Shooto Brazil will host a one-night tournament in March to determine which Brazilian lightweight will join the PFL roster in 2020, the promotion announced. The PFL recently unveiled the new series in January, and Shooto Brazil revealed the date, names and match-ups for the upcoming 155-pound grand prix. The promotion’s bantamweight champion, Dayana Silva (8-4),
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Leon Edwards believes that he has got under UFC London main event opponent Tyron Woodley’s skin by insulting his music career. Woodley appeared on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show recently and insisted that he is taking his bout with Edwards “more personally” than his title defense against another U.K. frontrunner, Darren Till. The March 21 headline
Jon Jones has a title defense coming up this weekend against Dominick Reyes, but it’s nearly impossible for him to escape questions about what’s next. One of the most dominant fighters in UFC history, the 32-year-old light heavyweight has wiped out almost every contender in his own division, which is why middleweight champion Israel Adesanya
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The biggest sporting event of the year is over and the Kansas City Chiefs have overcome the San Francisco 49ers to become champions of the NFL’s 100th season. A star-studded event, Demi Lovato sang the national anthem while Shakira and Jennifer Lopez put on this year’s electrifying halftime show. Here’s how the MMA world reacted
Last weekend, Curtis Blaydes showed out by stopping former heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos with strikes! Now the heavyweight title picture suddenly has a logjam at the top for the first time in… ever? So let’s talk about how the UFC should handle the heavyweight title picture as well as the sad news about Bellator
With UFC 247 only a week away, check out the latest Jones vs. Reyes fight card for the pay-per-view event Feb. 8 at Toyota Center in Houston. In the main event, Jon Jones goes for his 11th defense of the UFC light heavyweight title when he takes on unbeaten challenger Dominick Reyes. The co-headliner sees
Conor McGregor wants to stay busy this year but he might have to start playing the waiting game if UFC president Dana White gets his wish. It took the former two-division champion just 40 seconds to wipe out Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in his first fight back in 15 months at UFC 246 and McGregor sounded
Former UFC lightweight Desmond Green was jailed on Wednesday in Florida for violating the terms of his pre-trial release in a DUI manslaughter case. Green, 30, was taken into custody after he was charged on Jan. 22 with felony driving without a license, triggering a motion from the Florida state attorney’s office to revoke the
Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists, where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day. Do you hear that rumbling? That’s the sound of eight straight weeks of UFC events comin’
UFC 248 lost a middleweight earlier this month, but two more have stepped up. Octagon veterans Gerald Meerschaert and Deron Winn on Thursday took to social media to say they’re fighting each other at the pay-per-view event, which takes place March 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. A UFC official subsequently confirmed the matchup
Bellator middleweight champion Rafael Lovato may be forced to retire after discovering a brain condition that’s placed him in a gray area with regulators. Lovato, 36, on Wednesday told JRE MMA he’s been diagnosed with cavernoma, a possibly hereditary condition where abnormal blood vessels cluster in the brain or spinal cord, and he may not
A new flyweight champion will be crowned at UFC Norfolk. The company released the poster for its upcoming Fight Night show in Norfolk, Va., on Feb. 29, highlighting the 125-pound championship showdown between Joseph Benavidez and Deiveson Figueiredo. The belt, who once belonged to Henry Cejudo, was vacated in late 2019. Benavidez (28-5) went 9-1
As Dominick Reyes was in the middle of a sparring session with one of his training partners as he prepared for a showdown with Jon Jones at UFC 247, he accidentally got an eye poke during one of the exchanges. Immediately, Reyes’ training partner paused, apologized and asked if Reyes was OK to continue. Without
The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championships is entering new territory. The promotion announced Tuesday that it will make its debut in Kansas on March 14 when it holds BKFC 11 at INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita. BKFC has previously put on shows in Wyoming, Mississippi, and Florida, as well as Cancun, Mexico. Three names have been
More than a week after Conor McGregor returned with a flourish, his fight with Donald Cerrone remains a source of interest far beyond the MMA bubble. The attention though, has shifted from the match itself to criticism of ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith. The most consequential of it came from UFC analyst Joe Rogan, who
Conor McGregor’s presence, and a strong college basketball lead-in, helped the UFC 246 prelims draw the largest audience for such a show in more than three years – and the largest since the UFC’s move to ESPN. The Jan. 18 show did 1,767,000 viewers and was the top-rated show on cable in the key 18-49
They say patience is a virtue, and if we’ve learned anything over the last few years, it’s that Nate Diaz is never in a hurry. In 2016, Diaz rose to mainstream prominence when he stepped in against Conor McGregor on short notice and choked out the then-featherweight champion, becoming an international sensation. The two rematched