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TUF 24 Finale Results: Devin Clark defeats Josh Stansbury
A light heavyweight bout between Devin Clark and Josh Stansbury kicked off tonight’s TUF 24 Finale event in Las Vegas, Nevada. Round one begins and Clark lands a body kick to start. Stansbury presses forward and misses with a hook. Clark ducks under the punch and presses Josh against the fence. Knees inside from Clark. […]
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TUF 24 Finale Live Results Thread
Unable to catch tonight’s TUF 24 Finale event in Las Vegas? BJPENN.com has you covered. Stay glued to this page for up to the minute live results from this evenings event. The TUF 24 Finale event is headlined by a flyweight title fight featuring champion Demetrious Johnson (24-2-1 MMA) defending his title against TUF 24 […]
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Tito Ortiz offers to help Carla Esparza keep her TUF motorcycle
Earlier this week, unfortunate news surfaced that former UFC women’s strawweight champion Carla Esparza was looking to sell the Harley Davidson motorcycle she won on The Ultimate Fighter season 20, which also saw her crowned as the first ever UFC women’s strawweight championship. Esparza took to Instagram to explain the situation: If anyone is interested, […]
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Benson Henderson has had a torn ACL in every Bellator fight
Former UFC lightweight kingpin Benson Henderson has been competing under the Bellator MMA banner throughout 2016. In April, ‘Smooth’ made his Bellator MMA debut as he stepped into the cage as a welterweight to fight Andrey Koreshkov for the Bellator welterweight championship. Unfortunately for the former UFC champ, he dropped a unanimous decision to Koreshkov. […]
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Conor McGregor looking to knock Floyd Mayweather out in potential fight
While Conor McGregor is undoubtably one of the most dominant UFC champions in the sport right now, the possibility of the Irish superstar making the jump to boxing has fight fans split down the middle in regards to how they feel the two-weight champ would fair in the boxing ring. While some believe that McGregor’s […]
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Conor McGregor responds to Paul Malignaggi’s callout
This week it was revealed that UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor had received his boxing license to box professionally in California. With that being said however, it was also revealed that Mcgregor had been denied a boxing license in Nevada. Despite that, the reports of McGregor being approved for a boxing license in California threw […]
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Demetrious Johnson embracing role as “dark horse champion”
Tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada, UFC flyweight champion and pound for pound kingpin Demetrious Johnson will step into the Octagon as he looks to defend his flyweight championship for the ninth time when he faces the winner of ‘The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions’, Tim Elliot. While Johnson has all but cleaned out the UFC’s […]
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Tito Ortiz reveals fight with Chael Sonnen will be his last
While Tito Ortiz is currently gearing up for his Bellator 170 scrap with Chael Sonnen on January 21st, Ortiz has kept the fact that the fight will be his last under wraps, until now. Earlier this year, Sonnen celebrated the end of his two year suspension handed down by the NSAC. Following the end of […]
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VIDEO | Brutal slam KO leaves fighter starched
Gerald Harris vs Aaron Cobb #Legacy63 @legacyfighting #RIP More Angles pic.twitter.com/FVMjFu3usN — Zombie Prophet (@ZPGIFs) December 3, 2016 This weekend at Legacy 63 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, UFC veteran Gerald Harris picked up a frighteningly brutal KO win as he knocked out Aaron Cobb with a slam. Harris had Cobb pressed against the fence, which he […]
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Demetrious Johnson discusses possibility of moving up in weight
UFC flyweight champion, and pound for pound kingpin, Demetrious Johnson is undoubtably one of the most dominant champions in the history of the UFC. Since winning the UFC flyweight championship in 2012, Johnson has gone on a tear of the flyweight division, defending his title eight times in the span of four years, and all […]
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UFC fires Hall of Famers Chuck Liddell & Matt Hughes
News surfaced Friday night that UFC Hall of Famers Chuck Liddell and Matt Hughes had been let go by the UFC as part of the latest round of company-wide layoffs which saw the new WME-IMG owners fire numerous employees several weeks ago. MMAFighting broke the news, which also revealed that between ten and fifteen employees […]
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VIDEO | Conor McGregor finally speaks up on featherweight title: ‘Them belts are mine’
https://youtu.be/eAlWXeJv02k UFC superstar Conor McGregor finally broke his silence on his “relinquished” UFC featherweight title. On Friday, UFC superstar Conor McGregor was a part of a Q&A at The Devenish bar in Belfast, Ireland. “The Notorious” knocked out some questions and the the one thing everyone was most curious about was what his thoughts were […]
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VIDEO | Oscar De La Hoya: Canelo Alvarez would beat Conor McGregor’s ass
With the news of Conor McGregor recently getting a boxing license, many are speculating on what it all means. With the UFC’s recent announcement that the UFC superstar “relinquished” the featherweight title, McGregor’s verbal silence has led many to believe he was stripped of the 145-pound belt rather than agreeing to give it up on […]
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Former UFC title contender Rory MacDonald sets up first Bellator fight on Twitter
It was a major shakeup when former #1 UFC ranked welterweight, Rory MacDonald was announced a signed Bellator MMA fighter. Now, just a little over three months have passed since MacDonald signed under Bellator, it looks like the Canadian just did some matchmaking himself on social media and arranged for his first fight since leaving […]
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Three more fights added to UFC Fight Night 103 in Phoenix including pivotal bantamweight matchup
