Image from FOX Sports: UFC Official Twitter Page Cory Sandhagen wants to fight Dominick Cruz around spring 2020 but he won’t beg for it. Sandhagen was scheduled to welcome Frankie Edgar to the bantamweight division on Jan. 25. The bout would’ve been featured on the UFC Raleigh card. Instead, the UFC yanked Edgar from the
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Looking back on his Bellator debut this past November versus Roger Huerta, lightweight Sidney Outlaw is happy he got the win but not overly pleased with how it came about. Coming into the bout riding a streak of three straight finishes, having to go to decision against Huerta wasn’t much to Outlaw’s liking. “I wish
Welcome to Midnight Mania! The effects of switching weight classes are always difficult to predict. Will a fighter’s power carry over to his or her new home? What about cardio? There’s always a ton of conjecture — see all the opinions about Jose Aldo’s recent cut to Bantamweight — but it’s largely unpredictable until fight
3:59 PM ET New Year’s Eve is drawing near and the second PFL finals will take center stage at the Hulu Theater in New York City where 12 fighters will vie for six $1 million prizes. Jeff Wagenheim, Brett Okamoto and Marc Raimondi break down each of the six matchups, including a major last-minute change.
Photo Credit: MMA Junkie Khalil Rountree is walking away from mixed martial arts competition. Rountree said he has his next fight signed, but details are scarce. One thing is apparent and that is Rountree plans to retire after that bout. Here’s what he posted through Instagram Stories. “My next fight will be my last. So
The official UFC rankings have been update in the wake of last weekend’s UFC Busan card, and as expected, there have been some interesting changes. Most notably, UFC Busan main event winner has climbed up the featherweight list after knocking out Frankie Edgar. Unrelated to UFC Busan, UFC lightweight contender Justin Gaethje has snuck past
Current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, recently donated over 600 winter coats — valued at an estimated $20,000 — to help people in need fight off the winter cold in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and now another Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star has followed suit with his generosity. Indeed, former “champ-champ,” Conor
Few bands have as lengthy of a connection to MMA as has the Bay Area’s Skinlab. Forming in 1994, the band quickly found its music as the soundtrack to some of MMA’s earliest documentaries, such as Rites of Passage, and most recently featured UFC alum Nate Quarry in the video for their song “In for
8:28 AM ET Mulitple Contributors The evolution of women’s mixed martial arts started right at the end of the previous decade, with Cris Cyborg vs. Gina Carano headlining a Strikeforce show on Showtime in front of almost 14,000 fans in San Jose, California. And it exploded in 2013 when Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche faced
Image Credit: Joshua Dahl/USA TODAY Sports Khabib Nurmagomedov’s pick for the pound-for-pound best fighter in the UFC is Jon Jones. When the topic of “best fighter in MMA” comes up, you’ll often see Jones’ name pop up. Some say he’s the best without question, while others put an asterisk next to his name. It appears
Image: Rachael Ostovich on Instagram Here’s your Christmas present from the UFC, fight fans: a whopping five fights were announced on Christmas Day, including appearances from stars like Rachel Ostovich, Elizeu Zaleski Dos Santos and Kai Kara-France. Here’s a rundown of the new UFC fights announced on Christmas Day, via Marcel Dorff on Twitter. Kai
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Love him or hate him, Michel Pereira has quickly made a name for himself in the UFC Welterweight division. The high-flying Brazilian has no fear inside the Octagon, as he puts himself at risk with random bursts of acrobatics: flips, cage runs, front rolls, and the occasional flying knee! While the
Heading into the 2019 PFL playoffs, featherweight Lance Palmer was in advantageous position having been through the two fights in one night format in the 2018 season. Knowing how to approach multiple fights, Palmer was able to put together two solid performances versus Alexandre de Almeida and then Alex Gilpin to earn his spot in
Dec 23, 2019 Over the past decade, mixed martial arts grew more than it had in all of the previous ones combined. The UFC purchased some of its biggest competitors, expanded internationally, signed multimillion-dollar broadcast deals with major outlets, and then, as the decade was winding down, the promotion was purchased by Hollywood superpower Endeavor.
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza will be returning to the middleweight division to face Uriah Hall at UFC 249 in Brooklyn, New York. Both Souza and Hall have verbally agreed to the bout according to an ESPN report, which will bring Souza’s days at light heavyweight to an abrupt
UFC President Dana White says 2019 was the “biggest year in the company’s history.” A jubilant White made this claim in a Tuesday afternoon Instagram post. See it below: “2019 was the biggest year in the company’s history,” White wrote in the caption for his post, which included a complication of some of the UFC’s
And on the 10th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me … a selection of brutal knockout videos? As the current captain of Midnight Mania, I see a ton of fight clips. It boggles the mind just how often different athletes from around the world are blasted into another dimension on a daily
Watch Rampage Jackson’s brutal finish of rival Wanderlei Silva (Bellator 237 free fight) [embedded content] (Courtesy of BellatorMMA) Quinton “Rampage” Jackson closes 2019 by facing Fedor Emelianenko in the Bellator 237 main event on Dec. 28 in Japan. The event is a co-promotion with Japanese fight company Rizin. TRENDING > Bellator 235 highlights: Last-minute main