Joanna Jedrzejczyk suffered some serious damage in her last octagon appearance. Despite the physical results of her epic collision with Zhang Weili at Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 248 in March 2020, Jedrzejczyk doesn’t place Zhang among her top two hardest-hitting opponents. Spot No. 1 goes to an old American Top Team teammate while the second
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7:39 PM ET Australian fighter Tai Tuivasa said his heavyweight bout with Derrick Lewis is a fantastic opportunity, even if he agreed to the UFC 271 showdown against the American while “pissed.” Riding a four-fight win streak after a bumper 2021 that saw him defeat Harry Hunsucker, Greg Hardy and Augusto Sakai, Tuivasa has solidified
YouTube creator turned professional boxer Jake Paul has criticized the Ultimate Fighting Championship for its pay structure, but says that he’s a fan of the fight promotion. “The reason why the UFC is so successful, and this is something that I want to get across, I like the UFC. I think what they’ve done is
Randy Couture doesn’t like the contracts the UFC hands to the contestants of The Ultimate Fighter. Couture owns Xtreme Couture and was a coach on TUF, so he has seen first hand what fighters’ contracts are like coming off the show. He claims TUF contracts are extremely one-sided and are very favorable towards the UFC.
Peter Queally witnessed a successful free workshop at his gym where 30 women showed up to participate. On February 25, Queally will fight Kane Mousah on the main card at Bellator 275. The #6-ranked Bellator lightweight trains alongside UFC‘s Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym in Dublin, Ireland. In between training for bouts, Queally coaches
This weekend (Sat., Feb. 5, 2022), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, for UFC Vegas 47. Have you been feeling the effects of the relative UFC drought a month into 2022? Well, fret not, because this weekend’s event begins a 14-week stretch of consecutive cards! Saturday night’s card
Ronda Rousey shares photos breastfeeding backstage at WWE Royal Rumble Just four months before Ronda Rousey was slamming people all over the WWE Royal Rumble ring, she was giving birth to her first child. Now, just days removed from her return to wrestling, Rousey has shared some private moments between mother and child. In the
Said Nurmagomedov has recently been calling out Sean O’Malley, and Chael Sonnen has decided to weigh in. The Russian is coming off a massive win at earlier this month at UFC 270. Already considered one of the best prospects at bantamweight going in, he scored an effortless victory over 135lb staple Cody Stamann. Following the
Ranked heavyweight Tom Aspinall is about to make the biggest jump of his MMA career thus far. Aspinall is scheduled to headline a UFC card for the first time in his career in March, facing Alexander Volkov at the O2 Arena in London, England. The fight is a huge opportunity for Aspinall, who has yet
Putting Deiveson Figueiredo and Brandon Moreno in a cage together has proven to be guaranteed fireworks. It only makes sense that the MMA world would want to see them go at it as many times as possible. The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) 125-pound flyweight division has stepped its game up a notch since Henry Cejudo
3:39 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — UFC president Dana White has struck a partnership deal with the Pitbull-owned NASCAR team Trackhouse Racing, starting this week at the exhibition Clash in Los Angeles. White’s Howler Head Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey will serve as primary sponsor of Ross Chastain‘s No. 1 Chevrolet in Sunday’s race
Fans were shocked by the news of Jeremy Stephens’ UFC release. And they were even more shocked when just days after he was signed by PFL. Now, he’s speaking out about what went down with the UFC and why he decided to sign with the Professional Fighters League. “I asked [the UFC] to give me
Jake Paul says he grew up idolizing Anderson Silva so he would love to box the former UFC middleweight champion. Paul says he grew up an MMA fan and even met and got a picture with Silva along with his autograph in a gym in Ohio. He said he’s always enjoyed watching ‘The Spider’ fight
Despite the controversy with UFC President Dana White, defending Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou is satisfied with his MMA journey. Although Ngannou defeated Gane at UFC 270, there is still uncertainty surrounding his UFC contract. With reports of a lawsuit threat from the UFC and requiring surgery after worsening a knee injury he obtained prior to
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Julianna Pena scored one of the biggest upsets of all time — let alone in a title fight — when she toppled two-division champ Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 in December 2021. However, not everyone is fully impressed. At a recent Eagle FC press conference, Khabib Nurmagomedov was asked about the
6:54 PM ET Kevin Holland called an online troll’s bluff by choking him out in a grappling match. Holland, the loquacious UFC fighter nicknamed “Big Mouth,” said he had been getting messages from a guy on social media for months with the man, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, claiming he could submit Holland. So Holland took
UFC 270: The Thrill and the Agony Sneak Peek Video Go behind the scenes of UFC 270: Ngannou vs Gane for a closer look at the thrill of victory and agony of defeat for the athletes on fight night. Watch the full episode exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS. UFC 270 took place on Jan. 22
Image Credit: @blagoyivanovmma on Instagram Blagoy Ivanov will finally be making the walk to the Octagon again. Multiple sources have informed BJPENN.com that Ivanov will return at UFC 274 on May 7 against Marcos Rogerio de Lima at a location TBD. The fight has been in the works for a while and now it is