The penultimate Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) card of the year sees them pull out all the stops, as three title fights are set to hit the promotion’s sacred stomping grounds of T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, this weekend (Sat., Dec. 14, 2019). In UFC 245’s pay-per-view (PPV) main event, Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman makes
With several hundred athletes on the roster, it’s no surprise that there is a revolving door of fighters joining and leaving the ranks of the UFC. A couple recent releases were rather notable in former UFC bantamweight champion Renan Barao and former women’s bantamweight and flyweight challenger Liz Carmouche, who left under very different circumstances
5:45 PM ET Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Jairzinho Rozenstruik is a former high-level kickboxer who has lived and trained in the Netherlands. So it’s no surprise that the up-and-coming UFC star is very familiar with Alistair Overeem, the former K-1 kickboxing champion and MMA champion of Dutch descent. “I know Overeem for a
Daniel Cormier has one last fight left in his MMA career, but it could be a while before we see him hang the gloves up. Last we saw Cormier, he was getting stopped by Stipe Miocic in their rematch at UFC 241, losing his heavyweight title and setting up a trilogy fight between the two.
No one, outside of champion Amanda Nunes, brings the fury in the women’s bantamweight division quite like Aspen Ladd. For a young lady who is as low-key as it gets in the lead-up to a fight, when the Octagon door shuts, she lets it all out and the result is often what we saw last
Image Credit: Pat Scaasi/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images Jorge Masvidal isn’t interested in sitting idle while Nick Diaz, the UFC, and USADA sort things out. Last month, Masvidal defeated Nick’s younger brother Nate via third-round TKO. The bout was contested for the one-time-only BMF championship to close out UFC 244. In an interview with ESPN’s
Image: @ufc on Instagram Kamaru Usman was very close to hanging up the gloves for good in 2018. Usman, who is the current UFC welterweight champion, was undefeated in the Las Vegas-based promotion yet was having a hard time getting fights. This was especially the case in 2017 and 2018. Frustration began to grow and
Welcome to Midnight Mania! As power-punching prospect Mike Perry has made violently clear multiple times, he really does not like Colby Covington. The two have traded barbs on several occasions, but it began when Covington insulted Perry’s girlfriend (now wife) and corner woman, the appropriately titled “Platinum Princess” Danielle Perry. Since then, Perry has repeatedly
UFC 245 embedded: Colby Covington promises to deliver Donald Trump a new championship belt <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> (Courtesy of UFC) On Episode 1 of UFC 244 Embedded, welterweight champion Kamaru Usman goes from “scruffy” to polished at home and then hits the gym for more finishing touches.
On Episode 2 of UFC 240 Embedded, featherweight champion Max Holloway gets an adrenaline fix at an aerial park and hikes with his team. Featherweight Felicia Spencer visits a farmers market and tries out a new face paint look; opponent Cris Cyborg focuses on her fingernails. Featherweight title challenger Frankie Edgar makes the most of
At the UFC Brooklyn ceremonial weigh-ins, flyweight champion Henry Cejudo and bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw faced off for the final time Friday ahead of their flyweight title fight Saturday night on ESPN+. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read
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2:41 PM ET Two-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes will defend her women’s bantamweight title against Germaine de Randamie this weekend, and on Monday she said she intends to defend at featherweight in her next fight after that. Nunes (18-4) is one of just four fighters to reign in two UFC divisions simultaneously, and none has
All things considered, Stefan Struve was mostly encouraged by his return from a brief 10-month retirement, even if he ended up losing under questionable circumstances. That said, this past Saturday’s fight in Washington, D.C., opposite Ben Rothwell will go down as a loss on Struve’s record, the result of a Rothwell flurry near the end
On Saturday, the No. 5-ranked Moreno has his next chance to live up to that claim when he meets No. 6-ranked Kai Kara-France in a UFC 245 bout at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The two know each other, having competed on season 24 of The Ultimate Fighter, but the real storyline is the fight,
Fernando Quiles Jr., MMA News Justin Gaethje hasn’t had many kind words for Conor McGregor, but he won’t deny the “Notorious” one’s impact on the sport of mixed martial arts. McGregor is scheduled to make his return on Jan. 18 against Donald Cerrone. The welterweight clash will headline UFC 246 inside the T-Mobile Arena in
The UFC surprisingly released Liz Carmouche last week, but it doesn’t appear she will be on the free-agent market looking for work for long. According to Steven Marrocco of MMAFighting.com, Bellator has already been in touch with Carmouche about signing with the promotion. At this point, Bellator is just waiting for the UFC to send