Amanda Nunes and Cody Garbrandt tower over UFC 250 fighter payroll Just when it seems Amanda Nunes has reached the top of the mountain, she finds another summit. Nunes defeated former Invicta FC champion Felicia Spencer in their UFC 250 featherweight main event on Saturday in Las Vegas. In doing so, she became the first
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UFC President Dana White has shared his thoughts on the police brutality protests occurring across the United States of America. Following the tragic murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Ultimate Fighting Championship dedicated last weekend’s ESPN fight card ‘in memoriam’ of the African American victim. White said it was “the right thing to do”,
1:39 AM ET Amanda Nunes, the most dominant woman in combat sports history, added another line to her résumé on Saturday, as she defended her featherweight title against Felicia Spencer. The two-weight champion has now won 11 bouts in a row, and defeated some of the most accomplished women of all time in Ronda Rousey,
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Justin Gaethje doesn’t believe that Conor McGregor is truly done with MMA competition. Following UFC 250, McGregor took to his Twitter account to claim that he is retiring from MMA. The “Notorious” one has made this claim several times before. When he did so back in
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) staged UFC 250 last night (Sat., June 6, 2020), which went down from inside the promotion’s Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the headlining act, Amanda Nunes defending her Featherweight title to remain UFC champ-champ by brutalizing Felicia Spencer for five rounds (video replay here). Cody Garbrandt, meanwhile, scored perhaps
Flashback Fight: Rashad Evans takes out Forrest Griffin at UFC 92 to win UFC gold [embedded content] The winners of the first two Ultimate Fighter seasons faced off at UFC 92 for the light heavyweight title. UFC 92 took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in December 2008. Forrest Griffin and
Image via @sugaseanmma on Instagram (photographer not listed) UFC bantamweight prospect Sean O’Malley shared his theory as to why former champion Henry Cejudo recently retired after UFC 249. Cejudo surprised the MMA community when he vacated the UFC bantamweight title following a TKO win over Dominick Cruz at UFC 249. Cejudo was arguably the top
3:07 AM ET Three exciting bantamweights tried to outdo each other, and Amanda Nunes looked as good as ever at UFC 250 on Saturday night. Meanwhile, Conor McGregor went on social media to announce his retirement from MMA. Again. Indeed, Saturday will go down as a night MMA fans will remember for a while, mostly
Fernando Quiles Jr., MMA News UFC president Dana White is aware of Conor McGregor claiming that he is retiring. Back in 2019, McGregor said he’d be walking away from mixed martial arts competition only to return in Jan. 2020. Many agree that McGregor certainly has enough money to retire but as they say, “the rich
Because of the shallow nature of the barely existing UFC women’s Featherweight division, Felicia Spencer did indeed earn her title shot based on the strength of defeating the other two women still in it. Few expected the fight to go well for the massive underdog, but it’s hard to imagine a worse beating (watch the
Jorge Masvidal explains his dispute with the UFC: ‘I don’t think it’s fair’ Welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal isn’t happy with his revenue share with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He’d like to negotiate for more and has been at odds with the fight promotion. Earlier this week, “Gamebred” followed Jon Jones in asking to be released
Image via Daily Express / Sportsnet Current UFC interim lightweight title holder Justin Gaethje took a shot at Conor McGregor after the Irishman announced his retirement this evening. Shortly following the conclusion of tonight’s UFC 250 broadcast, McGregor took to Twitter where he announced that he would be retiring from the fight game. Hey guys
12:43 AM ET Amanda Nunes dominated Felicia Spencer from start to finish to defend her UFC women’s featherweight title by unanimous decision Saturday night in the main event of UFC 250 at the Apex facility in Las Vegas. The judges scored the bout 50-44, 50-44 and 50-45 for Nunes. Nunes (20-4), ranked as ESPN’s No.
Amanda Nunes vs Felicia Spencer was quite the main event fight at UFC 250. The two fighters met in a women’s featherweight title bout on Saturday night (June 6, 2020) at the UFC 250 pay-per-view event from Las Vegas, Nevada at the UFC APEX. As expected, Nunes dominated the striking exchanges although Spencer did show
The best female mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter of all time, Amanda Nunes, was back in action tonight (Sat., June 6, 2020) looking to be the first fighter to hold two belts simultaneously and defend them both, taking on former Invicta FC Featherweight champion, Felicia Spencer, in the pay-per-view (PPV) main event of UFC 250,
Aljamain Sterling easily cemented his spot as the next UFC bantamweight championship contender with a stunning finish of Cory Sandhagen at UFC 250 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Sterling came into the fight ranked No. 2 in the bantamweight division and riding a four-fight winning streak. Sandhagen entered the bout on a seven-fight winning streak
Image via @ufc on Instagram Tonight’s UFC 250 pay-per-view event is headlined by a women’s featherweight title fight between Amanda Nunes and Felicia Spencer. Nunes, who also holds the promotion’s bantamweight strap, will look to earn her first career featherweight title defense against Spencer this evening. ‘The Lioness’ claimed the promotions 145lbs title by earning
5:06 PM ET For the second straight week, the UFC is sparring with one of its biggest stars. Jorge Masvidal, one of MMA’s hottest names, took to Twitter on Friday to air his grievances over the breakdown of contract talks with the UFC. Masvidal was supposed to challenge Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight title