Aug 22, 2022 The UFC will pack a big punch for its Paris debut when top-10 heavyweight strikers Ciryl Gane and Tai Tuivasa headline Fight Night on Saturday. The fights at Accor Arena are on ESPN+, with the 3 p.m. ET main card preceded by prelims at noon. Gane (10-1) will be trying to bounce
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A middleweight showdown between Bruno Silva and Albert Duraev is on for a UFC Fight Night card on Dec. 17 in Las Vegas, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told MMA Fighting on Thursday. The promotion has yet to announce the event’s headliner. The UFC APEX is expected to host the event. Silva (22-8),
“We are living in a world where everything is digital…information is coming so fast from one part of the world to another and all the young people from like the 15 to 30 generation, they have been living with Google of all their life,” he explains. “MMA has already been here on video, on UFC
Marvin Vettori? Bitter? Maybe … or maybe he just wants reigning middleweight champion Israel Adesanya — who registered two wins over “The Italian Dream” inside the Octagon — to get knocked out by Alex Pereira so badly that “The Last Stylebender” needs an oxygen mask to recover. Kind of like he did at Glory of
Tai Tuivasa wants to ‘knock’ Jon Jones’ head off Tai Tuivasa is gearing up to fight Ciryl Gane in a historic event on Saturday but the heavyweight is already looking ahead. During the UFC Paris media day, Tuivasa was asked about former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones’ highly anticipated heavyweight debut. “Jon Jones is the
PARIS – After a decade at bantamweight, Nathaniel Wood gave himself a fresh start at featherweight earlier this year. But in a bit of a rarity, he said it was a fight that never happened that gave him the push to move up a division. When Vince Morales pulled out of a March fight on
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8:00 AM ET The 2022 PFL finals are set for Nov. 25 at a location still to be announced. The finalists in six weight classes include several familiar faces, as well as some new ones. It has been an interesting season, with plenty of upsets befalling some of the promotion’s biggest homegrown names and free
Chael Sonnen has said a lot of things that have gotten Dana White’s attention, but rarely does he get a rebuke from the UFC president. That changed Tuesday night when White responded to Sonnen’s recent accusation that Leon Edwards “cheated” multiple times before knocking out welterweight champ Kamaru Usman with a head kick in the
“I can fight with the craziest guy,” Jourdain said. “I think in the division there was Burgos, (Edson) Barboza, Topuria and (Max) Holloway, who were really guys who are the most violent guys, and now I know I changed one of these guys into a wrestler. So, knowing that gives me a lot of confidence
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Leon Edwards’ last-minute Hail Mary head kick knockout win over Kamaru Usman will go down as one of the best knockouts of the year (HIGHLIGHTS). UFC 278’s main event seemed like a done deal, but Edwards pulled the trigger at the perfect time to upset the dominant champion and undo all
‘Rampage’ Jackson suggests Jon Jones take a ‘warm-up fight’ in UFC heavyweight debut Former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson thinks fellow 205-pound titleholder Jon Jones should take a warm-up fight in his heavyweight debut. Jackson fought Jones in Jones’ first title defense at UFC 135 back in September 2011, and became the beginning
Nearly four years ago, the most infamous “trade” in MMA history took place. Trades aren’t exactly a typical thing in MMA as they are in other professional sports, but the UFC and ONE Championship swapping their former champions in Demetrious Johnson and Ben Askren is a moment in the sport’s history that will be discussed
Champ Kamaru Usman flies in style. Leon Edwards eyeballs American groceries. Luke Rockhold recovers from a road trip. Paulo Costa is motivated by his opponent. UFC 278 is on Saturday, August 20. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: https://ufc.ac/3u8FIJp Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit
Paulo Costa joins the MMA Hour to do a deep dive on his unusual Twitter account and what was going through his mind on some of his most popular tweets. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4f1JueVgo5t9HSmobCRPug/join Subscribe to MMA Fighting on YouTube: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: http://Apple.co/themmahour Subscribe
UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson is after a striking battle for his next appearance, and he’s down to fight two explosive names that have come up. Thompson’s late-career surge towards gold came to a halt in 2021 courtesy of a pair of ground specialists. At UFC 264 in July, “Wonderboy” was controlled by Gilbert Burns,
5:56 PM ET Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker insists the best fights of his career are ahead of him, saying he’s hungrier than ever as he prepares to face Marvin Vettori in Paris this weekend. It has been nearly seven months since Whittaker lost to fierce rival Israel Adesanya for a second time, albeit
A trilogy between UFC welterweight champ Leon Edwards and deposed titleholder Kamaru Usman is reportedly in the works for the U.K. But Edwards’ coach isn’t so sure Usman will be ready. On a recent episode of The MMA Hour, Dave Lovell cast doubt on Usman’s ability to bounce back immediately after being brutally knocked out