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Talita Nogueira returns to competition at Bellator 231 on Friday. Nogueira will come back in her first fight since July 2018 to take on promotional debutant Jessy Miele. The October 25th card has fun fights all-around and emanates from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Nogueira compet...
Sean Woodson achieved a dream of his last week when he secured a UFC contract with a vicious flying knee knockout of Terrance McKinney at Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series. “It’s finally starting to set in that I’m a UFC fighter,” Woodson told MMASucka. “First, it was really surreal. It...
Expert analyst Danny Martin takes us through a technically driven career narrative of the living legend Max Holloway. Walk Like a Champion Adaptability is one of the most important traits for any elite fighter, but its broad range of meaning opens the door to a myriad of applications. Being able...
Frankie Edgar has been a perpetual leader of skill and toughness in mixed martial arts. He has had memorable wars and fights with all-time great legends. However, in recent years, Edgar has begun to slow down. His wins are no longer dominating technical marvels, but proof of his enduring workmans...
Sean Woodson only had one week to prepare himself for the biggest fight of his MMA career to date. However, he doesn’t seem to mind, given the opportunity. Woodson (5-0 MMA) will fight Terrance McKinney (7-1 MMA) in the main event of this week’s Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series. “I’m e...
Olga Rubin is getting ready to take on Julia Budd at Bellator 224 with featherweight gold up for grabs. The top of the marquee prize fight goes on the July 12th card at WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Olga Rubin finds herself firing on all cylinders heading into Bellator 224 and t...
The Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey plays host to PFL 16. Two featherweights who came up short in the opening round will square off on July 25. British Columbia’s own Jeremy Kennedy will take on Steven Siler. The PFL 16 fight card will air live on ESPN2, with the prelims availabl...
There are a lot of reasons to be excited about the current state of the UFC’s featherweight division. The champion, Max Holloway, continues to eclipse even the most renowned champions with a high level of activity and fight quality. Former champion Jose Aldo continues his retirement tour of destr...
The former UFC and WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo was hospitalized Wednesday due to a severe bacterial infection. The 32-year-old fighter seemed to have had a small cut on his knee where the infection started. Antibiotic treatment was unsuccessful within the first 24 hours according to a re...
As Julian Erosa (22-6 MMA, 1-2 UFC) put it, both he and Grant Dawson (12-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will prepare similarly for their featherweight clash at UFC on ESPN+ 4: they’ll both be practicing their striking, wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu. Both men will be running on the treadmill, preparing their cardio an...
Israeli fighter Natan Levy will look to improve to 3-0 when he fights Henry Barahona (1-3) at LFA 58 on January 25. Levy kicked off his professional career last year with two submission wins. He went 4-0 as an amateur with two more submissions and a T/KO. The Syndicate MMA product has LFA gold on...
Henry Corrales returns at Bellator 214 on January 26 in his backyard of Los Angeles with a chance to earn the biggest win of his career. He’ll put his four-fight winning streak on the line against blue-chip featherweight prospect Aaron Pico. Corrales is excited for the opportunity ahead of him; P...
Opportunities Bellator’s trip to Hawaii brings a host of new experiences to fans and competitors alike. For the people of Hawaii, they get to enjoy a major mixed martial arts event on home soil. Since the creation of this sport, no major organizations scheduled events on one of the islands. Bella...
Yair Rodriguez recently defeated the re-surging “Korean Zombie” (AKA Chan Sung Jung) in what is being described by many as the greatest knockout of all time. The Knockout That Changed it All In a fight that Yair was losing, he was able to land a knockout blow at 4:59 of the 5th round. The strike ...
Two of the world’s top-10 featherweights will clash for the Invicta FC vacant featherweight title on Friday at Invicta FC 32. Pam Sorenson (7-2 MMA, 2-1 IFC) will look to hand Felicia Spencer (5-0 MMA, 5-0 IFC) her first loss. And she believes she has the experience and tools to do it. “I think s...
Next week, two women’s featherweight fighters go one-on-one in a fight that can significantly change rankings in Bellator. At Bellator 209, Belgium’s “Battlecat” Cindy Dandois (12-3) will be taking on a young prospect in Israel’s “Big Bad” Olga Rubin (4-0). The fight is to take place at the Menor...