5:04 PM ET Former UFC lightweight champion and featherweight title challenger Frankie Edgar will make his bantamweight debut against Cory Sandhagen early next year, multiple sources told ESPN. Edgar’s first fight at 135 pounds will serve as the co-main event at UFC Fight Night on Jan. 25. The card will take place at PNC Arena
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Image Credit: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya wouldn’t be surprised if he defends his gold against a current prospect down the line. Adesanya had a seemingly quick rise to the top of the UFC middleweight mountain. “The Last Stylebender” was a spectator for Holly Holm vs. Ronda Rousey back in Nov. 2015.
Lightweight contender Charles Oliveira is preparing to square off against Jared Gordon on Saturday night at UFC Sao Paulo. However, “Do Bronx” already has his sights set on a bigger challenge: the undisputed lightweight champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov. The submission specialist feels most comfortable fighting off his back and will frequently challenge his opponents with his
Welcome to Midnight Mania! The trash talk between Jon Jones and Israel Adesanya continues. Earlier in the week, Jones took another shot at Adesanya’s unique relationship with anime and cartoons. It’s a subject that Jones has attacked in the past, calling Adesanya a “f*cking nerd” and accusing him of pandering to anime fans. Never one
Dana White on Johnny Walker UFC 244 loss: You can’t ‘goof around like that’ [embedded content] (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Dana White had some advice for the upcoming UFC star Johnny Walker, who was stopped dead in his tracks by an angry man on a mission in Corey Anderson at UFC 244. TRENDING > MMA
5:53 PM ET Aaron Pico‘s comeback trail will begin early next year. A bout between Pico, the once-vaunted mixed martial arts prospect, and Daniel Carey has been verbally agreed for Bellator 238 on Jan. 25 in Inglewood, California, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Pico (4-3) came into Bellator in 2017 regarded as the greatest prospect
Image Credit: Getty Images It appears Owen Roddy has put rumors of coaches having tension with Conor McGregor to bed. Roddy is a head coach for SBG Charlestown and the owner of Owen Roddy MMA PT. He was once the striking coach for SBG Ireland, but he decided to shift gears amicably. Still, Roddy plans
UFC light heavyweight contender Thiago Santos is crediting his girlfriend, UFC women’s bantamweight contender Yana Kunitskaya, for helping him recover after suffering devastating knee injuries during his fight against Jon Jones at UFC 239. Santos pushed Jones to the brink of defeat but ultimately lost a split decision in one of the more controversial decisions
If Gallery Furniture has a mattress that can withstand the prodigious girth of UFC heavyweight contender Derrick Lewis, then color me interested. Though I’m pretty sure “Black Beast” is getting a new dining room set at no cost after this little endorsement. Watching Lewis try to keep a straight face is pure comedy. If “Mattress
Germaine de Randamie explains why she wouldn’t fight Amanda Nunes at featherweight at UFC 245 [embedded content] (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) It might seem peculiar that Germaine de Randamie didn’t want to fight Amanda Nunes at featherweight at UFC 245, since she was a previous UFC featherweight champion. But she gave her reason at the
8:18 PM ET It’ll be prospect vs. pioneer at the UFC’s first big show of 2020. Maycee Barber, a 21-year-old blue-chipper, and Roxanne Modafferi have verbally agreed to fight each other in a women’s flyweight matchup at UFC 246 on Jan. 18, sources told ESPN on Wednesday, confirming news first reported by MMA Junkie. The
Image Credit: Esther Lin/Forz LLC/Forza LLC via Getty Images Former Strikeforce middleweight champion Jacare Souza believes his speed could cause problems for Jan Blachowicz. Souza will move up to the light heavyweight division on Nov. 16. He’ll go one-on-one with Blachowicz in the main event of UFC Sao Paulo. The action will take place inside
Image: UFC on Instagram Jon Jones has taken another shot at middleweight title holder Israel Adesanya. The two UFC champions have been going at each other for weeks now in interviews and on social media. Both have said a fight will happen but “Bones” wants it sooner rather than later. Yet, Adesanya has said the
Amanda Nunes wanted fight at featherweight at UFC 245; Germaine de Randamie refused [embedded content] (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Amanda Nunes’s UFC 245 championship fight against Germaine de Randamie will be at bantamweight (135 pounds). Nunes says that she wanted to fight the previous featherweight champion, de Randamie, at 145 pounds. That makes sense, as
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Can we thank Spanish-language television network Telemundo for Jorge Masvidal’s incredible 2019 run? Prior to his return to combat opposite Darren Till that started his current win streak, Masvidal took a sabbatical from the sport to compete on Exatlon, a competition hosted on Telemundo. When he returned, Masvidal was in noticeably
7:40 PM ET You know what’s interesting? There are three title fights booked for UFC 245 on Dec. 14, and then there isn’t a single champion booked for any of the cards that follow. That means there are seven other champions without a dance partner at the moment. Amanda Nunes, who fights on Dec. 14,
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC Carlos Condit will not be facing Mickey Gall next month. Condit vs. Gall was scheduled for the main card of UFC Washington on Dec. 7. MMAJunkie.com reports that “The Natural Born Killer” has been removed from the event due to an injury. The nature and severity of the injury
Last night, video surfaced of UFC veteran and current BKFC star Jason Knight throwing down with two opponents inside a bathroom stall—and winning. The footage, shared to Instagram by Knight’s friend and training partner Brok Weaver, quickly went viral. See it below: Later on in the evening, Knight opened up on this incident in the