PhotoCred: DAZN Dustin Poirier’s wife Jolie paid a visit to Conor McGregor’s locker room immediately following the Irishman’s loss to her husband. Poirier and McGregor squared off for a second time in the main event of UFC 257, this after ‘Notorious’ had emerged victorious by way of first round TKO in their first encounter in
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2:54 PM ET Next month’s Chris Weidman vs. Uriah Hall fight is being moved. Their scheduled fight at UFC 258 on Feb. 13 has been canceled, sources say, after Weidman tested positive for COVID-19 recently. The current plan is for the fight to be moved to UFC 261 on April 24, according to the sources.
Eddie Alvarez believes he is the only fight that would make sense for Khabib Nurmagomedov to come out of retirement. 29 men have tried to topple the unbeaten and seemingly flawless UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and all have failed. As the speculation of whether or not Khabib will pursue a 30-0 record spreads, in
Michael Chiesa is not on board with referee Mario Yamasaki returning to mixed martial arts (MMA) in 2021 and he’s not afraid to say it. This past week as been quite surprising for fight fans everywhere. Not only did Dustin Poirier hand Conor McGregor his first career knockout loss at UFC 257, but Yamasaki announced
YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul is in for the biggest test of his athletic life on April 17 when he faces former ONE Championship and Bellator champion Ben Askren in a boxing match. It should be a telling moment for Paul’s seriousness as a boxer. If he can’t defeat Askren, who is a phenomenal athlete
Heavyweight MMA legend Alistair Overeem is hoping to win a UFC belt, then immediately retire from competition. Overeem is currently riding back-to-back stoppage wins over Augusto Sakai and Walt Harris. He’s hoping to keep that momentum going and, hopefully, win one of the few major titles that’s eluded him thus far: the UFC heavyweight championship.
8:33 AM ET At the UFC 257 postfight news conference in Abu Dhabi — just moments after Dustin Poirier defeated Conor McGregor in a blockbuster event — the man of the hour compared his two-week experience on Fight Island to being in “a prison in my own mind.” “You couldn’t call this Fight Island,” Poirier
Justin Gaethje has no intentions of standing by and watching Conor McGregor receive a title shot after losing to Dustin Poirier at UFC 257. As the world awaits news on how the UFC will move forward with the lightweight championship following Khabib’s retirement and Dana White’s apparent failure to convince him to reconsider, there are
I have bad news for the winner of Frankie Edgar vs. Cory Sandhagen, a bantamweight showdown between Top 5 contenders scheduled for the upcoming UFC Vegas 18 event on Feb. 6 on ESPN+ inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Petr Yan doesn’t want you. Instead, the reigning 135-pound titleholder is setting his sights on
After letting the smoke clear from UFC 257, number two ranked lightweight Justin Gaethje recently shared his thoughts on the current state of the lightweight division and his thoughts on seeing Conor McGregor getting taken out. In an interview with ESPN MMA, Gaethje wasted no time dropping his two cents on number six ranked lightweight
PhotoCred: Action Network / Vox Jake Paul’s recent turn to the boxing scene isn’t the first thing he’s done to piss people off. Add Marvin Vettori to the list of the annoyed. In wake of the 24-year-old YouTuber and retired UFC welterweight Ben Askren coming to a bout agreement, the top UFC middleweight contender let
12:37 PM ET A pretty good indication that a UFC fighter is hot is when Conor McGregor is calling him out, rather than the other way around. And when Nate Diaz, who rarely calls out anyone, joins the chorus, the heat is undeniable. That’s the position Dustin Poirier finds himself in after his second-round TKO
Raquel Pennington has accepted a six-month USADA suspension for violating the UFC Anti-Doping Policy. It was announced Thursday that Raquel Pennington has accepted a six-month sanction for testing positive for two banned substances: 7-keto-DHEA and AOD-9064. Prior to USADA’s official statement, Pennington published a statement herself describing what led to the suspension: “Here are the
One of the big questions we had once Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren was announced — properly announced, not ginned up by Chael Sonnen in December — was how Paul managed to get the UFC’s permission to fight the YouTube personality. Despite being retired, “Funky” is still under UFC contract, and any sporting endeavor like
While the rematch was unlikely to happen, any hopes of seeing Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor 2 crashed and burned when Dustin Poirier finished McGregor in the second round of the UFC 257 main event on Jan. 24. Poirier became the first fighter to stop McGregor via strikes after compromising the Irishman’s mobility with leg
Manny Pacquiao and his team feel there’s no longer any demand for a boxing match with former two-division UFC champ Conor McGregor. Heading into his UFC 257 fight with Dustin Poirier, McGregor was linked to a boxing match with Manny Pacquiao sometime later in the year. After McGregor lost to Poirier via second-round TKO, however,
7:49 AM ET A pretty good indication that a UFC fighter is hot is when Conor McGregor is calling him out, rather than the other way around. And when Nate Diaz, who rarely calls out anyone, joins the chorus, the heat is undeniable. That’s the position Dustin Poirier finds himself in after his second-round TKO
Alexander Volkov expects to finish Alistair Overeem in their UFC Vegas 18 main event next weekend. Both Volkov and Overeem are top-10 heavyweights and a win for either could put them in a number one contender bout. The fight is a very intriguing one and for Volkov, he expects to finish Overeem once he makes