Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion Robert Whittaker is slowly inching his way back into the upper echelon of the promotion’s pound-for-pound rankings, thanks to a unanimous decision win over Top 10 middleweight Kelvin Gastelum in the UFC Vegas 24 headliner last weekend in “Sin City.” “The Reaper,” who was once ranked as high
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UFC 261 Embedded: Namajunas packs, Weili trains, and Usman shaves his head Rose Namajunas packs; champ Zhang Weili trains with a team that became stronger during COVID. Champion Kamaru Usman shaves his head and sends off some military men. Champion Valentina Shevchenko visits a gym in Florida with her sister and coach. [embedded content] (Courtesy
Image Credit: Top Rank Boxing Clay Collard is excited to get back into MMA. In 2019 and 2020, Collard had 14 boxing fights and he became a big boxing star for Top Rank. He was beating a ton of top prospects but his goal was to return to MMA and now that the PFL is
6:51 PM ET Kamaru Usman was in the corner for Francis Ngannou when Ngannou won the UFC heavyweight title last month. Now, Ngannou will return the favor for his fellow champion friend. Ngannou will be a cornerman for Usman’s welterweight title defense against Jorge Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261 on April 24
Daniel Cormier believes Jorge Masvidal has as good a chance as anyone to dethrone Kamaru Usman. The UFC 261 headliner will feature a rematch between UFC welterweight champion “The Nigerian Nightmare” Kamaru Usman and challenger Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal. Their first encounter was a one-sided showing for the champ, with Usman pulling away on the scorecards
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Ben Askren’s fall has been brutal. It may seem a lifetime ago, but there was a time when people wanted to see Askren face-off with Georges St. Pierre! Prior to his UFC career, Askren was undefeated at 18-0, a former champion in both One Championship and Bellator. After a successful (if
No. 4 ranked UFC welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal spoke with Ariel Helwani about his rematch against UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman for the belt at UFC 261. The first title fight between Usman and Masvidal took place in July 2020 at UFC 251 where Usman won by dominant decision. Usman oustruck Masvidal in total strikes
Image via @ufc on Instagram UFC President Dana White has shared his thoughts on Jake Paul after the YouTube sensation knocked out Ben Askren on Saturday night. Paul (3-0) returned to the squared circle on Saturday night in Atlanta for a scheduled eight-round boxing match with former MMA champion Ben Askren (19-2 MMA). The bout
7:00 AM ET Fight week for UFC 261 has arrived, and with a card of this magnitude, the stakes could not be much higher. Three title fights could reshape the trajectory of the welterweight, strawweight and women’s flyweight divisions overnight. If Jorge Masvidal defeats Kamaru Usman, they would be 1-1 in title fights. That could
Robert Whittaker is putting his foot down about who and what should be next after his victory at UFC Vegas 24: a world title shot against middleweight champion Israel Adesanya. It has been a year and a half since Israel Adesanya defeated Robert Whittaker to become the undisputed UFC middleweight champion. After dropping the title
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is a longtime friend and training partner of retired 170-pound wrestler Ben Askren, who also competed for UFC, as well as Bellator MMA and ONE Championship. “The Chosen One” made his way to the locker room of Jake Paul to watch the YouTube star get his
UFC 261 Countdown: Uriah Hall vs Chris Weidman In a bonus Countdown segment we preview the UFC 261 middleweight tilt between Uriah Hall and former champion Chris Weidman. See these two athletes train and prepare for their bout. The fight is a rematch. The two first fought back in September 2010 with Weidman defeating Hall
Image Credit: Triller Fight Club Jake Paul picked up the biggest win of his boxing career as he scored a first-round TKO over Ben Askren on Saturday night. Entering the highly-anticipated fight, many were interested to see how Paul would fare against a legit combat sports athlete. Just like his other two fights, the YouTuber
7:21 PM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night co-main event between Jeremy Stephens and Drakkar Klose was canceled because of an injury Klose said he sustained when Stephens forcefully shoved him during their official weigh-in on Friday. Klose’s team told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani that according to his CT scan results, Klose suffered a cervical sprain of
Conor McGregor is all but blatantly accusing rival Nate Diaz of steroid usage. Even though it has been five years since Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz have squared off in the Octagon, they have not stopped taking shots at one another outside the cage on social media. Sunday morning was another instance of this when
Based on the chatter I saw across the internet on social media and combat sports forums, the general consensus on Saturday’s Trill Fight Club: Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren event was that it was trash. Glorious trash. Entertaining, in a wide variety of ways from pure cringe to laugh out loud unbelievable. From Pete Davidson
No.1 middleweight contender Robert Whittaker spoke with the media at the UFC Vegas 24 Post-fight Press Conference after defeating no. 8 ranked Kelvin Gastelum by unanimous decision on Saturday. For the former middleweight champ, he believes a rematch with reigning middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, who defeated him by second round KO in 2019, is next.
Mike Perry vs Jake Paul UFC welterweight Mike Perry has shared some footage of his sparring session with Jake Paul after the YouTube sensation dubbed him “light work”. Paul (3-0) returned to the squared circle yesterday evening in Atlanta for a scheduled eight-round boxing match with former mixed martial arts champion Ben Askren (19-2 MMA).