7:41 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Five championship bouts. Several other top-10 showdowns. A few high-profile rematches. More than a dozen fights featuring former world champions. The UFC has quite a summer of fighting lined up. After taking this coming weekend off, the promotion makes a big splash on July 11 in Abu Dhabi with UFC
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Dan Hooker returned home to New Zealand following his five round war with Dustin Poirier but it will be at least two weeks before he can hug his family. As part of the travel restrictions set up by the government in his native country, the lightweight contender has to stay locked down in quarantine as
Dan Hooker (Photo: Chris Unger/Zuffa) Dan Hooker is paying the price for his bout with Dustin Poirier in more ways than one. Hooker and Poirier collided in an instant classic this past Saturday night (June 27). The bout went the distance and was back-and-forth throughout. It was “The Diamond’s” strong showing in the final frame
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Arianny Celeste and boyfriend Taylor King are about to become parents. The longtime UFC Octagon girl revealed her baby bump on Instagram today and is expected to give birth in late September. The couple got wind of the news back in January and have been planning for the big day ever since. “My mom for
Dana White releases UFC Fight Island infrastructure first-look video The Ultimate Fighting Championship recently held its fifth event at the Apex, its own arena and broadcast facility based on the UFC’s Las Vegas campus. The venerable fight promotion is now set to travel to Abu Dhabi for a slate of four events over the course
MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz shared a photo of Frankie Edgar, who looks absolutely ripped ahead of his 135lbs debut in just a few weeks on Fight Island. Edgar takes on top bantamweight contender Pedro Munhoz in the co-main event of the July 15 card on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. This marks the first time
6:23 PM ET It’s safe to say that a familiar face is back in UFC title contention. In what could be a fight of the year candidate, Dustin Poirier won a brutal battle against Dan Hooker in the UFC Fight Night main event on Saturday in Las Vegas. Both fighters traded wicked shots from the
The UFC wants ‘Fight Island’ to be the summer’s biggest blockbuster. A cinematic trailer for the four events scheduled to take place this July on Yas Island on Abu Dhabi was released on the UFC on BT Sport Twitter account over the weekend, featuring world title fight participants Kamaru Usman, Gilbert Burns, Alexander Volkanovski, Max
Everyone expected the UFC Vegas 4 main event between Dustin Poirier and Dan Hooker to be an instant classic. Then the two lightweight contenders went and delivered one, fighting tooth and nail for 25 minutes, with Poirier emerging victorious via unanimous decision in a clear Fight of the Year candidate. Scores were 48-47 twice and
Tyron Woodley (Photo: Michael Reaves/Getty) Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is hoping to make two more trips to the Octagon before 2020 comes to a close. Woodley returned to action back in May after being out for over a year. He took on GIlbert Burns inside the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. For
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Equal parts heartwarming and strange, another excellent story regarding top UFC Lightweight and former interim champion Tony Ferguson has emerged. Per ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, Tony Ferguson took the time out of his day to FaceTime call with a Make-A-Wish child. For any readers unaware, the Make-A-Wish foundation aims to “grant the
Flashback Fight: Watch Joanna Jedrzejczyk defeat Claudia Gadelha for the second time [embedded content] Joanna Jedrzejczyk held onto her strawweight title after she emerged victorious from her rematch with Claudia Gadelha at the Finale of season 23 of The Ultimate Fighter in 2016. The fight earned Fight of the Night honors and was Jedrzejczyk’s third
UFC 242 features a lightweight title unification matchup between the undefeated champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim champion Dustin Poirier. UFC 242 goes down live on Pay-Per-View at 2PM ET / 11AM PT on Saturday, September 7! Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription
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MMA legend Chael Sonnen says that round two of Dustin Poirier vs. Dan Hooker was the greatest five minutes of action in MMA history. Poirier and Hooker put on a “Fight of the Year” candidate at UFC on ESPN 12 this past Saturday night. For 25 minutes both men went back-and-forth, throwing everything including the