In 2014, Chikadze and his sister Keso started a charity titled “Knockout Cancer,” which assists individuals fighting cancer with financial support for medical bills, chemotherapy and medical evaluations. Typically, Chikadze uses money from his fights and endorsements to fund Knockout Cancer’s efforts. “Usually, we finance the medical bills and also, we support post chemotherapy and
Month: May 2021
Edson Barboza returns to action at UFC 262 against Shane Burgos and being on the second pay-per-view event having fans return to the UFC, Barboza seems excited to go to war with Burgos. Knowing that he is on the second card bringing back fans, when asked what he thought of UFC 261 Barboza told MMANews,
At UFC 263 on June 12th, Israel Adesanya will return to middleweight and defend his title against Marvin Vettori. The venue: the Gila River Arena in Glendale Arizona, which will be packed to the rafters with over 18,000 fans. Interestingly enough, this is the same spot that Adesanya and Vettori fought for the first time
Derrick Lewis believes Jon Jones deserves big money Derrick Lewis is in negotiations to fight heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in a rematch after the UFC couldn’t reach an agreement with Jon Jones. “The Black Beast” has accepted the bout and is just waiting to hear back from the fight promotion. Jones, the former light heavyweight
By Mike Bohn and MMA Junkie Staff | May 2, 2021 6:00 pm With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from April 2021: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s “Knockout of the Month” award for April. At the
Featured News UFC Mar 7, 2020; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Giga Chikadze (red gloves) before the match against Jamall Emmers (blue gloves) during UFC 248 at T-Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports At UFC on ESPN 23, Giga Chikadze entered the Octagon looking to win a seventh straight fight in the fabled mixed martial
Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson won every round on all three judge’s scorecards for the unanimous decision win over Geoff Neal in the main event of UFC Vegas 17. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/ To order UFC
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12:53 AM ET A new star might have just been born in one of the UFC’s premier divisions. Jiri Prochazka knocked out Dominick Reyes with a spinning back elbow at 4 minutes, 29 seconds of the second round Saturday night in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. It was only the
Jeff Molina may have gotten his first UFC win, and his first bonus, but he’s not happy with his octagon debut and has his sights set on the brother of the current 125-pound champion. In the second fight of the night this past Saturday at UFC 261, Molina picked up a unanimous decision win over
“I just want to show that I rule my body, rule my mind and emotions. For me, that’s the way to be the true master,” Prochazka explained. “I’m not focused on the knockouts because it’s naturally in me. I want to end the fight when I see my opponent catch a punch and he hurts
We will never know how a fight between Georges St-Pierre and Khabib Nurmagomeov would have played out, but St-Pierre thinks he has a pretty good idea. Before both Khabib Nurmagomedov and Georges St-Pierre moved on from the idea of fighting one another in a dream match for the ages, there appeared to be a very
Francis Ngannou and Jon Jones may not have a date to fight each other in the cage, but that hasn’t stopped them from trading endless barbs across social media. Jones hasn’t fought since his iffy February 2020 decision win over Dominick Reyes at UFC 247. Given how controversial the judging was on that one, an
Is there renewed hope for Francis Ngannou vs. Jon Jones as Twitter war erupts? Is it possible that there is renewed hope for the Francis Ngannou vs. Jon Jones blockbuster bout after the two fighters went after each other on Twitter recently? Jones had been the initial target for Ngannou after the Cameroonian defeated Stipe
By Danny Segura | May 2, 2021 5:10 pm Follow @dannyseguratv Brandon Vera will return to the cage for his first fight since the pandemic. The ONE Championship heavyweight titleholder is set to defend his belt against former UFC heavyweight Arjan Bhullar in the main event of ONE Championship: Dangal on May 15 in Singapore,
Featured News UFC Dominick Reyes and Jiri Prochazka were at early career crossroads entering UFC on ESPN 23. Another loss for Reyes would be three straight and push the former title challenger out of the contention conversation for the next couple of years. A twelfth straight win for “Denisa”, and second in the UFC, could very well