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“I look back and I see where I got caught in that fight and I see the punches I threw, and I was like, oh my God, I hit the old family motto in that moment and said, f**k it. (Laughs) And I went from a wrestling exchange, he got out, I lost the body

It is slightly bittersweet, though, as Nakamura will be facing his countryman with a lot on the line not just for the combatants, but the Japanese MMA scene, as well. It’s better to have a non-Japanese opponent because I want all of Japan’s fighters to succeed,” he said. “When I step into the cage with

That opened the door for an interim title fight between Gastelum and Israel Adesanya, the latter winning the duel in 2019’s Fight of the Year and setting up an Australia-vs-New Zealand matchup to unify the title. At the record-breaking UFC 243 in Melbourne, Whittaker relinquished his title to “The Last Stylebender,” but he remains entrenched

“It doesn’t mean much at all,” he says when I ask him about headlining for the first time. “This is just the next fight that I must win.” His response isn’t surprising, but it doesn’t come off as convincing either. So when I push back, asking if this weekend’s matchup really doesn’t carry any greater

“Taking the next step to join the UFC commentary team has been a goal of mine since I began my broadcast career,” Laura Sanko said. “It is an honor to walk in the footprint of Kathy Long 30 years after her appearance on UFC 1. I consider it a true privilege to be part of

“It’s just discipline and attention to detail,” Walker said. “If you have those two intangibles there, you can go so far in MMA. The Marine Corps likes to pride themselves on saying we can touch any corner of the world and mobilize in 24-48 hours, so it’s about always being ready, always having attention to

The opening round of Road To UFC was held in June at the Singapore Indoor Stadium ahead of UFC 275: Teixeira vs Prochazka, UFC’s first-ever Pay-Per-View event in Southeast Asia. Sixteen athletes won and advanced to the semifinals to compete in Abu Dhabi. RECAP: Road To UFC Results And Scorecard | Round 1  Here were the

(Watch On UFC Fight Pass) This very well could be one of the most underrated fights of all-time. I recall just staring at the TV screen wondering how the hell both men were still fighting. Vicente Luque and Bryan Barberena were going strike-for-strike with one another for almost 15 straight minutes. “Bam Bam” absorbed damage

Throughout the week, Pereira remained calm and composed through all his fight-week duties and media obligations. Part of that comfort came from his previous victories over Adesanya in the kickboxing world, and part of it came from Pereira’s general ability to keep an even-keel demeanor while still drinking in the scenes around him. “We were

Familiar foes who met each other twice on the pro kickboxing circuit, Pereira and Adesanya have long been on a collision course in the sport of mixed martial arts, and after Brazil’s Pereira raced out to three impressive wins in the Octagon, he was matched up with Adesanya, one of the UFC’s most dominant titleholders,

Buy Tickets For UFC 285! Unbeaten since 2018, Shevchenko has successfully defended her 125-pound title seven times, defeating the likes of Jessica Eye, Katlyn Chookagian, Jessica Andrade, Lauren Murphy and Taila Santos. Next on the hit list for “Bullet” is the number five-ranked Grasso, who is perfect in the Octagon at flyweight, with wins over

UFC athletes Cody Stamann, Amanda Ribas, Cynthia Calvillo and UFC host and reporter Megan Olivi toured the organizations 30-acre campus, which includes 10 homes, a church, daycare center, cafeteria, and classrooms. The campus, which houses 60 kids, also includes therapeutic foster care services for ages 0 – 18, a homeless youth shelter for ages 18

Where were you when? When Holm arrived in the UFC earlier in the year, this was the fight everyone was waiting for, but very few people predicted it going the way it did. Rousey was coming off another blowout victory, having successfully defended her bantamweight title against Bethe Correia just a couple months earlier and

Jon Kennedy rebounded strong after his loss at the march event with an epic victory over middleweight Travis Aragon. The two traded his heavy shots in all three rounds, but both chins held up strong. It went to the scorecards, where the judges gave it to Kennedy in a split decision. Kennedy moves on to

The Power Slap house works similarly to “The Ultimate Fighter.” The athletes at the house will compete in a series of matches to determine Power Slap world rankings. The strikers are vying for a ranking in one of four weight classes, a spot in the first Pay-Per-View event, and the ultimate prize: the Power Slap championship

Stability and competition at his weight class were what drew him to Fury FC, and while there are still flyweights afraid to share the cage with him, the reputation of being the most feared flyweight in the deepest pool of flyweights outside of the UFC benefits Vazquez more than even a correct Tapology page. “I

Now with a record of 4-2, Fraire’s average time in the cage stands at less than four minutes, and if you take out his decision victory, it takes Fraire almost six times longer to walk to the cage than it does to finish his opponents. These numbers would be impressive if Fraire was a middleweight,

Although there have already been a handful of impressive efforts by debutants or relative newcomers, there was only one correct answer when it came time to select the breakout performance of January… and it was two efforts. Brazilian brothers Ismael and Gabriel Bonfim earned contracts on the same episode of Dana White’s Contender Series last