Champions prevailed and a contender for Knockout of the Year was created on Friday, as ONE Championship presented Masters of Fate inside the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila. Joshua Pacio submitted Rene Catalan in the main event to retain his ONE Strawweight Championship. In his first title defense since reclaiming the belt back in […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images At the UFC Moscow weigh-ins, all 26 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Moscow stepped on the scale Friday morning local time. MMA Fighting will have video of the official weigh-ins when available. In the main event, Zabit Magomedsharipov and Calvin Kattar hit the mark for their […]
Petesy Carroll, MMA Fighting DUBLIN — Ahead of his debut on Irish soil as a professional, blue chip prospect Ian Garry discusses dealing wit expectation and working under the tutelage of Team KF head coaches Tom King and Chris Fields. “The Future” also outlined the importance of winning a Cage Warriors’ belt before graduating to […]
Thomas Lakes, MMA Fighting Greg Hardy is not interested in the opinions of others. Last month, Hardy won a unanimous decision over Ben Sosoli at UFC on ESPN 6. Like many things with Hardy though, the outcome was full of controversy as Hardy used his inhaler between rounds, after asking a ringside official if it […]
An arrest warrant has been issued by Auburn Police for a suspect believed to be involved in the disappearance of 19-year-old Aniah Blanchard, who is the stepdaughter of UFC heavyweight Walt Harris. Police released a photo along with information naming 30-year-old Montgomery, Ala. resident Ibraheem Yazeed as the key suspect in the case with an […]
Sage Northcutt (right) was on a three-fight winning streak when he left the UFC in 2018. | ONE Championship Sage Northcutt’s ONE Championship debut couldn’t have gone any worse. After leaving the UFC on a three-fight winning streak at welterweight and lightweight, the 23-year-old met Brazilian kickboxer veteran Cosmo Alexandre at 185 pounds and was […]
Thomas Lakes, MMA Fighting Dominick Reyes knows he finally has Jon Jones’ attention, and he’s ready to sign a contract to make their title fight official. On Wednesday night, Jones released a message on Twitter declaring that Reyes was the opponent he wanted to face in the next defense of his UFC light heavyweight championship. […]
Former champion Geje Eustaquio finished Toni Tauru in devastating fashion in Manila. | ONE Championship Former flyweight champion Geje Eustaquio returned to the win column in devastating fashion at Friday’s ONE Championship: Masters of Fate in Manila, Philippines. Looking to avenge a 2016 submission defeat to former title contender Toni Tauru, Eustaquio scored one of […]
These days, Rayden Overbay doesn’t have a problem striking up a conversation at his middle school. Classmates engage him. ”They’re not treating him any different,” Overbay’s father, Danny Ray Overbay, 37, told MMA Fighting. “They’re not being mean to him.” At the height of bullying that started when he was nine, Rayden Overbay, who is […]
Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images I guess Nate Diaz wasn’t paying attention when Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President, Dana White, told the mixed martial arts (MMA) community that he was not interested in booking a Jorge Masvidal rematch after the cageside doctor called a halt to the UFC 244 main event […]