Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day. Few things make you feel older than when you see an athlete competing with a familiar
No. 2 men’s pound-for-pound fighter Volkanovski (25-2, fighting out of Windang, NSW, Australia) returns to featherweight looking to secure his fifth successful title defense. A well-rounded grappler and striker, he holds spectacular wins against Max Holloway (thrice), Brian Ortega and Jose Aldo. Volkanovski now plans to prove he is the undisputed champion by stopping Rodriguez.
Dustin Poirier opened as the betting favorite ahead of his UFC 291 BMF title fight against Justin Gaethje. On Tuesday, UFC president Dana White announced that Poirier and Gaethje will headline UFC 291 in Salt Lake City, Utah for the BMF title. The fight will go down on July 29 in a fight that fans
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just one day away from the upcoming UFC Vegas 73 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which is set to go down tomorrow night (Sat., May 20, 2023) on ESPN+ from inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring a strawweight main event between Top 15 title hopefuls Mackenzie
UFC 292 shipping up to Boston with dual championship bouts The UFC 292 fight card is shipping up to Boston for the promotion’s first event at the TD Garden since 2018. UFC 292 takes place on Aug. 19 in Beantown, featuring two title bouts. UFC 292 main event: Aljamain Sterling vs. Sean O’Malley UFC 292
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMay 18, 2023, 03:29 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun If Sean O’Malley is to become the UFC’s bantamweight champion this summer, he’ll have to defeat the most dangerous bantamweight in the history of the sport — at least in
Welterweights Logan Storley and Brennan Ward have agreed to meet in the main event of an upcoming Bellator MMA card scheduled for Aug. 11 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Thursday. Verbal agreements are in place for both
“The Future” came in with plenty of hype behind her, but what Maycee Barber has been able to do after the adversity that came with a serious knee injury in her first professional loss has been impressive. Barber’s only defeat since came at the hands of flyweight champion Alexa Grasso. She’s defeated Miranda Maverick, Montana
Henry Cejudo doesn’t believe Aljamain Sterling vs. Sean O’Malley will be close. ‘Triple C’ is fresh off his return earlier this month at UFC 288 against ‘The Funk Master’. The bout ended a three-year hiatus for the former champion, having last competed in May 2020. In that outing, Cejudo scored a second-round knockout win over
Tatiana Suarez is back. After a successful return at Flyweight off the heels of four years on the shelf, Suarez (10-0) is set to get back in the mix at her primary division of Strawweight. The Ultimate Fighter 23 (TUF) winner is set to take on the No. 6-ranked contender and former Invicta Fighting Championship
MMA Twitter reacts to new Netflix Conor McGregor documentary “McGregor Forever” began airing on Netflix on Wednesday, May 18 and within hours many MMA fans has already binged all four episodes. Those fans took their thought to Twitter, in the best way they know how. The documentary, which is about four hours long if watched
Jake Michaels, ESPN Senior WriterMay 17, 2023, 08:14 PM ET Close Jake Michaels is a Melbourne-based sports writer who covers everything from Aussie Rules to Formula One, basketball to boxing. He has been with ESPN for 10 years and works as a Senior Writer, covering sport in Australia and around the world. Sydney has struck
Ian Machado Garry has a plan for climbing the UFC’s welterweight ranks. Following a first-round finish of Daniel Rodriguez at UFC Charlotte, Machado Garry called for his next fight to be against veteran Neil Magny. The pairing would undoubtedly receive high billing on any UFC card, with Machado Garry currently undefeated at 12-0 and Magny
After a pair of legendary fights with Nate Diaz, McGregor made good on his goals to compete for a second belt when he faced Eddie Alvarez in New York City – the UFC’s first event in The Big Apple. In what might’ve been his greatest performance and one of the most dominant we’ve seen in
Conor McGregor had a tough time dealing with his UFC 229 loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov. On Wednesday, McGregor’s new documentary ‘McGregor Forever’ was released on Netflix and the first episode was showing the build-up to his return fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov. The documentary showed off his intense training camp and parts of the fight, which
Former UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira is done with his monstrous weight cut, at least for the foreseeable future, and will try his luck in the light heavyweight division. His first assignment comes in the form of ex-division titleholder Jan Blachowicz in the UFC 291 co-main event this July in Salt Lake City. “He is
Angela Hill UFC Vegas 73 Media Day Video Angela Hill spoke with the MMA media on Wednesday ahead of her UFC Vegas 73 main event showdown with Mackenzie Dern. Hill and Dern square off Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. UFC-WWE merged company gets a name, will go public in 2023 Angela Hill
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMay 17, 2023, 04:45 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun The Nevada State Athletic Commission has officially acknowledged nine PFL fighters tested positive for banned substances last month, during the promotion’s opening round of matchups for its 2023 season. Last
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