The PFL vs Bellator: Champs card takes place at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a historic night of MMA on February 24, 2024. Four champions from each organization will face each other to decide the best following PFL’s recent acquisition of Bellator. In the main event, Renan Ferreira faces Ryan Bader in […]
Diego Lopes | Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Diego Lopes is getting another shot to crack into the featherweight top 15. On Wednesday, UFC announced that Lopes will fight Sodiq Yusuff on the prelims of UFC 300, which is set to go down on April 13 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. ANOTHA ONE […]
Following the fifth round of the UFC 297 main event bout between Dricus Du Plessis (21-2) and Sean Strickland (28-6), Joe Rogan seemed caught off guard when the South African’s hand was raised in the end. Du Plessis snatched the UFC middleweight title away from the brash American with a razor-thin split decision following an […]
Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Sean Strickland may have lost the fight and the UFC middleweight title this past weekend at UFC 297, but in Nate Diaz like fashion, he still came out of the event in the court of public opinion as a winner. If the UFC goes ahead and books a fight between […]
Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Fast Company Dwayne Johnson can definitely smell what the UFC and WWE are cooking. The former professional wrestler turned Hollywood actor has joined the board of directors at TKO Group Holdings after maintaining a strong relationship with both WWE and UFC over the years. Johnson has also been […]
The Jones family is truly one of a kind in the sports world. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, has been a magnet for controversy throughout his legendary mixed martial arts (MMA) career. In a way, “Bones” has been considered his own worst enemy, thanks to his outside-the-Octagon issues over the years. Unfortunately […]
It is unlikely that Israel Adesanya will be able to return to active competition in time to face newly crowned middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 300. Following a 5-round bloody war versus Sean Strickland this past Saturday at UFC 297, Du Plessis secured the split decision victory in the evening’s main event, and […]
Dricus du Plessis accomplished his goal of becoming UFC champion on Saturday night with a hard fought decision win over Sean Strickland in the main event of UFC 297. While du Plessis has his sights set on Israel Adesanya for his first title defense — possibly at UFC 300 — where does Strickland go after […]
Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports Raquel Pennington was fighting more than just Mayra Bueno Silva on Saturday. Pennington faced Bueno Silva in the co-main event of UFC 297, winning a hard-fought unanimous decision to claim the vacant women’s bantamweight title. The performance was not beyond reproach, though, as Pennington chose to engage in protracted clinch battles […]
Following an extremely technical stand up match with Sean Strickland, Dricus Du Plessis has been crowned as the new middleweight champion at UFC 297. While betting odds do not often dictate the way a fight will go, the result of the main event at UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis lived up to the nature […]