Image Credit: Bellator Danny Sabatello is excited to fight and punish Leandro Higo at Bellator 282 on Friday. Sabatello and Higo are set to meet in the quarter-finals of the bantamweight grand prix in an intriguing matchup. When the bracket was set up, Sabatello was pleased he would get the chance to face Higo as
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Khamzat Chimaev and Darren Till are like brothers … assuming those brothers are Cain and Abel. Despite their year-long bromance, documented in the ongoing Blockasset crypto-blogs, Chimaev was recently seen training alongside middleweight bruiser Jack Hermansson. What’s the big deal? Hermansson is fighting Till at the upcoming UFC London event on July 23. The Twitter
UFC Vegas 57 Main Event Weigh-in Video: Arman Tsarukyan vs. Mateusz Gamrot The fighters competing on Saturday’s UFC Vegas 57 fight card officially weighed in on Friday including the fight card’s main event fighters. Lightweights Arman Tsarukyan vs. Mateusz Gamrot headline the event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and both tipped the scales at 156
PFL 6 will see a new lightweight main event now that Julia Budd withdrew due to injury, prompting Kayla Harrison to be matched with new opponent, Kaitlyn Young. ESPN was the first to report the news of the main event change. As of this writing, the nature of Budd’s injury is undisclosed. Budd was a
8:00 AM ET Ian ParkerESPN The PFL’s lightweights and light heavyweights finalized their playoff positioning a week ago, and now it’s the turn of the heavyweights and featherweights on Friday at PFL 5 (ESPN and ESPN+, main card at 8 p.m. ET and prelims at 6 p.m.). The main event at Overtime Elite Arena in
Jorge Masvidal is reacting after Leon Edwards claimed he will grant him a title shot if victorious at UFC 278. It will be Kamaru Usman (20-1 MMA) defending his welterweight title against Leon Edwards (19-3 MMA) in the main event on August 20th at UFC 278 in the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Petr Yan wants back in to the 135-pound title mix. So long as Aljamain Sterling holds the belt, however, it’s a bit of an awkward road for the Russian kickboxer. The only real solution is to get active and start picking up wins, which is why Yan has been vocal about
PFL 5: Bruno Cappelozza vs. Matheus Scheffel weigh-in results Heavyweights and featherweights stepped on the scales on Thursday morning ahead of the fifth show in the Professional Fighters League regular season. All fighters made weight with the reigning heavyweight champion, Bruno Cappelozza weighing in last at 237.2 pounds. His opponent, Matheus Scheffel weighed in at
Merab Dvalishvili is siding with Aljamain Sterling in his current negotiations with the UFC for higher pay. Speaking with MMA News recently, Dvalishvili offered his thoughts on Sterling’s current demands for higher pay before stepping into the Octagon to defend his title again. Dvalishvili said Sterling is a smart man for knowing his worth and
2:06 PM ET Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone has agreed to face Jim Miller at UFC 276 on July 2 in Las Vegas, according to UFC officials. The short-notice bout is the latest turn of events in a wild month for Cerrone (36-16), who is replacing Miller’s original opponent Bobby Green. The fight will take place at
Daniel Cormier believes Jorge Masvidal has come to a crossroads in his UFC career. It is true that Masvidal (35-16 MMA) is coming off a three fight losing streak, two of the losses coming against welterweight champion Kamaru Usman (20-1 MMA). The most recent defeat came against Colby Covington (17-3 MMA) in March of this
Bec Rawlings was knocked out by Paige VanZant with a “really lucky kick” when both combatants were competing under the UFC banner, but prior to that second-round finish, “Rowdy” was “beating that ass.” That’s according to a conversation Rawlings had with MMA Junkie. Most media outlets (including this one) scored the first round of their
Though his initial game plan for his most recent bout didn’t go how he intended, bantamweight Joshua Weems was able to make adjustments and pick up a win over Thiago Belo at B2FS this past March. As Weems explains, he was hoping to stay on his feet more, but when that didn’t happen he was
YouTuber turned boxer Logan Paul had a strong friendship with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson before his ‘suicide forest’ video controversy severed ties. Paul, one of the most prominent personalities on YouTube, was at the center of a controversy in 2017 which nearly ended his content creation career permanently. He filmed a vlog at the Aokigahara
Image Credit: UFC Christos Giagos believes he will finally show just how good he is at UFC Vegas 57 on Saturday. Giagos will return to the Octagon against Thiago Moises in what will be his second fight at Sanford MMA. Giagos made the move to Sanford last camp, but before he could even get accustomed
Welcome to Midnight Mania! It really feels like the infamous attempts at booking Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson — a fight that was cancelled FIVE times and never actually happened — imparted a lesson upon UFC President Dana White. When asked about re-booking Donald Cerrone vs. Joe Lauzon after the match up’s second cancellation in
Having coming into this year on a five-fight winning streak, bantamweight Danny Sabatello was looking to extend that streak when he faced Jornel Lugo at Bellator 278 this past April. In what mirrored Sabatello’s previous outings, he was able to dominate much of the fight and come out with a unanimous decision, raising his undefeated
Jake Paul has accused rival Tommy Fury of pulling out of their fight for a second time, confirming that the Englishman is the planned opponent for his August 6 return. YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul hasn’t been in the ring since his second victory over Tyron Woodley last December. But after some teases on social media, “The Problem