Image Credit: Bellator Tim Johnson could’ve waited for a title shot against Ryan Bader. After Johnson earned a split decision win over Cheick Kongo last October he cemented himself as the number one contender at heavyweight. The plan was for the UFC veteran to face Ryan Bader in the first quarter of 2021 for the
The Korean Zombie, Chan Sung Jung, has been known for a decade now as a fighter that will always put on an entertaining performance when he steps inside of the Octagon. Watch Jung meet Dan Ige in the main event of UFC Vegas 29 on Saturday, June 19. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC
The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC Vegas 29! Check out all the changes below! Men’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Strawweight: No Changes Women’s Flyweight: No Changes Women’s Bantamweight: No Changes Women’s Featherweight: N/A Flyweight: No Changes Bantamweight: Marlon Vera moves up two spots to #13 after
8:31 PM ET Claressa Shields isn’t wasting any time getting back in the cage. Less than two weeks after her MMA debut, the boxing standout is now booked for a return to PFL on Aug. 27 at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, promotion officials told ESPN. No opponent has been named yet. The
Four fights in to The Ultimate Fighter 29, Brian Ortega and his team are pitching a shutout. Team Ortega bantamweight Vince Murdock (12-4-1, 1 NC) scored a first-round TKO of Team Volkanovski representative Dustin Lampros to give Ortega a commanding 4-0 lead on the season. The bout was fast-paced, with Murdock and Lampros exchanging quick
Jun 22, 2019; Greenville, SC, USA; Chan Sung Jung (blue gloves) reacts to fight against Renato Moicano (red gloves) during UFC Fight Night at Ben Secours Wellness Arena. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hagy-USA TODAY Sports UFC Vegas 29 may be in the books from a competitive standpoint, but for the 24 competitors on the card, their
Welcome to Midnight Mania! UFC 264 is fast-approaching. The pay-per-view event is scheduled for July 10, 2021 and headlined by the rubber match between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier. As the two have split their previous pair of bouts, there’s plenty of film to review and lots of lessons to be learned. Of course, with
Kamaru Usman and Nate Diaz exchange insults on social media UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and Nate Diaz had an interesting exchange on social media Tuesday with Usman telling Diaz that a fight between the two would end in murder. Diaz ignited the exchange by criticizing Usman on Twitter for facing top contender Colby Covington
PhotoCred: FightMag Nick Diaz has once again teased a potential comeback. The elder Diaz brother hasn’t fought since his no-contest with Anderson Silva at UFC 183 in 2015. Now 37, Diaz has an idea of when he’d like to return, according to his coach – and it’s not guaranteed to be in the UFC or
First, the guys are joined by outdoorsman, television personality, hunter and avid UFC fan Chad Belding. He reveals what it’s like to eat properly cooked bobcat and venison, how some animals hunt to keep their prey alive for days and why, shares which UFC legend he is trying to coax into going hunting, and asks
PFL welterweight Gleison Tibau appears to have taken a sizeable U-turn on his view of his controversial decision win over Rory MacDonald. Tibau was awarded a split decision victory over “Red King” at PFL 5 last week. The judges’ scoring left all sections of the MMA community baffled, with most giving at least two rounds
All signs are pointing at Nick Diaz making a comeback in 2021, but it appears that a few things still have to be figured out. A few weeks after UFC president Dana White said it looked like the former welterweight contender would fight again this year, Diaz’s longtime coach Cesar Gracie confirmed the plans in
Credit: UFC UFC Vegas 30 will be the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s latest event from the promotions home base in Las Vegas, Nevada and it will be an afternoon special kicking off its preliminary action at 1 pm ET/10 am PT. The event is headlined by a battle of top-five heavyweights, as Ciryl Gane and Alexander
UFC Vegas 29 injuries and medical suspensions were submitted to MixedMartialArts.com earlier this week for those athletes competing at the “Korean Zombie vs. Ige” event last weekend (Sat., June 19, 2021) inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, a fair share of combatants were handed mandatory timeouts, including featherweight headliner Chan Sung Jung. “The
Check out this UFC 264: Poirier vs McGregor 3 promotional video – McGregor talks the talk Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor meets former interim lightweight champion and top ranked lightweight contender Dustin Poirier for the third time in the UFC 264 main event on July 10 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. McGregor finished
UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov reaffirmed his decision to retire, saying that “I have no desire to come back and I don’t think I ever will.” Nurmagomedov first revealed his intentions to step away from mixed martial arts following his submission win over Justin Gaethje at UFC 254 last October. That victory improved Nurmagomedov’s MMA record
Marlon Vera is an intense individual on a normal day. On fight day, that gets amped up considerably, and that was certainly the case last Saturday when he met Davey Grant in a rematch of a 2016 bout won by the Brit. For three rounds, Vera just had bad intentions with everything he did, and
Joe Rogan caught up with Nate Diaz in the Octagon after his fight with Leon Edwards at UFC 263. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/ To order UFC Pay-Per-Views on ESPN+, visit https://bit.ly/2vNIBE8 (U.S. only) To