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Brave CF 21: Saudi Arabia is set to take place Friday, December 28, 2018, at 9:30 am CST live from King Abdullah Sports City Indoor Sports Hall in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The card contains 11 bouts and is set to be headlined by former UFC veteran Jeremy Kennedy as he takes his 12-1 record into […]
European-Based Muay Thai Grand Prix Coming to UFC Fight Pass in April 2019 UFC Fight Pass continues to expand its diverse LIVE and Video-On-Demand content offerings. A European Muay Thai organization called MTGP/KGP is the new addition to the library. First reported by muaythaiblog.co.uk, KGP ann...
The UFC’s year-end pay-per-view event is now just days away, as UFC 232 is set to take place Saturday (Dec. 29) from The Forum in Inglewood, California. Despite some recent controversy that led to the event being moved from Las Vegas to California just this week, the card remains one of the promo...
The UFC’s decision to relocate UFC 232 is certainly driven by money, but for different reasons than many think. The main event for UFC 232 at the T-Mobile Arena was thrown into jeopardy Sunday. An announcement stated a ‘very small amount‘ of the steroid commonly known as turinabol was found in h...
The Brave CF debut didn’t go according to plan for the Indian heavyweight Mandeep Singh. Mandeep was a last minute replacement for Mindaugas Gerve and faced Rob Beech on the Brave 20 prelims. The veteran MMA referee Mark Goddard who was the official referee-stopped the fight inside three rounds v...
On Christmas day, the New York Post ran a story about two individuals alleged to have committed at least eight brutal robberies. According to the original article (Posted to nypost.com at 6:14 PM (EST) on December 25), the man involved was a UFC fighter. Except, he isn’t. The Crime Prosecutors al...
Fight Pass News Blitz #1 Introduction: I have been a long-time subscriber, fan, and supporter of the UFC Fight Pass streaming service. Over the past couple of years, I’ve tracked UFC Fight Pass-related news and announcements via my twitter account (@volkstyles). Now, I’m starting a series to trac...
It would be incredibly difficult to have a discussion regarding the most dominant fighters in the history of mixed martial arts without mentioning the name Cris Cyborg. A native of Curitiba, Brazil, the feared 33-year-old currently holds the UFC women’s featherweight championship and previously h...
Bout order set for RIZIN NYE double-header The Saitama Super Arena will be home to two stacked MMA shows on NYE courtesy of RIZIN Fighting Federation. The doubleheader will consist of an early ‘RIZIN: Yarennoka!’ fight card featuring seven bouts before the stacked 14-fight card that is RIZIN 14. ...
There have been a battery of fighter responses to Jon Jones’ latest atypical drug test. Many fighters who have previously fallen victim to USADA punishments seem to think that there is a clear double-standard being enacted in their testing protocols. The common theme implies that fighters who hav...
Jon Jones is in the middle of another peculiar situation due to drug testing. Less than a week from UFC 232 and two days from Christmas, news broke that the venue of the event changed from Las Vegas to Inglewood, California. Many were deeply upset by yet another card altering transgression coming...
A ruckus surrounds the UFC and its year ending event UFC 232. Headliner Jon Jones tested positive for a trace metabolite ahead of the event. Due to the metabolite being consistent with the Jones’ 2017 failed drug test, per USADA. The organization concluded that the athlete did not violate the UFC...
Up until today, the plan has been for UFC 232 to take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, On Saturday, December 29th, 2018. Per Dana White and Jeff Novitzky, the fight card will now be held at The Forum in Inglewood, California. That’s right. On one week’s notice, one of the largest...
Poland is known for its top-level MMA talent fighting all over the world. The Polish women’s duo of Karolina Kowalkiewicz and Joanna Jedrzejczyk have earned the world’s respect, but there is a third woman who belongs apart of that trio. “The Polish Assassin” Karolina Wojcik is the only of the thr...
RIZIN CONFESSIONS #27: Horiguchi, Caldwell, Kawajiri, and Kitaoka Two weeks ago we saw RIZIN CONFESSIONS #26, an episode focused entirely on the RIZIN 14 atomweight title bout between Kanna Asakura and Ayaka Hamasaki. It gave us an inside look at both fighter’s training for the contest, including...
Daron Cruickshank enters his RIZIN 14 bout opposite Damien Brown on a four-fight winning streak, and he’ll be looking to tie his career record for consecutive wins with a victory over Brown. “The Detroit Superstar” is unbeaten in 2018 with all three wins coming via stoppage in RIZIN. He most rece...