As Valerie Letourneau prepares for the biggest bout of her MMA career on November 14th against Joanna Jedrzejczyk for the UFC women’s strawweight championship, she knows she will be unable to have her longtime cornerman Hector Lombard in her corner. Lombard is currently suspended by the NSAC, which has resulted in Letourneau being unable to […]

Former UFC champion Vitor Belfort has been around MMA for quite some time, and has seen many trash talkers in his day. Given that, he believes that once UFC interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor loses, he will be forgotten. Belfort spoke to Combate: “Trash talkers always existed, since the Tank Abbott days. Conor is winning, […]

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Хабиб Нурмагомедов (@khabib_nurmagomedov) With having to withdraw from his fight scheduled for the TUF 22 finale, Khabib Nurmagomedov took to Instagram to address fans and critics. The top lightweight apologized, thanked those supporting him, and broke it down simply to just being a normal human being. […]

Lou Giordano, a weight management specialist based in New Jersey has offered his service to recent Mike Dolce clients who were unhappy about Dolce’s weight and nutrition services. With both of those fighters being former UFC champions in BJ Penn and Johny Hendricks, there is a lot at stake in being the best you can […]

‘The Karate Hottie’ is 1-0 in her UFC career, and is looking to build momentum as she fights Tecia Torres at UFC 194 on December 12th. Waterson, who has compiled a 13-4 record in her professional MMA career, didn’t appear on TUF 20 alongside many of her fellow strawweights. Regardless, she had her eye on […]

Former UFC middleweight Alan Belcher announced his retirement from MMA on Friday via Periscope (transcribed by MMA Fighting): “I’m done fighting. I’m finished. I’ll never, ever fight again. This is my official retirement,” Belcher said in his live feed. Belcher said that he looks to continue to be involved in the sport with teaching and […]

Paige VanZant has been on a tear since entering the UFC. The 21 year old has gone 3-0 inside the Octagon to build an impressive 6-1 professional MMA record. While ’12 Gauge’ may be gearing up for the biggest test of her career next month when she fights Rose Namajunas on December 10th, in her […]

Ahead of their third meeting at ‘UFC Fight Night: Sao Paulo’ this Saturday, Dan Henderson reflected on his second bout with Vitor Belfort, where ‘The Phenom’ KO’d Henderson for the first time in his career. By now everyone knows that Vitor Belfort was a part of the now-defunct TRT program, and had several questionable incidents […]

Conor McGregor’s on-screen persona has certainly been a breath of fresh air on the set of The Ultimate Fighter season 22, however it’s his off-screen actions that caught the attention of Team Alpha Male member Danny ‘Last Call’ Castillo. He spoke on TUF Talk on Fox Sports 1 this past week to explain why he […]

Top UFC light heavyweight Anthony Johnson has been reignited now that his division has a returning top talent in Jon Jones, who is bound to shake the division. Johnson who lost a title fight with UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier spoke with MMA Junkie on how the former champion, Jon Jones is bringing something […]

UFC legend Anderson Silva announced on his Facebook page that he is ready to come back to the UFC. The former UFC middleweight champion often talked about in pound-for-pound lists was suspended for one year after testing positive for steroids in his fight with Nick Diaz at UFC 183. Silva posted a photo with this […]

In case you needed any further evidence that the frequency of drug tests has been significantly increased, we now have word that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has drug tested 23 fighters. MMAJunkie has obtained the list of fighters, as well as how many times they have now been tested: Vitor Belfort 2 – now 4 […]