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Strikeforce, UFC, Bellator veteran Josh Thomson announces his retirement
Josh Thomson, a veteran of the Strikeforce, PRIDE, UFC and Bellator cages, has announced his retirement from mixed martial arts. Thomson, 41, announced his retirement from the sport on his Weighing In podcast on Tuesday. https://www.instagram.com/p/B73f6S6pkrn/ “I can say that I’m officially retired,” Thomson began. Thomson continued, explaining that his decision has a lot to […]
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Brendan Schaub to Stephen A. Smith: Don’t disrespect MMA fighters
Brendan Schaub is taking ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith to task. Like many within the MMA community, Schaub is none too pleased with Smith’s assessment of the UFC 246 main event. Conor McGregor stopped Donald Cerrone via TKO in 40 seconds. On SportsCenter right after the event, Smith expressed his belief that Cerrone’s performance was […]
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Teacher by day, fighter by night: The story of Samuel Toscano
Amongst the most hardcore of fight fans, interest is growing in an extremely brutal combat sport: Lethwei. Also called Burmese bare knuckle boxing, Lethwei is far older than other combat sports like MMA, as there are records of matches taking place as far back as the third century in Myanmar. Lethwei, nicknamed “The Art of […]
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Three potential opponents for Cris Cyborg’s first Bellator title defense
In the main event of Bellator 238, Cris Cyborg was looking to become the Bellator featherweight champion as she was taking on Julia Budd. It was Cyborg’s promotional debut, where a win could be the first fighter to win belts in Strikeforce, Invicta, UFC, and Bellator. She did just that as she TKO’d Julia Budd […]
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John McCarthy shuts down Brendan Schaub’s claim that all the best fighters are in the UFC
Former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub recently claimed that all the best fighters are on the UFC roster. Unsurprisingly, this comment generated a torrent of backlash — including a retort from MMA referee turned Bellator commentator John McCarthy. Hear what McCarthy had to say about Schaub’s claim below (via Twitter): @BrendanSchaub made a statement on the […]
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Bellator 238 medical suspensions: Julia Budd out 45 days
Bellator 238 was an action-packed card, with violent finishes from the likes of Cris Cyborg, Sergio Pettis and Aaron Pico. As is always the case with highlight-filled cards like this, the result is a long list of medical suspensions — particularly for the Bellator 238 losers. Check out the full medical suspensions for the Bellator […]
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Manager says Conor McGregor is ‘serious’ about chasing boxing title
Conor McGregor recently returned to the UFC’s Octagon with a 40-second drubbing of Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. Ever since, the MMA community has been debating who he should fight next. While all signs point to McGregor competing in another MMA bout soon, however, his manager Audie Attar recently divulged that the Irish star also has his […]
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Danny Kingad determined and motivated to start the new year with a win
Danny Kingad unloaded his full arsenal of skills in hopes of defeating the legendary Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson. Unfortunately, he fell just short of victory in a grueling three-round contest. The unanimous decision loss to Johnson put an end to Kingad’s six-bout win streak. But it did not dampen his spirits to continue his march […]
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Sodiq Yusuff says UFC 246 win over Andre Fili made him a top guy at featherweight
Sodiq Yusuff is now a perfect 4-0 inside the Octagon, and ranked in the featherweight top-15. At UFC 246, Yusuff competed in the biggest fight of his career when he took on Andre Fili. The Nigerian-American knew it was going to be a tough fight but was confident he would get his hand raised. That […]
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VIDEO | Israel Adesanya links up with comedian Tom Segura to trash talk Yoel Romero
UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has already proved he doesn’t need any help in the trash talking department, but he’s decided to enlist some anyway. Adesanya recently linked up with comedian Tom Segura to direct some trash talk at his UFC 248 opponent Yoel Romero. See it below (via @seguratom on Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/p/B7w_LSfJoZJ/ “Yoel, first […]
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Dustin Poirier still wants Nate Diaz fight — in MMA or boxing
Dustin Poirier has some history with Nate Diaz, and he wants to settle it in the cage — or the boxing ring. Poirier and Diaz were briefly scheduled to fight in late 2018, but the fight fell through due to reasons the two fighters can’t seem to agree on. Whatever the case, it’s a fight […]
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Bellator 238 Salaries: Julia Budd banks 100k more than Cris Cyborg
Julia Budd received $100,000 more for her performance at Bellator 238 than the woman that beat her for the title, Cris Cyborg. The two main eventers went toe to toe for the Bellator Featherweight Championship, and after a fascinating encounter, it was Cyborg who cemented her place in the record books with an impressive fourth-round […]
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Report | MMA superhero ‘Phoenix Jones’ arrested on drug charges
The MMA superhero known as ‘Phoenix Jones’, formerly a fighter with the World Series of Fighting, has been arrested on drug charges. ‘Phoenix Jones’ is the pseudonym of Ben Fodor, a 31-year-old mixed martial arts fighter from Texas. Jones made headlines in the 2010s for his vigilante crime patrols in Seattle, before he moved on […]
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Cris Cyborg says she’s happy in Bellator after feeling like a ‘slave’ in the UFC
Cris Cyborg is very happy to be fighting for Bellator. Cyborg had a public falling out with the UFC after her knockout loss to Amanda Nunes at The Forum. UFC president, Dana White said Cyborg didn’t want the Nunes rematch while the Brazilian claimed she did. Following Cris Cyborg’s win over Julia Budd to become […]
