Rizin are interested in booking a boxing super fight between Nate Diaz and Floyd Mayweather. The Stockton legend is now a free agent having fought out his UFC contract with a submission win over Tony Ferguson at UFC 279. In his post fight interview, the 37-year-old said, – Advertisement – “I want to get out
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Welcome to Midnight Mania! Safe to say, Nate Diaz has options. Diaz may be closer to the end of his fight career than the start, but that doesn’t mean his immediate future is decided. The Stockton slugger fought out his UFC contract when he defeated Tony Ferguson at UFC 279, making him the biggest MMA
Featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski will serve as backup for UFC 280 main event Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski revealed that he’ll serve as backup for the UFC 280 main event lightweight title fight. UFC 280 takes place on October 22 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi and is headlined by a match between former lightweight champion
Oct 7, 2022 Marc Raimondi Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Due to a grinding UFC schedule that features cards nearly every week of the year, it’s tough for every event to feature fighters the world clamors for. As a result
Jake Paul isn’t impressed with the fights that Floyd Mayweather has taken lately as the now-retired former boxing champion continues engaging in exhibition bouts against largely overmatched opposition. Right now, Paul is focused on his own fight against UFC legend Anderson Silva on Oct. 29 but he’s fully confident that he will lure Mayweather, 45,
In March, Grasso cemented her position in the flyweight Top-5 with a first round submission victory over Joanne Wood at UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs Daukaus, extending her win streak to three. Araujo comes into Saturday night fresh off a Unanimous Decision victory over Andrea Lee that saw the No. 6 ranked contender amass over
Justin Gaethje has provided an update on his “five good wars left” statement post-UFC 268, telling how many he has left in the tank. Gaethje is well known for his highlight-inducing fight style. This has, at times, left him open to taking just as much damage as he is dishing out. In recognition of this,
Gilbert Burns has given his thoughts on what he believed to be a big factor in the Leon Edwards vs Kamaru Usman rematch. Earlier this year at UFC 278, Leon Edwards shocked the world by knocking Kamaru Usman out to become the new UFC welterweight champion. While it was a victory that came as a
Undefeated boxing sensation Floyd Mayweather Jr. appears content to close out the final chapter of his hall-of-fame boxing career with an international world tour that consists of warm bodies getting pieced up for the delight of casual fight fans. But if the aging Mayweather, 45, is still light years ahead of “YouTubers” like Jake Paul,
Aljamain Sterling shares video of a run-in with Petr Yan ahead of UFC 280 UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling is in Abu Dhabi ahead of his second title defense at UFC 280. While he was abroad he ran into Petr Yan, the former champion and the man he beat twice to win and retain the
In the latest On the Nose segment, Ariel Helwani discusses if Leon Edwards could get passed over again for a title fight, honest feedback from a fan, Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic, what was the first UFC event he attended as a fan, his thoughts on baseball strike right now, and more on The MMA
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A pivotal featherweight matchup between Calvin Kattar and Arnold Allen will cap off the UFC’s October slate of events. UFC Vegas 63 will take place Oct. 29 at the UFC APEX, and will be headlined by Kattar and Arnold Allen in a five-round showdown. On Friday, UFC broadcast partner BT Sport released the official poster
Green, 36, tested positive for the presence of an anabolic androgenic steroid of exogenous origin as the result of a urine sample collected out-of-competition on May 16, 2022. Exogenous anabolic androgenic steroids are Non-Specified Substances in the class of Anabolic Agents and are prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy and UFC Prohibited
UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling does not “give two sh*ts” about how fans and others in the MMA community perceive him. Sterling appeared to become public enemy number one in the MMA space owing to one singular illegal knee — a shot that he was the victim of. While he’d entered his title shot against
Dana White has never been fitter in his life, and he owes the change to ‘human biologist and mortality expert’ Gary Brecka, who initially diagnosed him with just 10 years to live. Not, as some online have suggested, to steroids. According to White, Brecka took a full blood panel and quickly identified several worrisome health
UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi is right around the corner and there’s one burning question we know is on the minds of all serious MMA fans: will Hasbulla be there? The pint-sized brawler has captured the hearts of fight fans everywhere over the past few years. Who doesn’t love watching videos of the three foot
Watch Aljamain Sterling defeat Petr Yan the second time | UFC 280 Free Fight Bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling silenced his critics when he defeated former titleholder Petr Yan a second time in their rematch at UFC 273 in April. Sterling puts his title on the line in the UFC 280 co-main event on October 22