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VIDEO | Robin Black breaks down Michael Bisping vs. Dan Henderson II
In under 1 month, Michael Bisping will look to make his highly anticipated first title defense when he faces MMA legend Dan Henderson in the main event of UFC 204 in Manchester, England. Ahead of the fight, many are criticizing the UFC for giving Henderson the fight, the former Pride FC champion has stated that […]
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Man who allegedly hit and killed Ryan Jimmo granted bail
The MMA community was devastated earlier this year when it was revealed that UFC light heavyweight Ryan Jimmo had been struck and killed by a vehicle in a parking lot in Alberta Canada. According to the reports, Jimmo was involved in a brief verbal dispute with the driver of the vehicle, and as he was […]
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On This Day: Joe Lauzon makes his UFC debut with 48-second knockout
It has been a crazy and long road for UFC fan favorite Joe Lauzon. “J-Lau” burst onto the scene 10 years ago on this day in September of 2006 when he made his UFC debut against former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver. Lauzon shocked the world when he knocked Pulver out in just 48 seconds […]
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Ben ‘Killa B’ Saunders is back in the UFC
Many fans were disappointed and actually upset when they found out TUF season 6 veteran Ben “Killa B” Saunders was no longer in the UFC in August. With going 3-1 since making it back in the UFC after a stint with Bellator, Saunders did not re-sign with the UFC after he lost to Patrick Cote […]
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VIDEO | Cris Cyborg vs. Lina Lansberg staredown
Friday afternoon, the fighters of ‘UFC Fight Night: Brasilia’ hit the scales to weigh-in ahead of their scheduled bouts Saturday night. Earlier in the day, Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris Cyborg made weight for early weigh-ins, putting to rest doubts of whether or not she’d make weight. Throughout the course of the week, Cyborg has […]
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VIDEO | This Nate Diaz ‘Gangsta’s paradise’ highlight is simply great
https://youtu.be/OSODYU9dunM Nate Diaz’s rise to superstardom has been an amazing thing to witness. From making his way through “The Ultimate Fighter” season five and eventually winning the finals against Manny Gamburyan in 2007 to his multi-million dollar payday at UFC 202 against Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz has come a long way in his professional mixed […]
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UFC Fight Night 95 Finalized Lineup
Tomorrow night, the UFC will return to Brasilia, Brazil with UFC Fight Night 95. The card’s main event will see reigning Invicta featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino make her sophomore UFC appearance opposite Sweden’s Lina Lansberg. The two will meet at a catchweight of 140 lbs. Cyborg, who had a brutal time cutting down to […]
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VIDEO | Podcast host claims to be tougher than CM Punk, Mickey Gall proves him wrong by choking him out in 16 seconds
https://youtu.be/CyoaaDdrVCw A lot of people have been tough on CM Punk and his performance in his professional mixed martial arts debut at UFC 203. The former professional wrestling WWE superstar lasted just 2 minutes and 14 seconds against a very hungry, tough, and skilled fighter, Mickey Gall. Although Gall only has 3 professional MMA fights, […]
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Anthony Bourdain on grappling with Joe Rogan: ‘I’m not rolling with that guy, it hurts’
The Travel Channel’s interesting host, Anthony Bourdain is a very intriguing individual that people tend to gravitate toward. The chef, author, and tv host has a deep affection for food, travel, and if you didn’t know, an inspiring passion for Brazilian jiu-jitsu. According to his bio on The Travel Channel, “Anthony Bourdain is best known […]
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Miesha Tate returns to the Octagon at UFC 205
With under two months until UFC 205, the UFC’s historic inaugural event in the Madison Square Garden, the card is beginning to take shape! Friday afternoon, ESPN’s Brett Okamoto broke news that Miesha Tate would be returning to the Octagon at UFC 205 to fight Raquel Pennington in a pivotal women’s bantamweight showdown. For Tate, […]
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Michael Bisping rips Dan Henderson, open to UFC 206 fight with Georges St-Pierre
In just under a month, UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping will make his highly anticipated first title defense when he steps into the Octagon to fight Dan Henderson in the main event of UFC 204 in Manchester, England. Ahead of the fight, Bisping has been extremely vocal about the fact that he believes he will […]
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UFC 205 Fight Card and Rumors
UFC 205, which is scheduled for November 12 in New York City, is drawing closer by the day. As it does, its lineup continues to grow. At this point, the highlight of the card is a long-discussed welterweight title fight between Champion Tyron Woodley and challenger Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson. Woodley won the divisional crown by […]
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The Folly of Doubting Eddie Alvarez
UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez has been the subject of many headlines over the last few days—and very few of them have painted a positive picture of him. Our news feeds have been flooded with reports that the champ’s hardball negotiation tactics are the reason his long-rumored fight with Irish superstar Conor McGregor fell through. […]
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VIDEO | UFC fighters sound off on how to beat Cris Cyborg
Think you have the perfect game plan to beat "Cyborg" Justino? You're apparently one of the few. pic.twitter.com/hoFftQ8h5H — MMAjunkie (@MMAjunkie) September 23, 2016 With Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris Cyborg now officially on weight, and ready to fight Lina Lansberg Saturday night in Brazil, the question is being asked ‘Just how does one beat […]
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Tyron Woodley reacts to being underdog in Stephen Thompson fight
