Month: July 2021

1:37 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The most significant regulator of combat sports has made a huge move in the way it deals with marijuana. The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) voted Wednesday to no longer discipline fighters for cannabis. NSAC, which regulates some of the most high-profile boxing and MMA fights in the world,
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Conor McGregor isn’t mincing words ahead of his UFC 264 grudge match with Dustin Poirier. “He’s a corpse,” McGregor told his website, The MacLife, on Wednesday when asked about Poirier, “a dead body, a blank face that’s going to get his ass whooped and taken out on a stretcher.” McGregor (22-5) suffered a second-round knockout
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Welcome to Midnight Mania! It remains to be seen what adjustments Conor McGregor makes inside the cage to complete his trilogy vs. Dustin Poirier, but if nothing else, McGregor is bringing a different attitude to the fight. The Irish athlete is fully focused on Poirier; there’s no Manny Pacquiao bout to distract “The Notorious.” Perhaps
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No. 4 ranked welterweight Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson faces no. 2 ranked Gilbert Burns in the UFC 264 co-main event on Saturday. On Wednesday, Thompson fielded question from the media about his upcoming fight, the championship landscape in the 170-pound division and no. 1 ranked Colby Covington. Sean O’Malley reacts to new Nevada Athletic Commission marijuana
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8:21 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The punch exploded on the chin of Jose Aldo and reverberated across the mountaintops of mixed martial arts. When Conor McGregor knocked out the previously shatterproof UFC featherweight champion with a straight left hand just seconds into their 2015 title fight, there suddenly was a brazen 27-year-old Irishman sitting on
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Niko Price won’t be taking advantage of Nevada’s new rules on marijuana anytime soon. The UFC welterweight was hit with a six-month suspension and $8,500 fine by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) this past September after testing positive for the cannabinoid carboxy THC in relation to his bout against Donald Cerrone. Price’s result against Cerrone,
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17 years after Nick Diaz vs. Robbie Lawler at UFC 47, Diaz and Lawler are expected to run it back in the co-headliner slot for UFC 266. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White told TSN’s Aaron Bronsteter on Wednesday that a match-up pitting Diaz vs. Lawler “is in the works” for September. MMA Junkie
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