Kleber Koike | RIZIN Former RIZIN champions Kleber Koike and Juan Archuleta battle Sunday (12 a.m. ET) in Tokyo in a three-round fight with title implications. Koike isn’t convinced the winner automatically earns a shot at Chihiro Suzuki’s RIZIN featherweight belt, but he predicts it’s a matter of time until he claims that title. “RIZIN […]
UFC Former UFC strawweight champion Rose Namajunas will look to win her second straight and break into the flyweight Top 5 when she collides with No. 4-ranked title contender Maycee Barber atop the promotion’s long-awaited return to “Mile High City” for UFC Denver on July 13, streaming live on both ESPN and ESPN+! Event: UFC […]
TikTok, Ethan Marion Alex Pereira, future three-division UFC champion? Already a former UFC middleweight champion and the current light heavyweight champ, Pereira has made no secret of his willingness to move up in weight again in an attempt to become the first fighter in UFC history to capture a third divisional title. And if footage […]
Curtis Blaydes is heading into his UFC 304 co-main event versus Tom Aspinall with the mentality that this fight is for the world title. Aspinall will be defending his interim heavyweight title against Blaydes on July 27th from the Co-Op Live Arena in Manchester, England. In the main event of the evening, Leon Edwards will […]
Arman Tsarukyan revealed he choked an alligator on a fishing trip. Tsarukyan recalled the incident that took place in Everglades. The UFC fighter recounted the alligator coming near his boat. As it did so, Tsarukyan choked the alligator. There is no video footage of this. However, UFC fighters have shown their impressive grappling skills previously. […]
Conor McGregor and Dana White | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Conor McGregor shares at least one trait with “The Greatest,” according to Dana White. The UFC CEO was a guest on the Flagrant podcast where he covered a number of topics, including questions about McGregor’s outside-the-cage behavior. McGregor was recently seen […]
The UFC’s $335 million antitrust lawsuit settlement has now been filed in court. TKO Group Holdings Inc., which includes the UFC and WWE following their merger, settled two class-action lawsuits filed by former UFC fighters. The lawsuits, filed in 2014 and 2021, suggested that the UFC monopolized how much fighters could earn by breaking anti-competitive […]
Conor McGregor has added to the speculation over whether his fight with Michael Chandler will go ahead after being pictured at a doctor’s office. McGregor vs. Chandler has been set for June 29 at UFC 303. The Notorious looks to bounce back from his UFC 264 defeat to Dustin Poirier in 2021, where he broke […]
Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards sees a fight with Islam Makhachev as a potential right matchup — just not right now. Following his fifth-round submission win over Dustin Poirier in the main event, Makhachev called for a shot at the welterweight championship, which will be contested between […]
Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Former two-division champion, Conor McGregor, was booked to make his Octagon return atop the UFC 303 pay-per-view (PPV) event on June 29 in Las Vegas, paired off with fellow Ultimate Fighter coach and former Bellator MMA titleholder, Michael Chandler. But the promotion hastily canceled their kickoff press conference […]