While former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre is currently retired from the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA), there’s still a chance fight fans see the Canadian compete in 2020. That’s according to former UFC fighter and current MMA analyst Chael Sonnen, who believes that St-Pierre will step foot inside of the Octagon
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Khabib’s manager: ‘Conor McGregor is not on our radar… I think he might lose to Cowboy’ [embedded content] (Courtesy of TMZSports) Though UFC president Dana White continues to insist that Conor McGregor wants a rematch with lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and that he could get it with one or two victories, Nurmagomedov’s camp doesn’t seem
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Conor McGregor has lofty goals for himself in 2020 and beyond, and it heavily includes the welterweight division. Conor McGregor’s interest in the welterweight division was thought by many to be a means to fight the red-hot Jorge Masvidal. That is partly true, but mostly false,
Kamaru-Usman Kamaru Usman has responded after Conor McGregor recently declared his intentions of fighting for the promotions welterweight title. Earlier today, the Irish superstar revealed that welterweight standouts Jorge Masvidal, Colby Covington and Kamaru Usman were all on his radar. McGregor will make his highly anticipated Octagon return at next weekend’s UFC 246 event in
Watch Cowboy Cerrone crank on Mike Perry’s arm ahead of UFC 246 (fight video) [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is getting ready to welcome Conor McGregor back to the octagon at UFC 246 on Jan. 18 in Las Vegas. A lot of people are already writing him off since he enters the
Welcome to Midnight Mania! The world of drug testing is a murky one. In general, most athletes and fans seem to be in favor of cleaning the sport of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), but there have been definite side effects. For example, tainted supplements, false positives, and pulsing have all entered the MMA vernacular —
Conor McGregor knows who the fook Justin Gaethje is, and he is looking to transform his amusement into violence as early as his next fight after UFC 246. Justin Gaethje has been quite vocal about his displeasure of Conor McGregor potentially skipping him for a lightweight title shot if McGregor defeats Donald Cerrone in a
Image via Daily Express / Sportsnet UFC superstar Conor McGregor says that lightweight contender Justin Gaethje is on his hit list, and hinted that Gaethje could even be his next opponent. Gaethje has been going after McGregor for some time now in interviews and on social media. Gaethje doesn’t believe that the Irishman deserves to
Video: Conor McGregor explains why he’s fighting Cowboy Cerrone at 170 and who is next [embedded content] (Courtesy of TheMacLife) Conor McGregor is kicking off 2020 with a monster fight with a fan favorite in Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. The two lightweights will meet in a five-round welterweight non-title fight to headline UFC 246 on Jan.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, has his pick of the litter at 170 pounds, now that he’s rid himself (and the rest of the division) of Colby Covington, thanks to a technical knockout win at UFC 245 last month in Las Vegas. But like most other champions before him, Usman (16-1) wants
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images After taking the time to ponder who and what Dana White was talking about when he said Justin Gaethje has been turning down fights, Justin Gaethje has come up with some answers as well as a response to the UFC President’s accusations. Despite the fact that
Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor will return to the Octagon at UFC 246 for a welterweight bout with Donald Cerrone. UFC 246 takes place January 18 live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight will mark McGregor’s first since suffering a fourth round submission loss to bitter rival Khabib Nurmagomedov at
Is there any chance for another Valentina Shevchenko vs. Amanda Nunes UFC rematch? [embedded content] (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Though Valentina Shevchenko has lost on two separate occasions to dual-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes, she’s not ruling out a third fight. Nunes won both of their previous match-ups at 135 pounds – once by unanimous
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Rizin 20 was objectively a pretty awesome event. The fights were fun, the knockouts were many, and the Lightweight Grand Prix actually played out well without any injuries throwing a wrench into plans. Plus, unlike Bellator Japan the night before, it was not an event propped up on the backs of
7:45 AM ET When I put together a “Fights I want to see” list going into 2019, the No. 1 matchup was Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson. Well, it didn’t happen, and — spoiler alert — Nurmagomedov vs. Ferguson is still the No. 1 fight I want to see. The good news is, as we
Image Credit: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images Well, there’s at least one person who is confident we’ll see George St-Pierre in action soon, that being none other than Chael P. Sonnen. Georges St-Pierre had one of the greatest careers in the history of the UFC. But as you’ll notice, the prior sentence was written strictly in
UFC president Dana White says that his biggest matchmaking regret is never booking a heavyweight fight between Brock Lesnar and Fedor Emelianenko. Lesnar and Emelianenko were arguably the two biggest superstars in the sport at the beginning of the 2010s. At the time, Lesnar was the UFC heavyweight champion, while Emelianenko had dominated the competition
Ronaldo Souza hasn’t given up on the middleweight title just yet. That’s why “Jacare” is returning to 185 pounds to battle striking sensation Uriah Hall at the upcoming UFC 249 pay-per-view (PPV) event, scheduled for Sat., April 18, 2020 inside Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. So whatever happened to that career at light heavyweight?