Brian Ortega gets his second chance at the featherweight title when he faces champion Alexander Volkanovski in the UFC 266 main event on Saturday. The two coached opposite each other on The Ultimate Fighter and Volkanovski developed a lot of animosity toward Ortega. During the UFC 266 Media Day on Wednesday, Ortega responded to all […]
Despite multiple social media posts promising he was on track to make weight, former UFC champion Tito Ortiz has failed to make his contracted weight on Friday ahead of his bout with Anderson Silva. Ortiz stepped on the scales at 200 pounds a full five pounds over his 195 pound catchweight bout with Silva. His […]
(Click on the fight below and then scroll down to see in-fight live stats and full results, courtesy of Fight Analytics. Full UFC Vegas 35 live results from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on Saturday, August 28, on MMAWeekly.com.) UFC Vegas 35: […]
The Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley face-offs went off without a hitch… until a verbal altercation erupted between Jake Paul supporters and Tyron Woodley’s mother. Woodley had been rather calm through most of the lead-up to Thursday’s press conference and during the press conference itself, but when people went after his mom, Woodley exploded. Tyron […]
Gable Steveson has the combat sports world wrapped around his finger. The 2021 Olympic gold medalist and former NCAA Division I Heavyweight Champion went on a combat sports tour of sorts this past weekend. Steveson first made an appearance at Bellator 265 in South Dakota last Friday. ???????????? pic.twitter.com/4Nm9pVhWzy — BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) August 21, 2021 […]
Former two-division UFC champion Georges St-Pierre was offered a lucrative deal to box Oscar De La Hoya, but UFC president Dana White prevented it from happening. During an appearance on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, St-Pierre detailed exactly what went down from the time he was offered the fight from Triller Fight Club, his […]
Former UFC title challenger Cat Zingano is suing actress and director Halle Berry over allegedly being offered a movie role in the film ‘Bruised,’ but was ultimate not given the part. TMZ broke the news on Monday. According to the lawsuit obtained by TMZ, Zingano says she met with Berry in July 2019 to discuss […]
Cyril Gane defeated Derrick Lewis in the UFC 265 main event on Saturday to capture the interim UFC heavyweight title. Heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou was quick to react via social media. Ngannou won the heavyweight title on March 27 by knocking out former titleholder Stipe Miocic at UFC 260. The fight promotion wanted Ngannou to […]
(Click on the fight below and then scroll down to see in-fight live stats and full results, courtesy of Fight Analytics. Full UFC 265 live results from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT on Saturday, August 7, on MMAWeekly.com.) UFC 265: Lewis vs. […]
Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor reacted to former lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov‘s recent comments criticizing his character. The Nurmagomedov-McGregor feud dates back years, but the most recent chapter stems from McGregor’s controversial tweets about the death of Nurmagomedov’s father, Abdulmanap. After McGregor’s first round TKO loss to Dustin Poirier as a result of a doctor’s stoppage […]