UFC 263 Weigh-Ins: Nate Diaz vs Leon Edwards | Official No. 3 ranked welterweight contender Leon Edwards faces Nate Diaz in a five-round fight at UFC 263 on Saturday with a title shot likely waiting for the winner. The two officially weighed in on Friday with both fighters successfully making weight. Edwards tipped the scales
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Image via @ufc on Instagram (photographer not listed) UFC welterweight contender Leon Edwards has questioned the logic of Colby Covington getting the next shot at Kamaru Usman. Ever since losing to Usman back in December 2015, Edwards has gone on a phenomenal run that saw him win eight fights in a row prior to his
Bellator 260 will take place tonight on the Showtime Network in the “Fight Sphere” at The Mohegan Sun. The main event will feature welterweight champion Douglas Lima against the undefeated, Bellator MMA number one ranked welterweight Yaroslav Amosov. Amosov’s record is 25-0 and has picked up mostly decision victories since signing with Bellator MMA. His
1:39 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Claressa Shields is a champion. She has showed that for years in the boxing ring, winning gold medals in two Olympics and becoming a three-division world champion (twice undisputed) in an undefeated professional in-ring career. On Thursday night, she showed a different side of her championship mettle by surviving a
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Professional Fighter’s League returned tonight (June 10, 2021) with their fourth event of the 2021 season. While there were several exciting “regular season” bouts between veteran fighters looking to advance into the playoffs, inarguably the biggest draw of the night was the main event, which featured the MMA debut of legendary
Israel Adesanya and Marvin Vettori go ballistic at UFC 263 Press Conference On Saturday, middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will rematch no. 3 ranked Marvin Vettori in the UFC 263 main event in Glendale, Arizona. The two fought to a split decision in their first encounter with Adesanya getting the nod from the judges. During Thursday’s
Image via @marvinvettori on Instagram (photographer not listed) Marvin Vettori believes he’s a much better fighter than Israel Adesanya. In the main event of UFC 263, Adesanya and Vettori will rematch in the same arena where they fought back in 2018 with ‘Stylebender’ winning a split decision. It was a close fight which makes the
PFL 4 takes place tonight live on ESPN2 from the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey and will be headlined by the much-anticipated debut of undefeated boxing champion Claressa Shields. After officially making the decision to jump to MMA last November when she signed with The Professional Fighters League (PFL), the world began
8:23 AM ET Saturday’s UFC 263 main event in Glendale, Arizona will feature middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, defending his belt against Marvin Vettori. It is a rematch of a non-title bout that took place in April 2018, coincidentally, in Glendale. Adesanya (20-1) defeated Vettori (17-3-1) via split decision in a three-round fight in which Adesanya
Terrance McKinney will make his UFC debut this weekend in “The Grand Canyon State.” The fact that “T.Wrecks” is competing at all is nothing short of amazing, especially when you consider his run-in with law enforcement back in 2014. And by his own words, alcohol mixed with acid and ‘shrooms is probably not the best
For his first fight in 10 months this past March at UFC Fight Night, light-heavyweight Eryk Anders was looking to shake off a loss in his last fight in 2020, but instead had to go through another instance of non-victory. Late into the first round of his bout versus Darren Stewart, Anders landed an accidental
Via: Davi Belfort (Twitter) Vitor Belfort‘s son Davi Belfort has accepted an offer from Nick Saban to play football at the University of Alabama. The youngster has yet to even play a single snap at Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach, Florida – but that hasn’t stopped Saban, head coach for the Alabama
The Paul brothers have earned a fan in “Suga” Sean O’Malley. Over the weekend, the world witnessed a boxing spectacle as Floyd Mayweather took Logan Paul eight rounds in an exhibition match. The results were surprising to some. In fact, many fighters are coming out of the woodworks to give praise to Logan Paul’s performance
5:45 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Anthony Pettis was scheduled to fight for his PFL season on Thursday night. Now the former UFC lightweight champion’s last-ditch effort to make the playoffs will have to wait two weeks. Pettis is among four fighters whose bouts have been rescheduled for June 25, the PFL announced Wednesday. The promotion
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Sean O’Malley likely spends more of his time than the average fighter building his brand. “Suga” has done limited edition merchandise drops, dramatically dyes his hair differently for every fight, and hosts his own podcast. As a result, O’Malley has generated a pretty significant following at 1.5 million Instagram followers. O’Malley’s
PFL 4 Weigh-in Results and Video Boxing champion Claressa Shields is set to make her MMA debut on Thursday at PFL 4 in Atlantic City against Brittney Elkin. On Wednesday, all the athletes competing on Thursday’s fight card officially weighed in. After some last-minute changes to the fight card, Shields’ MMA debut will serves as
Sean O’Malley has a lot of respect for Logan and Jake Paul. O’Malley a rising bantamweight star and says he wants to be known for his entertainment. With that, he says he likes what the Paul brothers are doing as they are massive entertainers who are now taking over the combat sports world. “I love
Jared Cannonier is preparing for a new opponent after Paulo Costa pulled out of their scheduled bout, but Cannonier holds no bad feelings. Jared Cannonier is a middleweight fighter who has been moving up the rankings over the past few years. His upcoming bout at UFC on ESPN 26 this August was going to be