Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Jose Aldo turned back the clock with a brilliant performance against Rob Font in the main event of UFC Vegas 44. Where do both fighters go from here? With UFC Vegas 44 in the books, MMA Fighting’s Shaun Al-Shatti, Alexander K. Lee, E. Casey Leydon, and Jose Youngs react to […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is back after taking Thanksgiving weekend off to stage UFC Fight Night 44 live from inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ESPN/ESPN+-streamed event will feature a thrilling Bantamweight bout between Rob Font and former Featherweight champion, Jose Aldo. What’s Hot: Jose Aldo is a […]
Just when some may have counted Sergio Pettis out, he came back. Pettis (22-5) stunned former Bellator and current Rizin champion Kyoji Horiguchi (29-4) in the fourth round via back fist knockout. The two headlined Bellator 272. “I came out here and got beaten up for four rounds. When it happened, I was just like, […]
Rob Font and Jose Aldo will meet in the octagon Saturday night looking to add onto their winning streak. Font (19-4) and Aldo (30-7) are headlining in a bantamweight main event of UFC Vegas 44. Font is currently on a four-fight winning streak and is No. 5 in bantamweight rankings. Meanwhile Aldo, a former featherweight […]
Bellator MMA Sergio Pettis may not be thought of as a KO artist, but there’s never a bad time to start. The younger Pettis brother stunned the MMA world on Friday night by starching RIZIN bantamweight champion with a fourth-round spinning back fist in the main event of Bellator 272. Pettis was getting dominated in […]
Khabib Nurmagomedov thinks there’s no one more deserving for a title shot than teammate Islam Makhachev. Nurmagomedov told Justin Gaethje that he should just “shut up” and admit that Makhachev deserves the chance. “In last eight fight, you got finished three times Justin,” he said. “You had an opportunity to become champion, but you fell […]
Bellator bantamweight champion Sergio Pettis will defend his title against legendary fighter Kyoji Horiguchi at Bellator 272. Pettis will headline the event with Horiguchi on December 3 in Connecticut. Pettis is aiming to become a cross-promotion champion like his brother, Anthony Pettis. “I think it would be a great opportunity for me to cross-promote,” Pettis […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC It didn’t take UFC welterweight star Khamzat Chimaev long to respond to Nate Diaz. Chimaev fired back at Diaz on Thursday after the Stockton, Calif., native brushed off a potential fight, saying Chimaev wasn’t on his level. The 27-year-old Chechen didn’t take kindly to that opinion, writing Diaz is a […]
The former NBA star Rex Chapman hosted the retired UFC and Strikeforce lightweight Isaac (Ike) Vallie-Flagg on his podcast, “Charges with Rex Chapman,” and talked through his past addiction problems especially Vallie-Flagg’s dependence on pain killers. In his peak days, Vallie-Flagg was a notable name often heard around the MMA community. He came into UFC […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Despite a colossal hype job from Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), nobody was really sure what to make of welterweight newcomer Khamzat Chimaev, who burst onto the scene in summer 2020 with three straight wins, all of them finishes. Then came a violent, one-sided shellacking of Top 15 veteran Li Jingliang […]