Dan Hooker roasts ‘little rat’ Colby Covington According to Dan Hooker, Colby Covington trains in private whenever he’s in Las Vegas … for his own safety. “He’s a f*cking idiot,” Hooker told Fox Sports Australia. “They f*cking hide him. Like, the UFC hide the sh*t out of him. They need to. They would slap the sh*t out
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8:11 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a featherweight main event between Calvin Kattar and Arnold Allen for a UFC Fight Night on Oct. 29, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Wednesday. Bout agreements have not been signed, but the 145-pound contest is close to being official, sources told ESPN. The UFC Fight Night
A Polish MMA fighter has been caught on camera sucker-punching a YouTuber whilst he was being interviewed by a journalist. There’s a never a quiet day in mixed martial arts — not least on the European scene, where we’ve seen a 1,200-person planned brawl at a fight festival, a 5-1 professional pulling a gun on
Song Yadong will attempt to win his fourth straight fight inside the Octagon this Saturday night (Sept. 17, 2022) when he battles Cory Sandhagen in the main event of UFC Vegas 60, which is set to go down inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before then, let’s take a trip back to his most
Dana White comments on the death of Elias Theodorou: ‘It’s horrible’ On September 11, former UFC fighter Elias Theodorou lost his battle with cancer at home surrounded by family and friends. In his 34 years of life, “The Spartan” touched the lives of many. Theodorou fought 11 times inside the UFC octagon from 2014 to
10:32 AM ET The Professional Fighters League has signed 24-year-old Biaggio Ali Walsh, grandson of Muhammad Ali, to an amateur contract to compete in its tournament finals event in November. Ali Walsh is a former collegiate football player at the University of California, with an amateur MMA record of 1-1. He currently lives and trains
Former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson is open to many challenges following UFC 279 last weekend. Ferguson was originally slated to face Li Jingliang in his welterweight return at UFC 279 on Saturday. It was his first welterweight fight since winning The Ultimate Fighter 13 back in June 2011. Ferguson ended up getting a
The Featherweights will take center stage to close out Oct. 2022. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto confirmed with UFC President, Dana White, today (Weds., Sept. 14, 2022) that UFC Vegas 63 on Oct. 29, 2022, will be headlined by a pivotal 145 pound clash, pitting Calvin Kattar against Arnold Allen. Kattar (23-6) has alternated wins and losses
Dana White rips Brendan Schaub, Pat Miletich for ‘f****** stupid’ conspiracy theory about UFC 279 On Tuesday night, after week 8 of the Contender Series, Dana White addressed several conspiracies claiming that the reshuffling of the UFC 279 card was all planned due to the lack of ticket sales. “I heard this thing today, and
7:50 AM ET FOR MAJDI SHAMMAS, the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 9 in Las Vegas were a manager’s worst nightmare. At approximately 4 a.m. local time, Shammas knew his fighter, Khamzat Chimaev, would not make weight for a UFC 279 main event against Nate Diaz. Chimaev and his team had done all they
MMA fighter Armando Gjetja melted Daniel Bastidas with a nasty series of strikes in their matchup at Ring of Combat 77 on Friday. Gjetja and Bastidas fought on the early part of the main card of Ring of Combat 77 in Atlantic City, NJ. The two lightweights fought in a catchweight bout that was put
Image Credit: @UFC on Instagram Abus Magomedov finally made his UFC debut and made quick work of Dustin Stoltzfus at UFC Paris. Magomedov hadn’t fought since December of 2020 in KSW and after that, he was signed to the UFC. He was booked to face Gerald Meerschaert, Aliaskhab Khizriev, and Makhmud Muradov but for different
This weekend (Sat., Sept. 17, 2022), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, for UFC Vegas 60. It’s never great when an event loses its co-main event just a couple weeks out from the big night, but fortunately, UFC Vegas 60’s main card still looks like a lot of
DWCS: Farid Basharat snuffs Allan Begosso for a decision win The Dana White Contender Series show is winding down its season 6 by hosting one of the three remaining cards for 2022. In the main event, two bantamweight fighters squared off in hopes of earning the highly-coveted UFC contract. Farid Basharat, the brother of Javid
8:00 AM ET The ESPN pound-for-pound MMA rankings you see below are only slightly different from the men’s and women’s top 10s we published Aug. 24, the last time our voting panel weighed in. That should come as no shock. There have been only two UFC fight cards and few other major events across the
YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has addressed the possibility of him sharing the ring with MMA superstar Nate Diaz down the line. After a 15-year presence in the UFC, Diaz fought out his contract this past weekend at UFC 279. While it appeared that he was set for a tough farewell opposite undefeated welterweight Khamzat Chimaev, issues
UFC 279 is set up to be Khamzat Chimaev’s big coming out party. The UFC has put him up against one of their biggest stars in Nate Diaz, and it’s a match-up seemingly designed to make Chimaev look like a monster. He’s much bigger than Diaz, he’s top ranked while Diaz is unranked, and Chimaev
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and ONE Championship swapping two of their best fighters feels like a lifetime ago. In late 2018, the promotions came to an agreement to let go of one top star each with the intention of the fighters jumping ships. Therefore, giving the mixed martial arts (MMA) world its first-ever trade. UFC