Following two years away from the cage, featherweight Leslie Smith returned to fighting this past July with a unanimous decision win over Sinead Kavanaugh at Bellator 224. Now, she’s thinking about challenging for a Bellator belt. While there are some things she feels like she could work on following the win over Kavanaugh, overall Smith […]
The fighters slated for UFC on ESPN+ 21 stepped on the scale Friday at the official weigh-in for Saturday’s event in Moscow. All fighters made weight, giving all 13 bouts the green light. The UFC on ESPN+ 21 main event was originally slated to feature Junior dos Santos vs. Alexander Volkov in a heavyweight showdown. […]
ONE: Masters of Fate was headlined by an all-Filipino strawwweight title fight. Champion Joshua Pacio defended his title with a second-round submission of compatriot Rene Catalan, finishing the 40-year-old with an arm-triangle choke in the second round. In the opening round Pacio landed a spinning back kick to the midsection and immediately scored with a […]
For his first bout of 2019, welterweight Logan Storley was looking to remain undefeated against veteran Ion Pascu at Bellator 2015 in February. Though he wasn’t able to finish Pascu, Storley feels that he had a dominant performance over the course of all three rounds, which earned him a unanimous decision victory and kept his […]
Jon Jones has made his choice for who he will defend his UFC light heavyweight championship against next, and it’s not Corey Anderson. “Just finished a coaches meeting studying Dominick and Cory‘s careers,” Jones wrote on Twitter. “Established Dominick (Reyes)’s definitely the more dangerous fighter. Beating his ass next. Cory moves when I say move.” […]
Following the release of footage of the person of interest in the case of Walt Harris’ missing stepdaughter, Auburn Police have identified him. On Thursday Auburn PD named 30-year-old Ibraheem Yazeed of Montgomery, Alabama as the person wanted in connection with Aniah Blanchard’s missing person’s case, and have issued an arrest warrant against Yazeed on […]
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 […]