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Former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington has a lot riding on the line in Tampa this weekend. Nearly a full year removed from his last appearance in the Octagon, Covington makes his return to competition to take on surging 170-lb. contender Joaquin Buckley in the main event at UFC ...
Christian Lee made his return to ONE Championship after a two-year layoff at ONE Fight Night 26. However, it was not the triumphant night he had planned. In the second round of his ONE Lightweight MMA World Title defense, an accidental eye poke to Alibeg Rasulov resulted in a no-contest. Christia...
$400,000 On The Line The PFL Europe 2024 Championships draws to a close this Saturday with four divisional winners set to be crowned PFL Europe Champions and pocket a cool $100,000 (USD) each in prize money. The event goes down in Lyon, France and will be headlined by a fascinating matchup betwee...
First Title Defense Confirmed A huge Cage Warriors world title fight has been confirmed for early 2025. Ahead of the promotion’s final event of what has been an action-packed year this weekend in San Diego, it has been announced that welterweight champion James Sheehan will defend his belt in his...
One more show, UFC Tampa, stands between the UFC and a one-month holiday break. While the start of college football’s bowl season takes place on Saturday afternoon and evening in Atlanta and Montgomery, AL for the Celebration Bowl and the Salute to Heroes Bowl, not everyone’s going to be watching...
Welsh mixed martial arts icon Jack Shore has made the decision to hang up his gloves. After nine bouts in the UFC, Shore announced today via his Instagram page that he will be retiring from competition. Suffering two back-to-back stoppage losses to Joanderson Brito and Youssef Zalal this year, “T...
UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) may just be ready to move up in weight sooner rather than later. After positively starching BMF title holder Max Holloway (26-8 MMA, 22-8 UFC) at UFC 308, it seemed as though Topuria’s next fight had all but been confirmed when he faced...
Final UFC Event Of 2024 UFC Tampa: Covington vs Buckley goes down this weekend, closing out a massive year for the promotion. As always, UFC Tampa is seen gavel-to-gavel inside the United States on ESPN+. Live coverage begins at 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT with the undercard fights before moving onto the ma...
UFC London Calling With the UFC’s 2024 calendar wrapping up after this Saturday’s event in Tampa Bay, Florida, the promotion’s matchmakers have been hard at work planning for the first quarter of the new year. Some major fights have already been announced for the first pay-per-view event of the y...
While the UFC‘s schedule for 2024 only has one more card left, this Saturday night’s UFC Tampa from Amalie Arena, the home venue of the NHL‘s Tampa Bay Lightning, Dana White and his staff are already hard at work putting together fights for next year. Jan Blachowicz (29-10-1 MMA, 12-7-1 UFC) wil...
In the wake of the epic collision between welterweight contenders Ian Machado Garry and Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310 last Saturday, another rising star in the UFC’s 170lb rankings has revealed that he was offered the opportunity to replace Rakhmonov’s original opponent, Belal Muhammad. Carlos Pra...
Over the weekend, UFC 310 took place from inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV on ESPN+ pay-per-view. Like many MMA fans the world over, Kamaru Usman (20-4 MMA, 15-3 UFC), once the UFC Welterweight Champion, was sitting on his couch and taking in the night’s action on his TV screen. In the co-m...
Who in the world at 125 lbs. can defeat Alexandre Pantoja? At UFC 310, Pantoja defended his UFC flyweight strap for an amazing third time, stopping the highly-touted Kai Asakura in the second round by rear-naked choke, becoming the only man to submit the Japanese phenom. Prior to their encounter ...
Ian Machado Garry’s stock rose significantly with UFC fans over the past week. The Irish welterweight’s willingness to step up to the plate and effectively save UFC 310 after Belal Muhammad fell out of the original main event (where he was due to defend his title against Shavkat Rakhmonov) looks ...
On Thursday, February 20, ONE Championship returns to Qatar at the Lusail Sports Arena for ONE 171. The lineup is sure to be stacked, and the first two matches were announced on Monday. World Championship bouts in kickboxing and MMA have been added to the lineup, with tickets going on sale. The f...
Kennedy Nzechukwu has had a good year inside the cage in 2024. The UFC‘s pay-per-view schedule for 2024 is complete with the close of action this past Saturday night inside T-Mobile Arena with UFC 310 on ESPN+ pay-per-view. It didn’t take long for the fans to get out of their seats and roar thei...