8:53 PM ET UFC lightweight contender Islam Makhachev claims he never turned down an offer to fight Rafael dos Anjos on short notice last weekend. Quite the opposite, in fact. Makhachev (22-1), who defeated Bobby Green in a UFC Fight Night main event on Feb. 26, publicly offered to face dos Anjos in a 170-pound
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The UFC has released a new promo ahead of an absolutely stacked UFC 273 event. On April 9, the UFC returns with their fourth pay-per-view offering of the year, headlined by a matchup for the featherweight championship between Alexander Volkanovski and “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung. The current 145-pound titleholder is riding a 20-fight
Sodiq Yusuff vs. Alex Caceres Low-key standouts in the featherweight division square off in a lights out pairing this weekend as Sodiq Yusuff returns to take on streaking veteran Alex Caceres. A member of the DWCS Class of ’18, Yusuff rattled off four straight wins to begin his UFC tenure before landing on the wrong
UFC lightweight contender Islam Makhachev is more convinced than ever to eventually move to welterweight after watching the UFC 272 main event. Makhachev has been on a roll as of late with 10 straight victories. He most recently dismantled short-notice replacement Bobby Green in his second-career UFC main event at UFC Vegas 49. Before the
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Cain Velasquez finds himself in an unexpected and unthinkably awful situation, and the hits keep on coming. On Monday, Velasquez was denied bail for his alleged involvement of chasing down and shooting at the man accused of molesting one of his child relatives. Watch video of that very public chaos here.
UFC 272 highlights: Colby Covington vs. Jorge Masvidal Watch the UFC 272 highlights and recap from the welterweight grudge match between former teammates Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal. The fight took place on Saturday, March 5, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. [embedded content] (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Colby Covington welcomes Joe Rogan back,
Colby Covington connects with UFC champ Amanda Nunes; Jorge Masvidal chills at the UFC PI. Renato Moicano jumps at an opportunity. Bryce Mitchell enjoys the fight week experience. UFC 272 is on Saturday, March 5. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service
The stars of #UFC272 gave their prediction for the Colby Covington vs. Jorge Masvidal grudge match that headlines the #UFC event on Saturday. Watch UFC 272 LIVE here: http://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/482924/595608/9070?sharedid=MMAFightingYouTube 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: https://open.spotify.com/show/0NUQhyUeYQcbtHOV10qmbb Subscribe to MMA
By Nolan King | March 7, 2022 8:28 pm ET The “Free Cain” movement has grown across multiple social media and online platforms, but GoFundMe is no longer among them. At least two Cain Velasquez legal fund campaigns have been shut down by the crowdfunding platform, GoFundMe confirmed Monday to MMA Junkie, citing a violation
7:53 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Kamaru Usman stood on stage Friday afternoon at T-Mobile Arena, his daughter Samirah next to him. The UFC welterweight champion and ESPN’s pound-for-pound MMA king was participating in a question-and-answer session with UFC interviewer Megan Olivi ahead of the UFC 272 ceremonial weigh-ins. Usman was asked if the winner
Former UFC interim lightweight champion Dustin Poirier has two potential fights on the horizon. The one he wants – a long-awaited showdown with Nate Diaz – carry better odds than the one he says he doesn’t – a grudge match with Colby Covington. Poirier is a -400 favorite to defeat Diaz, according to SportsBetting.ag, while
After being warned for an early eye poke before round two began, Covington took some more kicks as Masvidal started the round strong, even landing elbows to the side of the head as Covington looked for the takedown. A low knee by Covington brought a momentary halt to the bout and restarted the action away
UFC women’s flyweight Maryna Moroz says the UFC’s official Russian Instagram account blocked her based on her nationality. While fighting is, in itself, an intense sport with high stakes, not many will have entered a cage in as difficult a scenario as Moroz did this past weekend. With war waging in her native country of
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) makes its return to the “Sunshine State” for the upcoming UFC 273: “Volkanovski vs. Korean Zombie” pay-per-view (PPV) card, locked and loaded for Sat., April 9, 2022 inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., and the promotion recently unveiled the official fight poster for the championship event. UFC 273 will
Coming off two wins in the past two years, featherweight Jonathan Pearce was looking to kick off his 2022 with another win when he faced Christian Rodriguez at UFC Fight Night on February 19. While he admittedly did not have the kind of fight he would have liked against Rodriguez, Pearce was able to pick
By Farah Hannoun | March 7, 2022 8:00 am ET Surging welterweight contenders will square off in May. Randy Brown (14-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC) meets Khaos Williams (13-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) at UFC 274, which takes place at Footprint Center in Phoenix on May 7, promotion officials announced during the UFC 272 broadcast this past Saturday.
10:49 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Khabib Nurmagomedov is headed to the UFC’s Hall of Fame. The UFC announced on Saturday that Nurmagomedov (29-0), the undefeated former champion from Dagestan, will be inducted as part of the UFC Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022 during the promotion’s International Fight Week in July. Nurmagomedov was in
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