The full UFC 292 salaries are as follows: Sean O’Malley: $500,000 (no win bonus)Aljamain Sterling: $500,000Zhang Weili: $520,000 (no win bonus)Amanda Lemos: $250,000Ian Machado Garry: $100,000 (includes $50,000 win bonus)Neil Magny: $134,000Mario Bautista: $86,00 (includes $43,000 win bonus)Da’Mon Blackshear: $27,000Marlon Vera: $310,000 (includes $155,000 win bonus)Pedro Munhoz: $150,000Brad Tavares: $200,000Chris Weidman: $426,000Gregory Rodrigues: $100,000 (includes
Month: August 2023
UFC middleweight contender Sean Strickland insists jiu jitsu “doesn’t work,” despite what happened during this training session. In fact, “Tarzan” no longer has a Gi and keeps his black belt buried in the trunk of his car. Probably because he’ll need it for that “weird” desert rendezvous he’s got planned for UFC welterweight veteran Belal
Brianna Williams, ESPNAug 27, 2023, 10:22 PM ET Sean O’Malley hasn’t taken long to get accustomed to his new title as UFC bantamweight champion. Editor’s Picks 1 Related O’Malley (17-1, 1 NC), nicknamed “Suga Sean,” dethroned Aljamain Sterling (23-4) via a second round TKO in UFC 292’s main event to earn the title. In his
Sean O’Malley wants to eventually share the boxing ring with Gervonta Davis, and while Davis’ coach feels as if O’Malley would be easy work, it didn’t stop the UFC bantamweight champion from firing a quick and simple rebuttal. “Lolz [dude’s] 5’2,” O’Malley said on Twitter. The reaction stemmed from an interview with ES News done
After the training session, the athletes participated in a variety of interviews with media in attendance. Additionally, the first Mexican-born UFC champion and Cuervo athlete ambassador Brandon Moreno attended the media day and was available to media for a scrum at the Cuervo La Rojeña distillery, the oldest distillery in Latin America. Get More Info
The 137th episode of Just Scrap Radio on BJPENN.com with host Cole Shelton is live ahead of UFC Paris this Saturday. We’re first joined by ninth-ranked UFC light heavyweight Volkan Oezdemir (1:48). Next UFC lightweight Thiago Moises (14:35) comes on. Closing out the program is TUF 31 winner Kurt Holobaugh (25:47). [embedded content] Volkan Oezdemir
Welcome to Midnight Mania! If, like me, you woke up today unaware of the name Charleston White, prepare for a serious education. Let’s start with the basics: White is a 53-year-old YouTuber, known for saying crazy s—t on the Internet. Naturally, White found his way to the Influencer Championship Boxing (ICB) promotion, scoring himself a
Aug 28, 2023, 11:04 AM ET A new study has diagnosed the degenerative brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in more than 40 percent of youth, high school and college athletes – primarily football players – who were exposed to repetitive head impacts from contact sports and died before age 30. The study was conducted
DAMN! They Were Good celebrates the careers of the most exciting and influential fighters in MMA history and on this episode it celebrates the seminal career of Joanna Jedrzejczyk, the woman who built the UFC’s strawweight division. After flirting with a comeback earlier this year, Jedrzejczyk ultimately decided against it, officially notifying the UFC of
Former UFC athlete and finisher Rongzhu has been laser-focused on returning to the promotion throughout the Road To UFC tournament, and that focus was evident as he came out swinging in the first round, hunting down Sangwook Kim and peppering him with combinations, overhand rights and the occasional leg kicks. Kim slowed the pace late in
BJ Penn says running for Governor allowed him to stop fighting “You know what, I actually had a hard time letting my identity go and moving on from life without fighting, it was really hard for me,” BJ Penn said on Just Scrap Radio. “But, then I got into the Governor thing and the Governor
UFC Senior Vice President and head of UFC Asia, Kevin Chang, was running the show at UFC Singapore last weekend because promotion president, Dana White, was vacationing at his summer home in Levant, Maine. Unfortunately for White and his family, an unexpected visitor dropped by after hours. Unlike the creep who found his way into
Jeff Wagenheim, ESPNAug 28, 2023, 08:07 AM ET If you’re a mixed martial arts promotion and your name doesn’t begin with “U” and end with “FC,” the fight business can rough you up. How does your second-fiddle company attract athletes the MMA fan base has heard of and cares about? How do your fights even
Sean O’Malley is putting his champion credentials front and center for the world to see. Following his UFC 292 bantamweight title fight win over Aljamain Sterling, O’Malley said at the post-fight press conference that he would consider getting the word “champ” tattooed somewhere on his face. Sure enough, “Sugar” now has the word in all
This week’s action begins in the welterweight division, as experienced Brazilian Carlos Prates takes on unbeaten American Mitch Ramirez. Prates carries a 16-6 record and six-fight winning streak into battle this week in Las Vegas, having earned each of his last two victories by first-round stoppage under the LFA banner. A perfect 7-0 as a
Max Holloway has praised Chan Sung Jung, aka The Korean Zombie, following their fantastic fight at UFC Singapore. Last Saturday night, in the main event of UFC Singapore, Max Holloway went to war with The Korean Zombie. The two men traded back and forth until finally, at the start of the third round, Holloway caught
Conor McGregor is continuing to push for a fight against Michael Chandler at UFC 296 on December 16th. McGregor and Chandler coached opposite each other on the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter, and the general plan has always seemed to be a fight on the UFC’s last pay-per-view of the year. The only problem?
Erin Blanchfield is one step closer to a UFC title shot — or, if you ask her, there are no more steps she needs to take. The 24-year-old flyweight improved to 6-0 in the UFC on Saturday with a unanimous decision win over one-time title challenger Taila Santos at UFC Singapore. It wasn’t a dominant
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 17
- Next Page »