In the fourth edition of the UFC’s inside look at UFC 244 fight week: welterweight Stephen “Wonderboy Thompson” trains with his coach and father; middleweight Kelvin Gastelum trains at the facility belonging to Renzo Gracie, whose grandfather created BJJ. Fans rally behind both coasts at the open workouts, where headliners Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz […]
Will Nate Diaz’s last fight come this Saturday night against Jorge Masvidal at UFC 244? If you talk to the Stockton product, it may be. While Diaz will be fighting for the second time in three months after a nearly three year layoff, walking into Madison Square Garden to fight for the BMF belt, and […]
In the midst of a potential return, another of Conor McGregor’s legal issues have been resolved with a guilty plea. McGregor has pleaded guilty for an April assault where the former UFC champion punched an old man in the face for not drinking a glass of his Proper Twelve Whiskey. McGregor has been ordered to […]
Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal were once best friends, now Covington needs to be met with security when he and the fellow welterweight are both at American Top Team. Masvidal, who claims the friendship ended due to a change in Covington’s attitude and the former interim champion owing one of their mutual coaches money, wants […]
Kywan Gracie Behring made his professional MMA debut in July, winning via firs-round TKO in England. | Bellator MMA Another member of the Gracie clan has joined the Bellator roster. Son of the legendary Marcelo Behring and grandson of jiu-jitsu founder Carlos Gracie, Kywan Gracie Behring has signed an exclusive multi-year, multi-fight contract to compete […]
Darren Till | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Darren Till has passed the first hurdle in a new weight division. At Friday’s official weigh-ins for UFC 244 in New York City, Till successfully weighed in at middleweight (with one-pound allowance), tipping the scales 186 pounds. This will be Till’s first middleweight appearance for the promotion. Despite […]
Manny Bermudez had trouble with the scale in his last three fights in the UFC. | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Manny Bermudez’s run as a UFC fighter has come to an end. The 25-year-old fighter announced Friday on his social media that he has been released by the UFC following his first-round submission defeat to […]
Conor McGregor | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Conor McGregor has pleaded guilty to a single charge of assault stemming from an April incident at the Marble Arch pub in Drimnagh, Ireland. “The Notorious” received a €1000 ($1,116.68) fine for the charge. The former UFC double champion presented himself at a Dublin court on Friday morning […]
Polish celebrities ‘Mini Majk’ and ‘Lord Kruszwil’ compete at a Fame MMA show in Gdansk, Poland, on Oct. 26, 2019 | @Grabaka_Hitman, Twitter Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC heavyweight Walt Harris has decided to drop out of his upcoming fight against Alistair Overeem in the main event at UFC on ESPN 7 from Washington D.C. on Dec. 7. The decision comes just over a week after Harris’ stepdaughter Aniah Blanchard went missing near […]