Anthony Johnson | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Though it’s not set in stone yet, all signs are pointing to Anthony Johnson returning to the UFC next year. Earlier this year, the man known as “Rumble” announced that he would be coming out of retirement and returning to active competition. Johnson walked away from the sport […]
Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Israel Adesanya barely had a chance to celebrate his win over Robert Whittaker to become undisputed UFC middleweight champion before he started surveying the list of potential opponents for his next title defense. With seven fights already on his UFC resume in under two years’ time, Adesanya has been one of […]
Esther Lin, MMA Fighting The UFC is returning to Auckland, New Zealand, for the first time almost three years. Officials announced Sunday that the Octagon will make it’s third trip to Spark Arena on Feb. 23. The “City of Sails” has hosted two previous UFC events. The last time the UFC held an event in […]
Jan Blachowicz lands a kick on ‘Jacare’ Souza in the main event of UFC Sao Paulo. | Jason Da Silva-USA TODAY Sports It might take a while for Jan Blachowicz to get back inside the Octagon. The Polish fighter defeated Ronaldo Souza via decision in the main event of UFC Sao Paulo on Saturday night, […]
Douglas Lima (left) is a three-time Bellator welterweight champion. | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Douglas Lima is one of the best welterweights in the world right now, but he feels many won’t give him proper credit since he doesn’t fight under the UFC banner. Lima won’t call himself the No. 1 welterweight after re-claiming the […]
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was back at it again last night (Sat., Nov. 16, 2019) as UFC Fight Night 164 went down from inside inside Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the main event of the evening, Jan Blachowicz narrowly edged out Ronaldo Souza via split-decision, […]
Jason Da Silva-USA TODAY Sports Here’s what you may have missed from last night! UFC Sao Paulo is not an event that will be remembered for much. There were a couple decent, back-and-forth scraps, and really, there were four finishes that deserve to be talked about. Each of those fighters were awarded an additional 50,000 […]
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) made its presence known to Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last night (Sat., Nov. 16, 2019) for UFC Fight Night 164. Look, I expect everyone reading to know the drill by now: UFC put together another regional “Fight Night” card with one […]
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza made his light heavyweight debut on Saturday night in Sao Paulo against Jan Blachowicz, and it was a pretty disappointing affair across the board. A whole lot of nothing played out in the cage over twenty five minutes, ending with Blachowicz getting his hand raised by split […]
Instagram – Sajad Gharibi Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship continues to thrive as the promotion combines their reputation as the new bloody spectacle with creative matchmaking. Artem Lobov vs. Paulie Malignaggi was a pretty audacious booking, and I’m still impressed the fight actually went down (and shocked Lobov won). While morally questionable, the Gabriel Gonzaga vs. […]