Stipe Miocic has a reason for why he might not be able to face Jon Jones in his return. The former two-time UFC heavyweight champion revealed on Instagram that his father passed away over the weekend. “This took a little bit to write this, I didn’t want to post about it, but I want everyone […]
Umar Nurmagomedov has his next fight. The younger cousin of Khabib Nurmagomedov will return for the first time in over six months – by then — to face Raoni Barcelos on January 14, 2023, MMA Junkie reported. Nurmagomedov’s manager Ali Abdelaziz publicly acknowledged the matchup. The UFC Fight Night event, which will be headlined by […]
Kayla Harrison and Larissa Pacheco will square off in the cage for the third time on Friday night at the Hulu Theater in Madison Square Garden. To some, they’ve billed Pacheco as Harrison’s biggest rivalry, but to Harrison, she thinks otherwise. “Can you call it a rivalry if you’ve never won a round?” Harrison said […]
Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Newly crowned AEW world champion MJF has always had the gift of gab and nobody — including UFC lightweight fighter Paddy Pimblett — is immune to it. On Tuesday, MJF took to social media to share a screenshot from an internet exchange between himself and Pimblett, where […]
Former UFC fighter Paige VanZant will make her Bare Knuckle FC appearance on February 27 in Albuquerque, BKFC president David Feldman confirmed her return in a recent interview with journalist Curran Bhatia. However, the promotion hasn’t yet decided who she will fight. It is expected to be finalized in the coming months. The former UFC […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC Jiri Prochazka has been tested by USADA more than any other UFC fighter in 2022. Per USADA records, the current UFC light heavyweight champion is the promotion’s doping agency’s favorite athlete by a significant margin. Prochazka has been tested a whopping 61 times this year. For comparison, the next closest […]
Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images Islam Makhachev has yet to meet his match on the ground. To win Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight gold, Makhachev overcame the promotion’s all-time greatest submission threat, Charles Oliveira. If anyone was getting submitted in the highly-anticipated matchup, fans expected it to be Makhachev who instead was the […]
Cain Velasquez wants to make a return to professional wrestling. And he and his attorney, Ed Sousa, made a motion during Monday’s arraignment to Judge Daniel T. Nishigaya for the court to permit him to compete at a Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide event on December 3 in Arizona. Earlier this month, Velasquez was granted bail […]
Dustin Poirier knows his goal. After the former interim champion’s brutal battle with former Bellator champion Michael Chandler at UFC 281, fans and experts say that a fight against top lightweight contender Beneil Dariush would make the most sense. But Poirier says otherwise. “No disrespect to Beneil,” Poirier said on The MMA Hour. “Great fighter […]
On Sunday, while speaking at an event in Toronto, former lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov there some shade at his former opponent, Conor McGregor. “I hear long time ago when one guy was talking about ‘We’re here to take over.’ But we here to take over,” Nurmagomedov said of McGregor’s famous phrase in light of both […]