12:22 PM ET UFC president Dana White announced Tuesday that the trilogy bout between heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier is set for Aug. 15. Cormier, 41, has said this will be his last fight before retiring. Miocic beat Cormier by fourth-round TKO on Aug. 17, 2019, to regain his belt after Cormier knocked
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What Brown didn’t hear in the late nights and gossip sessions that inevitably occurred was how intimidating he was. While fighters aren’t a crew that’s easily impressed by the physical capabilities of another man, Brown’s presence was silently felt. When fellow fighter Jeremy May got bored and put lime juice in Brown’s chewing tobacco, the
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The trilogy bout between Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier is finally official. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto brought word that Miocic vs. Cormier III is now set for Aug. 15. Both men haven’t competed since their rematch back in Aug. 2019. Miocic was recovering from an eye procedure. He
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will ask reigning welterweight champion Kamaru Usman to defend his 170-pound strap against red-hot division contender Gilbert Burns in the upcoming UFC 251 pay-per-view (PPV) main event, set for Sat., July 11, 2020 on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. The promotion was hoping to book Usman against bitter rival Jorge Masvidal,
Flashback Fight: Michael Bisping narrowly defeats Anderson Silva [embedded content] Michael Bisping, winner of TUF season three, won a razor-close contest with Anderson Silva at the O2 arena in London back in 2016. Bisping and Silva headlined the event in front of 16,734 spectators. The win would put Bisping in a position to step in
UFC Star Jon Jones has delivered an important message in wake of what has been a terrible beginning to the 2020 year. The longtime UFC light heavyweight kingpin, who recently requested his release from the Ultimate Fighting Championship, took to Twitter with the following important message for families and everyone in society to consider. pic.twitter.com/2rvBibo4rW
Middleweight Ian Heinisch isn’t wasting any time after UFC 250. Hot on the heels of a first-round TKO over Gerald Meerschaert at this past Saturday’s pay-per-view card, Heinisch has signed to face Brendan Allen at the UFC’s June 27 card at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. Combate first reported the pairing after Allen tweeted that
10:21 PM ET With UFC 250 in the books, the promotion is turning its attention to its next pay-per-view event. The UFC is targeting Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway 2 for the featherweight title on July 11, sources told ESPN. The fight, however, isn’t signed yet. Volkanovski defeated Holloway to win the title in December.
And it’s with that clear mind and firm belief that he belongs amongst the best featherweight fighters in the world that he approaches this weekend’s rematch with Minner. Despite having already shared the cage with the experienced Nebraska native and emerging with a finish, Griffin is viewing Saturday night’s preliminary card pairing as an entirely
Image Credit: Masashi Hara/Getty Images The highly anticipated UFC debut of Jiri Prochazka is set. ESPN was the first to report that Prochazka’s first UFC bout will be taking place on July 11. He’ll share the Octagon with Volkan Oezdemir. While the location hasn’t been revealed, the UFC event could take place on “Fight Island.”
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Jiri Prochazka (26-3-1) is one of the biggest new signings of the year so far, an excellent fighter in a relatively empty division. UFC snagged the former Rizin Light Heavyweight kingpin back in January, not far removed from his vicious knockout of UFC veteran CB Dollaway (watch it!). The Czech athlete
Dana White addresses pandemic: ‘The worst is yet to come’ UFC president Dana White talks about the struggles of running the UFC during the pandemic and he opens up on his thoughts that the “worst is still yet to come” at the UFC 250 press conference. The fight promotion was the first sports organization to
Image: UFC on Instagram In the main event of UFC 250, Amanda Nunes was looking to defend her featherweight title for the first time when she battled Felicia Spencer. It was the first time Nunes was going back up to 145-pounds since her upset win over Cris Cyborg at UFC 232. For Spencer, it was
The PFL may not be staging live fights in 2020, but the promotion is still plotting a new line up of original programming with the launch of PFL Studios. The new venture will be led by 16-time Emmy Award winning producer George Greenberg, who previously spearheaded the UFC’s launch on FOX after they inked a
“The California Kid” Urijah Faber joins the UFC Hall of Fame class of 2017.
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7:53 AM ET UFC president Dana White didn’t have long to celebrate another solid night of fighting on Saturday before Conor McGregor stole the thunder from UFC 250. McGregor abruptly announced — for the third time on social media — that he is retiring from MMA. It was just the latest public spat White has
A member of the Serra-Longo Fight Team who garnered a call up to the UFC thanks to a five-fight winning streak that included victories over elite regional competitors Tony Gravely and Raufeon Stots, Dvalishvili stumbled out of the gate. He landed on the wrong side of a unanimous decision verdict against veteran Frankie Saenz in