Watch the UFC 279: Pre-Fight Press Conference live at 7pm ET / 4pm PT featuring main card fighters Khamzat Chimaev, Nate Diaz, Li Jingliang, Tony Ferguson and UFC president Dana White. UFC 279 takes place on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and is headlined by a welterweight bout between undefeated Khamzat Chimaev and […]
Coming off the heels of an electric UFC Fight Night 209 at the Accor Arena in Paris, Dana White confirms that the UFC will return to France, but likely not at the City of Lights. Paris UFC fans were able to witness their hometown favorite and former interim heavyweight camp, Ciryl Gane, knockout Tai Tuivasa […]
The broadcast booth welcomes back Joe Rogan who will be commentating alongside Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier at UFC 279. The trio will be sporting the headsets to call the event together for the fourth time since UFC 276, and three weeks since the explosive ending to UFC 278 where Leon Edwards snatched the welterweight […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqI9ToPo4c Relive the potential fight of the year candidate between top-welterweight talents Gilbert Burns and Khamzat Chimaev. After a back and forth battle that went the distance, Chimaev claimed the win via unanimous decision continuing his undefeated win streak in the Octagon. Chimaev is set to face Nate Diaz in the main event next at […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The upcoming UFC Vegas 60 card has taken a hit after Giga Chikadze was forced out of his upcoming co-main event fight against Sodiq Yusuff on Sept. 17. Multiple people with knowledge of the shift confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Wednesday following an initial report […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l0_OVjLqWg Octagon legend Nate Diaz answered questions from the press at the official UFC 279 media day ahead of his main event matchup with Khamzat Chimaev on Saturday. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: https://ufc.ac/3u8FIJp Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/ To order […]
Khamzat ‘Borz’ Chimaev was in the UFC Performance Institute when he saw Brazilian middleweight and former title challenger Paulo Costa, who said that he wanted to fight with the Borz. Chimaev, who is days away from his bout against Nate Diaz at UFC 279, took it personally and became aggressive. Costa did not did not […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0DPe-HEyGk UFC President Dana White announces who earned a contract with the promotion thanks to their performance on Season 6, Episode 7 of Dana White's Contender Series. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: https://ufc.ac/3u8FIJp Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/ To order UFC […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Nate Diaz and Dana White might have gotten a little heated back in the day. In an interview Tuesday with ESPN ahead of UFC 279, Diaz revealed an alleged near-altercation that unfolded between him and the UFC president dating back to 2014. Diaz laughed about the story and said he […]
Dana White’s Contender Series was an interesting one. Two brothers, Ismael Bonfim and Gabriel Bonfim both had fights on the docket. But it was the main event that the fans were really tuning in for. The light heavyweight scrap between Rodolfo Bellato and Vitor Petrino promised fireworks and that’s what we got. In the first […]