UFC featherweight prospect Umar Nurmagomedov is set for his latest challenge inside the Octagon, as he’ll meet Nate Maness at an upcoming UFC Fight Night. On June 25, Umar, the cousin of lightweight legend Khabib Nurmagomedov, will be looking to extend his perfect record at the expense Tennessee native Maness, who has fallen to defeat
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2:28 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a welterweight matchup between Vicente Luque and Geoff Neal for Aug. 5, sources told ESPN Thursday. Contracts have not been signed but the bout has been verbally agreed to. The UFC has not announced an official location for the UFC Fight Night event on Aug. 6. Luque (21-8-1)
Davey Grant knows the pressure is on him to get back into the win column at UFC Vegas 54. Grant is coming off a split decision loss to Adrian Yanez and a decision loss to Marlon Vera in two entertaining fights. He’s finally set to return against Louis Smolka at UFC Vegas 54 on Saturday
UFC’s second visit to London is scheduled for July 23, 2022, inside O2 Arena, and it’s building up to be a very fun card. Earlier today, Eurosport’s Marcel Dorff reported that Paul Craig vs. Volkan Oezdemir has been added to the bout list. Paul Craig is currently on the best run of his career. After
Jorge Masvidal wins bid to inspect Colby Covington’s watch ahead of potential hearing The saga between Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington has just gotten a new update. According to TMZ, who spoke with Masvidal’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, Masvidal’s team was granted permission to inspect the watch that Covington claims was damaged when Masvidal allegedly sucker-punched
UFC bantamweight contender Marlon Vera has called on former champion Dominick Cruz to accept a fight with him now that the Ecuadorian is ranked in the top five. Vera firmly announced his arrival in the upper echelons of the 135-pound weight class last weekend by thoroughly beating top contender Rob Font in the UFC Vegas
May 7, 2022 A pair of UFC title fights have been slated to co-headline the promotion’s annual International Fight Week on July 2 in Las Vegas. The UFC announced on Saturday that middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will seek his fifth title defense against Jared Cannonier. Also, a long-anticipated featherweight trilogy between Alexander Volkanovski and Max
Image Credit: @ufc on Twitter Michael Chandler has discussed his move from Bellator to the UFC. It was late 2020 that Michael Chandler, three time Bellator champion made the decision to sign with the UFC. Since switching sides, after almost 10 years with Bellator, Chandler has made 4 appearances in the Octagon with 2 wins
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Perhaps unexpectedly, UFC 274 proved to be rather big business for the promotion. Sports Business Journal reports that the event sold over 400k pay-per-view (PPV) buys, making it the best-selling UFC event of 2022. While this is the first event of the year in which PPV numbers have been leaked, we
Joanna Jędrzejczyk says she’ll be the champion again by the end of the year Former UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk has some lofty goals for the remainder of the year. By year’s end, she expects to be the champion again. Jędrzejczyk is scheduled to rematch fellow former champion Zhang Weili at UFC 275 in Singapore
Former rivals Rose Namajunas and Joanna Jędrzejczyk may be spending a lot of time together ahead of Jędrzejczyk’s rematch with Zhang Weili. Jędrzejczyk is set to make her return to the Octagon next month at UFC 275 against Weili. It is her first fight in the UFC since their first matchup at UFC 248. Jędrzejczyk
3:38 PM ET The UFC has rebooked a lightweight bout between fan favorites Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Joe Lauzon for June 18, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The fight was supposed to take place last weekend, at UFC 274 in Phoenix. Both lightweights made weight on Friday, but the bout was postponed on the day
Image Credit: UFC Andre Petroski asked for the Nick Maximov fight as he believes it’s a good style matchup for him. Petroski competed on TUF 29 and beat Micheal Gillmore in his UFC debut. He followed that up with a submission win over Yaozong Hu. After that fight he watched Maximov beat Punahele Soriano and
Like it or not, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) kicks off its 30th numbered season today (Tues., May 3, 2022) on ESPN+ with bantamweight rivals Julianna Pena and Amanda Nunes serving as coaches this time around, leading squads of Heavyweights and Flyweights through the familiar tournament format. Here are the respective teams: TEAM PENAHeavyweights: Mohammed Usman,
Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira made history on Friday when he was the first UFC champion to miss weight on the scales and thus be stripped of his title. But the weight miss wasn’t cut and dry and shortly after weighing in several UFC fighters stepped up to share that they’d gotten calls before
Former UFC strawweight champion Rose Namajunas‘ corner was confident about her place in the fight heading into the final five minutes at UFC 274. Namajunas lost her strawweight title in one of the strangest UFC title fights in recent memory against Carla Esparza. The two strawweight pioneers failed to dish out a lot of output
8:49 PM ET The UFC is moving forward with an interim flyweight title fight on July 30, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. Brandon Moreno and Kai Kara-France will meet for the interim belt at UFC 277 at a location to be announced, sources said. It will mark the second time Moreno and Kara-France square
Charles Oliveira will still be fighting for UFC gold should he beat Justin Gaethje at UFC 274. Oliveira was looking to defend his belt for the second time against Gaethje in the main event of UFC 274 in a highly-anticipated bout. Yet, on Friday, the champ missed weight by 0.5 pounds and was forced to