The UFC is headed back to ABC in April, and it looks like the promotion is hoping to stack the card with big names. The promotion made its first appearance on ABC in January with UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar. That show pulled an average of 1.22 million viewers over its 3 hour broadcast,
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UFC 258: Kamaru Usman vs. Gilbert Burns Recap [embedded content] Watch the recap and highlights from the UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns main event between Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns from Saturday’s event at The Apex in Las Vegas. TRENDING > Gina Carano fires back on being canceled; Dana White expresses support for her (Subscribe
UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya The official fight card and lineup for next month’s UFC 259: ‘Blachowicz vs. Adesanya’ event was released on Saturday night. UFC 259 is set for March 6 in Las Vegas and features a total of three title fights. The event is headlined by a superfight featuring reigning middleweight champion Israel
Gilbert Burns secured his fifth win in a row on his current six-fight win streak with a first round knockout of Demian Maia in March last year. Burns faces welterweight champion Kamaru Usman at UFC 258 on Saturday, February 13. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT
“We talkin’ bout practice,” Usman told UFC.com. “It’s different when you step inside that cage. It’s a whole different savage, and he’s going to realize that.” The “training partners turned foes” narrative has dominated the lead-up to their welterweight title fight at UFC 258. It’s understandable. For years, the two helped each other prepare for
1:55 AM ET Kamaru Usman accomplished much on Saturday night at UFC 258. He won his 13th straight UFC welterweight fight, which broke Georges St-Pierre‘s record for most wins in a row at 170. He also tied the great Khabib Nurmagomedov for the second-most wins in a row to start a UFC career. And he’s
Another illegal streamer got away on fight night at UFC 258, continuing the game of cat and mouse Dana White plays with internet pirates. White laid a trap for a particularly vocal streamer who’d promised to pirate UFC 257, only to go dark when the pay-per-view event went life this past month. More affected were
Kelvin Gastelum is back in the win column and looking to fight someone ranked ahead of him. On the main card of UFC 258, Gastelum was fighting the 15th-ranked, Ian Heinisch. It was a pivotal fight for Gastelum who was on a three-fight losing streak and said he was fighting for his job. Ultimately, it
The 28th edition of The Ultimate Fighter ended back in November of 2018 and many of us had hoped that the played out reality show was finally done for good. Okay, maybe the UFC could bring it back in China or Russia or something. That’d be fine, I guess. But after nearly 40 seasons (including
After taking a shot at Jorge Masvidal in his UFC 258 post-fight interview with Joe Rogan after his victory over Gilbert Burns in his third title defense, UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman elaborated on his jab at the BMF champion. “He had a built-in excuse. That’s the only reason he took that fight,” Usmand said.
Image Credit: @Gilbert_Burns on Instagram Gilbert Burns entered tonight’s UFC 258 pay-per-view event in hopes of dethroning current welterweight kingpin Kamaru Usman. Burns (19-4 MMA) took to the Octagon this evening sport an impressive six-fight win streak, his latest being a lopsided unanimous decision victory over Tyron Woodley. Meanwhile, Kamaru Usman (18-1 MMA) was returning
“I went out to do camp with Eryk Anders and Walt Harris and Chris Connelly and I love their camp, I love their gym and everything, but it was too far from home,” he said. “And my little nephew was being born.” It was time to go home to Kansas City. Luckily for him, one
1:22 AM ET UFC 258 included the expected from welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and strong performances from both women in the co-main event, Alexa Grasso and Maycee Barber. It also included one of the most surprising results in recent memory as Anthony Hernandez defeated Rodolfo Vieira, a seven-time submission grappling world champion, by submission. The
From the main event to the prelims, fighters were making history at UFC 258 and rewarded handsomely for it. Four $50,000 Performance of the Night bonuses were handed out after Saturday’s event at UFC APEX in Las Vegas, with welterweight champion Kamaru Usman leading the pack. Usman authored the third consecutive successful defense of his
News Kirik | February 13, 2021 On Friday, UFC lightweight Bobby Green made weight for his fight vs. Jim Miller at UFC 258, and then collapsed; the fight was canceled. On Saturday afternoon, women’s flyweight Gillian Robertson got sick with a non-COVID-19 malady, and her fight vs. Miranda Maverick was canceled. Both have released statements. “There are three
UFC 258 featured a welterweight main event between two men that knew each other well in Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns. Usman walked away the victor but it was not after feeling some of the power that got Burns to the title shot in the first place. There was a lot to take away from
What are champions made of? The UFC 258 pay-per-view (PPV) main event between welterweight titleholder Kamaru Usman and top contender Gilbert Burns, which took place last night (Sat., Feb. 13, 2021) inside APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, did a pretty good job of providing the answer. Usman was rocked by “Durinho” early in the fight
Gina Carano, a pioneer in women’s mixed martial arts, was recently dropped from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and any future productions by Lucasfilm. Carano’s character, bounty hunter Cara Dune, was a major character in the Disney+ award-winning show. Carano was let go by Lucasfilm, as well as UTA, the talent agency that had represented