By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | March 9, 2021 3:10 pm LAS VEGAS – Kyler Phillips beat Song Yadong with a unanimous decision Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Phillips, who won for the fourth straight time. Kyler Phillips vs. Song Yadong
Month: March 2021
The foundations of the Octagon will shake on March 27 when the sport’s premier big men, UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and number one contender Francis Ngannou meet for the second time in the main event of UFC 260. Widely considered to be the greatest heavyweight in UFC history, Miocic defeated Ngannou in 2018, but
Jan Blachowicz and Israel Adesanya in the middle of UFC 259 octagon, Jon Jones, Petr Yan and more UFC fighters on UFC 259 Aljamain Sterling situation, Megan Anderson issues statement after loss against Amanda Nunes and much more! Informations about our work: This channel is made for MMA fans and has been in existence since
UFC president Dana White has come to the defense of referees and judges in the aftermath of the highly publicized spat between Dan Hardy and Herb Dean. For more MMA news: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com Upcoming events: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/schedule Fighter rankings: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/rankings Connect with MMA Junkie on social media! Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/officialmmajunkie Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MMAjunkie
Jordan Espinosa’s team has issued a half-response to Tim Elliott’s inadvertent public allegations of domestic abuse against Espinosa. During the UFC 259 prelims, Tim Elliott turned in a one-sided domination of Jordan Espinosa with suffocating grappling as the main ingredient. The biggest story coming out of the fight wasn’t Elliott’s performance, though. It was the
12:07 AM ET UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan was disqualified after catching a grounded Aljamain Sterling with an illegal knee to the head in the fourth round Saturday night at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. With the disqualification due to an intentional foul, Sterling was crowned the new champion. The fight was stopped at 4
A battle of big men is only a couple of weeks away. UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic will put his belt on the line against Francis Ngannou in the main event of UFC 260 on March 27 at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski will defend
A phone call with Jeffery may confuse most into thinking he was an NPR host, not a fighter with eight finishes. On the mats and in the cage he’s a finishing machine, but outside the gym he’s a simply a mullet-enthusiast with a resting heart rate most of his peers would envy. The “what ifs”
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Aljamain Sterling is dealing with a lot of hate after UFC 259 for something that is hardly his fault. After all, he did not force Petr Yan to throw an illegal knee, nor was it his decision to name the blow intentional and disqualify the Russian boxer. All of this was
Monster looking into Dominick Cruz allegations against Hans Molenkamp Former two-time bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz made a strange call-out following his UFC 259 win over Casey Kenney on Saturday. “The Dominator” Monster Energy business development representative Hans Molenkamp. Cruz challenged Molenkamp, a mixed martial arts practitioner himself, to a charity fight and accused Molenkamp of
By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | March 8, 2021 11:00 pm LAS VEGAS – Kai Kara-France beat Rogerio Bontorin with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Kara-France, who got back in the win column after a submission loss this
Jake Paul and Ben Askren will take place in Atlanta. The fight which goes down on April 17 will take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. There will be no public ticket sales for the Paul vs. Askren card but a limited number of fans and guests will be invited to attend the event. In addition to
7:17 AM ET With four champions in action, UFC 259 was always going to have an outsized fallout compared to almost any other UFC card. And while Amanda Nunes continued to bolster her GOAT credentials with a thorough defeat of Megan Anderson, that’s as close as pre-show expectations for the three pay-per-view title fights came
History was made Saturday at UFC 259 when Petr Yan became the first UFC champion to lose his title by disqualification. Yan dropped the bantamweight belt to Aljamain Sterling after connecting with an illegal knee to the head in the fourth round of their fight, a strike that was prohibited while Sterling was in a
Outlook: The underdog got it done again. Jan Blachowicz did what no man has done in mixed martial arts: he defeated Israel Adesanya. Moreover, he did it in rather comfortable fashion. While the fight was competitive, the scorecards indicated a relatively clear win for the Poland native, so there is not another “champ champ” in the
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo, who retired from mixed martial arts (MMA) after smashing Dominick Cruz at UFC 249 back in May 2020, is planning to make his return to combat sports. Then again, Cejudo posts all sorts of wacky shit (like this), so maybe we should temper our expectations. “I
ESPN releases footage of Petr Yan’s corner after controversial illegal knee Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling were fighting a close battle for Yan’s bantamweight belt at UFC 259 on Saturday. The fight finish, which saw Sterling laid out on the canvas, resulted in Yan losing his belt. The result came after Yan drove an illegal
By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | March 8, 2021 3:30 pm LAS VEGAS – Uros Medic beat Aalon Cruz with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Medic, who stayed unbeaten and kept his perfect string of stoppages intact, as
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