Month: September 2022

8:22 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN It’s not easy being No. 2. You’re habitually overlooked, an afterthought, banished to the background. But every so often, the orchestra’s second fiddle gets to step under the bright lights at center stage and show their stuff. This autumn brings several opportunities for Bellator MMA to take more of the
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At the UFC Vegas 61 weigh-ins, all 26 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Las Vegas will step on the scale Friday. MMA Fighting will have live video of the proceedings, courtesy of MMA Underground. The UFC Vegas 61 official weigh-ins begin at 12 p.m. ET. In the main event, strawweights Mackenzie Dern and Yan
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The losses forced him to go back to the drawing board, make a few changes, and work harder than ever. Barcelos channeled that energy over the last nine months and believes he’s sharper than ever and in the perfect spot to get an emphatic victory. “This training camp was completely different from any of the
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Ronda Rousey was undoubtedly the biggest star in the UFC between 2012 and 2015, but that hasn’t saved her from being largely dismissed by current fans several years after her dominant reign. In Ronda’s opinion, that highlights a key difference between MMA and WWE fans: MMA fans don’t respect their past legends like they should.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just over 24 hours away from its upcoming UFC Vegas 61 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, headlined by a 115-pound showdown between Top 10 strawweights Mackenzie Dern and Xiaonan Yan. The action gets underway this Sat. night (Oct. 1, 2022) on ESPN+ from inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las
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Anderson Silva explains his one problem with UFC president Dana White. Excerpt from the Sept. 21, 2022 episode of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4f1JueVgo5t9HSmobCRPug/join Subscribe to MMA Fighting on YouTube: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: http://Apple.co/themmahour Subscribe to The MMA Hour on
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“I’ve been trying to stay super active,” said Shainis, who has already fought four times in 2022. “It’s funny, I just turned 32, but I lost a year in 2018 when I broke my neck. That put me back a year. I’ve seen guys get to the next level in that year and I told
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If there’s one thing that former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz and rising lightweight star Paddy Pimblett have in common, it’s their thoughts on Chael Sonnen… During a recent episode of his podcast, Chattin Pony, Pimblett was joined by Ortiz, who recorded five successful defenses during his stint on the UFC’s 205-pound throne between
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Bellator featherweight champion Patricio Pitbull has his eyes set on bantamweight gold. The Brazilian has been out of action since his rematch with A.J. McKee in April. In their first encounter, ‘Mercenary’ picked up a first-round submission victory to win gold. In the rematch, Pitbull flipped the script, and re-won his title by unanimous decision.
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Welcome to Midnight Mania! The last few years haven’t been kind to Lyoto Machida. The 44-year-old former UFC champion has lost his last four bouts, but it’s not necessarily all bad. He took both Gegard Mousasi and Phil Davis to split-decisions, so it’s not as if “The Dragon” is just getting crushed outright. Recently, Machida
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“Reug Reug” had to wait a long time to get back in the ONE cage and he didn’t disappoint once he was there. Fighting for the first time since April 2021, Reug Reug a.k.a. Oumar Kane defeated Batradz Gazzaev with a furious ground-and-pound assault in the second round of their heavyweight bout at ONE Championship
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