Justin Gaethje believes the only way lightweight champion Charles Oliveira can defeat him in the UFC 274 pay-per-view (PPV) main event, which takes place this Sat. night (May 7, 2022) inside Footprint Center in Phoenix, Ariz., is if “Do Bronx” musters up the resolve to “walk through hell” like former 155-pound titleholder Khabib Nurmagomedov. Gaethje
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Alexandr Romanov calls out Jon Jones following quick win over Chase Sherman Alexandr Romanov was one of the biggest betting favorites in UFC history when he stepped into the Octagon to face Chase Sherman and he showed exactly why when he finished him in just over two minutes on Saturday night. Now he’s set his
By Matt Erickson | May 2, 2022 1:00 pm ET We want your predictions for Friday’s Bellator 280 event in Paris Our staff picks feature includes the consensus picks from MMA Junkie readers. Simply cast your vote for each bout below, and we’ll use the official tallies that are registered by Wednesday at noon ET
Pound-For-Pound king Kamaru Usman wants MMA fans to know that he’s “not that guy” when it comes to trash-talking opponents. In light of all the callouts and trash talk from multiple fighters, Usman wants to make it clear to those who dislike him for not being more verbally aggressive that it just isn’t like him
5:39 PM ET One of the most promising women’s MMA fighters in the world is going to be on the shelf for some time. Casey O’Neill, a top prospect in the UFC’s women’s flyweight division, has suffered a torn ACL, will need surgery and is out for an undetermined period of time, she announced Thursday
Glover Teixeira and Valentina Shevchenko close out championship season. The light heavyweight and flyweight champions wrap up a stretch of six UFC title fights in three months at UFC 275 and an official poster for the event was released Sunday. See below: Your #UFC275 poster has arrived [ Sun. Jun 12 | Tickets on sale
He took some time away from the Octagon and was able to fully prepare for this fight with Figueiredo. And even though he’s taken time to improve, Figueiredo is determined to force da Silva into making the same mistakes he did against Molina. “He has an offensive game, he gets too exposed and leaves some
What do you buy when you’re one of the highest paid combat sports athletes in the world? A 63-foot Lamborghini Technomar super-yacht worth over $3 million dollars, apparently. Conor McGregor has had a pretty good weekend. He spent his Saturday night watching his friend Katie Taylor win a thrilling boxing match against Amanda Cerrano, and
When it comes to his 2021, lightweight Grant Dawson feels that it wasn’t his best year, but an important year for him nonetheless. Mainly Dawson was able to see the holes in his game that needed work and was able to make the adjustments needed to get those fixed before his 2022 campaign. “Basically in
By Mike Bohn and MMA Junkie Staff | May 1, 2022 7:00 pm ET With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best fights from April 2022: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Fight of the Month award for April. At
Bantamweight MMA prospect Shoji Saito landed a clean flying knee that knocked out Toshiomi Kazama immediately at a recent Pound Storm event. After a back-and-forth opening round between Saito and Kazama, it didn’t take long for Saito to deal the final blow in Round 2. Six seconds into the second round, he landed a perfectly-timed
10:39 AM ET For the first time in two years, Darren Till has booked a fight in his native UK. Till (18-4-1) will face Jack Hermansson (22-7) at UFC Fight Night on July 23. The three-round middleweight bout will take place at the O2 in London, where Till last fought in March 2019. Sources confirmed
Former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski told reporters he was “super upset” with his performance against Jake Collier at UFC Vegas 53 and admitted he followed hardly any of the gameplan set forth by his coaches. In the end, Arlovski gutted out a split decision victory to tie Jim Miller and Donald Cerrone for the
UFC holds its 100th Fight Night on ESPN at the UFC APEX, headlined by bantamweight finishers No. 5 Rob Font and No. 8 Marlon Vera. The prelims kick off at 4pm ET/1pm PT with the main card following at 7pm ET/4pm PT. *The main event is scheduled for five rounds. The remaining bouts are scheduled for
Things weren’t looking too great for the tough and tenacious bantamweight Marlon Vera early into his main event debut against Rob Font at UFC Vegas 53. Font kicked off the fight with some impressive striking volume and never really let up on that metric. But by round three it became clear that Vera was the
Bantamweight contenders Rob Font and Marlon Vera headlined Saturday’s UFC Vegas 53 fight card at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. No. 5 ranked Font missed weight at Friday’s weigh-in, tipping the scales 2.5 pounds over the allotted bantamweight limit. He relinquished 20 percent of his fight purse and the match was moved to a
By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | May 1, 2022 1:00 pm ET LAS VEGAS – Grant Dawson is off to a near flawless start in his UFC career, but his one bump in the road was still eating at him heading into UFC on ESPN 35. This past October, Dawson was up two rounds
Dana White releases two UFC fighters, Tom Aspinall in works for UFC London main event, Dana White and the UFC promotion is interested, Gilbert Burns promotes potential Nate Diaz bout and much more! Informations about our work: This channel is made for MMA fans and has been in existence since 2014. This channel reports daily