Current Bellator MMA bantamweight champion Sergio Pettis was recently injured and forced to withdraw from his scheduled title defense against teammate Raufeon Stots, previously booked to headline Bellator 279 on April 23 in Honolulu, Hawaii. According to a report from CBS Sports, “The Phenom” will be replaced by Juan Archuleta, whom Pettis defeated at Bellator
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More details are emerging of the Monday night altercation between UFC welterweights Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal at a Miami restaurant. Talk show host and podcaster Andy Slater broke the news of the incident and revealed new details about the altercation on Tuesday. “The initial call to police came from one of Colby Covington’s coaches,
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz By Nolan King | March 22, 2022 4:39 pm ET The MMA community had plenty to say after reports and video of an alleged Monday night altercation between Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington outside of Papi Steak restaurant in Miami Beach. On Tuesday, a Miami Beach Police Department spokesperson
Jimmie Rivera is the latest MMA veteran to take his talents to bare-knuckle boxing. The former UFC bantamweight contender has officially inked a long-speculated deal with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), the promotion announced on Monday. Rivera is expected to make his bare-knuckle boxing debut on May 6 at BKFC 25 in Orlando against a
Matt Hamill showed that deaf athletes can compete inside the Octagon several years ago, graduating to the UFC after a strong run on Season 3 of The Ultimate Fighter before amassing 15 appearances in the light heavyweight division, competing against the likes of Michael Bisping, Rich Franklin, Jon Jones, Tito Ortiz, and Alexander Gustafsson. This
Chael Sonnen believes Charles Oliveira should thank Tony Ferguson because without him, he wouldn’t have gotten the title shot. At UFC 256 in December of 2020, Ferguson stepped up to face Oliveira on just a few weeks’ notice. It was an intriguing matchup as ‘El Cucuy’ was linked to Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler before
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Welterweight is a strange division. The 170-pound king is Kamaru Usman, who has the division in a complete stranglehold to the point that he’s lapping all the top contenders. Then, there’s still kind of a BMF champion in Jorge Masvidal, the one-off belt awarded to “Gamebred” for slicing up Nate Diaz
Colby Covington surrounded by police at Miami restaurant after Jorge Masvidal altercation | Video UFC welterweight rivals Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal were allegedly involved in a physical altercation at a Miami restaurant on Monday. In a video obtained by TMZ Sports, Covington can be seen outside of Papi Steak in Miami Beach surrounded by
By Simon Samano | March 22, 2022 3:12 am ET Twenty-five minutes together inside the octagon apparently wasn’t enough for Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington to settle their grudge. Late Monday night, Fox Sports 640 South Florida radio host Andy Slater reported on Twitter that Masvidal and Covington “got into a fight” at Miami Beach
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The PFL is back. On Monday, the league announced a start date of April 22 for its upcoming 2022 campaign with three regular season events planned for Arlington, Texas, and another three set for Atlanta. See the upcoming schedule here: PFL 1 — Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington — April 22 PFL 2 — Esports
UFC®, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, today announced a multi-year extension of their partnership with OPRO, the world’s most technically advanced mouthguard company and a leading pioneer in oral protection. The multi-year renewal grants OPRO the rights to continue producing custom mouthguards for UFC athletes for in-competition use, as well as UFC-branded mouthguards
A pre-trial evidence discovery order was granted on Monday in the civil case involving Conor McGregor and an alleged rape victim in Ireland. The plaintiff, an unnamed woman, is in the process of suing McGregor for personal injuries after an alleged sexual assault took place at McGregor’s penthouse suite in 2018. McGregor has denied all
UFC middleweight Darren Till is concerned about reigning 185-pound champion Israel Adesanya and doesn’t want “The Last Stylebender” to follow this self-destructive path and potentially spoil what could be one of the great title reigns of this generation. Or maybe “The Gorilla” is just trying to get a new rumor going. “You haven’t looked the
Muhammad Mokaev reveals big injury suffered ahead of Cody Durden win Muhammad Mokaev only need 58 seconds to send Cody Durden to the shadow realm in the opening fight at UFC London, but that fight almost didn’t happen. According to Mokaev, he broke his hand in three places just six weeks before his UFC debut.
By Farah Hannoun | March 21, 2022 4:20 pm ET Add Ottman Azaitar to the list of UFC fighters who want a piece of Paddy Pimblett. Pimblett’s star continued to shine when he scored a first-round submission of Kazula Vargas this past Saturday at UFC Fight Night 204 in London. However, before scoring his second
The UFC is looking for alternatives in case it doesn’t reach a new deal with Brazilian pay-per-view network Combate by the end of 2022, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told MMA Fighting. Owned by giant media conglomerate Globo, the second-largest commercial TV network in the world, Combate has aired UFC events for almost
“He is an Olympic champion from back in 2012 at the London Olympics. Multiple-time World champion Jordan Burroughs has been the face of USA Wrestling for the last ten years. He was a multiple-time National champion, as well, from Nebraska. He’s a tough college wrestler but he’s been able to just grow over his career.