MMA News has you covered with this week’s UFC matchmaking bulletin, featuring fights for fan-favorite featherweight Chase Hooper, rising women’s flyweight Tracy Cortez, entertaining 125lber Matt Schnell, and former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski. With UFC cards being held most weekends, Mick Maynard and Sean Shelby have their matchmaking work cut out if they’re to fill them, meaning new
Jamahal Hill – via UFC.com Tonight’s UFC Vegas 59 event was headlined by a key light heavyweight bout featuring Thiago Santos taking on Jamahal Hill. Santos (22-11 MMA), a former light heavyweight title challenger, had entered tonight’s headliner looking to rebound, this after suffering a decision loss to Magomed Ankalaev in his most recent effort
Sam Alvey returned to action at UFC Vegas 59 last night, lasting just 1:56 in the cage against a very game and violent Michal Oleksiejczuk. “Smilin’ Sam” never managed to get much going as Oleksiejczuk backed him up against the cage and dropped him twice before referee Herb Dean stepped in and mercifully stopped things.
Following Saturday’s UFC Vegas 59 fight card at UFC Apex in Las Vegas, officials from the fight promotion announced the winners of the performance-based bonuses. Fight Of The Night: Thiago Santos vs Jamahal Hill In the main event, Jamahal Hill survived an initial onslaught of heavy punches and takedowns from Thiago Santos, eventually breaking him down over four
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4:04 PM ET UFC welterweight Josh Quinlan was pulled from his UFC Fight Night bout Saturday due to an atypical drug finding, the UFC announced. USADA, the UFC’s anti-doping partner, detected a trace amount of the long-term metabolite (or M3 metabolite) of the steroid dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT) in a Quinlan urine sample, the promotion said. The
Mohammed Usman lived up to his famous family name with a devastating knockout to finish Zac Pauga to claim The Ultimate Fighter championship at UFC Vegas 59 on Saturday. An underdog according to betting experts, Usman only needed a short left hook that clipped Pauga in the second round that sent him down to the
UFC announces the following updates to UFC Fight Night: Santos vs Hill UFC was notified by USADA that a recent urine sample from Josh Quinlan indicated the presence of a small amount of the M3 metabolite of dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT). While not a violation under UFC anti-doping program rules, Nevada State Athletic Commission has ruled that
Juliana Miller capped off her run on The Ultimate Fighter with a TKO win over Brogan Walker to become the Season 30 women’s flyweight winner. The 26-year-old was able to use her grappling to control Walker for the majority of their fight at UFC Vegas 59 and negate any chance for “The Bear” to get
Conor McGregor It has been announced that UFC star Conor McGregor is to team up with actor Jake Gyllenhaal in the remake of the 1989 cult classic ‘Road House’. The original ‘Road House’ featured Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch and Sam Elliott. Apparently the remake with feature Gyllenhaal playing the roll of a former UFC fighter
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to its APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the UFC Vegas 59 mixed martial arts (MMA) event TONIGHT (Sat., Aug. 6, 2022), streaming LIVE on both ESPN and ESPN+. UFC Vegas 59 will be headlined by the 205-pound showdown between former light heavyweight title challenger, Thiago Santos, and surging
Sam Alvey responds to losing again: ‘I swear I used to be good’ On Saturday night Sam Alvey lost his eighth fight in a row (not counting his no contest) surprising pretty much nobody. He was KO’d in under two minutes, getting dropped twice by Michal Oleksiejczuk before the referee stepped in to stop the
3:07 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez pleaded not guilty Friday in an attempted murder case in Santa Clara (California) County, his attorney Mark Geragos told ESPN. Velasquez, 40, is being charged with attempted murder and 10 other gun-related charges stemming from an incident where he allegedly chased down a man, Harry Goularte
It’s been a big week. UFC 277 happened, with several very important outcomes taking place, and then the UFC announces Dustin Poirier vs. Michael Chandler. So let’s talk about all that, plus a brief mention of UFC Vegas 59 tonight. After his recent loss, what do you do with Kai Kara-France? — Rose Skye (@ThatTransMMAFan)
Flyweights Ode’ Osbourne and Tyson Nam clash in an intriguing, all-action matchup that could have ramifications in the top-15 of the division. Youssef Zalal returns to face D’amon Blackshear, and featherweight sluggers Nate Landwehr and David Onama meet in Southern California as well. Gabriel “Moggly” Benitez faces Charlie Ontiveros in a lightweight contest, and Yazmin