Photo: Ryan Hafey / Premier Boxing Champions Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury will not be allowed to face off at the weigh-ins for their rematch when the competitors take the scale today. According to ESPN, the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has banned Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury from engaging in a face-off after the
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will feature an important lightweight showdown between Paul Felder and Dan Hooker atop the UFC Fight Night 168 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which airs exclusively on ESPN+ this Sat. night (Feb. 22, 2020) inside Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. The winner will emerge as a legitimate contender for the
Each year it seems that heavyweight Tyrell Fortune can’t top his last one, but he keeps doing it. Coming off two wins in 2018, Fortune picked up three wins in 2019, finishing all three bouts, and raising his undefeated streak to start his career off at eight in a row. He fully intends to add
UFC president Dana White spoke on Thursday evening at a political rally in Colorado in support of United States President Donald Trump. White and Trump are good friends going back two decades now, with Trump being instrumental to the rise of MMA in the early days of the UFC. When White had the chance to
1:29 AM ET Dan Hooker and Paul Felder wasted no time making their main-event fight official. Hooker and Felder were the first and second fighters on the scale, respectively, at the UFC Auckland official weigh-ins Friday. Both made weight for their pivotal lightweight matchup, which acts as the card’s headliner. Hooker came in at 156
Image Credit: Isaac Brekken/Getty Images Head coach Javier Mendez isn’t pretending that he or Khabib Nurmagomedov have control over the UFC’s decision making. Nurmagomedov is scheduled to put his UFC lightweight gold on the line against Tony Ferguson on April 18. The 155-pound title bout will headline UFC 249 inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn,
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Is this the 17th story about Diego Sanchez and his crazy guru, Joshua Fabia, to run this week? Yes, yes it is. However, when my options boil down to a story of Fabia chasing professional fighters around with a “real, sharp blade” or the barely noteworthy news that Edmen Shahbazyan’s bout
Watch Conor McGregor take out Cowboy Cerrone in 40 seconds: UFC 246 full fight video Conor McGregor returned to the Octagon in January, marking his first UFC bout in more than a year. There was no time for ring rust, as he took out Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone just 40 seconds into their UFC 246 main
The trilogy fight between light heavyweight legends Shogun Rua and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira has been added to UFC 250. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reported that the UFC has added the third fight between the PRIDE veterans to UFC 250, which takes place on May 9 at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil. UFC president Dana
7:12 AM ET IT WAS LATE summer 2009, and Paul Felder was at a party with his theater friends. Felder had graduated from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts the previous year, and he was revealing his new passion in life. It wasn’t what they were expecting. “They were like, ‘Wow, that was insane. That was
Image Credit: Brandon Magnus/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Dustin Poirier is looking to fight again in May. Poirier, who’s the former interim lightweight champion, has not fought since he was submitted by Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 242. In the fight, “The Diamond” had success as he had a tight guillotine choke, but the champ
Jan Blachowicz clobbered Corey Anderson last weekend in the UFC Rio Rancho main event and the reward for his efforts, assuming the promotion is in line with this outline, is a title shot against reigning light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones. That might comes as bad news to Dominick Reyes, who was hoping to score an
Eddie Alvarez, Demetrious Johnson, Brandon Vera on board for ONE: Infinity series (James Goyder is the owner/editor of AsianMMA.com) ONE Championship has announced three ‘apex’ events that will feature the top talent on the roster. The shows will take place in Jakarta, Manila and Tokyo. The first batch of fights were announced on Thursday. ONE
Image via @dustinpoirier on Instagram UFC lightweight contender Dustin Poirier says he is planning a return to the Octagon in May after having not fought since last September. We last saw Poirier at UFC 242 when he was choked out by UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. That loss snapped a six-fight unbeaten streak for Poirier,
8:30 PM ET Dominant UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko will look to defend her title next against Joanne Calderwood at UFC 251 on June 6, multiple sources told ESPN. Both sides have agreed to the 125-pound championship fight, per sources. The UFC has not finalized a location or venue just yet, although sources say it
Despite having just competed earlier this month, Valentina Shevchenko’s next title defense appears to be set. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reports that Shevchenko and Joanne Calderwood have agreed to fight on June 6. The bout will take place on the UFC 251 card. Shevchenko’s UFC women’s flyweight championship will be on the line. “Breaking: Valentina Shevchenko’s
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Tonight, we have an excellent reminder that nothing is very permanent in the world of mixed martial arts. Longtime Lightweight veteran Evan Dunham (18-8) will return from his short-lived retirement to face fellow well-traveled scrapper Michael Johnson (19-15). Evan Dunham is coming out of retirement to face Michael Johnson at UFC
Video: Paul Felder breaks down his UFC Auckland headliner with Dan Hooker [embedded content] ESPN MMA’s Phil Murphy sits down with Paul Felder to preview his bout vs. Dan Hooker at UFC Fight Night in Auckland, New Zealand. Felder describes how he’s pushing harder in this main event fight and feels the pressure, but that