Welcome to Midnight Mania! Per a first report from MMAJunkie, longtime UFC Lightweight veterans Donald Cerrone and Joe Lauzon are targeted to battle on April 30 at UFC Fight Night 208 from a to-be-determined location. This could be the last ride for either man … or both? “Cowboy” is having a rough go of things…
8:51 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing a lightweight bout between Donald Cerrone and Joe Lauzon in April, multiple sources told ESPN. The 155-pound fight would take place on a UFC Fight Night event on April 30. The UFC has not announced an official venue for the card. Cerrone (36-16) has not fought…
Eagle FC 44: Spong vs. Kharitonov took place tonight from the FLXcast Arena in Miami, Florida. In the main event, undefeated boxer Tyrone Spong sought to go 3-0 in his MMA career when he took on Sergei Kharitonov, who entered with a total of 42 MMA fights and a record of 33-9. Spong is 14-0 as…
MMA Fighting has Bellator 273 results for the Bader vs. Moldavsky fight card Saturday night from the Footprint Center in Phoenix. In the main event, Bellator interim heavyweight champion Valentin Moldavsky attempts to unify the belt against undisputed champ Ryan Bader, who returns to heavyweight after losing the light heavyweight title and falling short in…
Credit: Jake Paul YouTube In a new post to his popular YouTube channel, Jake Paul laid into UFC president Dana White, as well as superstar fighters Jorge Masvidal and Conor McGregor with a classic hip-hop beef tradition: The diss track. The public heat between the YouTube personality turned boxing sensation and the UFC boss has…
Rashad Evans wins on Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Eagle FC 44 USA debut Miami, FL — Former UFC heavyweight champion, Rashad Evans, stepped back into the cage on Friday night as the co-main event at Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Eagle FC 44 which also happened to be the promotion’s American debut. It was a bit of a lackluster return…
UFC 270 is upon us. All of the fighters competing at UFC 270: Ngannou vs Gane got one last look at their opponent before Saturday night at the Ceremonial Weigh-In. 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/…
Eric Nicksick discusses Francis Ngannou’s win at UFC 270, how stressful the camp was, the champ’s knee injury, how close they were to pulling out of the fight, what he thought of Dana White not putting the belt on Ngannou, and more. Subscribe to MMA Fighting on YouTube: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Subscribe to The MMA Hour on…
In the song “Diamonds from Sierra Leone,” Kanye West asks, “When you talk about classics, do my name get brought up?” Whittaker could do the same in regards to this performance when people are discussing the best championship efforts inside the Octagon. Romero is a different type of athlete — a mass of muscle and…
Dapper Labs recently dropped the first “UFC Strike” collectible product, a series of non-fungible token (NFT) images that give combat sports fans “the opportunity to own the most epic, talked-about fight moments in the history of UFC.” But like every first effort, the product was not without its share of bugs. “We discovered after the…
8:00 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim At first, Ryan Bader wondered if he belonged. By using a relative colossus and a stoic legend as springboards, he came to recognize he most definitely did. The self-reflection by Bellator’s light heavyweight champion occurred as the promotion put a new challenge in front of him in 2018. Bader had…
Said Nurmagomedov is looking to fight Sean O’Malley next. Nurmagomedov picked up the biggest win of his UFC career on Saturday night at UFC 270 as he submitted Cody Stamann in less than a minute. The win put him to 4-1 in the UFC and is now on a two-fight winning streak. After the win,…
Tyson Fury is set to cash in big for his next fight. The heavyweight boxing champion is expected to earn a base purse of more than $32 million for his upcoming bout against interim champion Dillian Whyte, which will serve as a title unification fight for the WBC belt. The news comes following a record-breaking…
Jan 22, 2022; Anaheim, California, USA; Said Nurmagomedov (blue gloves) celebrates his win by submission against Cody Stamann (red gloves) during UFC 270 at Honda Center. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Fast-rising UFC bantamweight Said Nurmagomedov claims fan-favorite contemporary Sean O’Malley has been avoiding a fight with him for a while. Nurmagomedov (15-2)…
UFC Champ Julianna Peña on COVID-19 pandemic: “This is just a money grab” Newly crowned UFC women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña appeared as a guest on Joe Rogan‘s podcast and gave her opinion on the COVID-19 pandemic. Rogan’s highly popular podcast on Spotify has drawn national headlines recently for content that expressed controversial opinions on…
“When you take yourself out of the present moment and start looking at that, that’s having a great analytical mind, and when you’re in your analytical mind, you’re not able to react, you’re not able to fight, and you’re not able to get in the zone,” she said. “Obviously, those things play a factor because…
Welcome to Midnight Mania! The first Eagle FC card on American soil is less than 24 hours away, and promoter Khabib Nurmagomedov isn’t afraid to ruffle any feathers. The former UFC Lightweight kingpin has better insight than most regarding the trials and tribulations of being a professional fighter and working under the UFC banner. Plus,…
3:35 PM ET UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira will seek his second title defense against Justin Gaethje at UFC 274 on May 7, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Wednesday. The UFC is working on finalizing the 155-pound title fight shortly. The pay-per-view event now includes two title fights. Brazilian light heavyweight champion Glover…