In addition to Tyron Woodley going into his UFC 205 title fight with Stephen Thompson, in the UFC’s historic inaugural event at the Madison Square Garden, with the UFC welterweight championship, he’s also going into the fight as an underdog. After the fight was announced earlier this month, current betting odds on Bovada have Woodley […]
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Khabib Nurmagomedov leaks pics of signed UFC contracts, waiting on Eddie Alvarez
The confusion regarding who will headline the UFC’s historic New York card, UFC 205, continued today. After it was initially reported that Conor McGregor and Eddie Alvarez would fight for the lightweight title, UFC President Dana White revealed that the fight the UFC was looking to book was Alvarez vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov. This week, former […]
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Louis Smolka mocks Sergio Pettis, internet responds
This week, unfortunate news surfaced that #15 ranked UFC flyweight Sergio Pettis had been forced to withdraw from his ‘UFC Fight Night: Portland’ scrap with #9 ranked flyweight Louis Smolka. Pettis’ head coach, Duke Roufus, broke the news via Instagram, revealing that ‘The Phenom’ had suffered a minor injury in training that would prevent him […]
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Report: UFC 205 Gets Strawweight Title Fight
UFC 205, which will go down from New York’s Madison Square Garden on November 12, appears to have grown by one massive fight: a strawweight title bout between reigning champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk (12-0) and streaking challenger Karolina Kowalkiewicz (10-0), both of whom hail from Poland. This news comes from Dizz (@TalkMMA) and James Lynch (@LynchOnSports) on Twitter. […]
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Ronda Rousey’s coach gives update on Rousey’s return to the Octagon
Lately, talks of former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey making her return to the Octagon have begun to pick up more and more steamSe. These reports have gone as far as to reveal that Rousey will be returning to the Octagon before the end of the year. The last report that surfaced revealed that […]
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Joanna Jedrzejczyk Has Lined Up Her Next Fight
UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk, who is quickly emerging as one of the most dominant champions in the UFC, has apparently signed the bout agreement for her next title defense. The undefeated Polish champ took to Twitter to make this announcement early on Friday morning. https://twitter.com/joannamma/status/779309827017375745 In her announcement, Jedrzejczyk doesn’t name the opponent for her next […]
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Report: Ronda Rousey Has Been Offered a Title Fight with Amanda Nunes at UFC 207
It has now been almost a year since Ronda Rousey lost the UFC women’s bantamweight title to Holly Holm, and we have not seen her in action since. Given the length of the former champ’s layoff, many members of the MMA community were beginning to speculate that we’d never see her fight again. Yet a Rousey comeback […]
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UFC Fight Night 95 Weigh-In Results: Cyborg Makes Weight
Early this morning, reigning Invicta featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino took to the scale to weigh in for her for sophomore UFC effort, a 140-lb. catchweight bout with Swedish striker Lina Lansberg. Despite plenty of doubt to the contrary, the Brazilian made weight, taking full advantage of the bout’s 1-lb. allowance and tipping the scale […]
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UFC targeting Valentina Shevchenko vs. Julianna Pena for UFC 205 in New York
Despite Julianna “The Venezuelan Vixen’ Peña’s insistence on Ronda Rousey ‘getting in line’ after a definitive loss, it appears the UFC has different ideas for her , and it’s not a title shot. Fellow woman’s bantamweight Valentina Shevchenko tweeted on Thursday that she had signed a fight agreement with ‘The Venezuelan Vixen’, thus ruling out a potential […]
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VIDEO | Louis Smolka verbally thrashes Sergio Pettis and ‘his hurt vagina’
[ooyala code=”9oMGIyNjE6mFj9pFDkXr37e9wYTx02kn” player_id=”bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2″ auto=”true” width=”1280″ height=”1600″] With just a little over a week out from UFC Fight Night 96, which takes place in Portland Oregon, it was announced that UFC flyweight Sergio Pettis pulled out of his scheduled fight against Louis Smolka. Pettis’ coach, Duke Roufus said in a social media post that Pettis “sustained […]
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Cris Cyborg reportedly less than 10 pounds away from making weight
Throughout the course of the week leading up to ‘UFC Fight Night: Brasilia’ there has been much speculation as to whether or not Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris Cyborg would be able to make her contracted weight of 140 pounds. Cyborg has been very transparent about the fact that she has been struggling to make […]
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Eddie Alvarez refutes Schaub’s claims, says he’s training for UFC 205
On Wednesday, BJPenn.com reported on Brendan Schaub’s version of what he heard happened in regards to the Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor fight negotiations for UFC 205. Schaub said on a recent episode of “The Fighter and the Kid” podcast that he heard that UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez was demanding too much in the […]
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Report: Eddie Alvarez misses out on ‘red panty night’ after demanding too much
UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez has missed out on a ‘red panty night’ after asking for more money to fight Conor McGregor. Brendan Schaub revealed on the Fighter and the Kid podcast that Alvarez apparently complained to the executives at the UFC and was met with an indignant Joe Silva before the match-maker parted ways […]
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Jon Jones, Nate Diaz, and Conor McGregor get dates for NSAC hearing
Thursday afternoon, news broke that the NSAC had scheduled disciplinary hearings for Jon Jones, Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto broke the news, which revealed that the trio would be having a hearing on October 10th. Per Bob Bennett of NSAC, McGregor/Diaz (water bottles) and Jones (failed test) hearings are all scheduled for […]