Dustin Poirier wants one last fight. That fight doesn’t include a trilogy with Conor McGregor, but instead would be a matchup with Nate Diaz, which has been discussed on multiple occasions over the years, but always somehow falls through. “I think there’s a good chance it’s going to happen,” Poirier said. “I think summer is […]
Bibiano Fernandes looks to extend his reign over ONE bantamweights when he meets John Lineker. | ONE Championship A bantamweight title bout between ONE Championship king Bibiano Fernandes and No. 1 contender John Lineker is now set for ONE: Lights Out on March 11, multiple people with knowledge of the booking told MMA Fighting. The […]
Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The big game kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET! The Los Angeles Rams will be battling the Cincinnati Bengals in tonight’s (Sun. Feb 13, 2022) Super Bowl 56 extravaganza, held inside the SoFI Stadium in Inglewood, California with a start time of 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC […]
Israel Adesanya has done it again. Adesanya defeated Robert Whittaker via unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 271. With the win, Adesanya retained his middleweight title belt. Adesanya and Whittaker both showed some massive improvement since their first clash, but it did not change the winner between this rivalry. In the first round, […]
Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC Israel Adesnaya improved to 2-0 against Robert Whittaker on Saturday night, although he certainly had to work a bit harder this time around en route to a unanimous decision victory in the main event of UFC 271. Following the UFC’s second PPV event of the year, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, […]
The rematch is here. Middleweight king Israel Adesanya will meet former champion Robert Whittaker tonight at UFC 271 in Houston’s Toyota Center. Adesanya was the one who took the crown from Whittaker. Adesanya has just one blemish on his MMA career, and taking down Whittaker in October of 2019 was just something that solidified his […]
Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker will clash again at UFC 271 on Saturday. | Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC MMA Fighting has UFC 271 results for the Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2 fight card, live blogs of the entire pay-per-view main card, and live UFC 271 Twitter updates. In the main event, UFC middleweight champion Israel […]
Robert Whittaker had to take time to reevaluate. Whittaker said he was forced to take the fight against Israel Adesanya when he was not ready for it. After that loss, he stepped away from the fight, rethinking his life, and getting hungry again. “I guess that was the hardest thing, I had to take a […]
Israel Adesanya is more determined than ever after he signed a multi-fight deal with the UFC on Wednesday. This deal is likely to make him one of the highest paid MMA stars in the industry. The Last Stylebender was quick to address the attention that has been on him after the news was made public. […]
It all goes down tomorrow night (Sat., Feb. 12, 2022) at UFC 271 live on ESPN+ PPV from inside Toyota Center in Houston, Tex., as reigning UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya defends his 185-pound strap in a long-awaited rematch with former titleholder Robert Whittaker. In co-main event action, Houston’s own Derrick Lewis will collide with […]