Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images As Larissa Pacheco was putting together a performance that ultimately led to her beating Kayla Harrison, the new PFL lightweight champion heard an unfamiliar voice shouting advice during a crucial moment in the fight. At one point during the five-round battle, Harrison’s manager Ali Abdelaziz got up from his seat, […]
Artem Lobov, Conor McGregor’s lifelong pal, is suing him for millions of dollars over Proper No. 12 Whiskey, and McGregor is not amused. Lobov has acknowledged his role in the growth of McGregor’s Proper No. 12 Irish Whiskey project. “The selling point of my book will be the Proper 12 whiskey story. A few people […]
Jiri Prochazka | Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC Jiri Prochazka accepts that he no longer holds the UFC light heavyweight title. For now. On Sunday, the former champion, who announced last week that he vacated his belt due to injury, put out a series of tweets commenting further on his situation and vowing that he […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC Pound for pound rankings are a funny thing, and Islam Makhachev’s coach Javier Mendez feels like his fighter was rushed to the top undeservedly after a single win. To be the best you have to beat the best, but according to American Kickboxing Academy coach Javier Mendez, sometimes a single […]
Kayla Harrison | Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images This was supposed to be a relatively quiet week in the world of MMA. Thanksgiving in the United States meant there was only one major event happening, the PFL Championships, and while that looked like a fine card, the outcomes mostly seemed guaranteed. Then Larissa Pacheco went […]
Larissa Pacheco did what no one else has done. Pacheco stunned two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison by defeating her via unanimous decision in the main event of the 2022 PFL World Championship at the Hulu Theater in Madison Square Garden. Pacheco was a +529 underdog on average on major online sports books, according to Best […]
Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Former two-division champion Conor McGregor defended his withdrawal from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s testing pool in a fiery response to Anthony Smith. “The audacity of this loser!” McGregor wrote Saturday on Twitter. “[Anthony Smith] you’re a loser. The [percent] of the bones joining back after a break like this is […]
Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Professional Fighters League (PFL) concludes its 2022 season TONIGHT (Fri., Nov. 25, 2022) with a massive night of fights at PFL 10, which will feature six title bouts to go along with six $1 million checks to the winners. Headlining the card will be a women’s Lightweight title fight between […]
With her current PFL contract coming to an end, Kayla Harrison is preparing for this off-season’s free agency. While she has undeniably become the PFL’s face, there was a moment when it seemed she might leave the promotion and sign with Bellator or the UFC. After the PFL matched competing offers, she re-signed with them. […]
On Black Friday, the Professional Fighters League hosts its end-of-the-year final event where they hand out $1 million across six weight divisions to end their 2022 season. The card takes place from the Hulu Theatre at Madison Square Garden and also plays host to the PFL debut of Muhammad Ali’s grandson, Biaggio Ali Walsh, and […]