Every fighter has a different way of dealing with anxiety. UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal eats his feelings. A three-piece and soda wasn’t enough to calm Masvidal after 15 texts about Nate Diaz and his drug testing woes. Nine days before their “BMF” title fight, everything got tossed into the air when Diaz announced he’d failed
Image Credit: Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ben Askren is now 1-2 under the UFC banner and he is giving retirement a consideration. Askren was hoping to rebound from his five-second knockout loss to Jorge Masvidal back in July. To do that, he needed to get past Demian Maia at UFC Singapore this
Welcome to Midnight Mania! After coming up short in his title bid opposite Khabib Nurmagomedov, Dustin Poirier’s path forward is a bit unclear. “The Diamond” has flirted with the idea of moving up to 170 lbs. for the right opponent, but he’s also been calling for a rematch with Conor McGregor. Ultimately, Poirier closed the
UFC 244 Embedded: ‘I could hit this guy with a baseball bat, he’s not going nowhere’ [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) On Episode 1 of UFC 244 Embedded, middleweight Kelvin Gastelum wraps up training camp for his fight against Darren Till with sparring and a family meal. Headlining welterweight Jorge Masvidal travels via private plane
On Episode 6 of UFC 241 Embedded, heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier throws out the first pitch at an Angels game. Former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis gets a workout in, enjoying how he feels as he approaches welterweight. At Ultimate Media Day, Cormier faces off against former champion Stipe Miocic and middleweights Paulo Costa and Yoel
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While Diaz has been a main event fixture and a major fan favorite throughout his UFC career, Masvidal has been more of an indie darling — a fighter who has been respected by both his peers and the hardcore set, but who has never had that mainstream, crossover appeal. Until now. “The purists have been
Image via onefc.com Ben Askren’s time in MMA may be over once again. Back in 2017, Askren retired from the sport after he defended his ONE Championship welterweight title. He said he had nothing else to prove as he wanted to show he was the best in the world. But, a rare trade to the
Oct 26, 2019 Editor’s note: This interview was conducted in September, well before Nate Diaz vented his frustration about a drug test before UFC 244. He has been cleared to fight. The only time Nate Diaz attended an event in Madison Square Garden, on Nov. 12, 2016, he had to be snuck in. It was
Following his third win in a row last December, Corey Anderson believed he should be knocking on the door of a title shot in his next fight. He was dominant in all three victories, including a short-notice drubbing of former title contender Glover Teixeira. But as much as Anderson felt like a fight against the
Image Credit: Getty Images Demian Maia has called for a fight with Diego Sanchez and unsurprisingly, “The Nightmare” has accepted. Maia is coming off a submission victory over Ben Askren. The welterweight bout took place this past Saturday (Oct. 26). Maia vs. Askren headlined UFC Singapore inside Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang. Diego Sanchez Answers
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) light heavyweight contender, Corey Anderson, may be in the worst position any fighter can find himself (or herself) in when competing in the cutthroat world of mixed martial arts (MMA). His boss thinks he’s boring and the fans think he sucks. But that won’t stop “Overtime” from putting in the work
UFC 244 Countdown: Jorge Masvidal vs. Nate Diaz [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) The BMF title is up for grabs as two gangsters of the Octagon square off. Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal headline UFC 244 and Kelvin Gastelum welcomes Darren Till to middleweight in the co-main event. See these athletes prepare ahead of their
“They obviously are both memorable, but one of which I would love to forget,” Askren said of his bouts against Masvidal and Robbie Lawler, which ended in a controversial stoppage win for the former Olympian, who has seen opinions of him shift from being a legitimate title threat to people pegging him as a bust
Image Credit: UFC and ONE Championship On Oct. 27, 2018, the MMA world was shaken up as it was announced the UFC and ONE Championship made a trade. The Las Vegas-based promotion traded longtime flyweight champion, Demetrious Johnson, to the Singapore-based promotion for the former welterweight champion, Ben Askren. Right away, fans wondered who came
2:04 PM ET Carlo Pamintuan The bright lights of the Octagon never appeared to be an option for Loma Lookboonmee. But the Thai fighter, born Konklak Suphisara in 1996 in the town of Buriram, knew at an early age that combat sports were nevertheless her ticket out of poverty. On Saturday at Singapore Indoor Stadium,