By Simon Head | February 22, 2021 9:20 pm Every time fighters step into the cage or ring, they’re looking to claim a win, make a statement and progress their careers toward a specific goal. Some are looking to climb the ladder. Others may have a score to settle. And the sport’s top athletes have
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A stacked UFC 259 featuring three title fights is right around the corner on Saturday, March 6. Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will move up a weight class to take on light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz in the main event. Watch Adesanya’s last title defense against Paulo Costa at UFC 253 last year on Fight Island
Beneil Dariush speaks to the media post-fight after his unanimous decision win over Diego Ferreira at UFC Fight Night 184 in Las Vegas. #UFCVegas18 #UFCFightNight184 #BeneilDariush For more MMA news: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com Part of the USA TODAY network: http://www.usatoday.com Connect with MMA Junkie: Facebook: https://facebook.com/officialmmajunkie Twitter: https://twitter.com/MMAjunkie Instagram: https://instagram.com/mmajunkiedotcom Subscribe to get the latest MMA news
8:04 AM ET Ariel Helwani: It’s time to focus the attention on Derrick Lewis One of the big storylines heading into Saturday night’s main event was what should Curtis Blaydes do if he beats Derrick Lewis? Ordinarily, a victory like that — which would have been his fifth in a row — over a quality
On the 32nd episode of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee put on their matchmaker hats following Saturday’s UFC Vegas 19 at the APEX. Future matchups were discussed for Derrick Lewis following his incredible second-round KO win in the main event, Curtis Blaydes, Yana Kunitskaya, Darrick Minner, Chris
“Oh, one hundred percent,” Erosa said. “Even watching the last Nate fight when he fought Darren Elkins, you can just tell he’s one of those gritty guys and you know that he’s not gonna take ‘no’ for an answer. He’s going to be in your face, he’s going to be willing to die that night
Khabib Nurmagomedov believes that it is time for Frankie Edgar to call it a career. At UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov, Frankie Edgar competed in a bout that could have very well earned him a world title shot with a victory when he took on Cory Sandhagen in the co-main event. Instead, there are
UFC 259 is right around the corner on March 6th, 2021, and if the UFC was still giving their card one word power-names like they were in the first decade of the 00’s — VENDETTA, PAYBACK, FURY — this card would be STACKED. Three title fights, and the ‘weakest’ of them featuring the women’s GOAT
UFC Vegas 19 recap: Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis [embedded content] Watch the recap and highlights from the UFC Vegas 19: Blaydes vs. Lewis main event between Curtis Blaydes and Derrick Lewis from Saturday’s event at The Apex in Las Vegas. TRENDING > Belal Muhammad steps up to face Leon Edwards at UFC Fight Night
By Farah Hannoun | February 22, 2021 8:50 am Despite his long layoff, T.J. Dillashaw isn’t looking for a tune-up fight. The former two-time UFC bantamweight champion is looking to pick up right where he left off and face the winner of the title fight between champion Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling, which takes place
11:34 PM ET Curtis Blaydes made no apologies about his strategy coming into a huge heavyweight fight with Derrick Lewis. Blaydes was going to use his dominant wrestling early and often. He told anyone who would listen. Maybe it was a decoy. But Blaydes should have stuck to his original game plan, as Lewis crushed
Raoni Barcelos will compete on the UFC’s final event of the month after all. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Barcelos is now expected to meet promotional newcomer Marcelo Rojo at UFC Vegas 20. Rojo replaces Raphael Assuncao who was forced to withdraw from the bout. Per sources,
At this point, you have to love Vanderaa’s attitude, because there’s no BS in his DNA. “There’s a lot of that somewhere,” he laughs. “Just not right now.” That’s okay, we’ll take what we can get and, for the moment, enjoy the fact that the heavyweight division has some of the best prospects in the
There’s some bad news for Alex Volkanovski ahead of his UFC 260 title defense against Brian Ortega: He is the betting favorite. Alex Volkanovski may be the undisputed UFC featherweight champion, but he still feeds off being the underdog. When he faced Jose Aldo at UFC 237, he was an underdog who went on to
UFC Vegas 19 went down last night (Sat., Feb 20, 2021) inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Derrick Lewis pulling off a massive betting upset by delivering a brutal knockout victory via uppercut over Curtis Blaydes (see it again here) in the Heavyweight main event. In the co-headlining act, Yana Kunitskaya defeated top-ranked
Having last fought in August of 2019, lightweight Devonte Smith was looking to get back into the Octagon with a bang when he faced Justin Jaynes at UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov in early February. With just over a minute remaining in the second round of the bout, the fight was stopped after Jaynes
By Blue Corner | February 21, 2021 8:45 pm Social media has become a significant part of the sporting landscape. But few, if any, professional sports match the level of interaction and personal access provided by MMA. In an individual competition in which nearly every athlete is chasing the same goal of financial success and
Kelvin Gastelum got back in the winner’s circle with a unanimous decision victory over Ian Heinisch at UFC 258 on Saturday night. 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 https://ufcfightpass.com/ To order UFC Pay-Per-Views on ESPN+, visit https://bit.ly/2vNIBE8