Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Sep 10, 2022 Nate Diaz has received an enormous amount of support heading into the final fight of his UFC contract on Saturday, including from his old rival, Conor McGregor. McGregor took the time to congratulate Diaz on fulfilling his contract on Saturday, via his personal social media. The
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Damon Jackson scored one of the most important wins of his MMA career earlier today (Sat., Sept. 17, 2022) at UFC Vegas 60 live on ESPN+ from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, when the featherweight veteran stopped betting favorite Pat Sabatini with a first-round TKO (punches). This performance comes just one week after
LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 210 event, and you can join us for live play-by-play and official results below. UFC Fight Night 210 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card streams on ESPN+. In the bantamweight main event, Cory Sandhagen (14-4 MMA, 7-3
Tyron Woodley appears to be quite interested in boxing another YouTuber turned boxer in KSI. After ending his UFC tenure with four straight defeats, Woodley made the move to boxing, where he would come up short in a pair of bouts against YouTube boxer Jake Paul, losing the second one by brutal KO. Following this
Sep 12, 2022 Khamzat Chimaev‘s head coach, Andreas Michael, said it was his decision to stop the undefeated fighter’s weight cut last week due to health concerns, but he still expects Chimaev to compete at welterweight. Chimaev (12-0) missed weight for a five-round welterweight main event against Nate Diaz (21-13) last week at UFC 279
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to its APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the UFC Vegas 60 mixed martial arts (MMA) event TONIGHT (Sat., Sept. 17, 2022) streaming LIVE on ESPN+. UFC Vegas 60 will be headlined by the 135-pound showdown between Top 10 bantamweight contenders Cory Sandhagen and Yadong Song. Before that five-round
Jaqueline Amorim brought quite the grappling resume into her journey down the road of professional MMA fighter – and in the LFA 142 main event, it was once again on display. The LFA women’s strawweight champion, Amorim (6-0) successfully defended her title for the first time when she methodically took down, controlled, mounted, and armbarred
UFC middleweight contender Darren Till is not best pleased to have been branded the “pull-out guy” following some failed matchups in recent years. Once touted as a future champion on MMA’s biggest stage, Till has slipped down the pecking order owing to some setbacks inside the Octagon and injuries outside it. After following up a
8:52 AM ET The UFC is back at its Apex facility in Las Vegas this weekend, with a bantamweight main event between Cory Sandhagen and Song Yadong. In addition to the headliner, 33-year-old Chidi Njokuani will make his third UFC appearance against Gregory Rodrigues. Njokuani is far from a beginner in mixed martial arts. He
Khamzat Chimaev’s rising stock has taken a big hit following his unforgivable weigh miss at UFC 279 earlier this month. While the undefeated welterweight went on to absolutely destroy Kevin Holland in a makeshift co-main event at UFC 279 it is Khamzat’s incredible weight miss that remains the talking point. Chimaev, who is undoubtedly one
Georges St-Pierre thinks Charles Oliveira needs to keep his back away from the fence at all costs against Islam Makhachev. Oliveira (33-8 MMA, 21-8 UFC) meets Makhachev (22-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) for the vacant lightweight title in the UFC 280 headliner Oct. 22 at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. In a matchup between two elite
Apparently in Russia, MMA fighters sometimes wear full chain-link armor and wield swords. This bizarre spin on traditional MMA was the brainchild of M1-Global—a leading Russian MMA promotion that birthed the likes of UFC stars Shavkat Rakhmonov and Alexander Volkov. In 2015, M1 began staging full-contact jousting matches—or “knight fights”—to keep the crowd entertained in
Sep 14, 2022 The UFC is finalizing a featherweight main event between Calvin Kattar and Arnold Allen for a UFC Fight Night on Oct. 29, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Wednesday. Bout agreements have not been signed, but the 145-pound contest is close to being official, sources told ESPN. The UFC Fight Night
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Two grappling aces will collide, and someone’s undefeated record will end up a thing of the past. Arkansas’s finest UFC fighter, Bryce Mitchell, will return to action opposite Russian wrestler, Movsar Evloev, on Nov. 5 at a UFC Fight Night event inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout
A pair of exciting, undefeated UFC featherweights are set to clash in November. Bryce Mitchell returns to action against Movsar Evloev on Nov. 5 in a UFC Fight Night bout in Las Vegas. The event will take place at the UFC Apex. Mitchell (15-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) currently holds the No. 10 slot in the
Welcome to the first edition of the MMA News’ Sleeper Scrap! The MMA world’s relentless schedule means that some fans don’t look closely at a fight card until days before the event, leaving the promoters to decide which bouts you should be paying attention to. Everyone wants to tune in for main events and fights
12:46 PM ET The UFC has rebooked a middleweight main event between Jared Cannonier and Sean Strickland for Dec. 17. The 185-pound contest was originally supposed to headline a UFC Fight Night on Oct. 15 in Las Vegas, but Strickland was forced to pull out of that date because of finger surgery. UFC officials confirmed
Kyoji Horiguchi is headed back home. As one of the best fighters on the planet today, Horiguchi has established himself as an all-time great from his country of Japan. Testing himself as much as he possibly can, the American Top Team (ATT) product famously gave superstar prodigy kickboxer, Tenshin Nasukawa, a run for his money