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Nick Jonas Walks Through Swanson’s Spinning Back Kick
Top UFC featherweight fighter, Cub Swanson has had the rare opportunity of training and working with Disney Pop Star Nick Jonas, of The Jonas Brothers. During their time together, and ahead of tonight’s new television series debut (Starring Nick Jonas as an MMA Fighter), the duo made some rough contact during training. Via the Desert […]
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Dana White: Conor McGregor Is The Logical #1 Contender
At the start of each week, UFC president Dana White sits down with web content producer Matt Parrino for The Download, where he discusses the most recent octagon news. In this week’s edition, of The Download Uncle Dana talked about Conor McGregor and how he feels the young Irishman is the logical #1 contender at […]
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Edgar-Swanson, Green-Barboza Slated For UFC Fight Night 57
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has announced two new bouts with heavy implications. Frankie Edgar and Cub Swanson have agreed to a five-rounder and will headline UFC Fight night 57 in November. The winner will likely face Jose Aldo for the UFC Featherweight world title. Also announced on the fight card is a lightweight bout […]
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Swanson Wants Edgar Fight On FOX
Cub Swanson and Frankie Edgar don’t want to sit and wait for Chad Mendes and Jose Aldo to fight for them to know who will be the #1 contender. They want to find out themselves by having an elimination match for the spot. Swanson spoke on The MMA Hour: “I’m not going to beg anyone […]
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Swanson Blasts Frankie Edgar’s “Shady Management” For Announcing Fictional Fight
Last week the MMA world was reporting a featherweight title eliminator bout set for December in the UFC. The news came via Frankie Edgar’s manager, who stated the bout was booked for a Dec. 13 main event. Apparently he made all that up. Swanson clears the air: Props to Frankie's camp for announcing fights that […]
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Frankie Edgar Calls Out Cub Swanson, Wants December Fight
Top ranked featherweight Frankie Edgar isn’t content just sitting and waiting for Jose Aldo and Chad Mendes to fight to find out whether he or Cub Swanson will get a title shot. He would rather fight Cub and let the winner get a shot at the title. He spoke with MMAJunkie: “I think I’m probably […]
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Cub Swanson: I Teach My Students To Be The Opposite Of Conor McGregor
Cub Swanson spoke with mixedmartialarts.com’s Jonathan Shrager in an interview leading up to UFC Fight Night Dublin, which was headlined by Conor McGregor, who isn’t exactly Swanson’s best friend. You can see Swanson talking about McGregor starting at around the 6 minute mark.
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Cub Swanson on Conor McGregor “Easy Fight And Easy Money”
Cub Swanson goes in depth on Conor McGregor stating a lot of people hate him in Ireland and that it would be an easy fight and easy money, also talks on Diego Brandao, Jose Aldo, Chad Mendes, Chael Sonnen, UFC/MMA Drug Testing and more.
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Swanson vs. Stephens Averages 700k Viewers On FS1
UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Stephens averaged 702,000 viewers on Fox Sports 1, and peaked at 852,000 viewers during the first hour of the broadcast. This is much lower than the previous UFC Fight Night held on Fox Sports 1: Henderson vs. Khabilov which did 1.24 million average viewers. Swanson vs Stephens UFC Fight Night: […]
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Dana White Hints At Cub Swanson Title Shot
UFC President Dana White hinted at Cub Swanson getting a title shot when he spoke to The Download earlier today. “Let me tell you what, Jeremy is ranked No. 10 but he’s not the number 10 fighter. He’s better than that, and Cub took big f****** shots from him early, ate his shots and came […]
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Cub Swanson: I want to be the guy to dethrone the legend
Following his main event victory over Jeremy Stephens at Saturday’s “UFC Fight Night 44” event in San Antonio, perennial contender Cub Swanson (21-5 MMA, 6-1 UFC) did a post fight interview with FOX Sports 1 where he stated his desire to rematch featherweight kingpin Jose Aldo: “Of course I want to fight Aldo,” said Swanson. […]
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The Korean Zombie calls out Cub Swanson
Following his main event victory over Jeremy Stephens at Saturday’s “UFC Fight Night 44” event in San Antonio, Cub Swanson has since been called out by former featherweight title challenger “The Korean Zombie.” Chan Sung Jung (13-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) took to twitter to challenge Swanson on Sunday: @KoreanZombieMMA: “@CubSwanson Fight me.” The Korean Zombie has […]
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Vitor Belfort Films Clay Guida Passionately Cornering Swanson From Last Night’s Stands
License or not, Clay Guida wasn’t going to go unheard during last night’s main event in San Antonio.
