Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just one day away from the upcoming UFC Vegas 51 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which is set to go down tomorrow night (Sat., April 16, 2022) from inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring a welterweight (and long overdue) rematch between Vicente Luque and Belal Muhammad,
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Jake Paul: ‘I think Dana White is coming around to me’ fighting in the UFC YouTube creator turned professional boxer Jake Paul has had a successful boxing career thus far and expects to eventually make the jump to mixed martial arts. When he makes that move, he plans for it to be with the UFC.
By Farah Hannoun and Nolan King | April 15, 2022 9:40 am ET Aljamain Sterling isn’t surprised that UFC president Dana White believes Petr Yan beat him. Bantamweight champion Sterling (21-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC) edged out Yan (16-3 MMA, 8-2 UFC) by split decision this past Saturday at UFC 273, but White thinks the judges got
After a stirring 2021 campaign in which he won and defended the UFC lightweight title by finishing Michael Chandler and Dustin Poirier, Charles Oliveira begins his second year as champion on May 7 as he defends his crown against former interim titlist Justin Gaethje in the main event of UFC 274. Living up to his
UFC commentator Jon Anik stops by with Mike Heck to preview UFC 273 and talk Khamzat Chimaev vs. Gilbert Burns, Alexander Volkanovski vs. Korean Zombie, Aljamain Sterling vs. Petr Yan 2, and more. Subscribe to MMA Fighting on YouTube: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: http://Apple.co/themmahour Subscribe to The MMA Hour on Spotify:
1:47 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alexander Volkanovski vowed to finish Saturday night, something he has yet to do to an opponent since becoming UFC featherweight champion. One of the world’s top fighters lived up to his promise. Volkanovski stopped “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung via TKO (punches) at 45 seconds of the fourth
It’s a double-header weekend with Bellator: McKee vs. Pitbull 2 on Friday and UFC Vegas 51 on Saturday, but which card is more worth your time? Can Vicente Luque or Belal Muhammad insert themselves into the Khamzat Chimaev conversation with a win? And what’s going on with A.J. McKee — is Bellator on the verge
Ange Loosa Division: Welterweight Fighting Out Of: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by way of Kinshasa, DR Congo Professional Record: 8-2 The Scoop: You don’t necessarily need to win a contract on Dana White’s Contender Series to get the call to the big show, and in the case of fighters like Ange Loosa, you don’t even need
While he’s currently holding featherweight gold in Bellator, AJ McKee expects to experience similar championship glory in the UFC down the line. It’s safe to say that outside of MMA’s premier promotion, not many have developed as much stardom and fanfare as McKee. The 27-year-old, who boasts an impressive and unblemished 18-0 record, shot further
Despite two losses to the champion in his last four outings, Colby Covington is still at the very top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight rankings as the No. 1-ranked contender. “Chaos” has since rebounded from his most recent defeat to Kamaru Usman by scoring a unanimous decision victory against best friend turned heated
UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie slow motion video highlights Check out the slow motion highlights from UFC 273 which took place on April 9 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. In the fight card’s main event, featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski dominated ‘The Korean Zombie’ Chan Sung Jung. In the co-main event,
By Simon Samano | April 14, 2022 9:31 pm ET Drakkar Klose didn’t see Jeremy Stephens’ infamous shove coming. One year later, he’s still feeling the effects of it. Klose returns to the octagon for the first time in 25 months on Saturday when he meets Brandon Jenkins in a lightweight bout at UFC on
9:59 PM ET One of the only double champions in UFC history seems on his way back to the Octagon. Henry Cejudo will re-enter himself into the USADA drug-testing pool Monday, his manager Ali Abdelaziz of Dominance MMA told ESPN on Sunday. That signifies that Cejudo, a former Olympic gold medalist in wrestling, is on
If there was a “nice guy” division in the UFC, Belal Muhammad would be going up against a third straight title contender as he prepares to face Vicente Luque after already defeating Demian Maia and Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson in his previous two wins. Neither Maia or Thompson had a bad word to say about Muhammad
After collecting a third-round stoppage win over Price in their second encounter at UFC 249, Luque took on Randy Brown three months later, stopping the talented, but unranked, “Rudeboy” at the tail end of the second round. He followed that up by submitting former champion Tyron Woodley in a wildly entertaining, chaotic affair at UFC
Junior dos Santos doesn’t think Tyson Fury would do well in MMA. Fury is the current WBC and The Ring heavyweight champion and is set to face Dillian Whyte on April 23 in a very intriguing matchup. He has said this will be his retirement fight but he has hinted about doing special fights or
Top-ranked grinder, Belal Muhammad, will square off opposite Brazilian finisher, Vicente Luque, this Saturday (April 16, 2022, 2021) at UFC Vegas 51 inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s been six years since the last time these two met inside the Octagon. Both men have improved significantly and picked up the biggest wins of
Coach says Nick Diaz will fight again ‘by the end of the year’ It looks like we might see Nick Diaz in the Octagon again after all. According to Cesar Gracie, Diaz’s coach, he plans on coming back … and soon. “Look for @nickdiaz209 to fight by the end of the year,” the Instagram post said.