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…
Bobby Green issued a challenge to the lightweight division for someone to step up when Dan Hooker was forced out last week, and Jalin Turner answered, setting up what should be an all-action battle in the co-main event. One of the preeminent “truth machines” in the UFC, Green proved that fact last time out, extending…
The women’s Flyweight title scene in Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has become its most interesting in 2023. Mexico’s Alexa Grasso flipped the weight class upside down early on in the year, upsetting Valentina Shevchenko with a fourth round rear-naked choke submission (watch highlights) at UFC 285 in March. The pair have since rematched, resulting in…
Tom Aspinall knows who he wants his first interim UFC heavyweight title defense to come against. UFC 295 took a shocking late hit in its build-up earlier this month. The all-time great Jon Jones was set to make his first title defense as the undisputed UFC heavyweight title holder. Previously matched with arguably the greatest…
Will Paulo Costa make his long-awaited return on January 20th at UFC 297 in Toronto, Canada? That certainly seems to be what “Borrachinha” is suggesting in a new social media posting. Costa hasn’t fought since August 2022 for a variety of reasons, the main ones being an extended contract negotiation and a more recent staph…
Tom Aspinall won’t say he’s the best MMA heavyweight in the world. But he is the best MMA heavyweight in the world right now. Aspinall can’t discount UFC heavyweight champ Jon Jones, who remains on the horizon after being forced to pull out of UFC 295 due to injury. But at this very moment, he…
The first meeting between these two men was one of the most anticipated heavyweight battles in UFC history, with the stakes raised even more when it was announced that it would air on FOX as a one-hour special to kick off the UFC’s broadcast deal with the network. It lasted just 64 seconds, as Dos…
Tony Ferguson had a misdemeanor DUI charge dismissed on Monday as part of a plea deal reached between “El Cucuy” lawyers and L.A. prosecutors. Video from May 7th, 2023 showed Ferguson’s white Chevrolet truck sitting on its side in the road after smashing into several other parked cars. TMZ’s reporting had police on site claiming…
Sean O’Malley thinks it makes a lot of sense for Aljamain Sterling to test his luck at 145 pounds. “I like Aljo, he’s a good dude. I really never said anything bad about him. I think if he goes up to ‘45, it’d be super interesting. I think there’s a lot of interesting fights up…
The first of the two draws in the month, this welterweight contest between Fakhretdinov and dos Santos was all kinds of fun. Less than 20 seconds into the contest, Fakhretdinov put the Brazilian on the deck with a clean right hand, swarming in search of the finish. With just under two minutes left in the…
