Joji Goto and Junya Hibino | @rizin_English, Twitter Joji Goto is putting his own, ahem, twist on MMA. For the second time in four months, Goto finished a fight in Round 2 via twister submission, this time making Junya Hibino tap to the rare submission at a RIZIN event Sunday in Nagoya, Japan. Watch the […]
Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Canelo Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KO) looked as sharp as ever last night (Sat., Sept. 30, 2023) live on Showtime PPV and Fite.TV from inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, defending his super middleweight titles in a historic meeting with fellow undisputed champion Jermell Charlo (35-2-1, 19 KO). Canelo looked […]
Canelo Alvarez faces Jermell Charlo in Saturday’s boxing main event in Las Vegas. | Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images MMA Fighting has Canelo Alvarez vs. Jermell Charlo live round-by-round updates for one of the most anticipated boxing fights of the year at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night. The main event is […]
Josh Thomson, former Strikeforce MMA champion and current co-host of the Weighing In podcast, has made claims that Nate Diaz turned down hush money from the UFC to keep his failed drug test under wraps. Thomson (23-9), who was a past opponent of the proud fighter from Stockton, CA, is claiming that a lump sum […]
Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Is Canelo Alvarez still the terror of the super middleweight division or is he primed for an upset? MMA Fighting’s José Youngs, Eric Jackman, Jed K. Meshew, and E. Casey Leydon join forces to preview the super middleweight title fight between the undisputed kingpin Canelo Alvarez and the surging Jermell […]
Alexander Volkanovski, UFC featherweight champion and pound-for-pound front-runner, recently got the chance to do some light training with another champion, the Jamal Murray of the Denver Nuggets. Volkanovski made his latest appearance with a successful title defense by stoppage victory over Yair Rodriguez at UFC 290, and has teased a return to the Octagon as […]
Live from the Singapore Indoor Stadium, ONE Championship returns to Amazon Prime Video tonight with ONE Fight Night 14: Stamp vs. Ham. The card will feature 10 bouts, and will conclude with three world title fights, including the highly anticipated 115-pound interim title match between fan favorite Stamp Fairtex (10-2) and Ham Seo Hee (26-8). […]
Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight! Welcome to Midnight Mania! Alexander Volkanovski’s innate competitive drive is a huge part of what makes him a champion. He’s highly motivated, determined to win every second of every exchange, which tends to add up […]
BKFC champion Britain Hart faces plenty of challenges in her bare-knuckle fighting career, but her next obstacle might be the toughest. On Friday, Hart returns to her hometown of Salem, Va., where she defends her strawweight title against Melanie Shah in the main event. Just over one month later, she already has scheduled her next […]
In the co-main event last weekend at UFC Vegas 79, Bryce Mitchell (16-1) out grappled Dan Ige (17-7) to secure the decision victory, but his antics before and after the fight became an additional aspect of the story of his performance. Prior to the start of the fight, Mitchell brought a bible into the Octagon […]