A new holiday has come to the city of Milwaukee. To honor UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis, the city has made August 12 “Anthony Pettis Day.” Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pettis has made his mark in the big city. Pettis is not only known as a UFC champion in his hometown, but he […]
Kamaru Usman was not happy after a surprise visit from the US Anti-doping Agency (USADA) on Thursday. As UFC has the ambition of keeping the sport clean, it has allowed USADA to randomly test fighters inside and outside the competition. It means that they can even go to the fighter’s home at inappropriate times. When […]
Luke Rockhold | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Luke Rockhold believes that a good performance over Paulo Costa will get him a middleweight title shot. This Saturday, Rockhold takes on Costa in the co-main event of UFC 278. It will be the former middleweight champion’s first fight in over three years, […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Marlon Vera picked a great time to earn the biggest win of his career, and he did so in ferocious fashion on Saturday night against former UFC champion Dominick Cruz. MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, José Youngs, and Alexander K. Lee react to Vera’s main event finish of Cruz at UFC […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Rory MacDonald wasn’t the only fighter to leave his gloves in the cage today. Nina Nunes, formerly known as Nina Ansaroff, announced her retirement after picking up the split-decision victory at UFC San Diego earlier this evening. Nunes largely picked apart Cynthia Calvillo in her women’s Flyweight debut and likely […]
Former two-time bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will face No. 5-ranked Marlon Vera on Saturday. Cruz got back into the winning column thanks to back-to-back wins over Casey Kenney and Pedro Munhoz. He lost his title to Cody Garbrandt UFC 207 and failed to regain the belt from henry Cejudo at UFC 249. Vera, meanwhile, has […]
Matheus Scheffel (right) defeated Bruno Cappelozza in his most recent PFL bout. | Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Matheus Scheffel calls the PFL “a promotion that makes dreams worth dreaming,” and that’s his mindset going into his heavyweight semifinal clash with Juan Adams on Saturday at PFL 8 in Cardiff, Wales. Scheffel won a decision […]
UFC President Dana White doesn’t want to make up with Oscar De La Hoya. White and De La Hoya have been on each other’s bad sides for the last few years, repeatedly going after one another on social media. But earlier this year, De La Hoya apologized and suggested they should work together on future […]
Jared Cannonier and Sean Strickland are both looking for wins. Cannonier (15-6) and Strickland (25-4) have reportedly verbally agreed to a five-round main event at a UFC Fight Night on October 15, according to MMA Junkie. Ariel Helwani was the first person who made it known that UFC is working on scheduling one of the […]
It looks like the age of Nurmagomedov is here to stay. It’s hasn’t even been two years since Khabib Nurmagomedov ended his glorious career and it looks like his cousin is already making gigantic strides. In November, Usman Nurmagomedov will be battling Patricky Freire for the Bellator Lightweight Championship. The recently crowned Bellator lightweight champion […]