UFC 244 was originally expected to be headlined by a welterweight title fight between reigning champion Kamaru Usman and top contender Colby Covington. Unfortunately, negotiations for this fight ultimately hit a snag, and the fight was never made official. Welterweight contender Ben Askren believes that’s because both Usman and Covington made the same mistake: the
5:37 PM ET Austin Hubbard earned his first UFC win over the weekend, but had a frightening health scare afterward. The lightweight fighter is currently in a Richmond, British Columbia, hospital with an affliction called compartment syndrome, according to his teammate and UFC heavyweight Curtis Blaydes, who is with him. After Hubbard’s win over Kyle
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Tyron Woodley has laid out challenges to numerous world champions, including Georges St-Pierre, Nick Diaz, and Conor McGregor. The latest star on his hit list is UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. Following Nurmagomedov’s recent dominant title defense at UFC 242 against Dustin Poirier, a fighter that Woodley knows well from his
Justin Gaethje made his resume not just one of the best in the lightweight division, but in all of the UFC after he finished Donald Cerrone in the main event of UFC Vancouver on Saturday night. The win gives Gaethje his third consecutive win by first round finish – the last two of which have
Robbie Lawler could be on his way to Las Vegas for a showdown with Santiago Ponzinibbio. MMAJunkie.com reports that Lawler vs. Ponzinibbio is being targeted for UFC 245. While nothing has been signed yet, the welterweight tilt is in the works. UFC 245 will take place inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on
We are about three months away from UFC 245, but the promotion is already starting to stack the deck for its final pay-per-view (PPV) event of the year, which is set to go down on Dec. 14, 2019, inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Indeed, the promotion has added a violence-inducing Welterweight bout between
UFC owner Endeavor looking to raise nearly $700 million when it goes public UFC majority owner Endeavor (formerly WME-IMG) is set to go public with the possibility of raising in the neighborhood of $700 million dollars from its initial public offering. Endeavor has been in the process of going public for quite some time, but
On Episode 5 of UFC 239 Embedded, welterweight Michael Chiesa’s support system arrives in town. Double champ Amanda Nunes and fiancée Nina Ansaroff get dressed up for the World MMA Awards, where Nunes wins more gold. On Thursday, Ultimate Media Day features intense faceoffs between opponents: Chiesa and Diego Sanchez, welterweights Ben Askren and Jorge
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Dillon Danis didn’t hold back on social media yesterday. The New Jersey native trashed Tyron Woodley and his budding singing career in a Twitter post. He added the caption, “You know you hit rock bottom when you go to a Tyron Woodley concert.” Danis shared footage of Woodley performing in (what appears to be) a
10:39 PM ET Glover Teixeira might never be UFC champion, but he has been one heck of a gatekeeper this year in the light heavyweight division, shutting the door on rising prospects. Teixeira did it again Saturday in the co-main event of UFC Vancouver. He beat Nikita Krylov by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) in
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Urijah Faber has won plenty in his fighting career, once reigning as arguably the world’s best featherweight long before the UFC implemented that division and then competing for titles inside the Octagon multiple times. An actual UFC championship win has eluded Faber, and while he comes from a successful amateur wrestling
“He didn’t want to win like that and I think the world wanted to see another round, but it is what it is,” he said of the anticlimactic ending of what was an electric encounter. “There’s nothing I can say afterwards, so I just enjoyed it like, ‘Whoops.’” That “take it all in stride” attitude
Image Credit: Jon P. Kopaloff / Getty Images Sport / Getty Georges St-Pierre is all for seeing Tony Ferguson get the next UFC lightweight title shot. Riding a 12-fight winning streak and having not lost a bout since May 2012, fight fans and media members alike have pegged Ferguson as the most deserving lightweight title
When Cain Velasquez announced he’d be joining Mexico’s AAA pro wrestling promotion as a luchador, many expected him to just show up for a couple of quick appearances with just a little light wrestling mixed in. After all, the Cain we’ve known for the past couple of years seemed like he was held together with
Though she was able to pick up a unanimous decision victory in her Combate Americas debut on August 23 versus Felisha Magallan, strawweight Lupita Godinez feels she could have done better. Never one to be satisfied with her performance, Godinez is quick to point out what when wrong in a fight rather than what went
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