Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterSep 25, 2023, 10:06 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun After seventeen consecutive weekends with fights, the UFC will be dark for the first time since May. In fact, it’s a quiet weekend across every major MMA promotion, outside of
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The Mixed Martial Arts Hour is back in your life! Below is a rundown of Monday’s show, which begins at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. UK time. With Ariel Helwani out on holiday, Conner Burks and Eric Jackman take a look back at UFC Vegas 79, Bellator 299, and the
Coach Dave Lovell is slamming Johnny Eblen for spitting on Fabian Edwards following Bellator 299 win. Bellator 299 took place this past Saturday night, September 23rd at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland. Headlining the event was a middleweight world championship bout between current champion Johnny Eblen (14-0 MMA) and Fabian Edwards (12-3 MMA). The result
UFC Vegas 79 went down last Saturday night (Sept. 23, 2023) inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, leaving several fighters feeling the post-fight blues. Among them was Rafael Fiziev, who saw his night come to an unfortunate end after suffering a devastating knee injury, resulting in a technical knockout loss at the hands of
“It’s super similar,” said Johns of the philosophies of his current and past gyms. “Trey’s just added on some things, but it’s all following that same system and I’m getting what I was looking for when I came here. He was a student of his (Krause) for a long, long time, was one of those
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 24, 2023, 10:11 PM ET Deiveson Figueiredo will make his long-awaited move up to bantamweight before the end of the year. The former two-time UFC bantamweight champion will face Rob Font in a contender bout at UFC Fight Night on Dec. 2, sources told ESPN on Sunday, confirming a report
Noche UFC may go down as one of the best ideas to come from the MMA powerhouse in many years. The card, held on Mexican Independence Day, featured a slew of fighters from Mexico, including UFC flyweight champion Alexa Grasso, who defended her belt against Valentina Shevchenko in the main event. The reception for the
Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya pled guilty to a drunk driving charge on Monday in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald, Adesanya was charged with driving a car with 87 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, which is over the legal limit of 50 milligrams. The alleged incident happened on
Israel Adesanya was pulled over and hit with a drunk driving charge just three weeks before his UFC 293 title loss to Sean Strickland. While the incident occurred on August 19th in Auckland, New Zealand, news of the charge just became public after Adesanya turned up to court Monday morning (remember: in New Zealand it’s
Meanwhile, his opponent is in dire need of a win. Once the owner of a historic winning streak, “El Cucuy” has lost six on the bounce and has been finished in his last three fights. Ferguson was last seen at UFC 291 where Bobby Green submitted him late in the final round. Despite the recent
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 23, 2023, 09:54 PM ET Things were just starting to heat up between two of the most exciting lightweight fighters in the world when the bout came to an abrupt halt Saturday at UFC Fight Night. Rafael Fiziev threw a roundhouse kick with his right leg to the body of
A post-fight confrontation and a near brawl played a part in helping to create one of the most famous catchphrases in MMA history. Back in 2007, Nick Diaz was seven months removed from a loss to K.J. Noons due to cuts when doctors refused to allow him to continue. He ended up attending Noons’ next
Mateusz Gamrot Speaks On Callout Of Charles Oliveira Mateusz Gamrot called out former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira following his win over Fiziev. During the UFC Vegas 79 post-fight press conference, Gamrot explained why he has his sights set on “do Bronx” (via MMAFighting). “I would like to test myself against Charles Oliveira because he
Why did UFC march out Michelle Waterson-Gomez to get slaughtered by Marina Rodriguez last night (Sat., Sept. 23, 2023) on the main card of UFC Vegas 79? What was the point? Was this a rematch that anyone asked for? In a word: no. The opening line to my X-Factor prediction last week was, “Why are
Thus far, Brundage has taken fights with Nick Maximov, Tresean Gore, Michal Oleksiejczuk and Sedriques Dumas on short notice. He left those fights with a 1-3 record. Granted, the loss to Maximov was a close one many believed could have gone the other way, and he halted Gore in less than four minutes, but the
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 24, 2023, 02:51 AM ET Up-and-comer Ian Garry will face exciting veteran Vicente Luque at UFC 296 on Dec. 16 in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White announced early Sunday on social media. Both fighters have been teammates at Kill Cliff FC, and each is trying to get into the
Mateusz Gamrot wins again, but at what cost? With opponent Rafael Fiziev suffering an unfortunate injury in the UFC Vegas 79 main event, we were given an unsatisfying end to an otherwise entertaining night of action. Other than the disappointing finish to the card, what stood out most from Saturday’s action? Following the UFC’s return
The Octagon remained in Nevada for tonight’s UFC Vegas 79 event, an eleven-bout fight card headlined by Rafael Fiziev and Mateusz Gamrot. The highly anticipated lightweight main event did not result in the exciting finish most fans were hoping for. Mateusz Gamrot and Rafael Fiziev went back and forth in the standup in round one,
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