Conor McGregor on Diego Sanchez, Joshua Fabia split up, UFC Community React to Rob Font vs Cody Garbrandt at UFC Vegas 27, UFC champ Kamaru Usman trash talking on Conor McGregor ahead of Dustin Poirier trilogy bout at UFC 264, Rob Font on Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan as potential opponents, Kevin Lee returns at
UFC: Welcome to the 29th season of The Ultimate Fighter! You’re the third Urbina brother to be on the show. What does that feel like? Urbina: Following them and having older brothers that were doing great things kind of had me under looked, not overlooked. I’m excited to be the third Urbina brother on the
Michael Venom Page is keen to test his skills in the UFC. The 34 year old has spent the majority of his career competing at Bellator, but admitted that the prospect of fighting in the UFC is the reason he got into MMA. As reported by Adam Martin, Page spoke to Michael Bisping on his
1:33 PM ET Aaron Pico has his next fight queued up. The top MMA prospect will fight Aiden Lee at Bellator 260 on June 11 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. That card will be headlined by a welterweight title fight between champion Douglas Lima and challenger Yaroslav Amosov. Pico
Jon Jones dropped a bombshell Tuesday night about when we might see him compete again. For months, Jon Jones has argued that the one thing preventing him from making the move up to the UFC’s heavyweight division is his current salary. Jones has made it clear that he would like to fight Francis Ngannou when
Puna Soriano has a new opponent, and a new date for his second fight of 2021. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Anthony Hernandez is still dealing with a hand injury from his most recent victory over Rodolfo Vieira at UFC 258 that has forced him out of
News Credit: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports The UFC Vegas 27 opener offered a talent-rich battle between two top-10 middleweights in Jack Hermansson versus Edmen Shahbazyan. Both men entered the Octagon following disappointing setbacks in their most recent outings. Both needed a victory to regain the moment they had lost and get back in contention for
Oh how quickly fortunes can change in MMA. 2020 saw Kevin Holland become Fighter of the Year, winning five (five!) UFC fights in seven months. That includes four finishes. Three performance of the night bonuses. The man was on fire. Then came 2021, and two decision losses in a row, both on account of poor
Former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier believes Carla Esparza should be next in line to challenge Rose Namajunas for the strawweight title. Esparza defeated Namajunas via submission by way of rear-naked choke on the TUF 20 finale to become the first ever UFC strawweight champion in December 2014, but subsequently lost the
After Matt makes sure Jim didn’t have more fun with guest co-hosts Forrest Griffin and Phoenix Carnevale, UFC flyweight Andrea Lee joins the show. She shares why she believes having a crowd when facing Antonina Shevchenko at UFC 262 helped her win the fight, what it’s like to put the roof back on your Jeep
UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping absolutely destroyed Diego Sanchez’s former manager Joshua Fabia in the latest edition of his podcast. It was revealed last week that Sanchez had severed ties with Fabia just a few weeks after “The Nightmare” was cut by the UFC. With Sanchez letting go of Fabia, his former manager and
7:29 AM ET The Ultimate Fighter was an instrumental force during the UFC’s explosion of popularity in the early 2000s — shining a spotlight on fighters like Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock, who coached a variety of MMA hopefuls in a season-long competition in which all of the competitors were housed
Derrick Lewis is convinced his potential rematch with Francis Ngannou will be better than their first fight. Lewis is set to take on the newly crowned UFC heavyweight champion, Ngannou in the summer according to the UFC president Dana White. This will be the second time they face each other after their first bout ended
Rob Font is potentially looking at extended time on the sidelines. Font earned a unanimous decision victory over Cody Garbrandt in the headliner of UFC Vegas 27 and is one of seven fighters facing a potential six-month medical suspension coming out of this past Saturday’s event at the UFC APEX. UFC Vegas 27 was overseen
News UFC Credit: Jason Da Silva-USA TODAY Sportsh UFC Vegas 27’s main card featured a battle between two skilled featherweight grapplers who have earned half of their wins by submission. The question for Ricardo Ramos and Bill Algeo before they entered the Octagon,was if the fight would be grappling heavy, or their ground talents would
Former UFC strawweight champion Carla Esparza won her fifth straight fight by smashing fellow 115-pound contender Xiaonan Yan in the UFC Vegas 27 co-main event last Sat. night (May 22, 2021) inside APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, landing at No. 3 in the division. rankings as a result. Message received. Elsewhere on the charts,
Cody Garbrandt releases emotional video statement after UFC Vegas 27 loss Former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt was defeated by no. 3 ranked Rob Font in the UFC Vegas 27 main event on May 22 at UFC Apex in Las Vegas. It was his fourth loss in his last five fights. He won the title as
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