8:05 PM ET After a wild first night of action, which saw Kayla Harrison, Larissa Pacheco, Ray Cooper III and David Michaud clinch their spots in the $1 million finals of their respective divisions, Thursday marks the second stanza of the PFL playoffs. Sixteen fighters enter the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas in
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Welcome to Midnight Mania! Well, that didn’t take long. Last night, Conor McGregor took to Twitter to call for a showdown with former Lightweight champ Frankie Edgar. McGregor seemed serious, even offering to donate his purse to charity. Edgar was interested as well, though he noted that it was on UFC president Dana White and
Image Credit: Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images We may have seen the last of Luke Rockhold inside the Octagon. Rockhold appeared to be full of confidence going into his light heavyweight debut against Jan Blachowicz. The former UFC middleweight champion was dismissive of the 205-pound contenders and said he was the one who
As quickly as Conor McGregor and Frankie Edgar rekindled the idea of them fighting, UFC president Dana White shot it down. “Conor loves to fight and wants to fight again, but that Frankie Edgar fight isn’t going to happen,” White said. “Edgar is two weight classes below him. Edgar is in a position; he was
Justin Gaethje gets MMA advice from some of the best in the business, but who better to get boxing tips from then the legend, Mike Tyson. “Iron Mike” posted a video on his Twitter, showing the ropes to fighters, Justin Gaethje and Ottman Azaitar. I’m not getting back in the ring but I could 😂
9:43 AM ET The UFC’s middleweight division has seen a changing of the guard over the past 12 months, and former champion Chris Weidman found himself on the wrong end of it. Can he get himself on the right side of the changes that are happening at light heavyweight? That’s the biggest question going into
Image Credit: Brandon Magnus/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The UFC Boston ceremonial weigh-ins are set to begin. Setting The Stage Tomorrow night (Oct. 18), UFC Boston will take place inside TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. In the main event, former middleweight champion Chris Weidman will move up to the light heavyweight division to take
UFC on ESPN 6: Reyes vs. Weidman weigh-in video [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) Watch the UFC on ESPN 6 weigh-in live from Boston on Thursday at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT on MMAWeekly.com. If you’re not around for the live stream, the weigh-ins are available for on-demand playback immediately following the live
Who is the greatest mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter of all time? That’s always going to be a topic for debate among Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fans, but I think we can all agree that reigning 205-pound kingpin Jon Jones, along with former middleweight champion Anderson Silva, are certainly in the conversation. Assuming that conversation
PhotoCred: Pinterest David Feldman has high hopes for his new promotion, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. Although he has already taken over the bare-knuckle market in North America, Feldman hopes BKFC will be considered one of the biggest combat sports promotions on earth by 2021. “I think it is just having these fighters fight for us
9:57 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The Professional Fighters League says it has instructed prominent MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz not to attend any of its postseason events until a resolution is reached on a battery citation Abdelaziz received at a recent PFL show. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department cited Abdelaziz for battery at PFL’s
Conor McGregor appears to want a December showdown with Frankie Edgar. McGregor and Edgar have long expressed interest in facing each other, but the bout never materialized. McGregor and Edgar were both in the featherweight division, but the “Notorious” one never defended the 145-pound gold after knocking out Jose Aldo. McGregor ended up having two
PLF bans Ali Abdelaziz from attending events until battery citation is resolved The Professional Fighters League has informed MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz not to attend any of it’s postseason events until his battery citation is resolved. The fight promotion made the decision on Wednesday. Abdelaziz, whose Dominance MMA represents UFC champions Khabib Nurmagomedov, Kamaru Usman
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Of the many potential bouts that Conor McGregor has publicly discussed — or at least Tweeted about — a bout with Frankie Edgar seemed less than likely. For one, Edgar recently announced his plan to drop down to Bantamweight, whereas McGregor hasn’t even competed at Featherweight since 2015. Plus, there’s no
Former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos is interested in fighting Dustin Poirier at welterweight if he decides to move up in weight classes. Poirier recently said he was open to moving up to the UFC welterweight division, and a fan on Twitter asked RDA if he would be interested in a matchup against him.
11:14 PM ET By his own admission, UFC debutant Ben Sosoli hates working on his major weakness – getting off his back when under fire in the Octagon. The 29-year-old has been called up to fight controversial American knockout artist Greg Hardy in Boston on October 19, a dramatic change of fortunes after Sosoli recently
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC Tampa saw a bevy of finishes and interesting fights. To no surprise, the event saw several fighters getting lengthy medical suspensions. Six fighters have gotten indefinite suspensions, which one fighter who did not is Thomas Gifford. Gifford was beat down and knocked out cold and took
Dominick Reyes: ‘I’ve done the work already’ to earn a shot at Jon Jones <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> (Courtesy of UFC) Dominick Reyes heads into his first UFC main event on Friday, ready to prove that he should be the one next in line for a shot at