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 […]
Photo by Chris Ryan/Corbis via Getty Images I know it’s easy to make jokes about Ken Shamrock, based on the second half of his fighting career, but the mixed martial arts (MMA) pioneer was one of the biggest stars of combat sports back when some of today’s top names were still shitting their diapers and […]
Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports The place is here, WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Okla., and the time is now. The weigh ins for Bellator 233: “Salter vs. van Steenis” tomorrow night (Fri., Nov. 8, 2019 via Paramount Network and DAZN) go down today (Thurs., Nov. 7, 2019) before John Salter (16-4) and Costello […]
Bellator MMA With the Bellator 233 early weigh-in results already in the books (get full results here), the promotion will ask all fighters competing on tomorrow’s card to return to the stage at 1:00 p.m. ET for the ceremonial festivities and corresponding staredowns. Don’t forget to sign up for DAZN RIGHT HERE so you don’t […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, had to choose between Dominick Reyes and Corey Anderson when it came to his next 205-pound title defense, as both fighters are ranked in the Top 5 and coming off big finishes. True, one came over a former middleweight […]
With Junior dos Santos out of commission, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has asked Greg Hardy to jump in on short notice to fight No. 7-ranked Alexander Volkov in the upcoming UFC Moscow co-main event this Sat. (Nov. 9, 2019) inside CSKA Arena in Moscow, Russia. Before these two mammoth heavyweights get busy inside the Octagon, […]