Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Jailton Almeida made it look easy in his first fight in the UFC’s heavyweight division on Saturday in Las Vegas. Almeida took on a game Parker Porter during the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 55 at the APEX. “Malhadinho” closed as the biggest favorite on the card and certainly covered […]
Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm is returning to the octagon. She returns from a 19-month absence to face Ketlen Vieira in the main event. Holm reigned as champion for four months after a stunning knockout over Ronda Rousey. Vieira, meanwhile, has won two of her last three fights, including a recent upset over […]
An MMA fighter was sentenced to jail for statements he wrote on social media after being deported from Russia to Tajikistan in December. Chorshanbe Chorshanbiev (6-3-1), a 27-year-old MMA fighter from Tajikistan, has been sentenced to eight years in jail. Chorshanbiev was condemned for inciting “ethnic, racial, or religious hatred” and making “public pleas for […]
Junior dos Santos and Yorgan De Castro face off ahead of their Eagle FC 47 main event on Friday. | Eagle FC, Twitter MMA Fighting has Eagle FC 47 results for the Dos Santos vs. De Castro fight card from the FLXcast Arena in Miami on Friday night. In the main event, former UFC heavyweight […]
Marvin Vettori and Robert Whittaker will still be meeting each other in the octagon. Vettori and Whittaker finally rescheduled their battle. They were supposed to fight at UFC 275 in Singapore, but Whittaker was forced out due to some injuries. Vettori was looking for a rival, but the UFC could not find anyone for him. […]
Tyson Fury may have said farewell to professional boxing after his demolition of WBC mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte last month but the ‘Gypsy King’ hasn’t turned down the idea of him fighting the UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in a crossover format. The talks of Fury fighting Ngannou have been going on for a while […]
Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just over 24 hours away from its upcoming UFC Vegas 55 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, headlined by a 135-pound showdown featuring former champion and No. 2-ranked bantamweight contender Holly Holm making her 135-pound return opposite No. 5-ranked division up-and-comer Ketlen […]
Eagle FC 47 is finalized. Junior Dos Santos will headline the event with Yorgan De Castro on Friday in Florida. Dos Santos, former UFC heavyweight champion, will make his promotional debut at that event. His rival will be another UFC veteran, De Castro, who left the UFC with a 1-3 record inside the cage. De […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Davey Grant will celebrate his 10-year anniversary as a UFC fighter next year. It’s a significant milestone for the 36-year-old old bantamweight, even if Grant wishes he had more to show for it than a 5-5 record over just 10 octagon appearances, because it’s a milestone that at one point […]
Dustin Poirier has admitted that coach Mike Brown warned him against taking a fight with rival Colby Covington. Just a few days ago, Dustin Poirier seemingly accepted Colby Covington’s challenge to face him later this summer in a UFC welterweight showdown. It came a couple of months after Covington called Poirier out in the wake […]