Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is holding a special pre-fight media day for select fighters participating in the UFC 271 pay-per-view (PPV) event this Sat. night (Feb. 12, 2022) inside Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and headlined by the middleweight title rematch pitting champion Israel Adesanya against challenger Robert Whittaker. The media day live stream begins
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The Mixed Martial Arts Hour is back in your life! Below is a rundown of Wednesday’s show, which begins at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. GMT. 1 p.m. ET: Undefeated UFC welterweight Shavkat Rakhmonov joins the show to talk about his win over Carlston Harris at UFC Vegas 47. 1:30
3:54 PM ET There aren’t too many more outrageous characters in the UFC than Tai Tuivasa. In a sport that has its fair share of the unusual, extreme, exciting and often downright jaw-dropping, Tuivasa has carved out a profile as one of the most popular athletes in the UFC. At the heart of it, of
Credit: Bellator MMA AJ McKee vs Patricio Pitbull 2 is reportedly in the works for a yet-to-be-announced Bellator card in April. Veteran MMA reporter Ariel Helwani first broke the news via his Helwani Nose Substack page, that a championship rematch between the current featherweight king and his long-time predecessor is expected to headline Bellator yet
Saturday night, the former heavyweight champion begins his 23rd year as a professional fighter, competing for the 55th time — and 37th time inside the Octagon — when he takes on Jared Vanderaa in the final preliminary card bout before the UFC 271 pay-per-view main card gets underway. As someone that has been written off
All Access: Israel Adesanya UFC 271 Fight Week Video Blog – Episode 1 Go behind the scenes with UFC Middleweight Champion Israel “The Last Stylebender” Adesanya as he prepares for his 5th title defense against Robert Whittaker at UFC 271 in Houston, Texas on February 12th. The fight card also features Adesanya’s City Kickboxing teammates
Image Credit: Showtime Boxing Jake Paul hasn’t taken his sight off of Conor McGregor just yet. The YouTuber-turned-boxer has called out the MMA superstar ever since his win over Nate Robinson in November 2020. McGregor has never really answered to any of Paul’s callouts, but that hasn’t stopped him from trying. ‘The Problem Child’ has
Julianna Peña has wrapped up her COVID-19 investigation. During her recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Julianna Peña opened up on a wide range of issues, and she even brushed up on her informal career as an investigative reporter. MMA News covered Peña’s initial dabbling into the journalism field when she was hot
Israel Adesanya has been practically flawless throughout his career inside MMA enclosures. In 22 fights, Adesanya has only lost once. 2021 started off on the wrong foot for the current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 185-pound middleweight champion as he tested himself up in weight at 205-pounds. Colliding with the then-titleholder at light heavyweight, Poland’s Jan
The UFC returns to Jacksonville, Fla., on April 9 with two title fights atop a stacked card. The promotion on Tuesday announced the full fight lineup for the spring event, which is headlined by a featherweight title fight between champ Alexander Volkanovski and The Korean Zombie (otherwise known as Chan Sung Jung). A bantamweight title
Feb 6, 2022 There are a number of bigger names competing at UFC 271 in Houston (Saturday, 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV), but no name is more intriguing than the one which will appear in the opening fight of the night. While the MMA world waits in earnest for the rematch between Israel Adesanya
Middleweight champion Robert Whittaker takes on interim champ Israel Adesanya in the headliner of UFC 243. Robert Whittaker Israel Adesanya Ufc 243 Official Weigh Ins One-time UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman believes Robert Whittaker will earn ice-cold revenge against Israel Adesanya on Saturday night. UFC 271 will be headlined by a monumental championship rematch between
Host of the podcast Fitz Nation and UFC commentator Brendan Fitzgerald joins Jim as guest co-host on today’s episode of UFC Unfiltered! First, Jim and Brendan are joined by Julian Erosa fresh off his “Fight of the Night” winning performance against Steven Peterson on Saturday at UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs Strickland. He shares how
Donald Trump weighs in on Joe Rogan controversies: ‘stop apologizing to the Fake News’ Former president Donad Trump weighed in on the controversies surrounding Joe Rogan and his popular podcast on Spotify on Monday, releasing a statement. “Joe Rogan is an interesting and popular guy, but he’s got to stop apologizing to the Fake News
Image via @ufc on Instagram Amanda Nunes has revealed why she has stepped away from American Top Team in favor of starting her own gym. When Nunes entered the Octagon on Dec. 11, 2021, very few predicted that she would lose to Julianna Pena. To their credit, some experts did call it but “The Lioness”
Joanna Jędrzejczyk wants more money when she returns to the UFC. As far as money goes, Joanna Jędrzejczyk does not have to fight. Still, she knows that she’s missed out on a lot of money in her UFC career. Jędrzejczyk defended the strawweight championship belt five times but did not feel she was getting paid
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently updated its official rankings in the wake of the UFC Vegas 47 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which took place last Sat. night (Feb. 5, 2022) inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. That’s where streaking middleweight contender Sean Strickland continued his ascension through the 185-pound ranks, though
Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington will finally get to settle their blood feud in the main event of UFC 272 on March 5 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both men look to rebound off tough defeats in rematches against UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. There was a time when Masvidal and Covington considered each other brothers