Welcome to Midnight Mania! Colby Covington fans might have reason to be worried. Former Welterweight champ Tyron Woodley has teamed up with BMF kingpin and recent title challenger Jorge Masvidal ahead of his bout with Covington, which is set to take place on Sept. 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the above video, Masvidal and
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Daniel Cormier weighs in on Jon Jones moving to the heavyweight division [embedded content] Pound-for-pound king Jon Jones recently vacated his light heavyweight title to make a run in the heavyweight division. Former light heavyweight and heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier weighed in on Jones’ move up to heavyweight and gave his thoughts on how well
Tonight (Sept. 1), the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada will play host to the 31st edition of Dana White’s Contender Series. The main event will feature featherweights Dennis Buzukja and Melsik Baghdasaryan, with both fighters entering the bout with a 4-1 record. The co-main event will feature undefeated Nate Smith (6-0) taking on Jimmy
5:01 PM ET The contracts just keep on coming. UFC president Dana White did another Oprah Winfrey impression (“You get a contract, you get a contract!”) last week on Contender Series. White gave out another four UFC deals, bringing the Season 4 total up to 16 contracts through four weeks. Meanwhile, Impa Kasanganay, who earned
Image via @ufc on Instagram UFC 256 could feature two welterweight title fights. Yes, that’s right two. According to a report from TMZ, undisputed welterweight champion Kamaru Usman is set defend his title against Gilbert Burns on the card, and a BMF title rematch between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz is also in the works
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar could not come to terms on a new deal with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which opens the door for a potential return to mixed martial arts (MMA). Count Bellator MMA among the interested parties, where Lesnar would likely compete against legendary heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko. Promotion president
Following a first-round submission victory over Erick Lozano at Lights Out Championship 2 in February, middleweight Cody Brundage was looking forward to continuing his momentum in 2020 when the novel coronavirus put those plans on hold. Having previously been very active in his career prior to the coronavirus lockdown, the whole situation was something of
Jon Jones is not going to sit idly by and watch the #1 contender of the heavyweight division receive a title shot instead of him. Jon Jones made it perfectly clear why he was vacating his light heavyweight championship: He wanted to go all-in on a move up to the heavyweight division. And Jones has
11:59 PM ET Brock Lesnar is on the open market. One of the biggest combat sports stars of this generation is no longer under contract with WWE, multiple sources confirmed Monday with ESPN following a report from PWInsider. Lesnar’s merchandise was pulled over the weekend from WWE’s online store. We have been down this road
Jeff Monson would like a grappling super fight against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu superstar, Gordon Ryan. Monson is one of the most highly-decorated grapplers in MMA. His credentials include being a 2x ADCC world champion, a former heavyweight title contender in the UFC and a veteran of multiple other high-profile promotions including PRIDE, Strikeforce, M-1 Global and
Welcome to Midnight Mania! After flirting with a Heavyweight move once every year or two for most of the last decade, Jon Jones is finally serious about changing up his weight class. He’s vacated the belt, began work on building more muscle, and even UFC President Dana White has confirmed that Jones will receive an
Watch Augusto Sakai blast his way into the UFC [embedded content] Augusto Sakai earned a UFC contract with his knockout performance on the debut episode of the Brazilian season of Dana White’s Contender Series, where he stopped Marcos Conrado. After winning his first four UFC bouts, Sakai next faces Alistair Overeem in the UFC Vegas
Fedor Emelianenko announced over the weekend that his coach and father figure, Vladimir Mikhailovich Voronov, has died. Emelianenko took to Instagram to pay tribute to his late coach. “My coach Vladimir Mikhailovich Voronov died,” Fedor wrote on Instagram (via Google Translate). “From childhood, Vladimir was part of a family, a demanding mentor. He was always
7:43 AM ET It almost doesn’t seem possible that Michael Chandler is a free agent for the first time The 34-year-old former Bellator MMA champion has been one of the best lightweights on the planet for nearly a decade. He’s openly discussed the possibility of testing free agency multiple times, but Bellator has never let
Former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor is plotting an epic journey from the French island of Corsica to Monaco. The Irish MMA superstar will undertake this 110-mile journey on a sea bike, apparently with Princess Charlene of Monaco for company. McGregor opened up on this planned journey, which he will begin on September
Former UFC middleweight Wanderlei Silva tried to stir up some excitement on Twitter by releasing a fake poster that featured a bunch of fan-friendly match ups, including a rematch between “The Axe Murderer” and longtime nemesis Vitor Belfort. “The Phenom” was not impressed. “Wanderlei, my promoter Chatri Sityodtong and my agent are waiting for you
Dana White One-on-One: Conor McGregor-type opportunities; turning 2020 into gold [embedded content] In this exclusive one-on-one interview, Dana White talks in depth about the development of the UFC and the opportunities that his company now presents for fighters looking to change their lives. He also goes deep on restarting the professional sports world from the
The biggest asterisk on Georges St-Pierre’s MMA record is the very thing that contributed most to his greatness according to the Hall of Famer. To this day, Matt Serra’s victory over Georges St-Pierre at UFC 69 remains the biggest upset in UFC history in the eyes of many. St-Pierre entered the bout as a monstrous