The bantamweight title fight in the co-main event of UFC 280, a bantamweight title fight between Aljamain Sterling and TJ Dillashaw had a bit of a rocky start. The UFC 280 co-main event was a bantamweight title fight between Sterling, who was fresh off a pair of fights with former champ Petr Yan, and Dillashaw
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UFC light-heavyweight contender Dominick Reyes still doesn’t like Jon Jones. The two clashed at UFC 247 in February 2020. Despite lopsided odds heading into the contest, Reyes brought the fight to the then-light-heavyweight champion. At the end of the 25-minute contest, it was Jones who retained his title by unanimous decision. – Advertisement – The
Khabib Nurmagomedov has a plan for newly crowned UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev and that involves a superfight with current UFC featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski next year in Australia. Makhachev, who has now won his last 11 trips to the Octagon, submitted former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira in the main event to capture the
Watch the UFC 280 Post-fight Press Conference Live Following UFC 280, tune in to the Post-Fight Press Conference to hear the athletes take questions from the media. Former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev met in the fight card’s main event with the vacant 155-pound title on the line. Makhachev tapped Oliveira out in
An action-packed bout between John Lineker and Fabricio de Andrade in ONE Championship ended anticlimactically after a low blow in the third round turned the fight into a No Contest. Lineker and Andrade met in the main event of ONE on Prime Video 3 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with the promotion’s 135-pound title on the
Fans will have to wait to see Bo Nickal make his UFC debut just a little bit longer. ‘The Allen Assassin’ is widely regarded as one of the greatest prospects in MMA. Nickal is a former Dan Hodge trophy winner and is a former multiple-time NCAA Division 1 National Champion in amateur wrestling. – Advertisement
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns later TODAY (Sat., Oct. 22, 2022) to stage UFC 280 live from inside Etihad Arena on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Headlining the pay-per-view (PPV) event is a highly-anticipated Lightweight title fight that will see former champion, Charles Oliveira, take on Islam Makhachev for the vacant belt.
UFC 280 Live Results: Oliveira vs. Makhachev UFC 280 results begin live at t 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT on Saturday October 22, on MMAWeekly.com. The fights take place at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Click on the fight below in the UFC 280 results section for live stats or
7:53 AM ET PEORIA, Ariz. — Sean O’Malley was feeling good. It was 5 p.m. on a Saturday in September, about five weeks into his camp for this weekend’s bantamweight fight against Petr Yan at UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. O’Malley had looked great in sparring that morning and was sitting down
Gilbert Burns has a location for his next fight and is now waiting for the opponent. The UFC welterweight division has been soaring as of late. With a new champion at the helm, the entire top ten of the division seems to have new life. Leon Edwards recently defeated Kamaru Usman for the 170-pound belt
Jake Paul is set to box Anderson Silva on October 29th in what is undoubtedly Paul’s greatest challenge to date. According to ‘The Problem Child,’ he’s not just having to prepare for Silva in the squared circle, he’s also having to deal with sabotage attempts from UFC president Dana White. Paul took to Twitter on
Jon Jones will not be returning to UFC in 2022. That’s according to promotion president Dana White, who recently extinguished the last dying flame of a potential Stipe Miocic fight — in the works for over five years — with news that “Bones” would not be available until 2023. “I’m hoping that we get him
Michael Bisping reveals TJ Dillashaw’s NSFW nickname Former UFC champion Michael Bisping just revealed to the MMA world that TJ Dillashaw has a huge penis. Yes, you read that right. In the October 20 episode of his “Believe You Me” podcast (aptly named Gigantic) Bisping brought up a story about the time he was a
2:12 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Charles Oliveira still considers himself the UFC’s lightweight champion, but will look to make it official on Saturday. Both Oliveira (33-8) and Islam Makhachev (22-1) successfully made weight on Friday for their lightweight championship bout at UFC 280 at Etihad Arena. Both of them actually came
UFC 280 is ticking ever so closer, and MMA News is here with the weigh-in results as tomorrow’s bouts become official! There’s a triple-header headed to Abu Dhabi on Saturday, October 22, 2022, including two title fights and a Suga Show. In the main event, Charles Oliveira faces Islam Makhachev for the vacant lightweight strap.
Khabib Nurmagomedov has quashed any hope that he might make a surprise return to the Octagon one day. Ever since he retired in 2020 there have been rumours that he would return. But, since laying his gloves down after defeating Justin Gaethje at UFC 254 in Abu Dhabi, ‘The Eagle’ has gone onto numerous other
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to the pay-per-view (PPV) market this Sat. (Oct. 22, 2022) for the “Oliveira vs. Makhachev” mixed martial arts (MMA) fight card, held inside Etihad Arena on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, UAE. UFC 280 will be headlined by the lightweight title fight between former champion Charles Oliveira and streaking 155-pound
UFC 280 loses bout during the official weigh-in A UFC 280 preliminary card bout was scratched from the fight card during the event’s official weigh-in on Friday in Abu Dhabi. The scheduled featherweight match between Zubaira Tukhugov (20-5-1) and Lucas Almeida (14-1) was nixed due to weight-cutting management issues by Tukhugov. The fight promotion made