Dustin Poirier tells Joe Rogan it doesn’t make sense to fight Conor McGregor for UFC title [embedded content] After destroying Conor McGregor with calf kicks at UFC 257, Dustin Poirier is more than willing to run it back again. He doesn’t, however, believe that it should be a fight for the UFC lightweight championship. Poirier…
UFC Vegas 20 headliner Jairzinho Rozenstruik is in no rush to fight for the UFC heavyweight championship. A fighter can be so eager to prevent a world title opportunity to pass them by that in their zeal, they accelerate the process to the point where they become vulnerable to setbacks and being left behind the…
9:46 PM ET Former two-division boxing champ Antonio Tarver will return to the ring to fight former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir on April 17, sources confirmed with ESPN on Thursday. Tarver, 52, will box Mir, 41, on the undercard of a pay-per-view event headlined by a boxing match between former MMA champion Ben Askren…
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Though he was incredibly dominant and set several records in the last time years, it is tough to argue that interest was beginning to wane in Jon Jones’ Light Heavyweight title reign. Of course, we cannot blame Jones for beating all the best contenders and moving on to Middleweights, but the…
It might be an understatement to say the UFC has some questionable rankings. You would expect rankings to be questionable as they are subjective; however, in this column, I will point out rankings that I think are glaring mistakes. Editorial Commentary by Peter Parsons This past Saturday was a big night for heavyweights in the…
Colby Covington is joining Gilbert Burns in calling out Jorge Masvidal for citing his six days’ notice as a key reason behind his loss to Kamaru Usman at UFC 251. Following his loss to Kamaru Usman at UFC 251, Jorge Masvidal made it clear at the post-fight press conference that he was not going to…
8:44 AM ET The UFC flyweight title rematch between Deiveson Figueiredo and Brandon Moreno is scheduled for June 12, sources told ESPN on Thursday. A location for the event, which is expected to be UFC 263, isn’t set yet. In December, Figueiredo (20-1-1) and Moreno (18-5-2) fought to an exhilarating draw that was considered one…
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight finishers Nikita Krylov and Magomed Ankalaev will battle this weekend (Sat., Feb. 27, 2021) at UFC Vegas 20 inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. After 32 professional fights in the books, Krylov scored the first decision win of his career last time out opposite Johnny Walker. That’s absurd!…
Valentina Shevchenko vs. Jessica Andrade set for UFC 261 UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko is set to put her title on the line opposite Jessica Andrade. Shevchenko vs. Andrade will happen at UFC 261 on April 24. UFC president Dana White revealed the match-up to ESPN, noting that a location has yet to be determined….
ONE Championship announced on Wednesday that in May they would begin what they are calling “biggest women’s mixed martial arts tournament in the world.” May 28, the ONE Atomweight World Grand Prix will begin and the eight fighters competing in the tournament were announced. The winner of the tournament will face the current ONE Atomweight…
10:05 AM ET Former MMA super prospect Sage Northcutt is returning to action in April. Northcutt will face Shinya Aoki on April 28 at ONE on TNT IV, ONE officials told ESPN. Northcutt also confirmed the news on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. The fight will be contested in the promotion’s lightweight division, which is 170…
Welcome to Midnight Mania! The clip below was featured on Monday’s column. It was widely popular already, but it’s only grown more viral since then, and now details and consequences are beginning to emerge. Walker Brown is the “MMA trained fighter” who puts a beating on University of Oklahoma wide receiver Spencer Jones. Though the…
Watch Ciryl Gane slice through Junior dos Santos ahead of UFC Vegas 20 [embedded content] UFC heavyweight Ciryl Gane (7-0) extended his unbeaten streak with a TKO finish over Junior dos Santos at UFC 256 in December last year. Gane next faces Jairzinho Rozenstruik in the main event of UFC Vegas 20 on Saturday, February…
Jairzinho Rozenstruik will enter UFC Vegas 20 as nearly a 3-to-1 underdog, but he plans to exit with a victory en route to a higher ranking. The main event of UFC Vegas 20 this Saturday will feature two heavy hitters slugging it out to determine who will draw closer to that ever-elusive heavyweight title shot….
1:00 PM ET Deciding who should be next to challenge UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman is perhaps the hottest topic in MMA, and it involves some of the biggest names in the sport. Usman dispatched Gilbert Burns via third-round TKO at UFC 258 on Feb. 13, and he immediately called out Jorge Masvidal as his…
This weekend (Sat., Feb. 27, 2021), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will remain in UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, for UFC Vegas 20. It’s the definition of a solid, if unspectacular, “Fight Night” event: the usual mix of prospects, “Contender Series” products, and a couple established veterans to mix it up. The main event promises…
Forget about the beef with Jorge Masvidal, Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson believes UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman should fight him next. After Usman defeated former teammate Gilbert Burns at UFC 258 recently, he called out Masvidal, whom he had already defeated last summer. Masvidal had accepted their first fight on short notice, losing a decision to…
Michael Bisping believes that as great as Kamaru Usman has been during his flawless UFC run, there needs to be some brakes pumped by those who believe he has already surpassed Georges St-Pierre. Kamaru Usman is riding high after stomping out Gilbert Burns’s hopes of dethroning him at UFC 258, and he immediately called for…
