Flashback Fight: Watch Diego Brandao submit Dennis Bermudez to win TUF 14 [embedded content] Diego Brandao won a UFC contract, as well as Fight of the Night and Performance of the Night bonuses, at the Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale in 2011 in an entertaining bantamweight final with Dennis Bermudez. TRENDING > Watch Curtis Blaydes blast Junior
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7:40 AM ET Dana White doesn’t believe that the smaller cage the UFC is using at its Apex facility has factored into more stoppages, but the numbers might disagree. During three events at the Apex — with the 25-foot Octagon, as opposed to a 30-footer — the finish rate is 54.5% (18 finishes in 33
Image Credit: Buda Mendes/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Thiago Santos wants a big fight upon his return to the Octagon. Santos hasn’t been in action since March 2019. He gave UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones all he could handle and even came close to pulling off the upset. In the end, “Bones” successfully
Image: @francisngannou on Instagram UFC President Dana White says that streaking UFC heavyweight Francis Ngannou contender could serve as an alternate for the upcoming title fight between Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier. Miocic and Cormier have fought twice previously. Cormier won the pair’s first bout, in 2018, by first-round knockout, claiming the heavyweight title for
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight contender Curtis Blaydes found himself in hot water a few weeks back for his lengthy rant about female fighters who get preferential treatment because of their sex appeal, regardless of whether or not they can actually fight. Blaydes’ previous argument landed was somewhere between Fedor Emelianenko’s “stay home and raise
Watch Alexander Volkov dominate Fabricio Werdum (UFC on ESPN 11 Free Fight) [embedded content] Alexander Volkov took down former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum with a late-round knockout in London in 2018. Volkov faces Curtis Blaydes on Saturday, June 20. Volkov has won seven of his last eight fights and is ranked No. 7 in
6:10 PM ET It appears as though Yoel Romero will be sticking around at middleweight. According to multiple sources, a fight between Romero and Uriah Hall is in the works for August. The UFC has yet to issue bout agreements for the fight, nor has it finalized a specific date, sources said, but the current
Fernando Quiles Jr., MMA News UFC president Dana White has an MMA Mount Rushmore of his own but he admits it wasn’t easy to put together. Fight fans often discuss who the greatest fighters of all time are. Some go as far as to put together their own MMA Mount Rushmore. That’s what White has
UFC president, Dana White has finally revealed his Mount Rushmore of MMA. For many MMA fans, a popular question is who would be on a Mount Rushmore of MMA? There are so many options like Jon Jones, Ronda Rousey, Demetrious Johnson, Georges St-Pierre, and countless others. For White, he says it is hard to narrow
Welcome to Midnight Mania! If at first you don’t succeed … go back to Middleweight! TASS reported today that Chris Weidman (14-5) will return to the Octagon and 185-pound division opposite Omari Akhmedov (20-4) on Sat. Aug 8, 2020 at a yet-to-be-named event in Las Vegas, Nevada. Weidman has struggled ever since he lost his
Flashback fight: Watch Tony Ferguson brutally stop Cowboy Cerrone at UFC 238 [embedded content] Tony Ferguson brutalized Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone at UFC 238 to earn his shot at UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 249. The title fight never happened, as the match-up was derailed for the fifth time, this time because of the
8:06 AM ET UFC president Dana White began touting a welterweight title bout between champion Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal as far back as January, when a heated exchange between the fighters during Super Bowl week lit a marketing fuse that was expected to detonate a blockbuster main event on July 11. But a lot
Justin Gaethje believes Conor McGregor would be in for a rough time if they ever share the Octagon. Gaethje is the interim UFC lightweight champion and is set for a title unification bout against 155-pound title holder Khabib Nurmagomedov. “The Eagle” was initially willing to return as soon as June to fight Gaethje but the
Image via @spiderandersonsilva on Instagram Chael Sonnen has three fights in mind for his former foe Anderson Silva. Silva, who is now 45 years old, is in the final chapter of his illustrious MMA career. That being said, UFC President Dana White has openly stated that he’s not sure how to proceed in terms of
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) light heavyweight title contender, Glover Teixeira, is on a mission to slug his way back into a 205-pound title fight, and believes the means to that end is a victory over No. 3-ranked contender Jan Blachowicz. “In my opinion, I’m looking forward to fighting for the title,” Teixeira told MMA
Watch Curtis Blaydes blast Junior Dos Santos (UFC on ESPN 11 free fight) [embedded content] Curtis Blaydes is about to return to the Octagon to headline UFC on ESPN 11. Across the cage from him will be Alexander Volkov, a man with more than twice his experience. Blaydes has faced this scenario before when he
11:51 PM ET A highly ranked featherweight bout between Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige will headline UFC Fight Night on July 15 at Fight Island, multiple sources told ESPN. Both sides have agreed to the 145-pound main event, per sources. The UFC Fight Night event will take place at the UFC’s Fight Island, at Yas
Fernando Quiles Jr., MMA News Dana White keeps pushing forward with events regardless of what everyone else is doing in combat sports. For those unaware of the UFC in the beginning, pushing forward when it seems all is lost is nothing new to White and the UFC. History has shown that going when no one