Jan Blachowicz came out victorious Saturday night, but it didn’t come without injury. Former light heavyweight champion, Jan Blachowicz, and one of the most promising contenders, Aleksandar Rakic, headlined UFC Vegas 54. Blachowicz won the contest by TKO while Rakic suffered an injury to his right knee in the third round. Blachowicz tested Rakic’s chin […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Jan Blachowicz usually saves confrontations for the cage rather than social media but he felt compelled to fire back at UFC middleweight Sean Strickland over comments he made about the Russian invasion into the Ukraine. On the same day the invasion started in February, Strickland took to Twitter to say […]
Jan Blachowicz’s championship run was short-lived. But he’ll have a chance to get back into the winning column when he meets Aleksandar Rakic in the main event of this Saturday’s UFC Fight Night. Blachowicz is coming off a submission loss to Glover Teixeira, who snatched the light heavyweight title from him in October. Rakic, meanwhile, […]
Dustin Poirier has accepted the challenge laid out by former teammate Colby Covington at UFC 272. Covington had called out Poirier following his unanimous decision victory over Jorge Masvidal at March’s pay-per-view event in Las Vegas. View the original article from BJ Penn
Eryk Anders is participating in Netflix’s hit show “Cobra Kai.” In the trailer, he shows up at an MMA event and fights with the main character, Johnny Lawrence. Lawrence lands a tornado kick, and Anders goes down. “But is that the end of the fight?” Anders said in the trailer. UFC fighter @erykanders got headkicked […]
Michael Page is looking to get a step closer to the Bellator welterweight title. The only man that stands in way of his shot is Logan Storley. The two will meet in the cage tonight at the SSE Arena in London. Meanwhile, the co-main event will feature legendary Lyoto Machida against Fabian Edwards. This could […]
Dimps Gillies and Josh Kuhne fight at Eternal MMA 65 in Gold Coast, Australia, on May 7, 2022 | @UFCFightPass, Twitter Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an […]
Luke Rockhold believes it was a smart move by Khamzat Chimaev to turn him down. While Rockhold was hinting at a return to the Octagon earlier this year, he claims he was offered Chimaev and accepted the fight. Yet, the Swede turned it down as he wanted to stay at welterweight and ended up facing […]
Among the highest paid athletes in the world, there’s three boxers and one mixed martial artist of them. In a study released by Sportico on Wednesday, the sports business media publication ranked undisputed middleweight titleholder Canelo Alvarez as the fifth-richest athlete in the world with $89 million to his name. WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury […]
Photo by Jun Sato/WireImage MMA Fighting has Bellator 281 weigh-in video for Friday’s event at OVO Arena Wembley in London. In the main event, welterweight stars Michael Page and Logan Storley face off in an interim title bout. Both can weigh no more than 170 pounds for their welterweight title clash. The Bellator 281 ceremonial […]