Welcome to Midnight Mania! Henry Cejudo is the latest man to achieve the incredible result of simultaneous two—division champion, but he’s also the most recent to be stripped of his title per BJPenn.com. The news was later confirmed by MMAJunkie, who also took a quote from “Triple C,” as the former Olympian argued that he
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12:01 PM ET PFL’s 2019 final card has been set with six championship fights for $1 million each. Two-time Olympic judo champion Kayla Harrison will headline the event against Larissa Pacheco for the women’s lightweight championship, officials told ESPN. The event will take place Dec. 31 at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theatre in New York.
Image Credit: Getty Images UFC color commentator Joe Rogan feels Tony Ferguson is the best opponent Khabib Nurmagomedov has faced. Nurmagomedov is set to put his UFC lightweight championship on the line against Ferguson on April 18. The title bout will headline UFC 249 inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. Nurmagomedov has a perfect
Image via @ufc on Instagram Frankie Edgar initially planned to drop down to bantamweight to fight Cory Sandhagen at UFC Raleigh on January 25, but postponed this plan to take a short-notice featherweight fight with “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung this very weekend at UFC Busan. While The Korean Zombie is currently at the
Korean Zombie’s top finishes ahead of UFC Busan headliner with Frankie Edgar [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) Check out Chan Sung Jung’s top finishes, as he prepares to square off with Frankie Edgar in the UFC Busan main event on Saturday in South Korea. TRENDING > Joe Rogan and Max Holloway: Colby Covington is digging
After what seemed like an eternity of tasteless trash talk, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight contender, Colby Covington, was unable to put his money where his mouth is, coming up short against Kamaru Usman in the UFC 245 main event last weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. That opened the door for his critics, and there
10:45 AM ET Rory MacDonald is taking his talents to the Professional Fighters League. The former UFC title contender and Bellator welterweight champion has signed an exclusive multi-fight deal with the PFL, MacDonald and PFL officials told ESPN. He will be a part of the promotion’s 2020 season and will compete for the PFL’s welterweight
Fernando Quiles Jr., MMA News Rory MacDonald is no longer a member of the Bellator roster and he has explained why. MacDonald turned a lot of heads when he revealed that he has signed a multi-fight deal with the PFL. MacDonald’s Bellator contract expired after losing his welterweight gold to Douglas Lima in their rematch
Image: Fight Sports As 2019 winds down, Dana White is starting to push steam behind Zuffa Boxing, although no set announcements have been made yet. Most recently, White announced that he had reached a deal with Floyd Mayweather for the two to work together on Zuffa Boxing, but White would not go into detail as
UFC 245 Fight Motion: Does Usman vs. Covington look as close in slow motion? [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) Check out the slow motion highlights of some of the most exciting moments from the final Pay-Per-View event of the year, UFC 245: Usman vs Covington. The judges had Kamaru Usman’s welterweight title defense against Colby
Welcome to Midnight Mania! I’m not trying to sell the clip above as impressive. It’s a basic striker (in phenomenal shape) working the basics, and there’s plenty to improve upon. Yet, the second Kyle Dake steps into a cage, he instantly has an argument as the most credentialed wrestler competing in mixed martial arts —
2:44 PM ET PFL will have to go to Plan B for its featherweight final on New Year’s Eve. Daniel Pineda’s disciplinary hearing in front of the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has been pushed to January. The extension was brokered between the commission and Pineda’s representatives at an NSAC meeting Wednesday. Pineda was scheduled
Image Credit: Bellator MMA Earlier this afternoon, news surfaced that former Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald has parted ways with the Viacom-owned promotion and signed with the Professional Fighters League (PFL). While this is exciting news for MacDonald and the PFL, it does represent an unfortunate twist for fans who were hoping to see a
Colby Covington (Photo: FOX Sports) Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington had some bad blood going into their bout but now that the dust has settled, Usman’s manager has praise for “Chaos.” Usman vs. Covington headlined UFC 245 inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada this past Saturday night (Dec. 14). The bout went back-and-forth
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, made his first 170-pound title defense with a thrilling, “Fight of the Night” performance against bitter rival, Colby Covington, in the UFC 245 pay-per-view (PPV) main event. Now the promotion is giving you a second look at all the in-cage highlights from last weekend’s big shebang, including
War Room breakdown: UFC Busan Frankie Edgar vs. Korean Zombie [embedded content] (Courtesy of Full Reptile) Former UFC lightweight championship Frankie Edgar steps in on short notice to fight Chan Sung Jung (aka The Korean Zombie) in Saturday’s UFC Busan main event in South Korea. Former welterweight contender Dan Hardy break down the fight in
8:07 PM ET Just hours after Kamaru Usman‘s welterweight title defense Saturday night, Conor McGregor sent out a tweet. It read: “145. 155. 170.” McGregor has already held UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight — or 145 pounds and 155 pounds. The 170 represents the pound limit for welterweight. It sure seemed like McGregor was
Image Credit: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Max Holloway is handling his loss to Alexander Volkanovski to lose his featherweight title with all class. Holloway took to Instagram to release a statement on the fight and praising Volkanovski for being a champ before he got the belt. “He was willing to fight for an interim belt. If