Credit: Jeff Bottari/Handout Photo via USA TODAY Sports For Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight king Francis Ngannou, there are three specific options for his first title defense. Either a dream fight with former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. A trilogy bout with two-time heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, or the winner of August’s UFC 265 interim title…
Former UFC Middleweight Champion, Chris Weidman, will need to undergo a second surgery on his leg. Weidman suffered a grotesque leg injury on the main card of UFC 261 back in April. Weidman threw a leg kick at his opponent, Uriah Hall. UFC color commentator Joe Rogan heard a loud sound when the shin made…
8:00 AM ET Scott Coker took the reins of Bellator MMA in 2014 with a firm plan for growth. The longtime combat sports promoter was going to apply some of the principles that worked well when he ran Strikeforce, from its first MMA event in March 2006 until it was acquired by the UFC’s parent…
Kayla Harrison has plenty of business to take care of at 155 pounds, but don’t think that she doesn’t hear the calls for her to drop down a weight class. Two seasons into her run with the PFL, Harrison has unsurprisingly established herself as the woman to beat in the lightweight division. Since Harrison declared…
Just one day after removing herself from the team finals, gymnastics icon Simone Biles withdrew from the all-around competition at the Olympic Games, citing mental health issues as the reason for her departure. Michael Bisping is not impressed. “Quitters never win,” the former UFC middleweight champion wrote on Twitter. “Mental health issues need to be…
UFC hall of famer and former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber recently gave his thoughts on TJ Dillashaw’s past dealings with performance enhancing substances. Dillashaw was once Faber’s pupil. The former two-time UFC bantamweight champion was recruited by Faber and started his career at Faber’s gym, Team Alpha Male. However, the two had a falling…
Credit: Jason Silva-USA TODAY Sports Veteran Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight Sean Strickland is one half of the UFC Vegas 33 main event on July 31. With this unique spotlight in his first UFC headlining role far more eyes are on him and his social accounts than ever before. And fans recently discovered that the 30-year-old…
UFC commentator John Gooden takes us through the state of the 155-pound division after a busy few months for the lightweights, which included the crowning of Charles Oliveira as champion. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/…
The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC Vegas 32! Check out all the changes below! Men’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Strawweight: No Changes Women’s Flyweight: Maycee Barber (#13) and Miranda Maverick (#14) swap positions after Barber’s controversial victory at UFC Vegas 32. Women’s Bantamweight: Julia Avila…
6:59 PM ET The UFC has had to make several changes to its Fight Night card for Saturday in Las Vegas. The scheduled co-main event pitting rising heavyweights Shamil Abdurakhimov and Chris Daukaus was removed from the card due to COVID-19 protocols involving Daukaus’ camp, UFC officials told ESPN on Tuesday. In addition, a welterweight…
Ricky Turcios is again just a win away from becoming a UFC fighter. Team Volkanovski’s No. 3 bantamweight pick became the first fighter to advance to The Ultimate Fighter 29 finals, taking a convincing decision in an action-packed scrap with Team Ortega’s Liudvik Sholinian (9-1-1)*. As he did in his semifinal thriller opposite Dan Argueta,…
Welcome to Midnight Mania! There can be no questioning that Chuck Liddell is a legend of the sport, a five-time UFC Light Heavyweight champion and one of the first North American stars to come from cage fighting. “The Iceman” changed the sport, scoring dramatic knockout wins over big name foes like Randy Couture and Tito…
UFC Vegas 33 live results: Uriah Hall vs. Sean Strickland (Click on the fight below and then scroll down to see in-fight live stats and full results, courtesy of Fight Analytics. Full UFC Vegas 33 live results from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m….
Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports After missing two years due to a failed drug test, Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight contender TJ Dillashaw will have to endure another hiatus after injuring knee ligaments during his main event victory at UFC Vegas 32. TJ Dillashaw talks torn and ruptured knee ligaments from UFC Vegas 32 In…
UFC middleweight Sean Strickland has provided a bizarre analysis of his role in the promotion as a fighter ahead of his upcoming bout. Strickland’s comments come ahead of his first main event in the UFC this weekend. Against perennial contender Uriah Hall, the #11-ranked middleweight will look to continue his rise in the division and…
1:02 PM ET Clay Collard’s quest for $1 million resumes in August. The MMA veteran, who made a name for himself last year in the boxing world, is two wins away from winning the PFL 2021 lightweight championship and one of the six $1 million prizes. He will face Raush Manfio in the semifinals of…
T.J. Dillashaw got a win in his first fight in more than two years but now he’s headed into surgery after earning a split decision victory over Cory Sandhagen at UFC Vegas 22. The former bantamweight champion revealed on Tuesday that an MRI revealed a couple of tears in his knee that will force him…
Sound familiar? Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight titleholder Kamaru Usman will defend his division title against 170-pound nuisance Colby Covington in the upcoming UFC 268 pay-per-view (PPV) main event, tentatively scheduled for Sat., Nov. 6, 2021 inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. And he’ll do it as the -270 betting favorite, according…
