UFC 259 is right around the corner on March 6th, 2021, and if the UFC was still giving their card one word power-names like they were in the first decade of the 00’s — VENDETTA, PAYBACK, FURY — this card would be STACKED. Three title fights, and the ‘weakest’ of them featuring the women’s GOAT
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Having last fought in August of 2019, lightweight Devonte Smith was looking to get back into the Octagon with a bang when he faced Justin Jaynes at UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov in early February. With just over a minute remaining in the second round of the bout, the fight was stopped after Jaynes
Image Credit: Eric Albarracin’s Instagram Former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo continues to taunt Dana White by taking shots at some of the promotions champions. Cejudo (16-2 MMA) retired from mixed martial arts immediately following his second round TKO victory over Dominick Cruz at UFC 249. The victory had marked Henry’s sixth in a row
A stacked UFC 259 featuring three title fights is right around the corner on Saturday, March 6. Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will move up a weight class to take on light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz in the main event. Watch Adesanya’s last title defense against Paulo Costa at UFC 253 last year on Fight Island
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At this point, you have to love Vanderaa’s attitude, because there’s no BS in his DNA. “There’s a lot of that somewhere,” he laughs. “Just not right now.” That’s okay, we’ll take what we can get and, for the moment, enjoy the fact that the heavyweight division has some of the best prospects in the
11:34 PM ET Curtis Blaydes made no apologies about his strategy coming into a huge heavyweight fight with Derrick Lewis. Blaydes was going to use his dominant wrestling early and often. He told anyone who would listen. Maybe it was a decoy. But Blaydes should have stuck to his original game plan, as Lewis crushed
A strawweight rematch has been added to next weekend’s event in Las Vegas. On Saturday’s UFC Vegas 19 broadcast it was announced that Angela Hill will meet Ashley Yoder at UFC Vegas 20. The event takes place at the APEX and will stream on ESPN+. The two first met at the TUF 25 Finale in
Glover Teixeira feels he has done more than enough to warrant a title shot and will settle for nothing less than a champion opponent for his next fight. There may be no fighter in the UFC today who has done a better job of defying the odds than Glover Teixeira. Teixeira’s defiance goes beyond odds
While Conor McGregor tries to rebound from a recent TKO loss to Dustin Poirier some believe the former UFC champion won’t be able to rediscover his dominance inside of the Octagon. Among those who doubt McGregor’s ability to rebound from the first knockout loss of his career is none other than current UFC lightweight champion
Watch Israel Adesanya destroy Paulo Costa ahead of UFC 259 [embedded content] A stacked UFC 259 featuring three title fights is right around the corner on Saturday, March 6. Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will move up a weight class to challenge light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz in the main event. Watch Adesanya’s last title defense
UFC bantamweight Aiemann Zahabi says he received a new UFC contract after his opponent Drako Rodriguez missed weight before UFC Vegas 19. Zahabi was one of a number of underdogs who won in dominant fashion at UFC Vegas 19, as he was able to knock Rodriguez out in the first round with a vicious 1-2.
That fight definitely showed the evolution of Blaydes, who allowed his wrestling to set up his standup game. That development has helped make Blaydes one of the biggest threats to Miocic’s heavyweight throne. When it comes to his fight with Lewis, however, Blaydes doesn’t mince words about what he plans to do. He plans to
12:14 AM ET Ariel Helwani: It’s time to focus the attention on Derrick Lewis One of the big storylines heading into Saturday night’s main event was what should Curtis Blaydes do if he beats Derrick Lewis? Ordinarily, a victory like that — which would have been his fifth in a row — over a quality
There was stiff competition for performance bonuses at UFC Vegas 19, but Derrick Lewis’ jaw-rattling knockout of Curtis Blaydes was a shoo-in for a $50,000 performance bonus on Saturday night at UFC APEX. Lewis was one of four “Performance of the Night” bonuses handed out by the promotion for his second-round stoppage of Blaydes. Lewis
Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis a typical heavyweight fight. The showdown served as the main event of the UFC Vegas 19 event on Saturday night (February 20, 2021) from Las Vegas, Nevada at the UFC Apex facility. As seen in the fight, Lewis landed some solid strikes in the early portion of the first round,
Top Rank Boxing delivered last night (Sat., Feb. 20, 2021) from inside MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, as Oscar Valdez stopped Miguel Berchelt with a 10th-round knockout to become the new WBC super featherweight champion. Valdez, 30, pushes his undefeated record to 29-0 with this win and cements his third-straight knockout finish.
Derrick Lewis addresses late KO shots on Curtis Blaydes at UFC Vegas 19 [embedded content] Derrick Lewis appeared to be on the back foot against Curtis Blaydes at UFC Vegas 19 on Saturday night. He turned the tables when Blaydes made a mistake in round two, shooting for a takedown, but leaving his chin open