The UFC returns to Sao Paulo, Brazil, this week for its twenty-second UFC on ESPN+ event, featuring a light heavyweight showdown between Jan Blachowicz and Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza. The fight card is set following Friday’s official weigh-in, although three prelim fighters failed to make weight. Blachowicz was gunning for a title shot, but ran into […]
The Jorge Masvidal vs. the Diaz Brothers story has been all over the map since Masvidal took a doctor’s stoppage victory over Nate Diaz in the UFC 244 main event. Now, older brother Nick sounds like he might be willing to get back in the Octagon after nearly five years on the sidelines. Masvidal cut […]
(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Max Holloway and Alexander Volkanovski are both extremely confident headed into their UFC 245 featherweight title showdown. Volkanovski has been waiting a long time to get a crack at the Hawaiian and believes he knows how to the crack the code. Holloway, however, has ruled over the featherweight division for several […]
Zabit Magomedsharipov continued storming toward a featherweight title shot with his UFC on ESPN+ 21 headlining victory over Calvin Kattar on Saturday in Moscow, Russia. UFC on ESPN+ 21 was originally supposed to be headlined by a Junior dos Santos vs. Alexander Volkov heavyweight bout. Magomedsharipov and Kattar were shifted to main event status after […]
Earlier in the week, Nate Diaz made an ambiguous post on Instagram alluding to his retirement. Just a few days later, he’s shutting the door on any speculation. “F*** a rematch, this s**t was over before it started. I’m goin on out on tour. Peace out fight game,” Diaz said, leaving many of us wondering […]
Nate Diaz, just days after having fought Jorge Masvidal in the UFC 244 main event and demanding a rematch, appears to be stepping away from fighting. At least for the time being. “F*** a rematch this s**t was over before it started,” Diaz wrote on his Instagram account. “I’m goin on out on tour. Peace out […]
(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) See the highlights and recap from UFC 244: Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz after Masvidal defeated Diaz for the BMF title and belt at Madison Square Garden in New York City. TRENDING > Nate Diaz says ‘F-You’ to the UFC (UFC 244 post-fight video)
Jorge Masvidal laid claim to the BMF belt at UFC 244 on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York. He was taking the fight to Nate Diaz, but it was the ringside doctor that ended the bout with a controversial stoppage. The UFC rarely headlines a pay-per-view event without a championship fight. It takes […]
(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) At the UFC 244 post-fight press conference, Jorge Masvidal discussed the fight with Nate Diaz for the BMF belt after his victory at the UFC 244 in Madison Square Garden. Though Masvidal was winning all three rounds by most accounts when the fight was stopped, he continued to show his respect […]
What started as social media speculation has turned into an official pursuit of punishment of Kelvin Gastelum because of a weigh-in violation. Gastelum stepped to the scale with just minutes to spare for his UFC 244 co-main event bout with Darren Till. That created speculation that he was having trouble making weight. But when Gastelum […]