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Tyron Woodley tired of ‘corny’ welterweight division says he’s ready to ‘f**k everyone up’
Tyron Woodley is not happy with the current state of the welterweight division. Woodley, who is the former welterweight champion, has not fought since UFC 235 in March where he suffered a decision loss to Kamaru Usman. Since surrendering his title, ‘The Chosen One’ has been rehabbing injuries and sitting on the sidelines wondering what […]
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Coach claims that a ‘motivated’ Conor McGregor can beat anyone
Entering UFC 246, Conor McGregor said he was once again motivated and training regularly, unlike his camp for the Khabib Nurmagomedov fight. The Irishman claimed he was drinking all fight week leading up to UFC 229 and his training was sporadic and not consistent. Yet, that all changed for the Donald Cerrone fight, and it showed […]
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Tyron Woodley says he blew his money living a lavish UFC champion lifestyle
Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley admits he blew through tons of money while he was living the UFC champion lifestyle during this title reign. Woodley was the UFC welterweight champ between July 2016 and March 2019. In an interview with ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, Woodley admitted that he was living a lavish lifestyle while he […]
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Daniel Cormier aims to fight Stipe Miocic this summer, won’t accept anything else
Daniel Cormier is hoping to put an end to his rivalry with Stipe Miocic this summer, and won’t be accepting any other matchup offers. Cormier and Miocic are tied 1-1 across two previous fights. Cormier won the first fight, in July of 2018, by first-round knockout, claiming the heavyweight title for himself. Miocic won the […]
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Diego Ferreira says best is yet to come after UFC 246 win, eyes Al Iaquinta or Felder-Hooker winner next
Diego Ferreira knows the best is yet to come. At UFC 246, Ferreira picked up the biggest win of his career when he submitted Anthony Pettis in the second round. The victory got the Brazilian a spot in the UFC rankings, and it also happened to take place on his birthday which he says was […]
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Chael Sonnen defends Stephen A. Smith: ‘People owe him an apology’
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith has received a ton of hate from the MMA community over the last few days, catching flack from the likes of Joe Rogan, Conor McGregor, Josh Thomson, Din Thomas and others. In the opinion of UFC and Bellator analyst Chael Sonnen, however, the blowback Smith has received has been undue. […]
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Maycee Barber breaks silence on Roxanne Modafferi loss: ‘This s**t sucks’
At UFC 246, Maycee Barber experienced the first loss of her professional MMA career, giving up a lopsided decision to the veteran Roxanne Modafferi. Unfortunately, Barber also sustained a complete ACL tear early in this fight, which will keep her out of action for some time. In a prepared statement to MMA Fighting, Barber opened […]
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Jorge Masvidal lookalike wins Grammy award, ‘Gamebred’ responds
UFC welterweight superstar Jorge Masvidal joked that he was honored to win a Grammy award after lookalike Dan Smyers won an award at Sunday’s ceremony. Smyers is one half of the country music duo Dan + Shay, and he looks a lot like Masvidal. A fan posted a few photos of Dan + Shay accepting […]
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UFC to split up pound-for-pound rankings, create new men’s and women’s P4P rankings
The UFC has decided to split up the pound-for-pound rankings as men and women fighters will now be ranked in their own categories. Even since the UFC instituted the pound-for-pound rankings a few years ago, they have allowed panelists to combine both men and women in the rankings. That’s led to some controversy, and many […]
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Report | Brock Lesnar, Matt Riddle got into verbal altercation at Royal Rumble
Former UFC competitors Brock Lesnar and Matt Riddle reportedly got into it Sunday night backstage prior to WWE’s Royal Rumble in Houston, Texas. According to a report from Pro Wrestling Sheet, Lesnar and Riddle passed each other in the hall and a “tense encounter” occurred. A source said that Lesnar saw Riddle and wanted to […]
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Conor McGregor sends message of thanks to Chuck Liddell
Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor recently took a moment to thank one of the men who inspired him to chase his combat sports dreams: Chuck Liddell. McGregor gave his props to Liddell on Twitter, sharing a photo of himself and the former UFC light heavyweight champ from 2008, and another photo of Liddell at […]
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John Gotti III reacts to Dana White pumping up his CES 60 fight
John Gotti III has already developed a big name as he continues to develop in the sport of mixed martial arts. One person that seems to be watching Gotti’s development has been none other than UFC president Dana White. Prior to Gotti’s unanimous decision win over Marcos Lloreda at Friday night’s CES 60 event, White […]
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Kevin Lee declares himself the ‘uncrowned champion’ of the lightweight division
Kevin Lee believes he’s the true champion of the lightweight division. Lee recently returned to the win column with a massive knockout win over Gregor Gillespie at UFC 244. Following the win, “The Motown Phenom” is set to headline UFC Brasilia against Charles Oliveira. He then plans to fight Islam Makhachev in Russia. For him, […]
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Conor McGregor reacts to death of Kobe Bryant
Yesterday afternoon, the sporting world was torn asunder by the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant. Within hours, countless sports stars — including many of the UFC’s best — had reacted to this tragedy. Former two-division UFC champ Conor McGregor is one of the latest to do so. McGregor is still on US soil after […]