Welcome to Midnight Mania! Fighter pay is perhaps the hot button topic in the UFC right now. For those interested in the numbers, there’s a major focus on the UFC revenue split (spoiler: UFC pays its athletes a considerably smaller percentage than most any other major sport) as well as multiple ongoing lawsuits, one of
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5:13 PM ET Fedor Emelianenko has an opponent for his homecoming fight. The all-time great MMA heavyweight will fight Tim Johnson on Oct. 23 in Moscow, Russia, Bellator announced Thursday. Emelianenko has not fought in his home country for five years and has not competed in Moscow in a decade. The bout is part of
UFC 265 Pre-fight Press Conference Video The athletes competing on Saturday’s UFC 265 main card as well as UFC president Dana White participated in the event’s pre-fight press conference on Thursday in Houston, Texas. UFC 265 takes place at Toyota Center and is headlined by an interim heavyweight title bout between no. 2 ranked contender
Image: @ufc on Instagram Old footage has emerged of Derrick Lewis telling a funny story about heavyweight boxing legend George Foreman. Back in the day Lewis dabbled in the world of boxing after being scouted by Foreman and his team. They were initially looking for someone to fight one of Foreman’s sons but after realising
Angela Hill is eager to rematch Tecia Torres and exact her revenge. Hill and Torres are set to rematch on the main card at UFC 265. They first met back in 2015 at UFC 188 in what was Hill’s just third pro fight and second fight in the UFC. Unfortnately for “Overkill”, she lost a
Former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo recently signed a lengthy contract extension because “Junior” plans to make a serious run at the 135-pound title. That mission continues in the UFC 265 pay-per-view (PPV) co-main event this Sat. night in Houston, Texas, where Aldo battles bantamweight stalwart Pedro Munhoz. “I think this is a great fight
12:48 PM ET The UFC’s first-ever women’s flyweight champion is no longer with the promotion. Nicco Montaño was released by the UFC this week, officials confirmed with ESPN on Wednesday. The decision comes on the heels of Montaño missing weight last Friday by 7 pounds, forcing the cancellation of her scheduled fight with Wu Yanan
UFC Champ Valentina Shevchenko posts bikini pics while training in Washington UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko is in training camp for her UFC 266 co-main event title defense against Lauren Murphy. “Bullet” posted photos to her Instagram account of her relaxing at the beach. Training camps aren’t solely spent in the gym. Shevchenko (21-3)
In the main event of UFC 265, the interim heavyweight title is up for grabs as Derrick Lewis takes on Ciryl Gane. Ahead of the fight, Gane is a -380 favorite while “The Black Beast” is a +290 underdog. Ahead of the fight, BJPENN.com reached out to several pro fighters to get their prediction for
Fedor Emelianenko finally has his opponent for Bellator Moscow. On October 23, Bellator MMA will host a grand MMA extravaganza when MMA icon Fedor Emelianenko competes in his home country of Russia. For weeks, there has been speculation of who will be his opponent, with people coming out of the woodwork to volunteer their services:
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Khabib Nurmagomedov is less than pleased with Conor McGregor. Following McGregor’s shin-snapping injury and subsequent loss to Dustin Poirier, Khabib congratulated “The Diamond” and remarked that “good always defeats evil.” A couple weeks afterward, McGregor returned fire with quickly deleted tweets, suggesting that by Khabib’s logic, his recently deceased father is
1:44 PM ET Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold will return to the Octagon in November. Rockhold (16-5) has agreed to face Sean Strickland (24-3) at UFC 268 on Nov. 6, multiple sources told ESPN. The UFC has not announced a location for the pay-per-view event, but the current target is New York City. The
Dana White on A.J. McKee: “When his contract’s up he’ll have to call” This past Saturday, A.J. McKee put the world on notice. The surging featherweight choked out Patricio Pitbull to capture the Bellator featherweight title along with a million dollar prize for winning the Bellator featherweight grand prix. While the UFC was also putting
Chad Mendes has ended his retirement. The former UFC title challenger retired after his loss to Alex Volkanovski at UFC 232 in December of 2018. Since then, Mendes has remained in the gym but there were no talks of a possible comeback. However, over the past couple of months, he has teased a return to
Boxing great George Foreman would have liked to see what Derrick Lewis would have become had he chosen the path of boxing instead of MMA. Over a decade ago, long before MMA fans worldwide became accustomed to the man who would later be known as “The Black Beast,” Lewis was sharpening his tools for a
UFC lightweight contender Michael Chandler was recently booked to throw down against fellow Top 5 action fighter Justin Gaethje as part of the upcoming UFC 268 pay-per-view (PPV) event this November at Madison Square Garden in New York. There’s just one teeny, tiny little problem. Chandler, 35, has yet to receive a vaccination for COVID-19,
7:30 AM ET Mike Coppinger Marc Raimondi If Derrick Lewis beats Ciryl Gane in the UFC 265 main event Saturday night in Houston to capture the interim heavyweight title, it wouldn’t be surprising to see him scan the crowd for a familiar face. And he wouldn’t necessarily be searching for heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou, who
Cody Garbrandt to move down to flyweight for fight against Kai Kara-France After frequent speculation, Cody Garbrandt is officially making his move down to flyweight. The former UFC bantamweight champion and no. 6 ranked bantamweight contender will move down to 125 pounds to face City Kickboxing product and no. 7 ranked flyweight Kai Kara-France, according