Loopy Godinez and Cynthia Calvillo | Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Fights come together fast these days, and if you blink, you can easily miss them. In Fight Roundup, we bring you the latest reported matchups to keep you up to date with what’s on the horizon. All bouts featured have been officially announced or […]
Quinton Jackson, the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, makes his boxing debut against former Heavyweight boxing champion Shannon Briggs in Qatar on June 1. The pair were first linked with a fight following a highly-publicized clash in 2022 when they were involved in a verbal war of words at the Triller presser for the Triad […]
According to some unsealed documents in the UFC’s anti-trust lawsuit, the UFC undertook a study on fighter pay in 2013. The former UFC Chairman Lorenzo Fertitta claimed in 2012 that fighters were paid “not far off what the other sports leagues pay as a percentage of revenue,” close to being “in that neighborhood” of 50 […]
Roberto Satoshi | Photo via RIZIN FF RIZIN Fighting Federation’s upcoming schedule has undergone a slight change. RIZIN 46 and 47 were previously announced for March 23 and May 6, respectively, to take place in Japanese cities Kobe and Tokyo. However, the company has not only changed the events’ names, but also their dates — […]
Former UFC Champion Tyron Woodley recently spoke out on the flawed structure of the organization’s fighter pay. Tyron Woodley, often mentioned while discussing the best UFC welterweights of all time, competed in the UFC between 2016 and 2021, with a championship reign that spanned three years. In a recent interview with current ONE flyweight champion […]
Former UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling is not holding his opinion back on what he thinks of the upcoming UFC 299 card. UFC 299 will go down on March 9th in Miami, Florida, and is set to feature Sean O’Malley defending his 135-pound title for the first time since dethroning Sterling back in August. Ready […]
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! Times have changed inside the Octagon. It wasn’t all that long ago that UFC and MMA were fighting to be seen as a legitimate sport. Athletes were presented […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The fighters competing at UFC 298 received a cautionary note from the promotion about drug testing for marijuana and weight cutting rules surrounding the upcoming event taking place in Anaheim, Calif. The UFC advised the fighters regarding drug testing related to marijuana as well as possible fines […]
Despite desire based speculation from the MMA community, Georges St-Pierre never considered making a comeback for UFC 300. With UFC 300 right around the corner, many had felt that fans were in for a big surprise comeback, similar to Brock Lesnar returning to action for UFC 200. But, during a recent Q&A session with BangTao […]
Josh Thomson, the former Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, has questioned Dana White’s comments about Conor McGregor’s UFC return. The Notorious has been absent from the UFC since his loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264, during which he suffered a broken leg. Since then, McGregor has reentered the USADA testing pool shortly before their departure from […]