Welcome to Midnight Mania! Safe to say, Nate Diaz has options. Diaz may be closer to the end of his fight career than the start, but that doesn’t mean his immediate future is decided. The Stockton slugger fought out his UFC contract when he defeated Tony Ferguson at UFC 279, making him the biggest MMA
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Featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski will serve as backup for UFC 280 main event Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski revealed that he’ll serve as backup for the UFC 280 main event lightweight title fight. UFC 280 takes place on October 22 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi and is headlined by a match between former lightweight champion
Oct 7, 2022 Marc Raimondi Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Due to a grinding UFC schedule that features cards nearly every week of the year, it’s tough for every event to feature fighters the world clamors for. As a result
Justin Gaethje has provided an update on his “five good wars left” statement post-UFC 268, telling how many he has left in the tank. Gaethje is well known for his highlight-inducing fight style. This has, at times, left him open to taking just as much damage as he is dishing out. In recognition of this,
Gilbert Burns has given his thoughts on what he believed to be a big factor in the Leon Edwards vs Kamaru Usman rematch. Earlier this year at UFC 278, Leon Edwards shocked the world by knocking Kamaru Usman out to become the new UFC welterweight champion. While it was a victory that came as a
Undefeated boxing sensation Floyd Mayweather Jr. appears content to close out the final chapter of his hall-of-fame boxing career with an international world tour that consists of warm bodies getting pieced up for the delight of casual fight fans. But if the aging Mayweather, 45, is still light years ahead of “YouTubers” like Jake Paul,
Aljamain Sterling shares video of a run-in with Petr Yan ahead of UFC 280 UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling is in Abu Dhabi ahead of his second title defense at UFC 280. While he was abroad he ran into Petr Yan, the former champion and the man he beat twice to win and retain the
UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling does not “give two sh*ts” about how fans and others in the MMA community perceive him. Sterling appeared to become public enemy number one in the MMA space owing to one singular illegal knee — a shot that he was the victim of. While he’d entered his title shot against
Dana White has never been fitter in his life, and he owes the change to ‘human biologist and mortality expert’ Gary Brecka, who initially diagnosed him with just 10 years to live. Not, as some online have suggested, to steroids. According to White, Brecka took a full blood panel and quickly identified several worrisome health
UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi is right around the corner and there’s one burning question we know is on the minds of all serious MMA fans: will Hasbulla be there? The pint-sized brawler has captured the hearts of fight fans everywhere over the past few years. Who doesn’t love watching videos of the three foot
Watch Aljamain Sterling defeat Petr Yan the second time | UFC 280 Free Fight Bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling silenced his critics when he defeated former titleholder Petr Yan a second time in their rematch at UFC 273 in April. Sterling puts his title on the line in the UFC 280 co-main event on October 22
Henry Cejudo thinks he knows all of Conor McGregor‘s best options at welterweight. Henry Cejduo is putting on his matchmaker hat and looking into the best fights for Conor McGregor if he chooses to return at welterweight. Recently McGregor has been looking larger than ever. He is out of competition right now and his return
Rafael Fiziev has taken aim at Justin Gaethje with a derogatory post involving Conor McGregor. Justin Gaethje (23-4 MMA) is ready to re-enter the Octagon after having his nose rebuilt following his loss to Charles Oliveira (33-8 MMA) at UFC 274 in May of this year. A possible opponent was thought to be Conor McGregor
Julianna Pena is making her push for a trilogy fight with UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes. “The Venezuelan Vixen” believes it is the only fight for UFC to make coming off their first two matchups. Pena originally defeated Nunes by submission in one of the greatest upsets in Octagon history at UFC 269 back
Julianna Peña: ‘Trilogy with Amanda Nunes is the fight to make’ Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Julianna Peña wants a third fight with two-division champion Amanda Nunes, and says ‘I’m getting my belt back.’ Peña pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent history when she stopped Nunes at UFC 269 to win
UFC lightweight Paddy Pimblett has given his prediction for the upcoming crossover boxing match between former middleweight king Anderson Silva and YouTuber-turned-pugilist Jake Paul. On October 29, Silva and Paul will collide in the main event of a Showtime pay-per-view event in Arizona. For “The Problem Child,” the Brazilian mixed martial arts great will represent
Israel Adesanya is five defenses deep into his undisputed middleweight title reign. And while he has a ways to go before he begins to challenge Anderson Silva’s ten title defense record, the pressure that comes with being a dominant champion is already mounting on ‘The Last Stylebender.’ One person who knows a little bit about
Daniel Cormier made his World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) debut last night (Sat., Oct. 8, 2022) at WWE Extreme Rules live on Peacock from inside Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa., when the former two-division UFC champion special quest refereed the main event between Matt Riddle and Seth Rollins. Cormier, who walked away from mixed martial