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…
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…
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…
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…
Olivier Aubin-Mercier has called it a career. Aubin-Mercier picked up his second straight PFL Lightweight championship and one million dollar prize at the 2023 PFL Championships (Fri., Nov. 24, 2023) when he defeated Clay Collard via unanimous decision from inside The Anthem in Washington D.C (watch highlights). Before the fight, “The Canadian Gangster” teased that…
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterNov 23, 2023, 03:54 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions A middleweight matchup between Jack Hermansson and Joe Pyfer will headline a UFC Fight Night event Feb. 10, UFC CEO Dana White announced Thursday. The event will…
Katie Taylor and Chantelle Cameron turned in another thrilling brawl earlier tonight (Sat., Nov. 25, 2023) live on DAZN from inside 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, as the two rematched for Cameron’s WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO and The Ring female light-welterweight titles. In the end, it was Taylor who did enough on the judges’ scorecards to…
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterNov 25, 2023, 01:01 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON D.C. — A potential superfight between two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison and Bellator MMA champion Cris Cyborg has tantalized fans for years. For the first time,…
Welcome to Midnight Mania! It’s been quite a year in combat sports for lawsuits involving wives and girlfriends (WAGs). First time hearing the WAG phrase? Perhaps you should purchase How to be a WAG, the instructional on becoming a wife and/or girlfriend of a famous athlete written by Layla Ann-Lee … current wife of UFC…
Nov 24, 2023, 07:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2023 PFL season will come to an end this fall, as all six weight classes will crown a new champion at the 2023 PFL World Championship on Nov. 24 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. The promotion’s championship bouts will feature a mix of former…
Derek Brunson will be making a fresh start this weekend when he makes his Professional Fighters League (PFL) debut after an 11-year career under the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) banner. It was a bittersweet and fairly unexpected departure from the promotion earlier this year, but Brunson admits he “needed a change.” Brunson has been one…
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterNov 23, 2023, 03:47 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Lightweight Jalin Turner has agreed to replace the injured Dan Hooker in a bout against Bobby Green at UFC Fight Night on Dec. 2 in Austin. UFC…
Welcome to Midnight Mania! We’re just a few short weeks away from UFC 296, which featured a Welterweight clash between surging contender Shavkat Rakhmonov and expert Karateka Stephen Thompson. It’s a fight with both history and relevance behind it. Back in August 2022, “Wonderboy” denied the callouts of Rakhmonov, claiming that fans didn’t have any…
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterNov 23, 2023, 03:23 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions UFC featherweight champion Alex Volkanovski will defend his title against Ilia Topuria at UFC 298 on Feb. 17 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, CEO Dana…
WASHINGTON D.C. — The 2023 PFL Championship is a go. Six new champions will be crowned and awarded a $1 million prize inside The Anthem in Washington D.C. this weekend (Fri., Nov. 24, 2023). Before fight night, MMA Mania is bringing you coverage on the ground of each day’s festivities. With the weigh ins over,…
Ian Parker, ESPNNov 22, 2023, 08:32 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The PFL concludes the 2023 season with the PFL World Championships at The Anthem in Washington on Friday night (8 p.m. on ESPN+ PPV, 5 p.m. on ESPN+). The event will crown the promotion’s fifth group of champions since its debut in 2018. In…
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Tom Aspinall did the impossible a couple weeks ago at UFC 295. Stepping up on short-notice with little training and a back injury, Aspinall smoked Sergei Pavlovich in the co-main event, earning himself an interim UFC title via first-round knockout. It was a tremendous moment for the English talent, but the…
