Live from the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, UFC 283 will get started with six early preliminary matchups at 5:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. PT on UFC Fight Pass. Following, on ESPN+, The preliminary card will kick off at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. The prelims will consist of four fights, […]
For the first time since UFC 239 in 2019, the organization is bringing a pay-per-view event back to Brazil. This Saturday night in Rio, former champion Glover Teixeira will square off with the heavy-handed Jamahal Hill for the vacant light heavyweight title, at UFC 283. Teixeira (33-8) captured UFC gold with a second-round submission over […]
Glover Teixeira and Jamahal Hill will clash in the UFC 283 main event Saturday. | Photo by Buda Mendes/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images MMA Fighting has UFC 283 results for the Teixeira vs. Hill fight card, live blogs of all the main card fights, and more from Saturday’s UFC event at Jeunesse Arena in Rio […]
Power Slap didn’t get the viewership that it may have hoped for. Dana White’s Power Slap – a new slap fighting league – had a helpful lead-in from AEW Wrestling, which was the No. 3 show on the night with 969,000 viewers, but it reportedly failed to hold viewers’ attention. It ranked No. 45 of […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight division gets more intriguing with every new fight announcement. Earlier this week (Tues., Jan. 17, 2023), the promotion announced a big-time main event for the March 11, 2023, UFC Vegas 71. Former champion, Petr Yan, looks to rebound off a two-fight losing streak against […]
In the fourth episode of UFC 283 Embedded, Glover Teixeira, Gilbert Burns and Jamahal Hill get in some final training, Brandon Moreno, Teixeira and Hill fulfill their pre-fight media duties, and more. UFC 283 takes place Saturday at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro and airs live on ESPN+ pay-per-view.
Paddy Pimblett, a lightweight prospect for the UFC, won’t be fighting anytime soon. Since his fight at UFC 282 in December with Jared Gordon, “The Baddy” has been sidelined. Despite being the clear favorite to defeat “Flash,” Pimblett had several difficulties. Gordon appeared to be in charge for the most of the battle. However, that […]
On Wednesday night Dana White’s Power Slap show debuted on TBS and it received mixed reviews. One of those reviews came from rising UFC star Matt Frevola, who took his thoughts to Twitter on Thursday morning. “I don’t want to know how much money went into this Power Slap shit,” he tweeted. Why not put […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Featherweight finishers collide when Edson Barboza and Billy Quarantillo meet at a UFC Fight Night event on April 15. MMA Fighting confirmed the booking Wednesday following an announcement on Quarantillo’s OnlyFans page. Barboza (22-11) has struggled to regain his footing as a contender in recent years, losing seven of his […]
Eric Nicksick, Francis Ngannou’s head coach, has provided his take on the events that resulted in Ngannou parting ways with the UFC. On Saturday, news of Ngannou’s dismissal from the UFC shook the MMA world. It marked the resolution of a contract dispute with the UFC that had persisted since Ngannou defeated Stipe Miocic to […]