Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Israel Adesanya lost a decision to Sean Strickland at UFC 293 last Sept. in Sydney. “The Last Stylebender” never recovered from his first-round knockdown and needed a finish in the final frame of their 25-minute contest to keep “Tarzan” from usurping the middleweight throne. That would have […]
Dana White has announced Dustin Poirier vs Benoit Saint-Denis and Charles Oliveira vs Arman Tsarukyan for UFC 299 and UFC 300, respectively. Poirier aims to follow up on the loss to Justin Gaethje at UFC 291, during which he was knocked out in the second round. That was Poirier’s second defeat in three fights as […]
Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images Despite the ugly scene it cause, Laura Sanko wasn’t offended when Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis brawled at the T-Mobile Arena during UFC 296. The trash talk that started it all? She could do without that. “I’m not some prude … I realize what game we’re in, right?”’ Sanko […]
Allan Nascimento and Charles Oliveira | Photo via Pedro Marques Back when the UFC was booming in Brazil in the early 2010s, with Anderson Silva reaching superstar status, Allan Nascimento was one of the hottest prospects in Brazilian MMA. But a lot has changed since. Nascimento stumbled along the way in regional shows before finally […]
This past September at ONE Fight Night 14, Danielle Kelly not only made another addition to her long list of grappling accolades, but she also made history with ONE Championship in the process. ONE Fight Night 14 went down at the Singapore Indoor Stadium and was broadcast live on Amazon Prime Video for the North […]
Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Paddy Pimblett has heard enough about his ongoing feud with Logan Paul and is willing to fight the social media superstar tomorrow in order to prove he can’t fight. The bad blood between Pimblett and Paul go all the way back to 2022 when Paul suggested he could make his […]
Following his first round destruction of Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 in November, Tom Aspinall has been quite vocal that he should be next to fight Jon Jones for the undisputed title, not Stipe Miocic. Originally scheduled to take place at UFC 295, Jones versus Miocic has been a constantly discussed matchup since Jones even […]
Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images Francis Ngannou is back at it again. The former UFC heavyweight champion is set to face two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua later this year in a blockbuster 10-round boxing match in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. An official date for the bout has yet to be announced, however a kickoff press conference […]
Chael Sonnen can only see Jorge Masvidal making a UFC return to face Justin Gaethje. ‘Gamebread’ recently announced he was coming out of retirement with speculation that he could return at UFC 300. Jake Paul then leaked Masvidal’s potential opponent, saying he was facing Nate Diaz before removing the social media post. Masvidal has not […]
ONE Championship featherweight king Tang Kai and current interim champ Thanh Le will meet in a rematch and title unification bout at ONE 166. The fight, scheduled to take place in Qatar on March 1 and air live in the U.S. on Amazon Prime Video, comes over a year after their first encounter ended with […]