Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Khamzat Chimaev faces Robert Whittaker in a middleweight No. 1 contender’s bout to headline the inaugural UFC card in Saudi Arabia on June 22. UFC CEO Dana White announced the main event along with four more fights booked for UFC Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night. The event […]
UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion Tom Aspinall’s next fight could happen soon. That is according to Dana White. Aspinall has been chasing a title shot ever since the UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones pulled out of his UFC 295 title defense against Stipe Miocic due to injury. Aspinall was added to that card, facing Sergei Pavlovich […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images One-time UFC title challenger Taila Santos will have a new opponent for her PFL debut. The promotion revealed on Tuesday that with Denise Kielholtz out, Santos will now face another Bellator veteran in Ilara Joanne in her opening regular season matchup at PFL San Antonio on April […]
Igor Severino has not been paid his show money for his UFC debut against Andre Lima last Saturday night in Las Vegas. Severino’s purse has reportedly been withheld by the Nevada Athletic Commission after the Brazilian became the first fighter in UFC history to be disqualified for biting an opponent. A person with knowledge of […]
Following the release ‘Road House’ last week, Conor McGregor may have found a successful lane in acting to pursue. The film, a remake of the 1989 classic starring Patrick Swayze, is now available on Amazon Prime Video, and features Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role. McGregor plays the main antagonist to Gyllenhaal’s character Elwood Dalton, […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight! Welcome to Midnight Mania! Heavyweights are heading to “The Garden State.” According to a new report from Leo Guimaraes, Top 10-ranked Heavyweights Alexander Volkov and Jailton Almeida have been booked for UFC […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Middleweights Anthony Hernandez and Roman Dolidze have agreed to meet on June 1 at UFC 302, with the event expected to take place at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Monday. A […]
Igor Severino’s UFC debut will go down in infamy, as he bit his opponent Andre Lima in the second round and was disqualified. While the sequence was rather confusing in real time, the replay and Lima’s arm showed a clear picture of what happened. This was the first disqualification due to biting in UFC history. […]
Conor McGregor, Hollywood superstar? On the inaugural episode of This is CineMMA, the MMA Fighting movie review crew takes a long look at the recently released #RoadHouse remake (re-imagining? remix?), which also features Jake Gyllenhaal as a disgraced #UFC fighter looking to turn his life around when he gets a job as a bouncer in […]
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Mixed martial arts (MMA) tattoos are getting even weirder. Andre Lima scored his first UFC win tonight (Sat., Mar. 23, 2024) in one of the strangest ways in UFC history from inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas: a disqualification due to a bite from Igor Severino (watch highlights). UFC CEO […]