Alexa Grasso knows all about the pressure of being a blue chip prospect. It was a little over four years ago that Grasso was an unbeaten 23-year-old strawweight making the jump from Invicta FC to the UFC with plenty of hype behind her. She won her first UFC fight, but then fell into a 50-50
Dana White is still high on Maycee Barber despite losing her second fight in a row at UFC 258. In the co-main event of the pay-per-view card, Barber fought Alexa Grasso in her first fight since tearing her ACL last January in a loss to Roxanne Modafferi. Barber was still looking to become the youngest
Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion Kamaru Usman sounds like he’s already preparing for a rematch against longtime rival Jorge Masvidal, despite capturing a unanimous decision victory over “Gamebred” at UFC 251 last July. I guess Stephen Thompson never got the Email. That may explain why “Wonderboy” is on social media trying to use
Could UFC events have fans back by summer? Dana White is optimistic It’s been nearly a year since an arena full of fans were in attendance for a UFC event. The last time a full capacity crowd witnessed live fights inside the Octagon was UFC 248 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 7,
UFC middleweight fighter Julian Marquez is likely going to regret giving Miley Cyrus an ultimatum on Valentine’s Day. Marquez (8-2 MMA) returned to the Octagon for the first time in over two and a half years at last night’s UFC 258 event for a fight with Maki Pitolo. The result was a third round submission
During that same five-year window between 2011 and 2014, Vieira added five more gold medals and two more silvers at the World Championships, with “Buchecha” again besting him in the absolute division. He was in a rare class of grapplers for an extended period of time, and if he reached that level by attacking his
12:59 AM ET Kamaru Usman defeated Gilbert Burns by TKO in the third round to retain his UFC welterweight championship Saturday night in the main event of UFC 258 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The stoppage came at 34 seconds of the round. Usman, who was briefly stunned by a Burns right hand
JP Buys will make his octagon debut alongside his wife next month. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Buys will take on Bruno Silva in a flyweight matchup on March 20. MMA DNA was first to report the booking. The event is expected to take place at the
UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman has a message for the UFC rankings panel about the integrity of the pound-for-pound rankings. Kamaru Usman is undefeated in the UFC with 13 fights and 13 victories. He now holds the record for the most consecutive wins in the welterweight division, and the number of rounds he has lost
The UFC is headed back to ABC in April, and it looks like the promotion is hoping to stack the card with big names. The promotion made its first appearance on ABC in January with UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar. That show pulled an average of 1.22 million viewers over its 3 hour broadcast,
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UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya The official fight card and lineup for next month’s UFC 259: ‘Blachowicz vs. Adesanya’ event was released on Saturday night. UFC 259 is set for March 6 in Las Vegas and features a total of three title fights. The event is headlined by a superfight featuring reigning middleweight champion Israel
Gilbert Burns secured his fifth win in a row on his current six-fight win streak with a first round knockout of Demian Maia in March last year. Burns faces welterweight champion Kamaru Usman at UFC 258 on Saturday, February 13. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT
“We talkin’ bout practice,” Usman told UFC.com. “It’s different when you step inside that cage. It’s a whole different savage, and he’s going to realize that.” The “training partners turned foes” narrative has dominated the lead-up to their welterweight title fight at UFC 258. It’s understandable. For years, the two helped each other prepare for
1:55 AM ET Kamaru Usman accomplished much on Saturday night at UFC 258. He won his 13th straight UFC welterweight fight, which broke Georges St-Pierre‘s record for most wins in a row at 170. He also tied the great Khabib Nurmagomedov for the second-most wins in a row to start a UFC career. And he’s
Another illegal streamer got away on fight night at UFC 258, continuing the game of cat and mouse Dana White plays with internet pirates. White laid a trap for a particularly vocal streamer who’d promised to pirate UFC 257, only to go dark when the pay-per-view event went life this past month. More affected were
Kelvin Gastelum is back in the win column and looking to fight someone ranked ahead of him. On the main card of UFC 258, Gastelum was fighting the 15th-ranked, Ian Heinisch. It was a pivotal fight for Gastelum who was on a three-fight losing streak and said he was fighting for his job. Ultimately, it
The 28th edition of The Ultimate Fighter ended back in November of 2018 and many of us had hoped that the played out reality show was finally done for good. Okay, maybe the UFC could bring it back in China or Russia or something. That’d be fine, I guess. But after nearly 40 seasons (including