sao Paulo.

- Court McGee (18-6) vs. Sean Strickland (18-2) will do battle at UFC Fight Night Norfolk on November 11.

- You can see a Bellator sitdown with Kristi Lopez below. 

- Stephen Espinoza has confirmed that despite feuding with Conor McGregor, Paulie Malignaggi will remain on the Showtime broadcast this weekend. 

- Junior dos Santos was removed from the latest UFC rankings in light of his potential USADA violation. 

- Sergio Pettis moved up to number four in the Flyweight rankings this week.

- Bellator 188 has added a Featherweight Championship fight between Patricio "Pitbull" Freire and Daniel Weichel from Tel Aviv, Isreal on November 16.

- You can see a Bellator sitdown with AJ McKee below.

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