Mackenzie Dern (left) is coming off a win over Nina Nunes, her fourth straight in the UFC. | Zuffa LLC Jiu-jitsu ace Mackenzie Dern has yet to win a MMA fight by knockout and doesn’t plans on focusing on her striking against muay thai specialist Marina Rodriguez in the main event of UFC Vegas 39 […]
Two women strawweight contenders are fighting for a step closer to UFC gold. Mackenzie Dern (11-1) will meet Marina Rodriguez (14-1-2) in a headliner event at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night. Dern is currently No. 6 in the strawweight ranks and is coming off a four-fight winning streak. Meanwhile, Rodriguez is ranked No. 4 and recently […]
Having come off a loss in his first fight of 2021 to Mateo Vogel at CFFC 95 this past April, bantamweight Garrett Armfield’s focus was just to pick up the win and avoid losing his second straight fight for the first time in his career when he took on Alex Macias at Shamrock FC 329 […]
UFC welterweight king Kamaru Usman took his chance to make his parents happy. Usman gifted them a big new house during the “Steve on Watch” show on Facebook Watch. During the show, they talked about the problems they had before, the hard times they went through and Usman mentioned how important his parents were for […]
Aspen Ladd will headline the UFC Vegas 40 main event against Norma Dumont after Holly Holm was dropped from the card due to injury. The news of Holly Holm not competing at the October 16 main event came out late Wednesday night. It was reported that the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion has suffered a […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXaYIpn2PU Jim and Matt look ahead to the action at UFC Fight Night: Dern vs Rodriguez. First, they're joined by Sabina Mazo ahead of her fight against Mariya Agapova this Saturday. After she clarifies that she did not, in fact, ever walk on stilts, she discusses how her goals shifted from medical school to MMA, […]
The athletes competing on Saturday’s UFC Vegas 39 fight card at UFC Apex in Las Vegas officially weighed in on Friday morning. No. 4 ranked women’s strawweight Mackenzie Dern headlines a UFC event for the first time taking on No. 6 ranked Marina Rodriguez. One fighter missed weight. Jared Gooden came in three pounds heavy […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4zUG6FDG8 Art can be defined by the expression or application of human creativity, skill, and imagination. Mixed martial arts meets this definition head-on. Our favorite MMA fighters display much more than sheer athletic performance every time they step into the UFC's Octagon. We have the opportunity to witness skill, creativity, discipline, dedication, and technique, which […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC For more than a year now, Vicente Luque has been asking for a fight against Nate Diaz but now he truly believes it’s closer than ever to actually happening. Known as one of the most excited fighters on the entire UFC roster, while also maintaining a demeanor where he rarely […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMn8q4brXVU Jan Blachowicz’s ascension to the top of the UFC light heavyweight division was the feel-good story of 2020. In the main event of UFC 267 on October 30, the man with the “legendary Polish Power” puts his title on the line for the second time against veteran Brazilian contender Glover Teixeira, who promises that […]