Gregory Rodrigues (right) is 2-0 in the UFC going into his UFC Vegas 49 fight with Armen Petrosyan. | Zuffa LLC The UFC middleweight division has Israel Adesanya sitting atop top the mountain and a number of Brazilian talents looking to enter the rankings in the near future. Gregory Rodrigues is one of them, but […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The legendary Mauricio “Shogun” Rua will return to action against light heavyweight veteran Ovince Saint Preux at the upcoming UFC 274 card on May 7 live on ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV) from a city and venue yet to be named. This is according to a report by AG […]
Royce White, a former NBA player and LFA fighter, announced that he will be running for the state’s 5th Congressional District seat against the current congresswoman Ilhan Omar. White, a Minnesota native, played his college basketball at the University of Minnesota, and Iowa State. He was drafted in the first round by the Houston Rockets […]
Shogun Rua has been out of action since November 2020, a loss to Paul Craig. Following the fight, Dana White revealed that the Brazilian had retired, but that seems to be no more. Shogun Rua announced in the months after his loss to Craig that he was looking at two more bouts, but nothing was […]
Bellator MMA fighter, Adam Piccolotti (13-4-0), was suspended after revealing a video of him cutting weight in a hazardous way before his latest fight in Bellator. On February 19, he shared the octagon with Georgi Karakhanyan and earned a unanimous decision victory. After the fight, he posted a video where he was throwing up, and […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC At the UFC Vegas 49 weigh-ins, all 22 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Las Vegas will step on the scale Friday. The UFC Vegas 49 official weigh-ins will be at 12 p.m. E.T., and MMA Fighting will carry a live stream courtesy of Ag. Fight. In the main event, […]
Jorge Masvidal has thrown an allegation towards Colby Covington ahead of their fight. The friends-turned-rivals are set to clash next month at UFC 272. The two were extremely close for years, even living as roommates on one occasion. However, years later, they couldn’t be further apart. They’re now set to fight in a PPV headliner […]
Robert Whittaker (23-6-0) suffered the loss for the second time against Israel Adesanya. He believed he was just a fight away from the trilogy, but now he’s targeting Marvin Vettori, who just earned the victory against former title challenger Paulo Costa. “I think [Adesanya] fights [Jared] Cannonier next, and then I think I fight someone […]
The No. 3 ranked lightweight, Beneil Dariush (21-4-1, 15-4-1 UFC), was supposed to share the octagon with Islam Makhachev this weekend. However, just two weeks before the fight, he suffered a broken fibula. Dariush was forced to be out from the title eliminator battle, and Bobby Green replaced him in that fight. Dariush visited four […]
Cristiano Marcello and Luan Santiago | Photo via Marcello Russia spent months moving troops near the Ukraine border before launching its first attacks on the country on Thursday — attacks that have left several Brazilian MMA fighters unable to return to their home country. Former BRAVE CF champion Luan Santiago, a welterweight fighting out of […]