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“Before I turned pro, I started doing a lot of mental repetition and mental training — I read a lot of mental performance books and stuff like that,” said Daukaus, who began his professional career with nine straight wins on the highly competitive East Coast regional circuit. “Being as successful as I was when I

“I thought when I lost the last fight, I was never getting the five stars,” Cormier laughed, referencing his last fight against Stipe Miocic. After the smiles and handshakes were shared, Nurmagomedov stayed on set to chat about his recently confirmed retirement. Relive Every Event With A UFC Fight Pass Subscription His dinners and meetings

Former UFC bantamweight champion Miesha Tate kicks things off by delving into her decision to come out of retirement to face Marion Reneau in July. She also shares how much convincing Dana White needed to take her comeback seriously, looks back at what happened in her corner the round before she won the Women’s bantamweight belt

Due to injuries, please note the following updates for next weekend’s event: Darren Till has been removed from his main event middleweight bout against Marvin Vettori. Replacing Till will be Kevin Holland, who steps in on short notice after competing in his first UFC main event just weeks earlier. Bea Malecki has been removed from

“I kicked him in the head, but I kicked him light,” Griffin said. “It was more like a slap kick, but my foot hit his ear and his ear started ringing. After the practice he was like, ‘my f****** head’s still ringing!’” Not that a former champion, TUF winner, savior of a sport and frontrunner

“I didn’t even know it was on ABC, I didn’t even know it was in the morning,” he laughs. “I took the fight because I said that I wanted to fight. I’m here as a fighter. I spent 31 months out of the Octagon, I need to get in there, I need to get as

“That’s why you don’t leave it to the judges, I guess,” she said. “I do think I could’ve won that fight, for sure, and a lot of other people have told me the same, but it’s just par for the course. It’s just how things go. You have good judges, you have bad judges, you

After finding himself front and center in the crowd with his fiancé and training partner to his right, reality set in, and depending on the mood Hunter was in, Perry was in for a long night. Despite being a professional in the art of comedic jabs, Hunter broke up his normal set a couple times

“They told me, ‘We want to groom your career,’ and I said, no, I’m not gonna do that. I want legitimate fighters who have been training as long as I have or longer. I can’t beat up some girl who’s only been fighting for eight months.” Having hit a dead end in boxing, Long still

“I’ve already made a splash jumping in and getting a top 10 knockout and now the only thing left other than a title shot is a main event,” Daukaus told UFC.com. “If the UFC wants me to be in a main event spot, I have no problem with that. I would rather train for the

The Champ is here! UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling joins Jim and Matt to kick off the show (2:15). He talks all things related to his controversial DQ win against Petr Yan to win the bantamweight belt, including what went through his mind immediately after the illegal knee that ended the bout and the smack

The second came against Gilbert Burns, who’s victory catapulted him into a championship fight against Usman, where he tagged the champion in the early moments of the contest before the Nigerian-born titleholder gathered himself, regrouped, and garnered a third-round stoppage win. And his most recent setback came opposite Colby Covington, the polarizing perennial contender who

Everybody is talking about the heavyweight division this morning, and that’s the way it should be. Throughout combat sports history, whether in boxing or MMA, there’s something about a big heavyweight title fight, and Francis Ngannou and Stipe Miocic had everyone glued to the television, computer monitor or smart phone on Saturday night. That’s great

(16-3, 12 KOs, 4 Submissions)Last Fight: KO Win vs Stipe Miocic (3/27/21)Next fight: N/A Outlook: The man some christened as a champion in waiting early in his UFC career made good on that potential in his second shot at Miocic at UFC 260. Ngannou, now the heavyweight king, has a plethora of directions to go with

First, Jim and Matt share how they are beginning to bring life back to normal as Matt’s BJJ classes get more crowded and Jim rebooks stand-up tour dates. Then, UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic joins the show ahead of his main event bout against Francis Ngannou this Saturday at UFC 260. Stipe thanks Matt for

Miocic isn’t all too concerned with that, naturally. When you earn the tags Baddest Man on the Planet and Greatest Heavyweight Ever, what oddsmakers have to say slides off as easily as Miocic slipped most of Ngannou’s vicious punches at UFC 220. Although he is once again supremely confident in himself, he’s not exactly sure

“I have changed a lot because the time between my first fight and my second fight is almost the time that I had been doing the sport before my first fight,” said Ngannou, who had been a professional for a little over four years when he first fought Miocic four years ago in Boston. “If

It’s a statement that O’Malley, who has three fight night bonuses in his four pay-per-view showings, is intending to deliver against the Brazilian, who will be making the walk for his 27th professional fight. “Thomas is tough. I’m gonna beat his body down, I’m gonna hurt him and then I’m gonna knock his lights out;