Image Credit: Dan Ige’s Instagram (photographer not listed) A pair of surging top-15 featherweights meet in the main event of UFC Fight Night on July 15 in Abu Dhabi as Dan Ige takes on Calvin Kattar. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto broke the news late on Monday night. Ige vs. Kattar will be a five-round fight that
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Welcome to Midnight Mania! The saga of Darren Till and Mike Perry is a strange one that just keeps getting stranger. At first, it made sense. At a certain point in time, the two were hotshot Welterweight prospects who liked to knock people out and make funny comments. The fight seemed inevitable! Then, Perry suffered
Cynthia Calvillo, Andre Fili top UFC on ESPN 10 fighter salaries Cynthia Calvillo made her successful UFC flyweight debut on Saturday night, defeating the former No. 1 ranked 125-pound contender in the process. Calvillo took a solid decision victory over Jessica Eye, who is just a year removed from her most recent title shot. Calvillo
7:54 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
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Frankie Edgar feels his preparation for a move down to 135 pounds doesn’t yield drastic changes. Edgar is set to make his bantamweight debut on July 11. He’ll share the Octagon with Pedro Munoz on the UFC 251 card. The action is set to take place
UFC President Dana White is looking at options to get fans back to UFC events, but he’s not willing to compromise with socially-distanced crowds. White has been able to promote multiple events since the coronavirus pandemic began. Several occurred in Jacksonville, Florida, and the most recent have occurred inside the UFC Apex facility. Several more
UFC on ESPN 10 bonuses: finishers get rewarded UFC president Dana White announced the recipients of the $50,000 performance-based bonuses stemming from UFC on ESPN 10 during the event’s post-fight press conference on Saturday. No bout was given the distinction of being called Fight of the Night. Instead, the fight promotion handed out four Performance
How do you know when a sport like mixed martial arts (MMA) has gone mainstream? When it has just as many assholes per capita as some of the powerhouse leagues like NFL and MLB. Anyone who thinks MMA fans are toxic has never worn a New York Yankees jersey to a Boston Red Sox playoff
5:13 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos will return to action later this summer. JDS vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik has been verbally agreed to for UFC 252 on Aug. 15, sources told ESPN. Combate first reported the fight. Dos Santos (21-7) will look to snap a two-fight losing streak. He most recently lost
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC president Dana White has a theory on why Amanda Nunes hasn’t been given enough respect. Nunes is undoubtedly the most dominant female fighter in MMA today. She is a UFC “champ-champ,” holding both the women’s featherweight and bantamweight titles. She’s finished the likes of Cris Cyborg,
Image via @ufc on Instagram UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal took to social media to scold the “White Knights” who have commentating gigs with the UFC for their stances on fighter pay. Masvidal is currently locked in a contract stalemate with the UFC. Instead of taking the UFC’s offer to fight Kamaru Usman at UFC 251,
The UFC recently announced a big batch of fights for the upcoming Fight Island cards in Abu Dhabi, and while UFC 251 is looking hella fire from our point of view it’s impossible not to feel a bit sad about the lack of Jorge Masvidal. Masvidal was supposed to face welterweight champion Kamaru Usman before
Cynthia Calvillo accuses Jessica Eye of cheating (UFC on ESPN 10 post-fight video) [embedded content] Cynthia Calvillo moved from strawweight up to the UFC flyweight division on Saturday with an impressive victory over No. 1 ranked contender Jessica Eye in the UFC on ESPN 10 main event in Las Vegas. Having had trouble making weight
1:22 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card started with three first-minute flash knockouts and ended with Cynthia Calvillo making an emphatic statement in her UFC women’s flyweight debut. Calvillo soundly defeated Jessica Eye and instantly put herself in the conversation among the best in the division. Merab Dvalishvili made an impression of his own,
Image Credit: MMAJunkie Cynthia Calvillo’s bout with Jessica Eye may be over but she still has an issue with “Evil.” This past Saturday night (June 13), Calvillo took on Eye in the main event of UFC on ESPN 10. The women’s flyweight bout took place inside the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Calvillo emerged
UFC women’s flyweight Cynthia Calvillo reacted after defeating the division’s top-ranked contender Jessica Eye in dominant fashion at UFC on ESPN 10. The judges scored the bout 49-46, 49-46, and 48-47 in favor of Calvillo, who was making her official UFC flyweight debut in the bout. Calvillo improved to 6-1-1 overall in the UFC with
Things have gotten so chaotic in the United States that word of another mass shooting in San Antonio barely causes a ripple in the national news cycle. But fans of the sport and those with ‘UFC’ in their Google Alerts certainly perked up after learning the unidentified shooter claimed to be a UFC fighter shortly
Dana White: President Trump to hold rallies with crowds; will UFC open to crowds too? [embedded content] Now that the UFC is back into a regular schedule of events, the next question is: When will we see fights with a live crowd? With United States President Donald Trump about to begin holding rallies with crowds