How do you know when a sport like mixed martial arts (MMA) has gone mainstream? When it has just as many assholes per capita as some of the powerhouse leagues like NFL and MLB. Anyone who thinks MMA fans are toxic has never worn a New York Yankees jersey to a Boston Red Sox playoff
UFC on ESPN 10 bonuses: finishers get rewarded UFC president Dana White announced the recipients of the $50,000 performance-based bonuses stemming from UFC on ESPN 10 during the event’s post-fight press conference on Saturday. No bout was given the distinction of being called Fight of the Night. Instead, the fight promotion handed out four Performance
It was another profitable night for MMAInformed.com at the betting window for UFC Fight Night: Eye vs Calvillo. This was the 7th card in a row where we showed a profit. We’re now up 30.19 units for 2020. All bets are 3rd party tracked at http://www.betmma.tips/vclub619. Let’s recap all the bets. Unfortunately one bet was
5:13 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos will return to action later this summer. JDS vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik has been verbally agreed to for UFC 252 on Aug. 15, sources told ESPN. Combate first reported the fight. Dos Santos (21-7) will look to snap a two-fight losing streak. He most recently lost
Add champ Amanda Nunes to the list of UFC stars discussing retirement. The two-division queen defended her featherweight championship with a dominant decision victory over Felicia Spencer at UFC 250 earlier this month in Las Vegas. In the post-fight press conference, “The Lioness” said she’d likely sit out the remainder of 2020 to focus on
Just as there are some fighters who have shiny records, but have never really fought anyone, there are others whose records don’t look particularly impressive at first blush, but upon closer inspection, show just how talented its owner is. Casey falls in the latter category, as the 33-year-old is only 9-7 as a professional yet
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC president Dana White has a theory on why Amanda Nunes hasn’t been given enough respect. Nunes is undoubtedly the most dominant female fighter in MMA today. She is a UFC “champ-champ,” holding both the women’s featherweight and bantamweight titles. She’s finished the likes of Cris Cyborg,
Image via @ufc on Instagram UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal took to social media to scold the “White Knights” who have commentating gigs with the UFC for their stances on fighter pay. Masvidal is currently locked in a contract stalemate with the UFC. Instead of taking the UFC’s offer to fight Kamaru Usman at UFC 251,
The UFC recently announced a big batch of fights for the upcoming Fight Island cards in Abu Dhabi, and while UFC 251 is looking hella fire from our point of view it’s impossible not to feel a bit sad about the lack of Jorge Masvidal. Masvidal was supposed to face welterweight champion Kamaru Usman before
Cynthia Calvillo accuses Jessica Eye of cheating (UFC on ESPN 10 post-fight video) [embedded content] Cynthia Calvillo moved from strawweight up to the UFC flyweight division on Saturday with an impressive victory over No. 1 ranked contender Jessica Eye in the UFC on ESPN 10 main event in Las Vegas. Having had trouble making weight
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1:22 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card started with three first-minute flash knockouts and ended with Cynthia Calvillo making an emphatic statement in her UFC women’s flyweight debut. Calvillo soundly defeated Jessica Eye and instantly put herself in the conversation among the best in the division. Merab Dvalishvili made an impression of his own,
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Eye wouldn’t win that title fight with Shevchenko, getting stopped in the second round, and she missed weight before her subsequent win over Viviane Araujo and ahead of Saturday’s bout with Calvillo. But on Saturday night, all that matters is what she does when the Octagon door shuts, and with a statement making performance, she
Image Credit: MMAJunkie Cynthia Calvillo’s bout with Jessica Eye may be over but she still has an issue with “Evil.” This past Saturday night (June 13), Calvillo took on Eye in the main event of UFC on ESPN 10. The women’s flyweight bout took place inside the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Calvillo emerged
UFC women’s flyweight Cynthia Calvillo reacted after defeating the division’s top-ranked contender Jessica Eye in dominant fashion at UFC on ESPN 10. The judges scored the bout 49-46, 49-46, and 48-47 in favor of Calvillo, who was making her official UFC flyweight debut in the bout. Calvillo improved to 6-1-1 overall in the UFC with
Things have gotten so chaotic in the United States that word of another mass shooting in San Antonio barely causes a ripple in the national news cycle. But fans of the sport and those with ‘UFC’ in their Google Alerts certainly perked up after learning the unidentified shooter claimed to be a UFC fighter shortly
Dana White: President Trump to hold rallies with crowds; will UFC open to crowds too? [embedded content] Now that the UFC is back into a regular schedule of events, the next question is: When will we see fights with a live crowd? With United States President Donald Trump about to begin holding rallies with crowds