1:46 AM ET ESPN’s panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim breaks down the biggest stories coming out of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, including Marvin Vettori‘s thrilling unanimous-decision win over Jack Hermansson, and whether the type of violent slam Jordan Leavitt executed to beat Matt Wiman should remain legal. Marvin Vettori
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Wow! Despite the MMA news this week not having anything Earth-shattering, this week we had more questions submitted than ever before. So we’re gonna do things a little different this week and answer as many of them as I can in 2,000 words or less. Buckle up. Should Figueiredo be the fighter of the year
Head trauma and combat sports are inseparable. When two athletes work hard for a decade — and then extremely hard for the eight weeks immediately before a fight — they’re going to get pretty good at hurting one another. The full extent to which MMA fighters get hurt is neither understood nor consistent. Some skulls
Dana White says Yoel Romero is the first of about 60 UFC fighter cuts coming by year’s end [embedded content] UFC president Dana White, following Saturday’s UFC Vegas 16 in Las Vegas, explained the recent decision to cut top five ranked middleweight Yoel Romero loose from the roster. “Yoel has lost four of his last
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Marvin Vettori called out Paulo Costa immediatley following his sensational win over Jack Hermansson in the main event of UFC Vegas 16. Vettori (16-4-1 MMA) extended his current win streak four in a row on Saturday night, defeating Hermansson by way of judges decision in a thrilling five round affair. After outpointing ‘The Joker’ on
Late last week Jack Hermansson found out his UFC Vegas 16 main event was in jeopardy, after Kevin Holland tested positive for COVID-19. He didn’t hesitate to accept a short-notice replacement in Marvin Vettori, who was sceheduled to fight at UFC 256 on December 12. The result was an absolute banger of a main event
The UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Vettori post-fight press conference will be live once the action concludes. In the headliner, Jack Hermansson vs. Marvin Vettori will collide in a middleweight clash. The show’s co-main event will see a light heavyweight clash between Ovince Saint Preux and Jamahal Hill. Women’s flyweight action will also be featured
7:38 PM ET UFC middleweight Marvin Vettori has been asking for a big fight all year. The slugger wanted a matchup against a top-ranked opponent. It did not quite come together — through no fault of his own — until now. At the end of what has been a trying 2020 for Vettori, he will
MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 16 results for the Hermansson vs. Vettori event on Saturday, a live blog of the main event, and live UFC Vegas 16 Twitter updates. In the main event, middleweights Jack Hermansson and Marvin Vettori face off for a spot in the line of 185-pound title contenders. In the co-main event,
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will bring its stylized brand of violence back to “Sin City” this weekend with the UFC Vegas 16 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which takes place on Sat. night (Dec. 5, 2020) by way of ESPN+ and ESPN2 from inside APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. Headlining duties will fall to
Saturday’s UFC Vegas 16 loses three bouts just hours prior to event start UFC Vegas 16 underwent a slew of last-minute cancellations on Saturday just hours prior to the event’s start time. COVID-19 was responsible for the cancellation of two bouts, while medical issue nixed a third bout. The UFC Vegas 16 fight card is
The Octagon remains in Nevada for tonight’s UFC Vegas 16 event, an eleven-bout fight card headlined by Jack Hermansson vs Marvin Vettori. Hermansson (21-5 MMA) was most recently seen in action this past July where he scored a sensation first round submission victory over Kelvin Gastelum. Prior that win, ‘The Joker’ was coming off a
Due to extenuating circumstances related to COVID-19, the December 19 welterweight main event of Leon Edwards vs. Khamzat Chimaev will be rescheduled to January. The new five-round main event will be a matchup of top ranked welterweights Stephen Thompson (No. 5) vs. Geoff Neal (No. 11). A former two-time title challenger, Thompson is making his
The final UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Vettori betting odds are in for as this event is quickly approaching for the Las Vegas-based promotion. The event is here, and it goes down tonight (Saturday, December 5, 2020) from UFC APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. The headliner will feature a slugfest with Jack Hermansson vs.
9:03 PM ET Yoel Romero‘s UFC run has come to an end Romero and the promotion have parted ways, his manager, Malki Kawa, confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Romero had three fights left on his deal, sources said. “While we didn’t expect Romero’s time in the UFC to end like this,” Kawa told ESPN, “we
All top-ranked middleweights in the UFC have a vested interest in what Israel Adesanya does next. But unlike most, Jack Hermansson isn’t all that upset that the reigning champion is expected to move up a division to challenge for a second title in 2021. Following a lopsided win for Adesanya over Paulo Costa in September,
We finally had a winning night of bets for last weeks card. Our bets ended up going 3-3 on the night for a total win of 2.69 units. All bets are 3rd party tracked at Betmma.tips under the handicapper profile name MMAInformed.com. Year to date we are +5.57 units with an overall ROI of 2%.