The penultimate Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) card of the year sees them pull out all the stops, as three title fights are set to hit the promotion’s sacred stomping grounds of T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, this weekend (Sat., Dec. 14, 2019). In UFC 245’s pay-per-view (PPV) main event, Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman makes
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5:45 PM ET Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Jairzinho Rozenstruik is a former high-level kickboxer who has lived and trained in the Netherlands. So it’s no surprise that the up-and-coming UFC star is very familiar with Alistair Overeem, the former K-1 kickboxing champion and MMA champion of Dutch descent. “I know Overeem for a
Image Credit: Pat Scaasi/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images Jorge Masvidal isn’t interested in sitting idle while Nick Diaz, the UFC, and USADA sort things out. Last month, Masvidal defeated Nick’s younger brother Nate via third-round TKO. The bout was contested for the one-time-only BMF championship to close out UFC 244. In an interview with ESPN’s
Image: @ufc on Instagram Kamaru Usman was very close to hanging up the gloves for good in 2018. Usman, who is the current UFC welterweight champion, was undefeated in the Las Vegas-based promotion yet was having a hard time getting fights. This was especially the case in 2017 and 2018. Frustration began to grow and
Welcome to Midnight Mania! As power-punching prospect Mike Perry has made violently clear multiple times, he really does not like Colby Covington. The two have traded barbs on several occasions, but it began when Covington insulted Perry’s girlfriend (now wife) and corner woman, the appropriately titled “Platinum Princess” Danielle Perry. Since then, Perry has repeatedly
UFC 245 embedded: Colby Covington promises to deliver Donald Trump a new championship belt <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> (Courtesy of UFC) On Episode 1 of UFC 244 Embedded, welterweight champion Kamaru Usman goes from “scruffy” to polished at home and then hits the gym for more finishing touches.
2:41 PM ET Two-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes will defend her women’s bantamweight title against Germaine de Randamie this weekend, and on Monday she said she intends to defend at featherweight in her next fight after that. Nunes (18-4) is one of just four fighters to reign in two UFC divisions simultaneously, and none has
Fernando Quiles Jr., MMA News Justin Gaethje hasn’t had many kind words for Conor McGregor, but he won’t deny the “Notorious” one’s impact on the sport of mixed martial arts. McGregor is scheduled to make his return on Jan. 18 against Donald Cerrone. The welterweight clash will headline UFC 246 inside the T-Mobile Arena in
The UFC surprisingly released Liz Carmouche last week, but it doesn’t appear she will be on the free-agent market looking for work for long. According to Steven Marrocco of MMAFighting.com, Bellator has already been in touch with Carmouche about signing with the promotion. At this point, Bellator is just waiting for the UFC to send
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Kamaru Usman is currently the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight champion of the world, but it was something that nearly didn’t happen since “The Nigerian Nightmare” was close to retiring from the fight game just a few years ago. According to Usman, he was so frustrated with the fact that he couldn’t lock down an
12:46 AM ET In a bout that was billed as mixed martial arts versus professional wrestling, MMA came out on top in dominant fashion. Tito Ortiz, the UFC Hall of Famer, defeated Alberto Rodriguez, better known as former WWE champ Alberto Del Rio, in the main event of Combate Americas 51 on Saturday night in
Image Credit: Esther Lin of MMAFighting.com Another fight has been added to UFC Auckland, with Karolina Kowalkiewicz taking on Yan Xiaonan inside the Spark Arena on February 23, 2020. Karolina Kowalkiewicz was once challenging for the world title in a jam-packed Madison Square Garden arena, but after now losing three consecutive fights, she is clinging
UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington claims the UFC was planning on releasing him before he cut his famous ‘filthy animals’ promo in Brazil. In October 2017, Covington fought Demian Maia in Sao Paulo, Brazil in what was the biggest fight of his career at the time. Covington defeated Maia via decision that night and then
Event: Bellator 237: “Fedor vs. Rampage”Date: Sun., Dec. 29, 2019 on Paramount NetworkLocation: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan Bellator 237 Main Event: 265 lbs.: Fedor Emelianenko (38-6, 1 NC) vs. Quinton Jackson (38-13) Bellator 237 Main Card (10 p.m. ET): 160 lbs.: Michael Chandler (19-5) vs. Sidney Outlaw (14-3)170 lbs.: Lorenz Larkin (21-7) vs.
WARNING: NSFW images of Alistair Overeem’s shredded lip It may have taken him all but the last four ticks of the clock, but that didn’t make the damage Jairzinho Rozenstruik’s knockout did to Alistair Overeem’s face any less brutal. Losing the fight on all of the scorecards heading into the final frame, Rozenstruik landed the
1:24 AM ET Less than one year into his UFC career, Jairzinho Rozenstruik has positioned himself for a massive run in 2020. And he needed just about every second of his final bout in 2019 to do it. Rozenstruik (10-0) is looking at a big matchup for his next UFC appearance, after going 4-0 with
TJ Dillashaw appears to have put on some serious muscle massas showcased in a recent Instagram snap. The former two-time bantamweight champion hasn’t fought since January 2019, when he was defeated at the hands of Henry Cejudo in a flyweight bout. The current champion finished him with a shocking 32 second TKO in the first