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 […]
Esther Lin, MMA Fighting At the UFC 244 weigh-ins, all 24 fighters taking part in Saturday night’s UFC 244 fights will step on the scale Friday, and we’ll have the live video here at MMA Fighting. In the main event, Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal face off in a main event contested over five rounds. […]
Thousands of martial artists from around the globe traveled to Florida for the 2019 ISKA U.S. Open held this weekend, including the Night of Champions event held on July 6. Jackson Rudolph scored his third consecutive men’s weapons championship to close out the night, beating out Cole and Reid Presley, as well as Shanin Jahanvash. […]
There’s a lot of anger towards WWE working with the Saudi Arabia government. In the process, there’s been some revisionist history about previously dirty financing in combat sports. View the original article