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It seems two fan-favorites are ready to get back inside the Octagon. Darren Till and Jorge Masvidal will square off in welterweight action at UFC Fight Night on March 16. According to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, it appears as though it is official. A fight between two elite welterweights has been confi...
UFC Fight Night 143 Walkout Songs New year, new network, same old UFC! The UFC returns for its first show of 2019 on ESPN with UFC Fight Night 143. Going down live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, the card is topped by bantamweight kingpin TJ Dillashaw dropping down to 125 lbs. to challe...
Gegard Mousasi is considered a veteran in the mixed martial arts game, but the Dutch Bellator champion is only 33 years of age. The well-rounded fighter has a ton of cage experience under his belt and is considered by some to be one of the greatest middleweights of all time. He holds wins over He...
Francis “The Predator” Ngannou (12-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) announced today on Instagram that he has opened the first-ever full MMA gym in his native home of Cameroon. Ngannou was born in Batié, Cameroon, a village in the western portion of the country. Ngannou experienced a youth plagued by poverty and h...
Just a few years ago, Cain Velasquez was considered to be well on his way to becoming one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, if not the single greatest heavyweight to ever compete in mixed martial arts. His career, however, has unfortunately been plagued by injuries, as he hasn’t competed ...
With Ronda Rousey finally making a long-awaited debut appearance for the WWE last year, 2019 will undoubtedly be a year that continues the trend of the lines between pro wrestling and UFC being blurred. It is not just in terms of personnel that this process could be accelerated; the mannerisms se...
It was announced last August prior to UFC 229 that Conor McGregor had officially signed a five-fight contract with the UFC. Following what ended in a one-sided defeat by the hands of current UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, the Irishman now has four fights remaining on that contract....
It appears New England combat sports veteran, Matt Bessette, is no longer with the UFC. The lightweight fighter took to social media to announce his release from the North American promotion. Matt Bessette Statement “Friday, the 4th, around 7 am, I received word that I was released from my contra...
2019 is upon us, and it could be a big year for the UFC. After a poor year in 2018, the company now starts their relationship with ESPN. Henry Cejudo defends his flyweight title against bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw on the very first ESPN+ card. That will be the first title fight in the UFC ...
Before reading Paige VanZant’s book, Rise: Surviving the Fight of My Life, I did not know how well I would relate to her story. After all, aside from our affinity for mixed martial arts, there wasn’t much that I knew we had in common. It wasn’t long before I realized that I didn’t need to […]
The women’s strawweight champion, Rose Namajunas, will return from injury when she defends her title at UFC 237 in May. First reported by ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, Rose Namajunas (8-3 MMA) will take on rising challenger Jessica Andrade (19-6 MMA) for the strawweight championship. The fight is schedul...
My wish list for the world of MMA in 2019 2018 proved to be a stellar year across the world of MMA – it was littered with some phenomenal fights card, knockouts, submissions and crucially the likes of Bellator and ONE Championship began to make some sizeable gains in competing with the UFC. Here...
Jon Jones is back. Love him or hate him, he is one of the greatest mixed martial artists to ever grace the UFC. It is exciting to see him put the pieces of his life back together as he gets back to the Octagon. Despite the controversy heading into his fight against Alexander Gustafsson, Jones put...
Te Edwards is slated to return to the Octagon following his UFC debut loss to Don Madge in October. He’ll look to pick up his first UFC win against a man who has nine of them: Dennis Bermudez. While Edwards is looking to rebound from a tough KO loss, Bermudez will try to end a […]
This past Saturday at UFC 232, Amanda Nunes made history by knocking out Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino, ending her historic thirteen-year streak of dominance. With the win, Nunes became only the third fighter to capture simultaneous titles in two different divisions. Conor McGregor and Daniel Cormie...
After a bizarre lead up to UFC 232, it is finally fight day. The event that was originally scheduled to take place in Las Vegas will be live from Los Angeles, California. In the main event, we will see a rematch of arguably one of the greatest title fights in UFC history. Former light heavyweight...