We touch on everything from virtual reality to Bitcoin on today’s episode of UFC Unfiltered! Belal Muhammad opens the show ahead of his bout against Dhiego Lima at UFC 258 on February 13th. The guys chat about his new podcast and having Matt on as a guest, Dustin Poirier’s victory over Conor McGregor, the state
Heavyweight MMA legend Alistair Overeem is hoping to win a UFC belt, then immediately retire from competition. Overeem is currently riding back-to-back stoppage wins over Augusto Sakai and Walt Harris. He’s hoping to keep that momentum going and, hopefully, win one of the few major titles that’s eluded him thus far: the UFC heavyweight championship.
8:33 AM ET At the UFC 257 postfight news conference in Abu Dhabi — just moments after Dustin Poirier defeated Conor McGregor in a blockbuster event — the man of the hour compared his two-week experience on Fight Island to being in “a prison in my own mind.” “You couldn’t call this Fight Island,” Poirier
Megan Anderson is not pleased with Casey Kenney. During a recent appearance on the Timbo Sugarshow podcast with Tim Welch and UFC fighter Sean O’Malley, Kenney answered a question about whether he would have sex with the UFC featherweight title contender. I guess MMA is a line of work where you can publicly talk about
Justin Gaethje has no intentions of standing by and watching Conor McGregor receive a title shot after losing to Dustin Poirier at UFC 257. As the world awaits news on how the UFC will move forward with the lightweight championship following Khabib’s retirement and Dana White’s apparent failure to convince him to reconsider, there are
I have bad news for the winner of Frankie Edgar vs. Cory Sandhagen, a bantamweight showdown between Top 5 contenders scheduled for the upcoming UFC Vegas 18 event on Feb. 6 on ESPN+ inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Petr Yan doesn’t want you. Instead, the reigning 135-pound titleholder is setting his sights on
After letting the smoke clear from UFC 257, number two ranked lightweight Justin Gaethje recently shared his thoughts on the current state of the lightweight division and his thoughts on seeing Conor McGregor getting taken out. In an interview with ESPN MMA, Gaethje wasted no time dropping his two cents on number six ranked lightweight
In September, UFC partnered with ESPN to launch its first-ever celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. As part of the campaign, UFC also made a $10,000 contribution to The Hispanic Scholarship Fund, a national non-profit organization that provides scholarships to Latino students, as well as related support services. UFC commemorated Hispanic Heritage Month by acknowledging UFC athletes and fans
PhotoCred: Action Network / Vox Jake Paul’s recent turn to the boxing scene isn’t the first thing he’s done to piss people off. Add Marvin Vettori to the list of the annoyed. In wake of the 24-year-old YouTuber and retired UFC welterweight Ben Askren coming to a bout agreement, the top UFC middleweight contender let
12:37 PM ET A pretty good indication that a UFC fighter is hot is when Conor McGregor is calling him out, rather than the other way around. And when Nate Diaz, who rarely calls out anyone, joins the chorus, the heat is undeniable. That’s the position Dustin Poirier finds himself in after his second-round TKO
The UFC is bringing a packed card to its return to Vegas next weekend. Officials have announced the updated lineup for UFC Vegas 18, which takes place at UFC APEX in Las Vegas on Feb. 6. The main event features heavyweight contenders Alistair Overeem (47-18, 1 NC) and Alexander Volkov (32-8), with a bantamweight bout
Raquel Pennington has accepted a six-month USADA suspension for violating the UFC Anti-Doping Policy. It was announced Thursday that Raquel Pennington has accepted a six-month sanction for testing positive for two banned substances: 7-keto-DHEA and AOD-9064. Prior to USADA’s official statement, Pennington published a statement herself describing what led to the suspension: “Here are the
One of the big questions we had once Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren was announced — properly announced, not ginned up by Chael Sonnen in December — was how Paul managed to get the UFC’s permission to fight the YouTube personality. Despite being retired, “Funky” is still under UFC contract, and any sporting endeavor like
While the rematch was unlikely to happen, any hopes of seeing Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor 2 crashed and burned when Dustin Poirier finished McGregor in the second round of the UFC 257 main event on Jan. 24. Poirier became the first fighter to stop McGregor via strikes after compromising the Irishman’s mobility with leg
Michael Chandler and Dan Hooker watch fights and stay sharp. Amanda Ribas downplays her singing skills. Dana White oversees a presser of bad dads where Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier come face to face. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of
And he didn’t look too shabby before the end, either. “Yeah, I just watched it a couple days ago and not to toot my own horn, but I looked pretty good,” he laughs. “I looked damn good.” It was the kind of performance Rodriguez needed after he broke a two-fight winless streak with a first-round
Manny Pacquiao and his team feel there’s no longer any demand for a boxing match with former two-division UFC champ Conor McGregor. Heading into his UFC 257 fight with Dustin Poirier, McGregor was linked to a boxing match with Manny Pacquiao sometime later in the year. After McGregor lost to Poirier via second-round TKO, however,
7:49 AM ET A pretty good indication that a UFC fighter is hot is when Conor McGregor is calling him out, rather than the other way around. And when Nate Diaz, who rarely calls out anyone, joins the chorus, the heat is undeniable. That’s the position Dustin Poirier finds himself in after his second-round TKO