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The dog days of summer are winding down, but the UFC is just heating up. This Saturday, one week away from UFC 305 in Perth, Australia, Dana White‘s promotion sets up shop in its Las Vegas homebase for UFC on ESPN 61 from the UFC Apex facility. Live coverage of this event begins at a […]
If you thought the MMA schedule for Saturday was finished after the afternoon slate wrapped, you’re wrong. Seven hours of competitive violence in the daytime is just the beginning of a marathon day. MMA’s top promotion returns to live action in the evening. A week removed from a return visit to D...
On the eve of Father’s Day, you and Dad can sit down tonight and watch some fights. The third of five straight weeks of MMA action from the UFC takes place in Enterprise, NV at the Apex facility for UFC Vegas 93. Live coverage begins tonight at 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT with the […]
While another wave of uncertainty looms over the status of the planned UFC 303 main event on June 29, MMA‘s top promotion rolls on with the last event before the summer solstice hits. Saturday, one week removed from a stop at Yum! Center in Louisville, KY on the campus of The University of Louisv...
It’s been a lengthy stretch for MMA‘s top promotion of late. After Saturday’s card, the UFC will take next weekend off for the Memorial Day holiday inside the United States before embarking on a five-week stretch encompassing every weekend in June with an event. Before the bye week, the promotion...
Due to the pandemic, the UFC has used the UFC APEX to host events in the United States after the Nevada State Athletic Commission reopened combat sporting events in the state. The events at the APEX facility were fought inside a smaller octagon than the regular-sized ones used at most UFC events....
Ketlen Vieira takes on Yana Kunitskaya in a scheduled bantamweight clash this weekend. At UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis, Brazil’s Vieira has a chance to further her quest to become a UFC titleholder. But first, she has to get through former Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Kunitskaya. Despit...
UFC Vegas 18 returns to the Apex facility in Las Vegas with an absolute cracker main event in the heavyweight division between no. 5 ranked Alistair Overeem facing off against no. 6 ranked Alexander Volkov. With Overeem and Volkov ranked fifth and sixth respectively, a victory here could propel e...
UFC APEX a ‘state-of-the-art’ facility Constructing the new UFC APEX may have turned out to be one of the best things UFC has done as a company. Opened back in June 2019, who would have thought the facility would become the UFC’s savior during the COVID era. Well no one did because nobody in 201...
It seems that COVID-19 affecting UFC events this year has become the norm as multiple positive tests has led to two fight cancellations and one opponent change at UFC Vegas 17. Aiemann Zahabi will not be fighting this weekend as the Canadian announced through his social media that he had contract...
UFC Fight Night 176 brings the heat with a hard-hitting heavyweight tilt. The accomplished, Alistair Overeem squares off against streaking Brazilian, Augusto Sakai. Both athletes have a lot in common, preferring to fight orthodox and like to keep it standing. However, Overeem likes to switch to s...
A bantamweight tussle has been added to the September 5 UFC event, as Cole Smith takes on Hunter Azure. The match was revealed by MMA DNA’s Marcel Dorff this Friday afternoon. Cole Smith vs. Hunter Azure will square off on September 5 Smith (7-1) was signed to the UFC in early 2019 and won his de...
The ‘Golden Boy’ Edmen Shahbayzan takes on Derek Brunson in a battle of top 10 UFC middleweights, this Saturday at UFC Fight Night 173, live from the UFC Apex Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before betting the fight, take a look at the individual betting trends for each fighter, shared here at MMASu...
It’s that time again, Making the Grade is back and breaking down this weekend’s UFC Apex card taking place in Las Vegas, NV. The card is pretty stacked and the main card will almost certainly deliver some outstanding action. Last time we brought you this article, we took a look at UFC 250. That n...
The impressive growth of UFC and MMA in general over the last decade has brought the sport immense popularity worldwide. During the most recent expansion, the organization has announced the opening of a Vegas-based production facility, dubbed UFC Apex. The newest facility features 130,000 feet of...
Ever wonder how your favorite mixed martial arts promotions turn a profit? Want to know how the UFC got a $4 billion dollar valuation and became part of the largest franchise sale in sports history? Don’t understand why the UFC is throwing out interim titles left and right like they’re on sale? T...