Another booking against Ricardo Lamas, another fight cancellation for Ryan Hall. MMA Fighting confirmed with sources that an injury has forced Hall to withdraw from his scheduled featherweight bout with Lamas that was to take place at a UFC Fight Night event on Aug. 29 at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. The news was first
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The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 252! Check out all the changes below! Men’s Pound for Pound: Daniel Cormier drops one spot to #7 following his loss to Stipe Miocic in the UFC 252 headliner, with Alexander Volkanovski moving up to the #6 spot. Meanwhile, Justin Gaethje rises to #8, and Max Holloway
“Vegas is the hotspot,” said Villanueva, who now trains with the Xtreme Couture squad. “I’ve been to Cali and trained with some great people, but I talked to my manager, Jason House, and he’s like, ‘XC is the place.’ I really wanted to do it. Coach Eric Nicksick is a badass. I did my research
Image Credit: Bellator Andrew Kapel is looking to go 2-0 in Bellator. On the main card of Bellator 244, Kapel is returning following his November knockout win over King Mo. It was King Mo’s retirement fight, and now Kapel is excited to get back in the cage and try and beat another big name in
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Welcome to the “Chito” show. Marlon Vera’s strategy ahead of UFC 252 may or may not have involved injuring Sean O’Malley’s leg with calf kicks and checks, but it certainly worked! When presented with a wounded foe, Vera pounced, absolutely smashing his opponent with an elbow from top position to secure
While the novel coronavirus impacted MMA fighters in various ways, some were more directly affected by it than others. Case in point: lightweight Joe Solecki. Originally slated to face Austin Hubbard at UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov in June, Solecki was forced off the event after testing positive for Covid-19. “The only reason I
Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier weighed in and faced off for the third and final time before the Octagon door closes behind them on Saturday night. Pay-Per-View main card action kicks off at 10pm ET / 7pm PT tomorrow night. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT
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11:41 AM ET Frankie Edgar called Clint Wattenberg in late June with some questions. It was about two weeks before Edgar’s scheduled bantamweight debut. In more than a decade with the UFC, the former lightweight champion had never really cut weight before. He never needed to. Unlike most high-level MMA fighters, Edgar always walked around
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“It’s not necessarily the fight itself,” he said. “I think the preparation for the fight, the process to the fight, gets affected. So eventually you get a s**tty result in the fight if your process wasn’t up to par. And that’s what happened with me in those last two fights. I just was not there.
Former Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler is testing free agency, but it looks like he has his eyes on a fight with Dustin Poirier in the UFC. Chandler is a three-time Bellator lightweight champion who is on a two-fight win streak at the moment since dropping the 155-pound strap to Patricio Freire in May of
Patricio Freire, who holds the Bellator featherweight and lightweight titles, expects his former foe Michael Chandler to sign with ONE Championship. Chandler, the former Bellator lightweight champ, recently concluded his current Bellator contract with a knockout win over former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson. While he’s expressed interest in moving to the UFC for fights
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight contender Pedro Munhoz has done enough work at 135 pounds to secure himself a spot in the Top 5 of the division rankings, though it’s safe to say “The Young Punisher” doesn’t plan to rest on his laurels. The good news for Munhoz is that a victory over a “living
While it may seem odd to say the timing of a global pandemic worked out for someone, in ways it did for lightweight Evan Elder. Coming off an in injury in his most recent fight this past January over Orell Fisher at Shamrock FC 327, Elder was able to use the time during lockdown to
7:43 PM ET Dominick Reyes has a theory as to why Jon Jones is moving up to heavyweight from light heavyweight, the division Jones lorded over for nearly a decade in the UFC. The contenders at light heavyweight have simply gotten “too good” for Jones to keep up with, Reyes told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in
UFC flyweights Cortney Casey and Priscila Cachoeira will battle inside the octagon on Oct. 31, multiple sources told MMA Fighting following a report from Combate. The promotion has yet to announce the exact location for the Fight Night event, which will feature a middleweight showdown between Uriah Hall and Anderson Silva as the headliner. Casey