Image Credit: Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports Dustin Poirier is confident in his ability to defeat Tony Ferguson. The status of the UFC 249 main event is up in the air. The original plan was for UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov to put his title on the line against Ferguson. In the midst of the coronavirus
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen probably thought he was in a position to start making demands after turning away the venerable Raphael Assuncao at UFC 241 back in Aug. 2019. And not without reason, as the 27 year-old Coloradan has a 12-1 record in mixed martial arts (MMA) and currently sits at
Jon Jones on Tuesday pleaded guilty to Driving While Intoxication. The charge stems from a March 26 arrest in Albuquerque. Jones was arrested at 1:01 a.m. after police responded to reports of gunshots and found him in the driver’s seat of his 2019 Jeep with the engine running and the vehicle in park. Jones denied
Tim Sylvia fought a who’s who of his era, including Frank Mir, Randy Couture and Minotauro Nogueira. The two-time UFC heavyweight champ reflects on his fighting career and his new roles as a hunting show presenter, development contractor and father. Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit
Side-by-side with smiles, Stephen Thompson and Jorge Masvidal agree to upcoming fight
The opening betting odds have been released for a potential lightweight main event at UFC 249 between top contenders Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje. With UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov likely unable to compete at UFC 249 due to travel restrictions stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, the UFC is now considering a new main event
Long before Khabib Nurmagomedov was the UFC lightweight champion, he was an undefeated prospect from Dagestan just looking to make an impact in his Octagon debut. Now go back in time to 2012 to witness Nurmagomedov make his first appearance against UFC and WEC Kamal Shalorus, where he mauled the Iranian wrestler and secured his
1:32 PM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov took to Instagram early Monday morning to state that it appears he won’t be able to fight in the main event of UFC 249 vs. Tony Ferguson on April 18 because of the travel restrictions associated with the coronavirus pandemic. He’s stuck in Russia. Incredibly, this matchup may fall through
The Ultimate Fighter season ten winner Roy Nelson quickly cut down Stefan “Skyscraper” Struve in the first round of their heavyweight bout. After a power outage in the arena stalled the opening of the bout, Nelson and Struve went right to work when the lights came back on, with Nelson aggressively closing the distance. Once
Image Credit: Phil Lambert/BKFC Artem Lobov says he has options and one of them is a potential rematch with Paulie Malignaggi. The beef between Lobov and Malignaggi has been going on since 2017. Lobov is a training partner and close friend of Conor McGregor. There was an infamous sparring session between McGregor and Malignaggi. “The
Michael Fiedel is deputy editor of TheBodyLockMMA.com and a staff contributor for Flo Combat. I invited Fiedel to discuss the current mixed martial arts (MMA) landscape in the age of coronavirus and our conversation (check out part one here), naturally, turned to UFC 249, which is currently still scheduled to take place April 18, 2020,
Watch Bellator 225: Mitrione vs. Kharitonov 2 in its entirety (free full event video) [embedded content] “There are no live MMA events and I can’t take it any more!” That’s how a lot of us are feeling with the world going into a relative lockdown in an attempt to curb the effects of the covid-19
Boxing star Dillian Whyte is ready to make a transition into the UFC and has already called out his first opponent. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has spelt disaster for all combat sports, including boxing. The British heavyweight Whyte was scheduled to fight Alexander Povetkin on May 2 in London. His upcoming fight against the Russian
Joanne Calderwood’s UFC title quest looks like it will be elongated as the Scot revealed that she has been told that her UFC 251 shot at champion Valentina Shevchenko will be postponed from it’s initial June 6 date in Perth, Australia. The landscape of the sport has been changed dramatically due to growing coronavirus concerns,
9:19 PM ET As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bellator said on Monday that it has decided to clear its slate of fights in May. Bellator 242, scheduled for May 9 in San Jose, California, has been postponed, along with Bellator London on May 16 and Bellator 243 on May 29 in Temecula, California,
He didn’t stir the pot for his fight with Frank Camacho, for a matchup with Belal Muhammad or his PPV showdown with Niko Price. It’s just not who he is. “I’m not going to ever beg for a fight. You can put that in stone. You can guarantee that if a fight comes to me,
Jorge Masvidal’s manager is denying the claim that “Gamebred” turned down Kamaru Usman bout for UFC 249. At the moment, there is a lot of uncertainty with UFC 249. For starters, the bout is scheduled to take place in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The original location wasn’t going to work out due to
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White is expecting to resume full operations in April, starting with the UFC 249 pay-per-view (PPV) event, which is why bantamweight titleholder, Henry Cejudo, is starting to prepare for his very first title defense. Since the world may not recover in time for UFC 250 to be held in