Relive Anthony Pettis vs. Donald Cerrone 1 (UFC 249 Free Fight) [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) Anthony “Showtime” Pettis and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone will run it back over seven years later at UFC 249 on Saturday night, live on ESPN. The two first fought at UFC on FOX 6 on Jan. 26, 2013. Pettis defeated
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Former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman believes he could find similar success against Israel Adesanya as he did when fighting Anderson Silva. ‘The All American’ moved up to the promotions light heavyweight division for his last fight, but following a disappointing setback to Dominick Reyes, Weidman now plans or returning to the 185-pound division he
UFC lightweight star Tony Ferguson isn’t someone who’s confined by conventional norms. He has been known to wear dress clothes, sunglasses and fighting gloves while carrying a baseball to an indoor news conference. He zigs while others zag. Perhaps his most famous creative outlet is his workouts. From tossing around huge tractor tires to swinging
Image Credit: Bellator Michael Chandler has been viewed as a Bellator mainstay but free agency looms. This isn’t a new situation for Chandler. The former three-time Bellator lightweight champion tested the market back in 2018. Ultimately, he decided to stick with Bellator. Fast forward to 2020 and Chandler finds himself with just one fight left
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor is as confident as they come, but even “Notorious” has room for improvement. This is according to McGregor himself, who is unable to watch footage of his own training sessions in the lead-up to his 2017 clash with undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Flashback Fight: Michael Bisping finishes Josh Haynes in UFC debut [embedded content] Michael “The Count” Bisping made his Octagon debut at The Ultimate Fighter Season 3 finale and won the light heavyweight tournament in 2006. Bisping announced his retirement from fighting on May 28, 2018 after losing to Kelvin Gastelum. He competed in the UFC
Tyron Woodley appears ready to return to the Octagon and will do so against Gilbert Burns. Woodley has been clamoring to get a fight since his UFC London scrap against Leon Edwards was canceled. He called out Colby Covington and asked for a rematch with Kamaru Usman, yet it appears he won’t get either. Instead,
8:47 PM ET The next few UFC cards have fallen into place. A schedule and some sense of normalcy has been restored. The big questions now revolve around who can gain a foothold in his or her respective division. The UFC’s main event on May 13 pits top light heavyweights Anthony Smith against Glover Teixeira.
The UFC has revealed the full fight card for the May 13 and 16 events. UFC president Dana White went on ESPN and announced the full cards. In the main event of the May 13 card, Anthony Smith will battle Glover Teixeira. Meanwhile, the card will also see the likes of Ovince Saint Preux moving
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Last month, when UFC announced their plan to hold UFC 249 on Native American territory in California’s Bay Area, I was pretty shocked. As a resident of “The Golden State,” my expectations of the event happening plummeted. Why California? The California state government was among the earliest to institute lock downs
Working as both a managing partner at Iridium Sports Agency and as the president of 559 Fights, Jeremy Luchau has had to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in a multitude of ways, dealing with a myriad of fighters across several platforms. Speaking to MMAWeekly.com, Luchau discussed the cancellations of several of his 559 Fights cards,
Image via @ufc on Instagram (photographer not listed) Jorge Masvidal may not be fighting Kamaru Usman next time out. Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the sports world, Masvidal was expected to battle Usman for the welterweight title at International Fight Week in July. Yet, nothing was ever made official and now, that may no
Image Credit: Getty Images UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic has no interest in fighting during the coronavirus pandemic. Miocic was last seen in action back in Aug. 2019. He got his revenge against Daniel Cormier, scoring a fourth-round TKO victory. In the process, Miocic regained the UFC heavyweight championship. Since that time, he has been
United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) is sending doping control officers to the upcoming UFC 249: “Ferguson vs. Gaethje” pay-per-view (PPV) event on May 9, taking place inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. As promised. That means athletes competing in “The Sunshine State” can expect pre- and post-fight drug testing for what marks the
UFC’s May 9 return paves the way for NASCAR to hold 7 races in 11 days UFC President Dana White promised that his fight promotion would be the first major sport back in business. As long as he isn’t derailed, the MMA juggernaut will resume some semblance of normal operations with an abnormal slate of
Ovince Saint Preux is a long-time UFC light heavyweight contender, but his next fight will occur in the promotion’s heavyweight division. The former interim light heavyweight title challenger will step up a division to battle Ben Rothwell on May 13. The decision to accept this fight came after his planned fights with Shamil Gamzatov and
7:19 PM ET The PFL has shut down for the year, but breakout star Kayla Harrison, the 2019 lightweight champion, says she expects the league to honor its contract and offer her two fights in 2020. If not, she said Thursday, she will consider the PFL to be in breach of contract and will look
Image Credit: Francois Nel/Getty Images Khabib Nurmagomedov says his preparation to fight Tony Ferguson on April 18 was his best training camp ever. He also says he hadn’t felt that good in quite some time. Nurmagomedov ended up being forced to pull out of the bout after being stuck in Russia due to the COVID-19