Credit: UFC After a week away because of the Thanksgiving holiday, UFC Vegas 44 brings caged violence back to television screens from inside the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nev. The Dec. 4 event is headlined by a battle of top five bantamweights looking to move another major step forward in their aspirations to land…
Deiveson Figueiredo had a dream come true when meeting all-time UFC great Jon Jones. Figueiredo and Jones both have a common acquaintance in Henry Cejudo, who has been very active as a coach, training partner, and mentor to his peers in recent weeks. Two examples of this can be found in the assistance and advice…
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov is staging what he describes as a “big press conference” on Dec. 15 in Miami, Florida. The 33 year-old “Eagle” plans to announce the stateside future of his own mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, Eagle Fighting Championship (Eagle FC), which to date, has operated primarily in…
The will he or won’t he return may finally be settled. According to Ali Abdelaziz former champion, Henry Cejudo will be returning to the UFC and is looking for a title shot to welcome him back. “Yes, I do,” Abdelaziz told MMA Fighting regarding Cejudo potentially returning in 2022. “100-percent I do. I think he does.”…
Sure, injuries and inactivity can prevent people from knowing your name, but Font has long been a guy with the goods to chase for the belt. In 12 UFC fights, his three losses have come against John Lineker, Pedro Munhoz and Raphael Assuncao. Although he picked up wins over Matt Schnell, Thomas Almeida and Ricky…
Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has faced some of the most significant injury obstacles of anyone to hold a UFC belt: Two blown knees, a botched surgery, a torn quad, and other consequences of a decade in the cage. They cost him almost four years of his career. When he looks back and looks…
Kamaru Usman is not surprised by Colby Covington’s post-UFC 268 behavior. It is no secret that both bouts between Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington had highly contentious build-ups to say the very least. This particularly rings true when replaying the words of Covington. Covington has taken shots at Usman’s family, made accusations of steroid use,…
Triller Fight Club returned on Saturday night with another oddball night of combat sports, this time with their new sub-promotion Triad Combat (watch the highlights here). The concept: a triangular boxing ring where fighters box with smaller gloves and clinch fighting is allowed. The apparent idea is to give MMA fighters more of a fair…
Miesha Tate removes her own stitches: ‘Who needs a doctor?’ | Video Former women’s bantamweight campion Miesha Tate suffered a loss in her last outing to Ketlen Vieira in the UFC Vegas 43 main event on Nov. 20. Tate suffered swelling and lacerations during the fight and on Saturday posted a video to her YouTube…
Preview the main event of UFC 236 on Saturday night between Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier for the interim lightweight championship. 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. To start your 7-day free trial, visit http://www.ufc.tv/packages To order UFC…
Nate Diaz responds after Jake Paul gets praised by Ben Askren for his boxing skills, Sean Strickland declines bout against Darren Till and asks for Paulo Costa or Jack Hermansson instead and much more! Informations about our work: This channel is made for MMA fans and has been in existence since 2014. This channel reports…
After a full year of empty arenas, the UFC sold out VyStar Veterans Arena in Jacksonville, FL for UFC 261. The result was an epic night of amazing fights, knockouts, submissions, and support from the fans. The fans brought an energy that made that night in Jacksonville magic. The UFC would be nothing without the…
Jim Miller has seen a lot in his 16 years in the fight game. The MMA veteran’s 38 UFC bouts are more than any other fighter in history, and Miller has faced a who’s who of lightweight royalty over that time. That includes a two-fight series with current UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira. Miller first…
Aljamain Sterling continues to be perplexed by his detractors several months after his controversial world title win. Ever since Aljamain Sterling won the UFC bantamweight championship via disqualification at UFC 259, he has been met with hostility from legions of fans. This is because there is a common belief that Sterling was not as hurt…
Two former UFC heavyweight champions almost pro wrestled each other at one of the biggest wrestling shows of the year until a Triller boxing bout derailed those plans. That’s a sentence that can be written in 2021, and chances are there will be more variations on it moving forward as various combat sports and combat…
Diego Sanchez has received an outpouring of support while hospitalized for COVID: ‘I’m not a Antivaxxer damnit!!’ UFC Hall of Famer Diego Sanchez remains hospitalized and undergoing treatment for severe symptoms of COVID-19. Sanchez gave an update on his condition on Saturday via social media. The inaugural season winner of The Ultimate Fighter started suffering…
Although she had covered UFC events as a freelancer and for the website Heavy, her first show as an official member of the team was UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos 3 in October 2013. “It was all a blur,” she recalls. “I remember being very nervous all the time. I remember everybody on the…
6:02 PM ET Conor McGregor for the first time has given fans some insight into the timetable for his return to the Octagon. The former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion tweeted Saturday that he will be cleared to return to MMA sparring by April. And after that, McGregor wrote, “a return will be imminent.” The…
