And when asked by his coach after the fight if he thought he was the victim of a quick hook from referee Herb Dean, Greene declined to take that opportunity to shift blame. “I said, ‘Coach, even if Herb stopped it early, if I wouldn’t have put Herb Dean in the position to make a
Image Credit: Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images In a year of new champions and new stars, none shined brighter than Jorge Masvidal in 2019. Both inside and outside of the cage, Masvidal did everything he possibly could to have an A-letter year, and the praise and recognition he is earning from fans and the
Image via @ufc on Instagram (photographer not listed) UFC welterweight Mike Perry received some heavy backlash for using a racial slur during his online feud with Michael Jai White. ‘Platinum’ and ‘MJW’ have been busy exchanging jabs at one another on Twitter, this after Perry took issue with an old video of White training with
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Ladies and gentleman, we may have smacked into a new low. YouTube star and “professional boxer” Logan Paul may have found his next opponent in the highly controversially but incredibly talented wide receiver Antonio Brown. About a week ago, Paul expressed an interest in fighting Brown next, and the New England
Nov 28, 2019 Editor’s note: This panel was originally published on November 28, 2019. Conor McGregor is back. After what seemed like endless speculation, hints and callouts, the announcement was made on Thursday: McGregor will face Donald Cerrone on Jan. 18 in Las Vegas. This will be McGregor’s first fight since he lost to Khabib
The UFC marketing team is going with black and white for a matchup that is expected to produce plenty of red. The official poster for UFC Auckland was released this week, featuring fan favorite lightweight headliners Paul Felder and Dan Hooker. The #UFCAuckland poster has arrived pic.twitter.com/iutGt1ulZU — UFC_Asia (@UFC_Asia) January 8, 2020 Felder looks
Townsend, 33, tested positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, and norfentanyl, a metabolite of fentanyl and its derivatives, as the result of an in-competition urine sample he provided on June 28, 2019 at UFC Fight Night Minneapolis, where he lost by technical knockout. Cocaine, a non-Specified stimulant, and fentanyl, a Specified narcotic, are prohibited
Fight fans hoping for a UFC 246 pre-fight press conference are in for a treat. Earlier today (Jan. 8), the UFC announced that there will indeed be a presser before fight night. In a Twitter post sent out by the promotion, it was revealed that the UFC 246 fight week presser will take place on
Chan Sung Jung, aka The Korean Zombie, has predicted a quick finish if he is to ever face Alexander Volkanovski for the UFC Featherweight Championship. The Korean Zombie is coming off the back of a memorable finish over Frankie Edgar which cemented his spot as one of the top guys in the division. Alas, while
In 2018, current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight contender, Mike Perry, discovered he was 2% African American after taking a DNA test. As a result, “Platinum” revealed that he would now be allowed to use the “n” word. To hear Perry tell it, he picked up the use of the word growing up in Flint,
Video: Take a peak into Weili Zhang’s training camp for Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 248 [embedded content] (Courtesy of Teach, Train & Travel) Weili Zhang rocketed to the top of the UFC heap, winning the strawweight title just four fights into her promotional tenure. She made it look easy, knocking out Jessica Andrade 42 seconds
Donald Cerrone recounts what it’s like in the hours before he enters the Octagon. It’s a fascinating look inside the mind of a fighter and the transformation he undergoes.
At the UFC 187 post-fight press conference, Daniel Cormier and Ryan Bader have a war of words Saturday night. Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com /subscription_center?add_user=mmafightingonsbn Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/mmafightingonsbn/videos Visit our playlists: http://www.youtube.com/mmafightingonsbn/playlists Like MMAF on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mmafighting Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mmafighting Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com
UFC 246 Conor McGregor vs Donald Cerrone breakdown by Jorge Masvidal, Israel Adesanya confirms next title defense against Yoel Romero!, Joanna Jedrzejczyk starts training camp for Weili Zhang title bout, Michael Chandler back to work just seven days post fight! and much more! Credits to: Ariel Helwani Show on ESPN MMA Informations about our work:
11:00 AM ET Behold the 2019 Helwani Nose Awards. This is the seventh year in a row that I’ve done this, and I have to say this might have been the toughest year yet. I agonized over a bunch of these categories for weeks (in particular male and female fighter of the year, coach of
The MMA world is currently in one of its most prolonged quiet periods in years. There’s been no UFC event since UFC Busan in December and it will be nearly two more weeks until the premier organization in the sport returns with UFC 246 on Jan. 18. In that gap, the MMA world has turned
When Elliott makes his pick for the February 29 bout, he does so not just as a fellow flyweight who knows both from his fights with them, but as a friend and training partner of Mr. Benavidez. It’s a friendship that found its roots before the two fought in 2014 as they actually cut weight
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Colby Covington has gone MIA at American Top Team if Jorge Masvidal is to be believed. Covington competed for the UFC welterweight championship last month. He went one-on-one with Kamaru Usman. “Chaos” was stopped in the fifth round via TKO and fractured his jaw in the process.