Fight card shuffle: Song Yadong vs. Ricky Simon new UFC Vegas 72 headliner UFC Vegas 72 has a new headliner and this week’s UFC Vegas 71 has lost it’s co-main event. A bantamweight showdown between Song Yadong and Ricky Simon got pushed back a week to take the UFC Vegas 72 main event slot on
10:27 AM ET The UFC has a new main event for its card next week. A scheduled bantamweight bout between Song Yadong and Ricky Simon will take the headlining spot of UFC Fight Night on April 29 in Las Vegas, the promotion announced Monday night. Song vs. Simon was originally scheduled for the UFC Fight
As Jorge Masvidal prepares to turn the page in his combat life, Danny Sabatello believes that “Gamebred” won the game of mixed martial arts. Masvidal, Sabatello’s teammate at American Top Team, announced his retirement from MMA following a unanimous decision loss to Gilbert Burns earlier this month at UFC 287. The “BMF” champion realized he
“For sure,” Hiestand said. “I’ve come down to Vegas and trained with my team and we do a lot of cross training with some guys down here. I’m training with a lot of top-level bantamweights, a lot of guys at the highest level, and I’m seeing where I rank and I’m pretty happy with how
In the main event of UFC Kansas City, a battle of top-five featherweights went down as former champion Max Holloway took on Arnold Allen. Holloway was coming off a decision loss to Alexander Volkanovski which was his third defeat to the Aussie for the belt. Before that, he had back-to-back wins over Yair Rodriguez and
Karl Roberson is facing some pretty serious charges. The former UFC light heavyweight slugger was arrested and charged with burglary, theft, criminal mischief, possession of controlled dangerous substance and several weapons offenses after allegedly burglarizing a New Jersey home and making off with $200,000 worth of “exotic jewelry and valuables.” Accomplice Dathan Thompson was also
Having come into 2022 on a three-fight winning streak to start his career, lightweight Richie Miranda was looking to replicate his success and by all accounts he was able to do so. In three fights last year, Miranda picked up three victories, raising his career-starting winning streak to six and establishing himself as someone to
Bantamweights Song Yadong and Ricky Simon were just days away from clashing at UFC Vegas 71 but instead they’ll wait another week after being bumped to the main event at UFC Vegas 72 on April 29. UFC officials announced the switch on Monday after Renato Moicano suffered an injury that forced him out of the
UFC lightweight contender Beneil Dariush is about ready to start a riot. He’s been out of the cage since his clash with Mateusz Gamrot last October at UFC 280. In that outing, Dariush secured an entertaining unanimous decision victory over ‘Gamer’. The win was the contender’s eighth in a row, having previously defeated names such
Welcome to Midnight Mania! UFC President Dana White has made it clear where his political beliefs lie. Back in both 2016 and 2020, White spoke on behalf of former president Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, and their ties actually go further back. In the early 2000s when UFC was widely illegal in the
Watch Sergei Pavlovich topple Tai Tuivasa 👊 Fight Video At UFC Vegas 71, Sergei Pavlovich is on the cusp of a title shot. This incredible knockout victory over Tai Tuivasa is what set him up with a Curtis Blaydes showdown on Saturday. Pavlovich has only one blip on his resume. In 18 pro bouts, six
9:24 AM ET It’s already April and much has gone on in the world of mixed martial arts in 2023. The sport saw, likely, the truest version of a pound-for-pound championship fight in February, between UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev and featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski. Makhachev prevailed, but the fight was so good, we might
Dana White has plans for Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira, plans that don’t include an immediate third UFC meeting between the two. A week removed from Adesanya knocking Alex Pereira out at UFC 288 to reclaim the middleweight title, White was asked at the UFC Kansas City post-fight press conference if the promotion has anything
Brandon Royval will serve as back-up fighter for Brandon Moreno vs. Alexandre Pantoja title fight at UFC 290. UFC 290 takes place on Saturday July 8th at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Headlining the event will be a flyweight title fight between Brandon Moreno (21-6 MMA) and Alexandre Pantoja (25-5 MMA). Moreno, 29, enters
Challenge accepted. Not long after capturing a unanimous decision victory over featherweight up-and-comer Arnold Allen (full results and recap here), former 145-pound champion Max Holloway called for a division showdown against fellow UFC fan favorite Chan Sung Jung, affectionately known as “The Korean Zombie.” Read that post-fight callout here. “Holloway, if you want to fight
Leon Edwards favors Nate Diaz to beat Jake Paul Former UFC fan favorite Nate Diaz is booked to face Jake Paul in a boxing match on Aug. 5 in Dallas, and welterweight champion Leon Edwards favors the Stockton brawler. The 38-year old Diaz left the UFC and entered free agency after winning the final fight
Apr 13, 2023 The UFC has lost a five-round lightweight main event between Arman Tsarukyan and Renato Moicano after Moicano was forced to withdraw from the event due to an undisclosed injury, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. The UFC has not announced the withdrawal or commented on Tsarukyan’s status on the card. The UFC
Israel Adesanya scored a win for the ages at UFC 287. “The Last Stylebender” owned an impressive highlight-reel before stepping into the cage for his rematch with Alex Pereira, but he might have topped himself with his powerful second-round knockout in the UFC 287 main event, which gave him a long-awaited win over his rival.