Michael Chandler is doing another media run, but he still doesn’t have an official update regarding his long-awaited fight against Conor McGregor. Chandler teased a big announcement before appearing on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, but it turned out to be an investment deal with an alcohol company. “Iron Mike” is now, somewhat ironically,…
Michael Chandler kicked off 2023 with the expectation that he’d fight Conor McGregor. Now he’s ending 2023 with the first inactive year of his professional MMA career and the hopes that the McGregor fight will still materialize at some point in 2024. “[Have I been] frustrated at times? Absolutely. Annoyed? Maybe a little bit here…
“(The people in my circle) say things to put it into perspective — ‘you’re fighting up, co-main, you don’t have to travel’ — and I’m like, ‘yeah, it’s all good,’ but it’s just another week of training and I know what that looks like — it’s f****** hard. “I’m gonna do the same thing — show…
ONE Championship is doing just fine, according to its Founder, Chatri “Sityodtong” Trisiripisal. 2023 has been a unique year for the Cayman Islands-based promotion. ONE made its United States debut in April, has been putting on shows as part of its Prime Video deal, emphasized striking arts like Muay Thai and kickboxing over mixed martial…
Dec 3, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mixed martial arts is an unpredictable act. Look no further than UFC Fight Night last weekend in Austin. A slam knockout is one of the most rare ways for a bout to end, and yet it happened in back-to-back contests on Saturday, in nearly mirror images…
The Mixed Martial Arts Hour is back in your life! Below is a rundown of Monday’s show, which begins at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. UK time. 1 p.m. ET: Recapping the weekend in combat sports. 1:10 p.m.: BKFC star Mike Perry joins us to talk about his win over…
The fight between Soriano and Kopylov was the type of fight that had fans on the edge of their seat. Both fighters lay it on the line and have fight-ending power. Unfortunately, Soriano’s willingness to go out on his shield cost him, but the Hawaiian middleweight has certainly learned lessons learned along the way that…
Miesha Tate isn’t done yet. The 37 year old former women’s bantamweight champion returned at UFC Austin after a year and a half off to beat the brakes off Julia Avila, finishing their fight with a third round neck crank (watch the highlights here). It’s the kind of win that throws her back into contention…
Former Bellator flyweight champion Juliana Velasquez believes the Professional Fighters League has taken the right step in acquiring Bellator to battle the UFC for the top stop in the MMA sphere. Velasquez said on MMA Fighting’s Trocação Franca podcast that the future is bright for both PFL and Bellator fighters after the former announced its…
“It’s funny, I put so much pressure on myself before I lost that I thought that whenever I did lose, if I happened to, that the world was going to end and it was going to be the worst thing that ever happened to me,” said Brady. “And yeah, don’t get me wrong, it sucked…
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has added a mega prospect to their roster. Earlier today (Sun., Dec. 3, 2023), Robelis Despaigne dispatched fellow Heavyweight prospect Miles Banks in five seconds at Fury Fighting Championship 84 in Houston, Texas, and minutes after the win, it was announced on the broadcast that Despaigne has signed to the UFC…
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterDec 2, 2023, 10:43 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions AUSTIN — The UFC has a new potential star emerging at 155 pounds. Georgian lightweight Arman Tsarukyan (21-3) knocked out Beneil Dariush (22-6-1) with a piston right…
Arman Tsarukyan picked up an important win in the UFC Austin main event, but the co-main event already had him smiling. While Tsarukyan’s devastating knockout win over Beneil Dariush will undoubtedly go down as a career highlight, much of the headlines leading up to Saturday’s show were centered on a Tsarukyan’s confrontation with Bobby Green…
Pretty smooth, Mr. Klose, throwing in the name of tomorrow’s co-main eventer, a fighter the Michigan native defeated in 2018. It’s one of seven wins he’s secured in the UFC since joining the roster in 2017, with only two defeats, to David Teymur and Saturday’s headliner, Beneil Dariush. The Dariush loss came in a wild…
The UFC Lightweight title picture is now possibly up in the air. No. 8 ranked Lightweight Arman Tsarukyan picked up a huge win last night at UFC Austin (Sat., Dec. 2, 2023) when he demolished No. 4 ranked Beneil Dariush in 64 seconds via vicious ground and pound from inside the Moody Center in Austin,…
MMA Fighting has UFC Austin results for the Dariush vs. Tsarukyan fight card, a live blog of the main event, and more from Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on Saturday night. In the main event, Beneil Dariush squares off against Arman Tsarukyan in a key lightweight contest. Dariush and Tsarukyan have both won four of…
