4:20 PM ET Kevin Lee likely won’t be back in the Octagon until the end of 2020 at the earliest. The UFC lightweight told ESPN that he has scheduled surgery to repair a torn left ACL on Thursday in Las Vegas. Lee said doctors told him he’d be out a minimum of six months, though
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Image Credit: Patrick Smith/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC lightweight Kevin Lee has confirmed he will be out of action for a while. Earlier this month, Lee appeared on SiriusXM’s The Luke Thomas Show and revealed he believed to have an ACL issue. “The Motown Phenom” is coming off a submission loss to Charles
Welcome to Midnight Mania! The Internet has not been particularly kind to Tyron Woodley in the last few days (or in general, really). Everyone has taken shots at him in the last week or so. Leon Edwards accused him of “clout-chasing” and avoiding him. Israel Adesanya scoffed off talks of a match up with the
Relive Justin Gaethje’s rise in the UFC’s lightweight division <span style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> UFC lightweight Justin Gaethje has made a big splash in a relatively short amount of time fighting for the promotion after coming in as an undefeated (17-0) prospect in 2017. On a three-fight winning streak,
A number of new matchups have been added to the upcoming UFC Fight Night card on May 16, including the return of middleweight Eryk Anders. UFC president Dana White recently announced three cards in Jacksonville, Florida, and now the matchups are trickling out. Last week it was revealed the main event of the card will
8:06 AM ET There’s a restorative aspect to several of the fights on the UFC 249 card, from Dominick Cruz‘s return from a three-year layoff to Fabricio Werdum coming back from a two-year PED suspension. These former champions will try to restore careers that have lost much of their luster, if not hope for another
Image Credit: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Former UFC welterweight king Tyron Woodley has offered a not so flattering response to middleweight ruler Israel Adesanya. Woodley and Adesanya have a beef brewing. It stems from Woodley expressing his belief that Adesanya’s hype is a bit overplayed. “The Last Stylebender” took this as a
The day we thought may never come is finally upon us, despite a lengthy postponement and roughly a dozen fight card changes. UFC 249: “Ferguson vs. Gaethje” is official for Sat., May 9, 2020 inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the few stateside locations able to bypass current coronavirus restrictions. The
ONE Championship postpones all May events due to COVID-19 ONE Championship on Tuesday announced the postponement of all of its May events because of the COVID-19 developments. Company CEO Chatri Sityodtong announced the move via his Facebook page, referencing border closings and lockdowns across most Asian countries. Based in Singapore, ONE Championship events are typically
Image via @stylebender on Instagram (photographer not listed) UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya believes Tyron Woodley’s willingness to fight him is a sign “he must be broke.” The former welterweight champion has been out of the action of since his 2019 title loss to Kamaru Usman. However, he was supposed to fight top-ranked contender Leon
10:23 PM ET Bellator women’s flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, her sister Mahina Macfarlane Souza and an unnamed woman filed a civil lawsuit last Wednesday accusing a former coach at a Hawaii private school of sexual abuse, according to court documents. The lawsuit, filed in Hawaii circuit court, alleges that former assistant basketball coach Dwayne Yuen
Image Credit: Getty Images Former UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt is gearing up for another lawsuit against the promotion he once worked for. Back in 2017, Hunt sued the UFC, its president Dana White, and Brock Lesnar following UFC 200. Hunt had initially suffered a unanimous decision loss to Lesnar but the result was overturned to
Welcome to Midnight Mania! We have a potential BANGFEST on our hands, as Combate has reported that Edson Barboza and Dan Ige are likely squaring off on Sat., May 16, 2020 at UFC Fight Night 176 in Jacksonville, Florida. Times have been difficult for Edson Barboza, who has won just one of his last five
Watch Tony Ferguson tap out Kevin Lee (UFC 249 Free Fight) [embedded content] Tony Ferguson won the interim lightweight championship when he defeated Kevin Lee at UFC 216 in 2017. Ferguson faces Justin Gaethje in the main event of UFC 249 on Saturday, May 9. The event was scheduled to take place on April 18
Image via @ufc on Instagram Amanda Nunes is considered to be the greatest female fighters of all-time. She’s beaten every single person who was the women’s bantamweight or featherweight champion in the UFC. Nunes doesn’t just win her fights but she either earns a finish or earns a dominant decision. She hasn’t appeared to be
7:23 AM ET The UFC’s middleweight division left fans with a bitter taste from its last fight. Rising superstar Israel Adesanya made his first title defense a forgettable one with a lackluster unanimous-decision win over the defensive-minded Yoel Romero in the main event of UFC 248 on March 7. The fight’s lack of action was
Image Credit: Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman feels Tyron Woodley is doing himself a disservice. Usman and Woodley may have done battle but there is mutual respect between the two. Back in March 2019, Usman captured the UFC welterweight title from Woodley. While “The Chosen One” was a
Anyone who’s followed Donald Cerrone over the course of his storied combat sports career understands that it doesn’t take much to motivate “Cowboy” ahead of his UFC fights, making life easy for matchmakers in both the lightweight and welterweight divisions. That said, his upcoming bout against Anthony Pettis at UFC 249 on May 9 may