UFC Hall of Famer, Team Alpha Male founder, and three-time bantamweight title challenger Urijah Faber is 39 years old and retired in December of 2016. However, ‘The California Kid’ spoke recently at a Quintet 3 media event in Las Vegas, and said he remained in the USADA testing pool, so could return at any point if he
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Darren Till lost a fight Saturday night vs. UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. Till missed weight for the #1 contender fight, and had missed three fights back, so the UFC had Kamaru Usman weigh in as back up. Going into the fight Till said he would win, defend once, then move up to middleweight.post-fight, he
Beginning with this weekend’s card headlined by Levy Marroquin vs. Jose ‘Pochito’ Alday, DAZN will be the exclusive home of Combate Americas’ English-language broadcasts in the United States and Canada. The multi-year deal promises to deliver 13 Combate events in 2019. “Chapter one of DAZN’s entrance into the U.S. market is focused on combat sports,”
Extreme weight cutting in mixed martial arts reached a new level of irrationality at UFC 228 last weekend. Darren Till failed to make weight for his #1 contender fight, his second miss in four fights, but still got the title shot. Instead of moving Till up a division and protecting his health, as he plans to
The UFC has enjoyed no clear Frazier to its Ali since the fall of PRIDE in 2007. However, under the leadership of Scott Coker, Bellator is rising. Some economists argue that every business strives to be a monopoly, and that it never lasts; if that’s true, then the rise of a rival is not just possible,
Former HBO executive Mark Taffet revolutionized the use of pay-per-view for boxing events decades ago and now hopes to make a mark in mixed martial arts with a team-concept called the MMA Pro League. Taffet and partner Hani Darwish head up the fight promotion, debuting Saturday, Sep. 15, and streaming live on FloCombat.com. As novel
In a two-and-a-half year run, UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt fought Alistair Overeem, Brock Lesnar, Frank Mir, Bigfoot Silva, Stipe Miocic, and Fabricio Werdum. Of those, now only Miocic is clean. The latest to fail a PED test Werdum. The former UFC heavyweight champ was supposed to have headlined UFC Fight Night 136, but withdrew after
The early, official UFC Fight Night 136 weigh-ins took place at the event hotel in Moscow, at 2:00 a.m. ET. There will be no ceremonial weigh-ins. Two fighters missed weight; both fights will go on. Jin Soo Son weighed in at 137, missing the bantamweight non-title cut off by one pound; he will forfeit 20%
There is a short list of potential candidates for greatest female mixed martial arts fighter of all time, that includes Gina Carano, Cris Cyborg, Megumi Fuji, Amanda Nunes, Ronda Rousey, and the consensus choice is Cyborg. However, UFC women’s bantamweight champion Nunes fights the featherweight champ Cyborg at UFC 232 on December 29 in Las Vegas,
UFC lightweight Michael Chiesa was on the fighter bus that former lightweight champion McGregor attacked with a hand truck at UFC 223. The target of the attack was soon-t0-be lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov, who was amused. Two fighters including Chiesa, were cut by flying glass to the point they couldn’t fight. On weigh-ins day, late