Image via @spiderandersonsilva on Instagram Speaking to the media ahead of his final UFC fight, MMA legend Anderson Silva says he has “no regrets” about his past PED suspensions. The 45-year-old Silva is generally regarded as one of the best MMA fighters of all time but one argument that is used against him is his
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Welcome to Midnight Mania! For anyone who has yet to see the latest news, Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. are still set to battle. The date has been moved to Nov. 28, 2020 — a move that Jones says happened because “Iron Mike” needed more time to get ready — and WBC created a
The Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. played host to Thursday’s Bellator 250: Mousasi vs. Lima fight card. The vacant middleweight title was up for grabs in the main event between current welterweight champion Douglas Lima and former middleweight titleholder Gegard Mousasi. Rafael Lovato Jr. vacated the title in February after being diagnosed with cerebral
A major light heavyweight scrap is being targeted for February of next year with Dominick Reyes set to take on Jiri Prochazka. As reported by ESPN earlier today, Dana White has disclosed that a bout between Dominick Reyes and Jiri Prochazka is being planned to headline a February 27 Fight Night event. This is currently
7:48 AM ET Anderson Silva‘s Fight Night main event against Uriah Hall on Saturday is likely his last bout with the UFC, but that doesn’t mean the all-time great is planning to stop fighting altogether. “Probably this is my last fight in the UFC,” Silva told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. “But let’s go see the result.”
Bellator president Scott Coker explained why Bellator made 30 roster cuts including veterans such as Frank Mir, Roy Nelson, and Joe Warren. It was reported earlier this week that Bellator cut a number of fighters from its roster. Many of the fighters who were released were veterans coming to the end of the like such
Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey was arrested and jailed back in 2019 for commandeering a police vehicle and crashing it into another squad car during a parking lot brawl with fellow WWE wrestlers Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch. Watch it all go down in the embedded video above. While most of us with
Coming into 2020, middleweight Johnny Eblen was already looking at some time off due to recovering from surgery, so when the novel coronavirus lockdown was enacted in the spring, it wasn’t as big of a blow to his career as it might have been to other fighters. Having to put the focus on his recovery
UFC 255 has been dealt a devastating blow, with Robbie Lawler withdrawing from his scheduled bout against Mike Perry. Mike Perry was set to take on arguably the biggest name he’s ever been pitted against in one Robbie Lawler at UFC 255 in a bout with a high potential for fireworks, but it was not
7:10 PM ET An anticipated welterweight bout is off the UFC’s next pay-per-view main card. Former UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler is out of a scheduled bout with Mike Perry at UFC 255 on Nov. 21 in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. The UFC is seeking a replacement to fight Perry, sources said.
Image via@trailblaze2top on Instagram (photographer not listed) UFC middleweight Kevin Holland received a short-notice opponent for UFC Vegas 12 after Makhmud Muradov withdrew from Saturday’s event. Holland vs. Muradov was set to be a part of the main card for this Saturday’s UFC event, which features a main event between middleweights Uriah Hall and Anderson
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Khabib Nurmagomedov managed to dominate at UFC 254 (HIGHLIGHTS!), overwhelming Justin Gaethje in the second round to sleep him with a triangle choke before immediately retiring. To make the situation even more impressive, Nurmagomedov revealed he endured a camp from hell. He came with receipts too, providing x-rays of his broken
Heading into his bout against Brady Huang at Contender Series 2020 this past August, bantamweight Adrian Yanez wasn’t feeling overwhelmed by the opportunity being presented himself, but rather the opposite. With a potential UFC contract on the line, Yanez was relaxed as could be and went out and picked up a 39-second first round TKO
Anderson Silva’s final UFC fight will take place this weekend against Uriah Hall. Silva first debuted in the promotion over 14 years ago. The 45-year-old recently said the company just isn’t the same after the Fertitta brothers sold it in 2016. “I think the UFC changed for me when Lorenzo came out,” Silva said to
8:37 AM ET “I know only one thing what I want from UFC,” Khabib Nurmagomedov said moments after his victory over Justin Gaethje at UFC 254. “You guys have to put me No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world, because I deserve it.” That he does. And despite the undefeated lightweight champion having announced his
Jennifer Maia is hoping to “surprise the world” when she fights UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 255. Maia was granted the title shot against Shevchenko after pulling off an incredible submission victory over former top contender Joanne Calderwood over the summer. The UFC matched Maia up against the champ Shevchenko, and they
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight headline machine Mike Perry will not be fighting at the UFC 255 pay-per-view (PPV) event next month in Las Vegas, but not because of “Platinum’s” never-ending personal problems. It seems Robbie Lawler has been injured and forced to withdraw. “So Lawler pulled out due to an injury,” Perry wrote on
It’s been a year of both ups and downs for strawweight Vanessa Demopoulos. Following two straight wins to kick off the year, including an LFA championship victory in July, Demopoulos’ momentum was halted in her next bout, losing to Corey McKenna at Dana White’s Contender Series 2020 in August. Looking back on her two fights