MMA fighter Bogdan Guskov took just 30 seconds to send Alireza Vafaei slumping face-first into the canvas at MMA Series 61. Light heavyweights Guskov and Vafaei met on the main card of the event late last month in Yerevan, Armenia. The far more experienced Guskov was hoping for his third straight win, while Vafaei was
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Nate Diaz has taken a shot at Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier as their three-way rivalry on social media continues. In recent years, Nate Diaz hasn’t exactly been the most active fighter. Still, even with that being the case, you could certainly make the argument that he’s been one of the most popular athletes in
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will hold a special pre-fight media day for select combatants competing on the upcoming UFC 282 pay-per-view (PPV) fight card, locked and loaded for this Sat. night (Dec. 10, 2022) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The LIVE stream gets underway promptly at 1 p.m. ET in the embedded video
Dustin Poirier wants Nate Diaz to come back for one more fight so he can ‘beat the sh*t’ out of him Former interim UFC lightweight champion Dustin Poirier and Nate Diaz never got to square off inside the octagon, although they were scheduled to fight in 2018. The two were slated to face each other
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2:09 PM ET James Krause, the MMA coach at the center of a UFC betting controversy, is barred from attending or cornering any fighters at the Fighting Alliance Championship event on Friday in Independence, Missouri, sources told ESPN. Krause-trained fighters Gauge Young, Gina Mazany and Alexa Culp are on the card for FAC 17. The
Former two-division UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen was not a fan of how Kevin Holland approached his recent fight with Stephen Thompson. This past weekend, Holland headlined in the UFC for the third time overall and the first as a welterweight. Three months after being decimated by Khamzat Chimaev on late notice, “Trailblazer” was handed
Paddy Pimblett believes Jake Paul was bluffing with his sparring challenge. During an interview last week, Pimblett, while acknowledging Jake Paul is a good boxer, believes his fights are ‘fixed’. Jake Paul took notice of the commentary and offered the Liverpudlian $1 million if he could beat him in a sparring session. However, should Pimblett
Welcome to Midnight Mania! I don’t think Conor McGregor is going to be a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) anytime soon. The Irish superstar is not happy with the podcasting legend and longtime UFC color commentator, particularly after recent remarks about his vacation from the USADA testing program. In order to recover from
Joe Rogan says Conor McGregor’s ‘piss would melt that USADA cup,’ and McGregor responds UFC commentator, comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan didn’t hold his tongue when talking about former two-division champion Conor McGregor and a loophole in USADA testing. “He’s taking his shirt off and posing constantly, and he looks like his piss would melt
Dustin Poirier has one last fight ahead of him in 2022. On Sunday, Poirier was admitted to the hospital to deal with a nasty staph infection he picked up in his left foot. Unfortunately, per an ESPN report, Poirier’s staph proved resistant to antibiotics, leaving the former UFC interim lightweight champion stranded in the hospital
2:24 PM ET Former UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler has been forced to withdraw from a bout against Santiago Ponzinibbio on Saturday due to an undisclosed injury, sources told ESPN. According to sources, the UFC is working on finding a potential replacement for Ponzinibbio (28-6). The 170-pound contest was scheduled to take place on the
UFC lightweight stars Conor McGregor and Tony Ferguson have appeared to reignite their rivalry on social media in an interesting fashion… While they’ve never shared the Octagon, despite both rising the ranks at around the same time, McGregor and Ferguson haven’t exactly steered clear of each other. That’s certainly been the case in recent times,
Magomed Ankalaev has given his thoughts on Glover Teixeira not accepting a title fight against him at UFC 282. At UFC 282 this weekend, Magomed Ankalaev will battle Jan Blachowicz for the UFC light heavyweight title. The two had always been scheduled to face off but initially, it was in a non-title contest. Instead, the
UFC flyweight Tracy Cortez made weight for her Amanda Ribas fight ahead of the UFC Orlando event last weekend at Amway Center in Florida, only to have the “Sunshine State” athletic commission swoop in and pull her from the ESPN lineup as the result of an undisclosed “medical issue.” So what the heck happened? “I
Tracy Cortez speaks on ‘private matter’ which saw her withdraw from UFC Orlando Shortly after UFC Orlando weigh-ins on Friday, it was announced that Tracy Cortez was pulled from her fight after not being medically cleared to compete. On the scales, she looked fine and upbeat leading fans to wonder what exactly deemed her unable
With Robbie Lawler suffering an injury that has knocked him out of UFC 282, Alex Morono has accepted a short-notice opportunity to face Santiago Ponzinibbio on Saturday’s pay-per-view card. Multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Tuesday. The MMA Underground initially reported the matchup. The fight will take
8:28 PM ET TJ Dillashaw, one of the top bantamweight fighters in the history of MMA, has retired from the UFC, Dillashaw’s agent Tiki Ghosn confirmed to ESPN on Monday. Dillashaw, a former two-time UFC bantamweight champion, went into his title challenge against bantamweight champ Aljamain Sterling at UFC 280 in October with a bad