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
12:31 AM ET Cynthia Calvillo is a UFC women’s flyweight contender after just one fight in the division. Calvillo rolled in a unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 48-47) win over Jessica Eye on Saturday night in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. Calvillo took Eye down in four out of five rounds
If UFC on ESPN 10 was an event designed to shine a light on overlooked talents, that was reflected in the evening’s $50,000 bonuses. Performance of the Night awards were handed out to Marvin Vettori, Mariya Agapova, Tyson Nam, and Christian Aguilera after all four earned first-round finishes on Saturday’s card at UFC APEX in
“That takes time because there are things that people tell you that really do upset you,” Ivy said. “My lieutenant, Marty Cleveland, he taught me a lot about how to be patient. He really did. I can’t tell you how much he has spoken to me about this. It takes a special type of person
Image Credit: Chris Unger.Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The UFC on ESPN 10 bonuses have been released. On June 13, the UFC once again put on an event in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was held inside the UFC APEX. UFC on ESPN 10 took place behind closed doors, meaning no fans were in attendance.
Screenshot via Las Vegas Review-Journal A key women’s strawweight bout featuring Jessica Eye taking on Cynthia Calvillo headlined tonight’s UFC on ESPN 10 event in Las Vegas. Eye (15-7 MMA) had missed weight for tonight’s headliner and was thus forced to forfeit a portion of her fight purse to Calvillo. The miss marked the second
The action came in waves last night (Sat., June 13, 2020) at UFC on ESPN 10 live on ESPN/ESPN+ from inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, as Cynthia Calvillo outlasted former UFC title challenger Jessica Eye in a one-sided main event (highlights HERE). But before Calvillo made good on her UFC women’s flyweight debut,