The broadcast booth welcomes back Joe Rogan who will be commentating alongside Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier at UFC 279. The trio will be sporting the headsets to call the event together for the fourth time since UFC 276, and three weeks since the explosive ending to UFC 278 where Leon Edwards snatched the welterweight […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The upcoming UFC Vegas 60 card has taken a hit after Giga Chikadze was forced out of his upcoming co-main event fight against Sodiq Yusuff on Sept. 17. Multiple people with knowledge of the shift confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Wednesday following an initial report […]
Khamzat ‘Borz’ Chimaev was in the UFC Performance Institute when he saw Brazilian middleweight and former title challenger Paulo Costa, who said that he wanted to fight with the Borz. Chimaev, who is days away from his bout against Nate Diaz at UFC 279, took it personally and became aggressive. Costa did not did not […]
Photo by Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Maybe Dana White should take his own advice. The UFC president nearly came to blows with welterweight bruiser Nate Diaz long before the Stockton slapper became a household name. Turns out both parties “were drinking” at the same club back in late 2014 when […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Nate Diaz and Dana White might have gotten a little heated back in the day. In an interview Tuesday with ESPN ahead of UFC 279, Diaz revealed an alleged near-altercation that unfolded between him and the UFC president dating back to 2014. Diaz laughed about the story and said he […]
Dana White’s Contender Series was an interesting one. Two brothers, Ismael Bonfim and Gabriel Bonfim both had fights on the docket. But it was the main event that the fans were really tuning in for. The light heavyweight scrap between Rodolfo Bellato and Vitor Petrino promised fireworks and that’s what we got. In the first […]
BKFC has scheduled Ben Rothwell’s debut. According to sources, the seasoned MMA heavyweight will face BKFC veteran Bobo O’Bannon at the BKFC 30 event slated for October 1 at Fant Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, Louisiana. Four months after asking for and receiving his release from the UFC, 40-year-old Rothwell has been booked in a bare-knuckle […]
Brendan Loughnane | Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Brendan Loughnane left no stone unturned in his preparation for Chris Wade, including getting hypnotized. Loughnane faced Wade in a grudge match bout at PFL Playoffs 2, to earn a spot in the 2022 PFL Finals. Despite being the underdog, the English fighter was able to control […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC Former interim champion Ciryl Gane got back into the win column last weekend in Paris by stopping fellow heavyweight hurter Tai Tuivasa. The victory was his first since coming up short against reigning division champion Francis Ngannou at UFC 270 earlier this year. Unfortunately for Gane, who is looking to […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC The ‘UFC 279 Countdown’ video features the two most anticipated fights this Saturday night in Las Vegas. In the main event, MMA Fighting’s No. 3 ranked welterweight in the world Khamzat Chimaev welterweight champion Kamaru Usman aims for his sixth straight UFC victory when he squares off against star veteran […]