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Following a report from Democrat and Chronicle, the UFC has confirmed that a welterweight bout between former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos and former interim lightweight title challenger Kevin Lee has been set to headline an upcoming UFC Fight Night card. The event will be broadcasted li...
According to the UFC, top lightweights Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Al Iaquinta will headline UFC on ESPN+ 8. The card will take place on May 4, 2019, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone Cerrone, a former UFC lightweight title challenger, has spent the majority of the last few year...
LFA interim flyweight champion Casey Kenney (10-1-1) will look to add another interim title to his collection this week. He takes on Vincent Cachero (6-0) for the interim bantamweight strap at LFA 62 on Friday, March 22. Cachero reminds Kenney of where he was in his career six fights ago, who bel...
According to a report from ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, former UFC heavyweight title challenger Derrick Lewis is set to undergo surgery on his injured left knee next Tuesday. Following his most recent fight, which ended in a second-round stoppage defeat to Junior Dos Santos, it was revealed that Lewis h...
MMA Journalist James Lynch is live answering all of your MMA questions for the next hour. You can submit your questions on Twitter @LynchOnSports or join the YouTube chat on the link below. This is the MMA Sucka Live Q&A. MMA Sucka Live Q&A (Mar. 2019) with James Lynch Each month Lynch will sit d...
Last August, 26-year-old welterweight contender Darren Till (17-1-1) sat front and center at the UFC’s 25th Anniversary Press Conference. He sat to the left of UFC President Dana White and just a few inches from then 170-pound champion Tyron Woodley. The two were set to do battle for Woodley’s be...
Newly crowned UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman (15-1) underwent successful surgery on Tuesday to treat a double hernia. The news was first reported by MMAJunkie.com. A timeline for his return is not yet known, though it’s expected that it’ll be a few weeks before he can return to training. ...
Earlier today, the UFC officially confirmed that Valentina Shevchenko (16-3) would be making the first defense of her 125-pound title against surging contender Jessica Eye (14-6-1). The fight is scheduled to take place at UFC 238 on June 8 from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Valentina Sh...
According to a report from ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, a light heavyweight bout between former title challengers Alexander “The Mauler” Gustafsson and Anthony “Lionheart” Smith is set to headline a UFC Fight Night card on June 1 in Stockholm, Sweden from Ericcson Globe. Prior to this news, Gustafsson h...
The last time Jordan Dowdy stepped into a cage to fight was April 13, 2018. That will change on March 15 at Shamrock FC 316. Dowdy will take on Ben Brewer in a 180-lb. catchweight main event spot. Dowdy (6-4) will look to make it three in a row against one of his most experienced […]
It was recently announced that the Bryce Harper-sweepstakes had finally ended with the Major League Baseball free agent signing a record 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. That marked the largest contract in the history of baseball. Given that, it’s fun to imagine a wo...
Four months after Jarred Brooks (14-2 MMA) was one of the many victims of the UFC’s looming flyweight shutdown, “The Monkey God” has a fight. He’ll compete for the Total Warrior Combat vacant flyweight title against Josh Robinson (12-12) this Saturday. Brooks was released following a 2-2 stint in...
Perhaps the most impressive performance of UFC 235 this past weekend was the 25-minute beating Kamaru Usman put on Tyron Woodley in the co-main event to win the UFC welterweight crown. Usman put on an incredibly dominant showing which included a 10-8 round. That beating, however, didn’t deter Woo...
As promised we are back in black this week with another DraftKings dream team. Again I apologize for straight up skipping last week, but I simply couldn’t put a lineup I had any degree of confidence in together for that card. Not the case this week for UFC 235. This card is loaded top to […]
By all accounts, the UFC lightweight division has come a long way over the years. Once considered the black sheep of the UFC’s ever-evolving divisions, box office draws were hard to come by until a certain BJ Penn put the “smaller” fighters on the map. It is now arguably the most star-studded col...
Honolulu’s Russell Doane is scheduled to compete in his first non-UFC fight since November 2013 when he meets Diego Silva at Destiny MMA on Saturday, March 2. His goal? To win and keep winning until he’s back with the UFC. Doane (15-8 MMA, 3-5 UFC) was released after dropping five of six to the l...