Matt Brown | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC On episode 16 of The Fighter vs. The Writer, UFC welterweight Matt Brown returns to the show to help break down everything that unfolded at UFC 269 this past Saturday night including Charles Oliveira overcoming the odds and defeating Dustin Poirier to defend his lightweight title. Brown […]
Mehdi Dakaev scored a surreal knockout to retain his lightweight title in the main event of EFC 43. The fight fans were left in absolute awe when Dakaev landed a left hook while lunging at his opponent in the mid-air at the main event of Eagle Fighting Championship 43 on Friday in Moscow. Since then, […]
On any given day former UFC champ-champ, Conor McGregor, is calling out someone. On Monday morning he’s chosen to hype a fight with the newly defended UFC lightweight champion, Charles Oliveira. McGregor took to Instagram to call out the fighter, more politely than he has done in the past. First asking for a date, then […]
Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC It’s one of the most cliché sayings in MMA that what makes the sport so great is that anything can happen, that even the most invulnerable seeming Goliaths can be have their careers upended by the lowliest of Davids. Well, on Saturday night at UFC 269, MMA fans were treated […]
UFC – Twitter Justin Gaethje has said some pretty harsh things about Charles Oliveira leading into UFC 269 but he was all love after seeing ‘Do Bronx’ beat Dustin Poirier Charles Oliveira hasn’t gotten a whole lot of respect from his fellow 155ers since winning the UFC lightweight title at UFC 262 in May of […]
Charles Oliveira has no intentions of ending his lightweight reign yet. Oliveira submitted Dustin Poirier with a standing rear naked choke just over a minute into the third round in the main event of UFC 269 in Las Vegas. The fight started great for Poirier. He won in the first round when both fighters were […]
Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Dustin Poirier has been here before, but it’s a place he never intended to visit again. Following a loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov for the undisputed lightweight title in 2019, Poirier battled his way back to the top of the division only to fall to Charles Oliveira in eerily similar circumstances […]
Two of the top contenders are fighting for the title Saturday night. Lightweight king Charles Oliveira makes his first title defense against former interim lightweight champ Dustin Poirier in the headliner of UFC 269 in Las Vegas. One of the greatest female fighters of the UFC, Amanda Nunes, also makes her return to take on […]
Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images MMA Fighting has UFC 269 results for the Oliveira vs. Poirier event, live blogs for all the main card fights, and live UFC 269 Twitter updates. In the main event, UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira defends his title against MMA Fighting’s No. 1-ranked lightweight Dustin Poirier. The two veterans have […]
Dustin Poirier and Charles Oliveira will find out who deserves to be the jungle king after Khabib Nurmagomedov retired. Oliveira will make his first defense of his lightweight title against Poirier in the main event of UFC 269 on December 11 at T-Mobile Arena. “I’ve put in a lot of effort to get here,” Oliveira, […]