Colby Covington is expressing his interest in fighting ‘f**king punk’ Sean Strickland following UFC 293. It was on Saturday, September 10th at UFC 293 at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia that saw Sean Strickland (28-5 MMA) defeat Israel Adesanya (24-3 MMA) to become the newly crowned UFC middleweight champion. Just this past Wednesday,
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just one day away from the upcoming UFC Vegas 79 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which is set to go down tomorrow night (Sat., Sept. 23, 2023) on ESPN+ from inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring a lightweight main event between Top 10 title hopefuls Rafael
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“I have many main events and five-round fights; this is my favorite distance,” continued Gamrot, who competed in six championship fights and was the main event in each of his final two KSW appearances. “I like accelerating every round and I think this is going to be my advantage — my stamina, my conditioning, my mental
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Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 20, 2023, 11:04 PM ET Two of the most exciting big men in the UFC will meet for gold at Madison Square Garden. Former light heavyweight champion Jirí Procházka and former middleweight champion Alex Pereira will fight for the vacant light heavyweight title in the co-main event of UFC 295
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“I know it’s been just five fights, but it’s an eight-year process. I’ve worked so hard to actually be here. I understand that there’s challenges, that there’s more ahead of us. But we’ve worked so hard to actually be here, and I’m going to do everything to stay here.”   MORE FIGHT NIGHT: Michelle Waterson-Gomez
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Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 20, 2023, 10:48 PM ET Two title fights have been set up for the UFC’s end-of-the-year pay-per-view. Leon Edwards will defend his welterweight title against Colby Covington in the main event of UFC 296 on Dec. 16 in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White announced Wednesday on social media. In
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Is Bryce Mitchell on his way to becoming a UFC superstar? “Thug Nasty” certainly believes that’s the way things will trend after he defeats Dan Ige in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot this weekend. The No. 10 ranked Mitchell is 15-1 and coming off his first career loss to Ilia
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Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 20, 2023, 09:14 PM ET Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) executive director Jeff Mullen said on a judges training call Wednesday that he did not agree with a controversial score in last Saturday night’s UFC women’s featherweight title fight between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko. Grasso and Shevchenko fought to
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Israel Adesanya isn’t broken up about his recent title defeat. The former two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight kingpin, Adesanya, has remained silent since he suffered a unanimous decision loss (watch highlights) against Sean Strickland at UFC 293 earlier this month (Sept. 9, 2023). Strickland handed Adesanya just his second loss as a Middleweight after
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