Nick Diaz reacts to five-year suspension from NSAC
11:37 AM ET Alistair Overeem and Jairzinho Rozenstruik both made the heavyweight limit for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event in Washington, D.C., but one half of the co-main event missed badly at Friday’s weigh-in. One prelim fighter missed weight as well. Overeem (47-17, 1 NC) hit the scale at 248 pounds, and Rozenstruik (9-0)
Marlon Vera will attempt to move his winning streak to six when he faces Jimmie Rivera in a bantamweight showdown at UFC 247 on Feb. 8 from Houston, Texas. Multiple sources confirmed to MMA Fighting on Saturday that verbal agreements are in place for the fight, which will take place on the same card as
That doesn’t mean it’s been easy – both in the gym and outside of it – but Song is embracing the opportunity to break out of his comfort zone and begin this chapter of his career and life. “The biggest adjustment I had is that I’m more mature and independent now,” he said. “It’s not
Virna Jandiroba taps out Mallory Martin at UFC Washington. The two fighters met in a women’s strawweight bout at the UFC Washington event from the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C on Saturday night (December 7, 2019) that aired on ESPN. As seen in the fight, Jandiroba tapped out Martin in the second round with
A key heavyweight bout featuring former title challenger Alistair Overeem taking on surging contender Jairzinho Rozenstruik headlines tonight’s UFC Washington event. The former Strikeforce and DREAM heavyweight champion, Overeem (45-17 MMA), will enter tonight’s main event on a two-fight win streak, this after scoring back-to-back TKO victories over Sergei Pavlovich and Alexey Oleynik in his
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) makes its return to ESPN this Sat. night (Dec. 7, 2019) featuring a titanic tilt pitting longtime mixed martial arts (MMA) veteran and former champion kickboxer, Alistair Overeem, opposite undefeated 265-pound rising star, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, who won all three of his UFC fights by way of knockout. In the UFC on
[embedded content] (Courtesy of TMZSports) Jorge Masvidal is nearing two decades as a professional fighter and he’s ready to get paid like one of that top athletes in the world. Though Masvidal has been fighting professionally since 2003, it’s only in the last year that he has ascended to the upper reaches of mixed martial
2:54 PM ET A women’s MMA pioneer’s time in the UFC has come to an end. Liz Carmouche, who lost to Ronda Rousey at UFC 157 in 2013 in what was the first female fight in UFC history, was released from the promotion on Thursday, her manager Kyle Stoltz told ESPN. The decision to release
Scott Askham has been reborn under the KSW banner banking three stoppage outings en route to claiming the promotion’s middleweight title since his arrival under the banner, but he isn’t ruling out challenging for a second KSW title in the future. This weekend in Gliwice, Poland, the English middleweight will look to claim his biggest
Edgar is currently preparing for his bantamweight debut against Cory Sandhagen at UFC Raleigh on January, but wanted the opportunity to face Jung first. No. 5 ranked featherweight Edgar, who has been a veteran of the sport since 2007, looks to add another iconic win to his legendary career by taking on the No. 7
Image Credit: Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC Liz Carmouche admits the way she was released by the UFC caught her off guard. Carmouche was brought out to UFC Washington for fight week. Little did she know, the promotion had already decided to release her. A UFC official told MMAJunkie that matchmakers were unaware that Carmouche was
Tito Ortiz and Alberto Del Rio do not like each other and that was made apparent at today’s weigh-ins. On Dec. 7, Ortiz will be making his Combate Americas debut when he battles Del Rio, who also serves as the promotion’s president. The two have gone back-and-forth in interviews trash-talking each other. So, when they
Combate Americas “Tito vs. Alberto” takes place TONIGHT (Sat., Dec. 7, 2019) at Payne Arena in McAllen, Texas. In the 210-pound Catchweight main event, “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz (20-12-1) fights former AAA and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Heavyweight champion Jose Alberto Rodríguez (9-5), better known in lucha libre as Alberto El Patron. Combate
Frankie Edgar replaces Brian Ortega, will fight Chan Sung Jung at UFC South Korea Brian Ortega is out and Frankie Edgar is in. The former UFC lightweight champion will square off with Chan Sung Jung (aka The Korean Zombie) in the UFC Fight Night featherweight main event in Busan, South Korea. Edgar had been slated
The Notorious” Conor McGregor is on a mission to take over. See what sets this Irishman apart. Watch McGregor vs Siver on FOX Sports 1, LIVE from Boston, January 18 at 10pm ET.
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Oleinik saw something in opponent Viktor Pesta that he liked and he got his arms around it.