Could we possibly be looking at a fourth fight between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier in the future? Earlier this week, the former double-champ took to twitter and replied to a fan’s question by expressing that he is interested in another fight with his longtime rival Poirier. McGregor has been out of the Octagon since […]
Xiko Loko and Iury Silva at an Acesso MMA event in Fortaleza, Brazil, on Nov. 11, 2023 | @barrelelapierna, Twitter Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA […]
Dana White has removed Peloton bikes from the UFC Performance Institute after the comedian Theo Von’s admission that the company wanted an episode of his podcast removed. Von alleged that since Peloton was sponsoring his podcast, they were unhappy with an interview he had conducted with presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr. The interview in question […]
Lucas Noonan/Bellator MMA Bellator 301 event is set to go down tomorrow (Fri., Nov. 17, 2023) inside Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois featuring a championship doubleheader. The main event will feature a Welterweight title fight between division champion, Yaroslav Amosov, defending his belt against Jason Jackson. In the co-main event, Bantamweight champion Sergio Pettis will […]
Conor McGregor has hinted at a comeback in time for UFC 300 in response to a question on social media. The MMA fighter recently enrolled into USADA, which requires all fighters to provide two negative samples over a six-month period before they can fight. The timeline would have placed McGregor’s return to around April, the […]
Glover Teixeira and Alex Pereira | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Alex Pereira called out Israel Adesanya for a trilogy bout after claiming the UFC light heavyweight championship this past weekend at Madison Square Garden, but “The Last Stylebender” didn’t sound too interested in fighting him one more time. Adesanya took on […]
Francis Ngannou has held the UFC responsible for failing to secure a fight between him and Jon Jones. The former UFC heavyweight champion is currently with the PFL after having left the UFC following the breakdown in contract talks. Thereafter, Dana White refused to work with Ngannou, given that an effort had been made to […]
Photo by Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images Conor McGregor’s longtime coach John Kavanagh remains perplexed about how the former two-division champ ended up a focal point of the UFC’s messy divorce with USADA. “I didn’t understand that at all,” Kavanagh said this week on The MMA Hour. “That was a very strange one. I […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Charles Oliveira is hoping to get his rematch with Islam Makhachev upon each’s return to action. A Lightweight title fight rematch was originally set to headline UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates last month (Oct. 21, 2023). The pair first went to battle at UFC 280 when Makhachev […]
The current UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards has expressed his desire to face either Sean Strickland or Dricus du Plessis next. The latter duo are expected to face each other at UFC 297 on January 20th, 2024, in what will be Strickland’s first defense of his middleweight belt. The former won the belt after beating […]