On January 15th, the UFC will return to Phoenix, Arizona. The card will be topped by a battle between rising Mexican featherweight Yair Rodriguez, and our very own BJ Penn, who will be returning after more than two years away from the sport. The UFC announced three new fights added to the Phoenix event. Joe […]
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VIDEO | Brandon Vera defends ONE Championship heavyweight title in lopsided beatdown
https://youtu.be/wEXb_ielH5Y Last December, UFC veteran Brandon Vera won the vacant One Championship heavyweight title with a thunderous first-round knockout of late-replacement Paul Cheng. Almost a full year later, Vera finally defended that title. He did so against the 43-year-old Hideki “Big Body” Sekine – who is also nicknamed “Shrek” – in the main event of […]
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“The Korean Zombie” is being targeted for a Super Bowl weekend return
After a long stretch on the shelf, during which he fulfilled the two years of mandatory military service required of all South Korean citizens, “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung is ready to return to the Octagon. Though he’s called for a comeback fight with our very own BJ Penn, it sounds as though he’ll […]
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Jon Jones on UFC return: “The story can’t end like this”
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is currently serving a suspension for a failed random out-of-competition drug test back in June, which forced him out of his UFC 200 headlining scrap with Daniel Cormier just 48 hours before fight night. Jones maintained his innocence throughout USADA’s appeal process, and it was ultimately determined that […]
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Former UFC champion Carla Esparza forced to sell her TUF Harley-Davidson motorcycle with financial struggles
The first-ever women’s UFC and Invicta strawweight champion, Carla Esparza is facing some tough times. Since losing the UFC strawweight title to current champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 185 back in March of 2015, Esparza has fought just once in the Octagon, picking up a unanimous decision win over Julianna Lima. The current #3 UFC […]
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Roy Nelson finally breaks silence on kicking John McCarthy
Back in September, UFC heavyweight veterans Roy Nelson and Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva stepped into the Octagon at ‘UFC Fight Night: Sao Paulo’ in a highly anticipated heavyweight showdown. Nelson ultimately picked up a second round KO win over Silva, however it was the actions which occurred after the KO which resulted in the fight making […]
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Dana White on Conor McGregor’s boxing license: ‘Who knows with this guy?’
When UFC superstar Conor McGregor makes any type of significant moves, the word spreads quickly. On Wednesday, Ariel Helwani and Brett Okamoto tweeted that current UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor was granted a boxing license in the state of California. It later came to light that McGregor applied for a boxing license in numerous states. […]
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Cris Cyborg prepared to walk away from the UFC
Reigning & defending Invicta FC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg has been campaigning for the UFC to create a women’s featherweight division for quite some time now. Cyborg made her UFC debut earlier this year at UFC 198 when she stepped into the Octagon against gritty MMA veteran Leslie Smith. Despite enduring a brutal weight […]
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Mirko Cro Cop goes off on “scared b**ch” Wanderlei Silva
Later this month, PRIDE FC legends Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic and Wanderlei Silva were set to step into the ring in the second round of the Rizin World Grand-Prix. The fight was a highly anticipated one, and would mark the third time the two MMA icons would be stepping into the ring together. Unfortunately, fight […]
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Dana White on stripping McGregor of FW title: This was Conor’s decision
Earlier this month, Conor McGregor knocked out Eddie Alvarez to win the UFC lightweight title. Given that the Irishman already owned the featherweight crown, this made him the first fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight classes simultaneously. It was a short-lived reign as two-division king. Weeks after winning the lightweight title, […]
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Jon Jones reflects on finding out he was pulled from UFC 200
Earlier this year, former UFC light heavyweight kingpin Jon Jones was set to make his highly anticipated return to the Octagon at UFC 200, where he was to fight light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier in a highly anticipated rematch for the light heavyweight title. Unfortunately, just 48 hours before fight night, Jones was pulled from the […]
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VIDEO | One Championship show delivers incredible, flying-knee knockout
https://twitter.com/zpgifs/status/804679451892129792 Singapore’s One Championship may have recently outlawed the soccer kicks for which it was famous, but it still produces some truly incredible knockouts. One such knockout occurred this morning, during the organization’s latest show “Age of Domination,” which occured at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, the Philippines. This knockout was dealt by […]
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Tim Kennedy: Bjorn Rebney is a “necessary evil” in MMAAA
Earlier this week, we were introduced to the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association (MMAAA), an organization created with the goal of improving the way fighters are treated by the UFC’s new owners, WME-IMG. This organization has been helmed by a team of talented UFC stars: former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, former heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez, […]
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Tyron Woodley: Michael Bisping should be Fighter of the Year
England’s Michael Bisping has already had a very long career. Where many fighters start dropping off by the juncture he’s at, however, he’s just hitting his stride. In fact, 2016 was probably the best year of his career thus far. It began with a back-and-forth war with middleweight legend Anderson Silva, who he defeated with […]