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QUICK TWITT | Pro’s React To Swanson vs. Stephens Main Event
Last night’s decision heavy UFC Fight Night 44 main card delivered some exciting moments of action. Most of which happened in the main event. Here’s how the pro’s broke it down: Its time for the main event, lets fucking get them @LiLHeathenMMA– you got this!!! #mma @ufc RT — Chris Leben (@cripplerufc) June 29, 2014 […]
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Bedford Fuming Mad, Blames Ref For Fight Night 44 Loss
Johnny Bedford hasn’t had the best luck as of late inside the Octagon, and last night proved that point even further. Watch the replay and interview above and decide for yourself.
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Swanson Post-Fight: ‘I want to dethrone Jose Aldo’
“I feel great about the win. It was great to have a battle every round. I kept telling myself I could do better each round.” Swanson on if he planned to land the left kick to the body: “I study a lot of tape and noticed a trend that everybody gets dropped by that kick. So […]
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REPLAY! Swanson And Stephens Go To War For 5 Rounds
Watch highlights of Cub Swanson’s impressive bout with Jeremy Stephens.
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REPLAY! Kelvin Gastelum Smokes Swedish Striking Expert Nico Musoke On The Feet
Watch highlights of Kelvin Gastelum taking Nico Musoke to town, beating him in 3 well-fought rounds.
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REPLAY! Ricardo Lamas Shuts Down Dias In Texas
Check out highlights of Ricardo Lamas win by unanimous decision over Hacran Dias.
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REPLAY! Vitor Belfort’s Protege Dominates At UFC Fight Night 44
Watch highlights of Cezar Ferreira’s decision win over Andrew Craig.
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UFC Fight Night 44 Post-Fight Press Conference (Full Replay)
If you missed BJPENN.COM’s live broadcast of last night’s UFC Fight Night 44 post-fight press conference, here’s the replay. Enjoy!
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UFC Fight Night 44 Bonus Report: Stephens, Swanson, Borg and Ferreira Pick Up Extra Cash
Fight of The Night-Swanson vs. Stephens: In the main event fight, the two featherweights went at it for all five rounds. The fight was a war and eventually it was Cub Swanson who got the decision win. With the win it appears that Swanson will be next in line for the title. Perfomrnace(s) of […]
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“UFC Fight Night 44: Swanson vs. Stephens” Official Results
Tonight’s San Antonio Fight card has concluded. The night opened with back-to-back non-stop action on the FS1 preliminary card with four of five fights ending in the first round, two of which in the first minute. 100% of the main card went to decision. Here’s your results: MAIN CARD: (FOX Sports 1, 7 p.m. PT) Cub […]
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UFC Fight Night 44 Results: Swanson Earns Decision Over Jeremy Stephens In Main Event
Cub Swanson extended his winning streak to six tonight after his victory over Jeremy Stephens in tonight’s main event at “UFC Fight Night 44”. Swanson ran into some trouble with the power of Stephens, getting dropped in both the first and the second frame of action. A third round liver-kick landed by Swanson changed the […]
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UFC Fight Night 44 Results: Gastelum Improves Record to 10-0 with Win Over Musoke
The only success Nicholas Musoke stumbled upon during this fight was when he opted to take the fight to the ground in the opening round. He rode the back of Gastelum for the majority of the round, but could not get in position to work for a submission. When they got back to their feet, […]
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UFC Fight Night 44 Results: Ferreira Back to Winning Ways, Gets Win Over Craig
Cezar Ferreira jumped right back on his path of success tonight after his controlling performance over Andrew Craig. This middleweight contest was the fourth consecutive decision of the main card. Ferreira was close to putting the fight away in the third round when he had the back of Craig, working for a rear naked choke. […]
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UFC Fight Night 44 Results: Lamas Defeats Dias by way of Unanimous Decision
Number-three ranked featherweight Ricardo Lamas played his veteran role well in the octagon tonight and utilized the judges’ criteria to pick up the unanimous decision win. Even though he was not landing the majority of his shots, he threw at high volume while controlling the octagon which will always look good in the eyes of […]
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UFC Fight Night 44 Results: Hester Remains Undefeated in UFC, Gets Decision Win Over Neto
Clint Hester wanted nothing to do with Braga Neto on the ground in the opening round, but it wasn’t long before Hester was fighting off submissions while on his back. Hester showed great resiliency by continuously wall walking back to his feet only to get taken down seconds later. The first round was all Braga […]