12:31 AM ET Cynthia Calvillo is a UFC women’s flyweight contender after just one fight in the division. Calvillo rolled in a unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 48-47) win over Jessica Eye on Saturday night in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. Calvillo took Eye down in four out of five rounds
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Image Credit: Chris Unger.Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The UFC on ESPN 10 bonuses have been released. On June 13, the UFC once again put on an event in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was held inside the UFC APEX. UFC on ESPN 10 took place behind closed doors, meaning no fans were in attendance.
Screenshot via Las Vegas Review-Journal A key women’s strawweight bout featuring Jessica Eye taking on Cynthia Calvillo headlined tonight’s UFC on ESPN 10 event in Las Vegas. Eye (15-7 MMA) had missed weight for tonight’s headliner and was thus forced to forfeit a portion of her fight purse to Calvillo. The miss marked the second
The action came in waves last night (Sat., June 13, 2020) at UFC on ESPN 10 live on ESPN/ESPN+ from inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, as Cynthia Calvillo outlasted former UFC title challenger Jessica Eye in a one-sided main event (highlights HERE). But before Calvillo made good on her UFC women’s flyweight debut,
UFC on ESPN: Eye vs. Calvillo Post-fight Press Conference [embedded content] Watch the UFC on ESPN: Eye vs. Calvillo post-fight press conference following Saturday night’s event in Las Vegas. (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) TRENDING > Cynthia Calvillo decisions Jessica Eye in UFC on ESPN 10 main event
1:40 PM ET Jessica Eye was one of three fighters to miss weight ahead of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, with a fourth bowing out before the weigh-in on Friday. Eye, a women’s flyweight contender, came in at 126.25 pounds — a quarter-pound over the limit — for her scheduled main event against Cynthia Calvillo. Calvillo
Image Credit: MMAJunkie Jessica Eye has spoken out on failing to make weight ahead of UFC on ESPN 10. Tonight (June 13), Eye will share the Octagon with Cynthia Calvillo. The bout will headline UFC on ESPN 10. They’ll do battle inside the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Eye is looking for her second
UFC bantamweight title contender Petr Yan told rising star Sean O’Malley that he is “working for me now” after O’Malley took a shot at the Russian on social media. O’Malley told Yan on Twitter that he doesn’t spell his name the right way, poking fun at the fact he spells it Petr and not “Peter.”
Following a first round TKO win over Valerie Barney at KOTC: Golden Fights in January, bantamweight Gina Mazany was looking to continue her winning ways as 2020 progressed when the novel coronavirus struck and temporarily put a halt to those plans. Luckily for Mazany, events in her private life provided her an outlet to keep
It all unfolds later tonight (Sat., June 13, 2020) at UFC on ESPN 10 live on ESPN/ESPN+ from inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, as former women’s strawweight contender Cynthia Calvillo moves up in weight to take on former UFC title challenger Jessica Eye in a women’s flyweight main event. In addition, middleweights Marvin
8:00 AM ET On Dec. 6, 2019, UFC strawweight Cynthia Calvillo barricaded herself in her Washington, D.C., hotel room and wept, alone, for hours — one day before she was to face an undefeated, surging prospect in Marina Rodriguez. Calvillo, who faces Jessica Eye (15-7) at UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas, was
Image Credit: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Rafael dos Anjos wants to settle unfinished business with Conor McGregor. McGregor recently claimed that he has retired from MMA competition. The “Notorious” one made the announcement at the conclusion of UFC 250 on his Twitter account. Many aren’t buying McGregor’s announcement as he has made this
UFC middleweight contender Derek Brunson took a shot at “fat boy” Karl Roberson after the rising contender missed weight by 4.5lbs at UFC Las Vegas. Roberson stepped onto the scale at 190.5lbs for his middleweight bout against Marvin Vettori, which is scheduled to be the co-main event under the headliner between women’s flyweights Jessica Eye
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Last week, a report emerged claiming that Alexander Gustafsson would be ending his retirement and moving up to Heavyweight to face former champion Fabricio Werdum on July 25. Talk later came that this was merely a rumor, but now Gustafsson has released his own statement confirming the fight and explaining his
While the novel coronavirus has altered nearly every facet of life for most people, for welterweight Christian Aguilera the pandemic lockdown didn’t end up affecting his career as much as it might have others. According to Aguilera the timing of things ended up falling in line with the way his career had been playing out
5:56 PM ET Ray Borg has withdrawn from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night bantamweight bout against Merab Dvalishvili because of personal reasons, the UFC said Thursday. Borg’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, told ESPN that Borg had a “family emergency.” Borg was absent from the card’s virtual media day Thursday and his withdrawal was announced after it. New
Image Credit: Esther Lin of MMAFighting.com Georges St-Pierre’s legendary UFC run was almost halted before it even started. St-Pierre is undoubtedly a legend in the sport of MMA. He ruled the roost in the UFC’s welterweight division for years. He holds the record for the most consecutive successful UFC welterweight title defenses. “Rush” ended up
On Saturday night, the UFC will return to our screens with UFC on ESPN 10, an under-the-radar card out of the promotion’s Apex facility. The card will be headlined by a women’s flyweight fight between former title challenger Jessica Eye and long-time strawweight contender Cynthia Calvillo. The winner of the fight figures to be well