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The Ultimate Fighter 18 Episode 1 Recap & Results
By Dan Downes, Courtesy UFC.com: After Dana gives a quick rundown of the TUF basics (16 fighters make it into the house, winner gets a contract and a Harley Davidson etc.) Ronda Rousey appears. She talks about her first experience watching The Ultimate Fighter and wishing they offered it to women. She’s excited to be […]
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Ronda Rousey: I wouldn’t do TUF again for $10,000,000
“I think it was very good for the women’s division, and I think it definitely needed to happen. But you couldn’t pay me $10 million to do it again. How could people possibly know who you are from a couple of clips of a video that people are seeing out of context? That’s no way […]
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VIDEO | UFC Insider: The Ultimate Fighter Casting
Go behind the scenes at the open casting call for season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter as a group of men and women attempt to fight their way into the UFC.
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EXCLUSIVE: TUF 18’s Louis Fisette Talks This Season’s Show, His Weekly BJPENN.COM Blog and More
Louis “Petit Pain” Fisette (6-1 MMA) is one of the youngest talents in MMA’s rich 135-pound division. The 23 year-old Canadian bantamweight standout has reeled off six straight victories, with all six wins coming by form of stoppage. Fisette, who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was most recently seen in action at the “AFC 16 – Uprising” event in March. The “WAMMA” […]
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Video Replay | Miesha Tate: ‘There’s no way I could possibly like ‘Cool Girl’ Ronda’
We are just a few shorts weeks away from the debut of ‘The Ultimate Fighter 18: Rousey vs. Tate.’ Miesha Tate and the UFC held a google hangout session with Fox Sports to field questions and help promote the reality series, which is expected to deliver some intense fireworks between the two bitter rivals. “I’ve […]
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VIDEO | Rousey, Tate & White Discuss TUF 18 Following Private Screening Of Episode 1
The Ultimate Fighter season 18 is set to debut on Fox Sports 1 next month. Last week the UFC held a private screening for the shows first episode with UFC boss Dana White and season 18 coaches ROnda Rousey and Miesha Tate. Check out their reactions in the video above.
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The Ultimate Fighter 18 Cast Revealed: Features Many Notable & Familiar Female Athletes
The Ultimate Fighting Championships reality series, The Ultimate Fighter, is set to debut its 18th season on Fox Sports 1 starting on September 4th. For the first time in the shows history the UFC is featuring two female coaches and a mixed gender cast of fighters. UFC female bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will coach this […]
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JDS goes Goo Goo Gah Gah over ‘Gorgeous’ Miesha Tate
Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos recently told ‘UOL Esporte’ that he was really impressed by the beauty of both UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey as well as her rival Miesha Tate. While JDS stated that he thought Rousey was “cute,” he was blown away by the the “gorgeous” Miesha Tate: “I was […]
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Rousey: ‘I think I’ve got two years left in me, realistically’
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has had a big impact on the sport of Mixed Martial Arts and in doing so has become a major ‘superstar’ in the UFC. Before settling on a career in MMA, Rousey participated and won a bronze medal in Judo at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Now, […]
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Ronda Rousey: ‘Nip slip takes the cake’
In a recent interview for ESPN the Magazine’s ‘Body Issue’, UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) caused a stir when she pointed out that boobs were a big issue in women’s mixed martial arts. At yesterday’s media event for the UFC, Rousey expanded on the issue and how she plans to […]
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Sylvester Stallone announces Ronda Rousey role in ‘The Expendables 3’
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has landed a role in the upcoming “Expendables 3” action movie. Screenplay writer and star of the series, Sylvester Stallone, made the announcement late Tuesday night on his official twitter page. It is unknown when Rousey will begin filming “Expendables 3” or how extensive a […]
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Rousey on TUF, Women in MMA and Defending Her Belt
Ronda Rousey had a lot to prove in her first UFC fight as she defended her title. Can she keep her undefeated record, and can she do it by way of her patented armbar? She answered both of those questions emphatically back in February at UFC 157. Now she answers some more questions, these, of […]
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Ronda Rousey promises to hit Miesha Tate’s ‘big target’ nose for Cat Zingano
As you probably know, UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) isn’t much of a Miesha Tate (13-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC) fan, even after badly damaging her arm with an armbar and taking her title more than a year ago in the now-defunct Strikeforce promotion. Rousey recently engaged in a Twitter conversation […]
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PHOTO | Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate Square Off
With the biggest rivalry in WMMA, Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey squared off for the first time since their first fight while on the set of TUF 18. Any early predictions for this fight?
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VIDEO | Rousey, Tate & White React To TUF 18 Shift
Video: Dana White, Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate React To TUF Drama Yesterday the UFC dropped a bomb on the world when they announced that Cat Zingano was forced out of her scheduled TUF 18 coaching slot due to an injury. The media machine at ZUFFA quickly got Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey on the […]
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Ronda Rousey Spars with Boxing Chmapion Vic Darchinyan
UFC women’s bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey (7-0) has a pretty good hold of her ground skills and looks, like any sensible MMA fighter, to round out her style. Here, she is shown sparring with boxing champion Vic Darchinyan (courtesy of FightHubTV.com): [springboard type=”video” id=”722841″ player=”bjpn001″ width=”480″ height=”400″ ] Rousey is known for […]
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Rousey opens as 7-1 favorite over Cat Zingano
Even though the fight is close to 6 months away, the folks at bestfightodds.com have already pinned current UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) as a 7-1 favorite over #1 contender Cat Zingano (8-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC). Zingano was able to stop Miesha Tate (13-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC) with strikes in the third […]
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VIDEO | TUF 18 Female Tryouts Highlights
Tryouts for the first ever female season of “The Ultimate Fighter’ went down earlier this week and it was a phenomenal showing of the top female fighters from around the world. Some faces you may recognize, and some you may not, but the women showed up in full force to try to get that UFC […]
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TUF Season 18 Gets New Day, New Time And New TV Network
A new network, new day and time, new coaches and new captivating storylines. The Ultimate Fighter, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s signature reality series, moves to FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports’ newly minted multi-sport national cable channel, when it returns in September. The series, featuring UFC® women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and challenger Cat Zingano as […]
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Tate See’s TUF 18 Girls Outcasting Males, Hooking Up With Eachother
“I do (want to be a part of TUF) I’m excited for it, I think it’s going to be wild. I think it’s going to be Real World meets TUF, and I don’t know, I have this idea or joke actually that all the girls are going to be like lesbians or hooking up with […]
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VIDEO | Cari Cox Submits His/Her Audition For The Ultimate Fighter, Female Version
This satirical video shows trans-gendered fighter, Cari Cox, submitting his audition for “The Ultimate Fighter 18”. The first season to feature female fighters. Disclaimer: BJPENN.COM is in no way condoning the message in this video. The topic of trans-gendered fighters has been pushed to the forefront of Mixed Martial Arts News and as a result […]