By Mike Bohn, The Blue Corner | June 8, 2021 11:00 pm ET Follow @MikeBohnMMA Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived and survived through various websites, forums, and – perhaps most importantly – social-media platforms. Fighters interact with fans, each other and many more
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11:22 AM ET Alistair Overeem is returning to his kickboxing roots. The former UFC heavyweight title contender, as well as former Strikeforce and DREAM champion, has signed a multifight deal with the Glory Kickboxing promotion, his management team told ESPN on Tuesday. Overeem is considered one of the greatest heavyweight MMA fighters of all time
Marisa Messer-Belenchia returns to Invicta FC just days away from their upcoming card. The promotion announced Tuesday that Messer-Belenchia (3-1) will join the eight-woman atomweight field for Friday’s Phoenix Tournament event, which takes place at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan. Messer-Belenchia replaces Katie Saull after the Canadian was forced to withdraw due to “global
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz At UFC Vegas 28, recent Legacy Fighting Alliance middleweight champion Gregory Rodrigues made his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut. The Brazilian, who failed in winning a Dana White’s Contender Series contract in September, was welcomed to the Octagon by two-fight UFC vet, and DWCS contract winner, Dusko Todorovic. The obvious
“It’s got to be a little funky,” Dennis explains. “The beat and the sound, it’s got to be one where you make that stank face a little bit. You’ve got to really feel it.” Dennis strongly feels that his walk out will stay the frontrunner for the remainder of the year. In his mind, authenticity
Michael Bisping doesn’t like Nate Diaz‘s chances against Leon Edwards. At UFC 263, Diaz is set to return to the Octagon in a five-round welterweight bout against Edwards that could determine the next title challenger. They were supposed to fight at UFC 262 in May, but Diaz postponed the scrap due to a small injury.
Israel Adesanya is Matrix-like inside the Octagon, and a charismatic presence on the stage — so let’s relive the UFC middleweight champ’s best moments and trash talk ahead of UFC 263, which takes place this weekend (Sat., June 12, 2021) inside Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Ahead of Adesanya’s ESPN+-streamed pay-per-view (PPV) rematch against
UFC 263 Countdown: Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori 2 UFC 263 Countdown previews the rematch going down on June 12 between middleweight champion Israel Adesanya and Marvin Vettori. Adesanya defeated Vettori via a close split decision in 2018. Israel Adesanya and Marvin Vettori have heated exchange | Video [embedded content] (Courtesy of UFC) Marvin Vettori
Losing might be unfamiliar to Lance Palmer, but his mentality remains the same. Palmer (22-4), a two-time PFL champion, suffered his first promotional loss when he was upset by Bubba Jenkins at 2021 PFL 1 in April, snapping his 11-fight winning streak. His Thursday matchup with Jesse Stirn (11-4) at PFL 4 is a must-win
UFC 263 Countdown previews the five-round welterweight bout between Leon Edwards and Nate Diaz. The five-round bout will be the first of its kind for a non-title or main event fight. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit
It seemed like the world was watching Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul engage in an eight round boxing match on Sunday night but don’t count UFC president Dana White among them. While he’s been a boxing advocate for most of his life, White has routinely bashed the current trend in the sport where some of
Credit: UFC UFC 263 is finally upon us. In classic Ultimate Fighting Championship fashion, the event is jam-packed with rising and ranked talent from many of the promotions men and women’s divisions. The event is led by a championship two-piece and a Diaz brother soda. As the main event features a rematch between two men
The finale of The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions featured Benavidez and Cejudo as the co-main event. Aside from groin strikes thrown by Cejudo in the first round, which led to a penalty, the fight was almost completely statistically even. Benavidez came away with the split decision victory after the reading of probably one of the
Joanna Jędrzejczyk has made it clear that she believes it’s going to take a little more for fans to be invested in Carla Esparza. Esparza has seemingly put herself in a decent position to challenge Rose Namajunas for the UFC Strawweight Championship. After all, she is riding a five-fight winning streak and is coming off
Welcome to Midnight Mania! The spectacle that was Logan Paul vs. Floyd Mayweather generated a whole lotta dough! Early estimates stand somewhere around 600,000 pay-per-view (PPV) buys in the US, which at $49.99 per order equates to a pretty penny for both “Money” Mayweather and Paul. On a related note, there’s also been a great
Hardly anyone could believe it when Conor McGregor conjured a bout opposite Floyd Mayweather for his professional boxing debut. It went beyond disbelief when YouTuber Logan Paul landed a bout with Mayweather after just one professional fight, that being a loss to fellow YouTube sensation KSI. Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul Bragging Rights weigh-in face-off
By Danny Segura | June 7, 2021 10:20 pm ET Follow @dannyseguratv The time for Floyd Mayweather to hang up the gloves has come. For many years, the former multiple-time boxing world champion challenged the truth of prizefighting being a young man’s sport. However, that all changed on Sunday night when Mayweather set foot in
7:35 PM ET CLARESSA SHIELDS RETURNED to JacksonWink MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in late March, fresh off making boxing history by becoming the first two-division undisputed champion in the four-belt era. Time was running low, though, with Shields scheduled to make her MMA debut in the Professional Fighters League on June 10. The only