Month: March 2020

Image Credit: Getty Images UFC president Dana White says a location is set for UFC 249. White has promised that the event will indeed take place on April 18. Scheduled to headline the card is a UFC lightweight title bout between champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson. The bout was initially set to take place

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president, Dana White, was adamant that UFC 249 would go down on April 18, despite COVID-19 forcing the promotion to close down for a few weeks. And now it seems he has found a location. According to the outspoken head honcho, while he couldn’t reveal where exactly the lightweight title fight

As restrictions across the United States, and the world, continue to escalate, UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has reportedly returned home to Russia.  Nurmagomedov is currently slated to face Tony Ferguson in the UFC 249 main event, which is scheduled for April 18. The bouts initial location in Brooklyn, New York, has been scratched. The

Notable members of the MMA community, including a handful of fighters, have gathered together to sing the famous UFC anthem “Face The Pain”. The coronavirus outbreak has generated a series of intriguing, and somewhat bizarre, reactions from around the world with everyone from influencers to athletes to celebrities trying to raise the spirits of those

6:19 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — A former MMA fighter accused in two Texas slayings is one of two people charged in the death of a woman who was abducted from a Minnesota domestic violence shelter 11 years ago, authorities said Monday. Cedric Marks, 45, of Killeen, Texas, has been charged in Hennepin County

Image Credit: Sarah Stier/Getty Images Henry Cejudo wants to take over the pound-for-pound spot and he’s letting Jon Jones and Khabib Nurmagomedov know it. Cejudo is the UFC bantamweight champion. He also held the flyweight gold but vacated it after it was clear that he had his sights set on sticking with the 135-pound division.

I know at times like this the last thing you need to read about is another bad Coronavirus take from someone who is clearly not an infectious disease specialist or scientist in a related field. But sometimes you come across something so dumb and wrong it really needs sharing, if only so it can be

Follow Zhang Weili’s historic journey to becoming the first Chinese UFC champion [embedded content] Zhang Weili became the first ever Chinese UFC champion in 2019 when she defeated Jessica Andrade for the women’s strawweight title. Follow Weili’s historic journey to becoming the first Chinese UFC champion. Weili recently defeated former champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk in their

Image via @thenotoriousMMA on instagram UFC superstar Conor McGregor took to social media on Sunday to offer up a prayer to Italy, a country that has been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. Over 5000 people have died in Italy as a result of the coronavirus, and more deaths are being reported every day. Italy has

11:15 AM ET Anthony Smith Former UFC light heavyweight title challenger Anthony Smith is scheduled to face Glover Teixeira at UFC Fight Night on April 25 in his backyard of Lincoln, Nebraska. The UFC has not announced any changes to that card, but all future events are subject to change because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Photo Credit: Matt Roberts-USA TODAY Sports Alexander Volkanovski, like many fighters and fight fans right now is anxious to get back to competition. His last bout against Max Holloway at the end of last year had him win the UFC featherweight title, but winning by decision is not enough for the former rugby player. For

So it’s been a pretty bad couple of weeks for the world as the Coronavirus graduated from hoax to overhyped panic to deadly disease with terrifying speed. The economy looks like it’s in the process of being burned down, some of our governments are spraying it with a water pistol, and Dana White isn’t even