Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Khamzat Chimaev’s future is considerably murkier after UFC 279. Though Chimaev scored another dominant victory at the September pay-per-view, his egregious weight miss forced him out of a main event bout against Nate Diaz and caused a reshuffling of the top three fights on the card. Chimaev weighed in at […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Rafael dos Anjos is ready for the fun fights. Combate confirmed today (Tues., Sept. 27, 2022) that the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight champion is heading back to 170 pounds. At UFC Orlando on Dec. 3, 2022, dos Anjos (31-14) will collide with Bryan “Bam Bam” Barberena (18-8). dos […]
Orlando, Florida will once again host the UFC. The promotion said last week that its event on December 3 would take place at the Amway Center in Orlando, making it the first time since February 2018 that it will travel to the Florida city. Although the card’s headliner has not yet been confirmed, it is […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images With glaring holes in the main event slots for December’s UFC 282 and January’s UFC 283 events currently, what fights could fill those slots — especially with so much lack of clarity in the heavyweight division? On an all-new edition of Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting’s […]
We may have seen the last of Dillon Danis in the Bellator cage and never even known it at the time. According to Bellator president Scott Coker, Danis’ future is a mystery. “Dillon is a kid we had a lot of high hopes for,” Coker said at the Bellator 285 post-fight press conference. “He’s super-talented, […]
The King of Kings events return after a hiatus due to COVID-19. The Lithuanian based mixed events (Muay Thai, Kickboxing and MMA) promotion has announced several events for October and November 2022. KOK World Series 103 in Tallinn, Estonia, October 15th 2022 at the Tondiraba Ice Hall The event features a four-man Grand Prix under […]
Andre Fili | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Andre Fili picked up his first win in more than two years over the weekend, and “Touchy” puts it all down to a change in mentality towards fighting. Fili entered the UFC in 2013 but has struggled to put together the résumé many expected from the then […]
Khamzat Chimaev has sent the MMA community into a frenzy with his tweet where he hinted at a possible move to the middleweight division. 1 8 5 pic.twitter.com/urOK6BPayG — Khamzat Chimaev (@KChimaev) September 23, 2022 Chimaev has been longing to try his luck in the middleweight division and get a scrap against champion Israel Adesanya. […]
RIZIN FF A flower-gifting ceremony went sideways after a local politician dumped Floyd Mayweather’s bouquet on the canvas before his Super RIZIN main event. Today was a good day for Japanese combat sports as RIZIN Fighting Federation completed a double-header slate of events with Super RIZIN and RIZIN 38. Super RIZIN featured the return to […]
Jose Aldo | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC It’s a rare weekend off from a major UFC event but that doesn’t mean we’re lacking for major news, the biggest of which is the retirement of Jose Aldo. I know there’s already been a ton of Aldo content this week, but as one of my favorite […]