Ciryl Gane | Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images The UFC’s summer run continues as does its international tour, as the world’s top MMA promotion follows up UFC Singapore with a trip to the City of Light. UFC Paris is headlined by a heavyweight tilt between former interim champion Ciryl Gane and rising […]
The PFL has reportedly received over $100 million in investment after selling a stake in the company to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). According to reports, the PFL sold a minority stake to SRJ Sports Investments. The latter only came into being three weeks ago after being created by the PIF. The details of […]
Photo by Paul Rutherford/Getty Images Before potential pay-per-view bonuses and other incentives, UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili took home the biggest disclosed payday at UFC 292. Weili earned a disclosed $520,000 for her dominant win over Amanda Lemos in the co-headliner of the Aug. 19 pay-per-view, topping headliners Sean O’Malley and Aljamain Sterling, who each […]
Photo by Brandon Magnus/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC President Dana White insists former women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will stay retired, despite this invitation to return for the UFC 300 pay-per-view (PPV) event in early 2024. That hasn’t stopped the MMA rumor mill from cranking out a new batch of comeback reports. “She […]
The MMA community has been discussing Conor McGregor’s potential comback after he gave away a hint over a potential return date in December against Michael Chandler. McGregor is coming back from a massive injury. He broke his tibia in the trilogy fight against Dustin Poirier, and since that fight, he has not entered the octagon. […]
Israel Adesanya and Dricus Du Plessis were supposed to share the octagon. However, the latter lost out to Sean Strickland instead. Du Plessis earned his title shot after earning a TKO victory against former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker at UFC 293. Thereafter, Adesanya went to the cage for an immediate face-to-face with him. But even […]
Joanna Jedrzejczyk | Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images DAMN! They Were Good celebrates the careers of the most exciting and influential fighters in MMA history and on this episode it celebrates the seminal career of Joanna Jedrzejczyk, the woman who built the UFC’s strawweight division. After flirting with a comeback earlier […]
Ronda Rousey is still one of the best female fighters in the history of the UFC. She was one of the biggest stars and a fan favorite. However, after suffering defeats to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes, she decided to retire from MMA, left the UFC, and started a wrestling career with the WWE. Just […]
Former Bellator fighter Keifer Crosbie will make his debut in the UFC. The star made it official on his social media, along with the intention to fight on short notice. And as part of that process, he will be fighting at UFC 293 on the main card of Israel Adesanya and the challenger Sean Strickland. […]
Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Erin Blanchfield is one step closer to a UFC title shot — or, if you ask her, there are no more steps she needs to take. The 24-year-old flyweight improved to 6-0 in the UFC on Saturday with a unanimous decision win over one-time title challenger Taila […]