Vince Murdock | Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images 2019 was going to be Vince Murdock’s year. After 16 pro bouts, which included a one-off appearance for Bellator and a two-fight stint over in India’s Super Fight League that may have done more harm than good (both Murdock’s SFL fights ended in […]
Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Another weekend of fisticuffs has come and gone, as the UFC 244 pay-per-view (PPV) fight card blew the roof off Madison Square Garden this past weekend (Sat., Nov. 2, 2019) in New York City. Plenty of fighters were left licking their wounds, including Gregor Gillespie, who was knocked out cold by […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images I know all the cool kids think Nate Diaz is the realist in the game, but I’m giving that nod to middleweight bruiser Darren Till, who made his successful 185-pound debut against Kelvin Gastelum at the UFC 244 pay-per-view (PPV) event last Sat. night in New York. […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President, Dana White, has made up his mind about the 205-pound division, despite the delay in matchmaking, and appears ready to book Jon Jones against Dominick Reyes for early 2020. “The Dominator” is coming off last month’s first-round destruction of former middleweight […]
Sarah Stier-USA TODAY Sports ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!? Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) staged one of its most exciting pay-per-view (PPV) events of the year last Sat. night (Nov. 2, 2019) in New York City, and even the fights that did not end in violent finishes — like this one — were action packed from start […]
https://twitter.com/Amanda_Leoa Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes, who also wears gold at 145 pounds, is putting her titles to good use in her latest mixed martial arts (MMA) photo shoot, which just so happens to feature “Lioness” in her birthday suit. I guess it’s only fair that combat sports fans get […]
(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Jorge Masvidal says the press are mean for wanting a Conor McGregor fight because he will mess “that little guy up.” He went on to say at the UFC 244 post-fight press conference that Dana White said that he was too much man for Conor McGregor. TRENDING > Nate Diaz says […]
(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Regardless of political leaning, UFC president Dana White says fans of mixed martial arts should appreciate that the President of the United States attended UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden in New York. US Presidents have attended sporting events in the past, but Donald Trump’s attendance at UFC 244 marked the […]
While Canelo Alvarez had to wait for Jorge Masvidal to fight on Saturday night, Masvidal is waiting for a chance to fight the new WBO light heavyweight champion. “I can box and I want to break Canelo’s face,” Masvidal said in the aftermath of his stoppage win over Nate Diaz at UFC 244, which was […]
In the middle of Darren Till’s decision win over Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 244, UFC President Dana White got a frantic phone call from MGM Grand executives. While the UFC’s co-main event was in the Octagon, the fans inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena witnessed an early end to Ryan Garcia’s co-main event fight against […]