Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterNov 29, 2023, 09:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ONE Championship will be returning to Japan with a big card. Former top UFC prospect Sage Northcutt will face MMA legend Shinya Aoki in a lightweight bout under MMA rules Jan. 28 at ONE 165 in Tokyo, sources told ESPN on Wednesday…
Dricus Du Plessis doesn’t anticipate having a lengthy title reign as middleweight champion should he get the job done in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at UFC 297 on Jan. 20, 2024. The 29-year-old “StillKnocks” has been perfect inside the octagon thus far. Competing on six occasions in the UFC, Du Plessis (20-2) has won all of…
“It’s just business, it’s just work; I’ve got to separate the two,” he said of sharing the Octagon with Green on Saturday. “That’s something you’ve gotta do when you look up to somebody. It’s part of my journey, part of my path, and I just gotta go do what I gotta do. “It sends a…
Miesha Tate steps back into the cage on Saturday night at UFC Austin, and she’s doing it at 135 pounds, where she belongs. After a tough decision loss to Ketlen Vieira, Tate decided to try out women’s flyweight. The results were not great: coming into her fight against Julia Avila, “Cupcake” revealed the weight cut…
MMA Fighting has the BKFC 56 fight card for the Perry vs. Alvarez event at the Maverick Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday night. In the main event, Mike Perry, who is undefeated in the BKFC ring at 3-0, will clash against former UFC champion Eddie Alvarez in a middleweight contest at 175…
“I think it’s not even the criticism that bothers me,” he said. “It’s more just like I feel like there are characters in our sport and it’s become a thing where you play this character and that’ll be your brand. And I don’t do that. I’m a very genuine guy. From the interviews we’ve had,…
Colby Covington has made plenty of enemies in recent years. The perennial top Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight contender, Covington, has been a staple of the division’s title scene since his interim strap-winning effort over Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 225 in June 2018. Fighting his way to the top as a member of mixed…
Interesting times await PFL superstar Kayla Harrison in 2024. After re-signing with the promotion ahead of the 2022 season, Harrison’s contract included that she’d move past the tournament format in 2023 to become a PPV-exclusive fighter. Unfortunately for the former two-time lightweight champion, that led to her watching from the sidelines for the entirety of…
If Avila wants a little inspiration when it comes to fighters returning from an extended hiatus, she need not look any further than her fellow UFC Austin competitor Hardy, who marched into the Octagon after three years and four days on the sidelines and dominated recent TUF winner Juliana Miller in March at UFC 286….
It’s Ian Garry vs. the world these days, and that includes many of his former gyms and training partners. Garry is set to face Vicente Luque at UFC 296, which is a solid fight but also kind of awkward since both men train at Kill Cliff MMA. Garry always likes to engage in mental warfare…
Joe Rogan believes David Goggins is a “national treasure,” but he’s not sure whether Tony Ferguson is benefitting from a camp with the endurance athlete and motivational speaker before UFC 296. “I’m very interested to see Tony after he’s been training with David Goggins,” Rogan said on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “There’s a lot of,…
Figueiredo has gone 1-2-1 in his last four, all of those fights coming against Brandon Moreno for the flyweight title. Figueiredo has mentioned interest in moving up to 135 pounds, and now he is finally doing it against Rob Font in Austin. The bantamweight division is at an interesting time, as a new champion Sean…
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO, Dana White, isn’t sold on the initially rumored pay-per-view (PPV) numbers for Logan Paul and Dillon Danis’ recent boxing match. Whether professional, exhibition, or amateur, the elder Paul brother, Logan (1-1, 0-0-1 amateur, 0-0, 1 no decision in exhibition), picked up his first win as a boxer at the DAZN…
Beneil Dariush is looking to return to the win column at UFC Austin this Saturday night. The UFC lightweight division is only full of the toughest matchups, especially at its peak. After amassing a winning streak of eight in a row, the perennial top contender Dariush still needed one more win to earn his long-awaited…
Tsarukyan wasn’t thrilled that the bout kept getting pushed back, but he is happy that the UFC gave such an important fight the spotlight it deserves. He also believes that the extra two rounds will benefit his style and allows him to approach the fight with a little more patience. “To be honest, I like…
Nate Diaz is in a pretty sweet spot these days. The free agent has a standing offer from PFL to fight Jake Paul in the cage for $15 million. He’s also got a trilogy fight with Conor McGregor to cash in. The man has options. The man has money. It wasn’t always like this for…
Nov 27, 2023, 09:11 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PFL will start the new year with the most talented and deepest roster outside the UFC, perhaps ever. After acquiring Bellator MMA officially last week, there is an exponential amount of potential matchups PFL can now make with all of its champions and contenders and their…
Impa Kasanganay is a world champion and $1 million richer. Now, he’s setting his sights even higher. At this past Friday’s PFL World Championship 2023 event, Kasanganay earned a convincing unanimous decision win over Josh Silveira to complete a stunning eight-month campaign that saw him earn a spot in the league with a win on…
