The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC on ESPN 15! Check out all the changes below! Men’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Strawweight: No Changes Women’s Flyweight: No Changes Women’s Bantamweight: No Changes Women’s Featherweight: N/A Flyweight: No Changes Bantamweight: As you might imagine, Frankie Edgar’s main event
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Aug 22, 2020 UFC light heavyweight Ovince Saint Preux was forced to withdraw from Saturday’s Fight Night co-main event, his manager confirmed to ESPN’s Marc Raimondi, because of a positive COVID-19 test. “He battled Covid previously and presented both + and – tests this week,” Saint Preux’s management company, Knockout Representation, wrote on social media
Last weekend, the always entertaining Thai combat sports promotion Full Metal Dojo returned with an event called Fight Circus. The event, which was presented in partnership with the adult webcam site CamSoda, featured some bizarre special rules bouts, a 2 vs. 1 fight, an intergender grappling match, and lots more. In other words, it was
Sean O’Malley suffered the first defeat of his professional career when he was stopped by bantamweight veteran Marlon Vera in the UFC 252 co-main event earlier this month in Las Vegas, a performance that included an injury to his leg. Like Maycee Barber before him, “Sugar” did not take it well. But his blatant disrespect
Coming into 2020, lightweight Mike Breeden was looking to capitalize off the momentum he had built in 2019 where he won all three of his fights, including two in the LFA. When the novel coronavirus pandemic struck and forced the world into lockdown, things may have changed for Breeden, but he never stopped trying to
UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic believes Jon Jones has the tools to have a successful run at heavyweight. Last week, Jon “Bones” Jones vacated his light heavyweight championship to cross over into the heavyweight division. For years, fans have been curious how Jones would fare at heavyweight. Not many people are more qualified to give
4:54 PM ET UFC president Dana White has said Francis Ngannou is next for a heavyweight title shot — and former longtime light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will not hop over him for an opportunity in a new division. For the most part, UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic agrees with that assessment. Miocic defeated Ngannou
UFC President Dana White delivered some exciting news for fight fans on Saturday evening when he announced that Tony Ferguson had a fight lined up. Although White did not confirm Ferguson’s next opponent, he did suggest that it was “probably” going to be Dustin Poirier. “Dana White says that Tony Ferguson has a fight lined
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Paulo Costa and steroid accusations is not a new discussion. The hulking Brazilian has big muscles and loves to talk about/flaunt them, so it’s hardly a surprise that many opponents have insinuated that “Eraser” made those gains with more than lean protein in his system. It’s a primary talking point of
Watch Anthony Smith choke out Volkan Oezdemir ahead of UFC Vegas 8 (fight video) [embedded content] Anthony “Lionheart” Smith earned a UFC light heavyweight title shot against Jon Jones with this performance against Volkan Oezdemir in 2018. Smith next faces Aleksandar Rakic on Saturday, August 29, in the UFC Vegas 8 main event in Las
5:48 PM ET Does the future of the UFC’s women’s featherweight division depend on Megan Anderson upsetting champion Amanda Nunes? And does Anderson have much of a chance? Those are two questions that surfaced from this past Friday’s news that the fight is being targeted for December. And what about Fedor Emelianenko protege Vadim Nemkov
Patricio “Pitbull” Freire is the Bellator featherweight and lightweight Champion. Holding titles in MMA, let alone two divisions in a promotion like Bellator is no easy feat. However when his name was brought up to Dana White after last weekend’s UFC event in Las Vegas, White didn’t really have any thoughts on the dual Bellator
Image: UFC on Instagram Pedro Munhoz feels he deserved the judges’ decision in his Saturday night, UFC on ESPN 15 bantamweight fight with Frankie Edgar. Munhoz and Edgar battled for five hard rounds in the UFC on ESPN 15 main event. At the conclusion of those five rounds, the cage-side judges awarded a split decision
God bless America? Nah, god bless the pussies in UFC! That’s according to UFC welterweight contender Leon Edwards, who is currently ranked No. 3 at 170 pounds but still the odd man out, at least in terms of title contention. That’s probably why “Rocky” is tired of waiting for matchmakers to pair him off against
Dana White shreds Oscar De La Hoya’s return to fighting: ‘Cocaine isn’t cheap’ [embedded content] Dana White reacts to Oscar De La Hoya possibly fighting again and who Tony Ferguson’s next opponent might be. “Cocaine isn’t cheap.” TRENDING > UFC on ESPN 15 results: Frankie Edgar claims ‘top dog’ status with win at bantamweight (Subscribe
11:29 PM ET Frankie Edgar is shopworn. He has been in too many wars, and he’s too old. Moving down to bantamweight 15 years into his career? A last-gasp move. Those were some of the storylines coming into the UFC Fight Night main event Saturday night in Las Vegas. Like he has so many times
Dana White is pulling back the curtain and sharing his side of why Corey Anderson was released from his UFC contract early. Earlier this month, UFC fans were taken by surprise to learn that a perennial top-10 light heavyweight was suddenly released despite having fights remaining on his contract. Corey Anderson had been a member
Photo credit @Danger_Dobson on Instagram UFC women’s flyweight Shana Dobson earned the biggest upset in UFC history when she finished Mariya Agapova at UFC on ESPN 15. After surviving a tough first round from a super-aggressive Agapova, Dobson was able to take over in the second round after Agapova began to tire from expending too