One fighter looks to lock his place among the upper echelon of the UFC’s light heavyweight contenders and potentially score a future title shot, while another looks to make a statement in his 205-pound debut at UFC Sao Paulo. In the headline bout of the event at the Ginasio de Ibirapuera, Jan Blacohwicz welcomes Brazil’s […]
After weeks of teasing an upcoming announcement for his next title defense, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and Dominick Reyes are reportedly in verbal agreement to meet in a title match early next year. BJPenn’s Chris Taylor was the first to report the pairing. Per sources, verbal agreements are in place for Jon Jones […]
Days away from Bellator London, Michael “Venom” Page and Chris Bungard have been given new opponents after a shakeup the event’s headline and co-headline bouts. Page was originally scheduled to meet Derek Anderson, but an injury to Anderson forced him off the card earlier this week. Anderson just competed last month at Bellator 229, defeating […]
The UFC’s middleweight division has undergone a shake-up as of late with fighters leaving and entering the division, as well as a new champion. And through all the craziness, Jared Cannonier seems to have emerged as a legitimate contender to the UFC middleweight championship. After not finding much success at light heavyweight, Cannonier moved down […]
Watch the official highlights from Bellator 234, including the heavyweight main event between Sergei Kharitonov and Linton Vassell. Source
With the hope of maybe scoring a future light heavyweight title shot, Jan Blachowicz came out victorious in the main event of UFC Sao Paulo, defeating Brazil’s own Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, who was making his 205-pound debut, by split decision. The fight was not the most action-packed, as it featured several unsuccessful takedown attempts by […]
Rich Franklin had an MMA career many could only dream of having, but there are still a couple of fighters he wished he could have squared off against. Franklin, the vice president of ONE Championship, has faced many of the sport’s biggest names, including Ken Shamrock, Anderson Silva, Dan Henderson, Wanderlei Silva, Vitor Belfort and […]
The UFC Sao Paulo post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to take care of after the action is over in the Octagon, and we have the live video at MMAFighting.com. UFC officials will announce the winners of the “Fight of the Night” and “Performance of the Night” bonuses, and winning fighters will […]
Sage Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports It was a long, interesting night in Sao Paulo. The top two fights on Saturday’s card went to the scorecards, and only one of them ended with a winner. Co-headliners Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Paul Craig fought to a split draw, while Jan Blachowicz narrowly outpointed Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza by split […]
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images While UFC Sao Paulo lacked any real back-and-forth wars, it had no shortage of stoppages. The Brazilian crowd was treated to a myriad of bonus-worthy performances inside Ginásio do Ibirapuera at UFC Sao Paulo. Headlining the string of performance bonuses was none other than Charles Oliveira (28-8, […]