Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin are saving the fireworks for Saturday night, when they will meet for a third time on pay-per-view from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Neither man had anything objectionable to say at a low-key final press conference Thursday at the MGM Grand. They had their obligatory stare down afterward but that
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Daniel Rodriguez has told of how Kevin Holland made sure he was taken care of before Holland accepted a bout with Khamzat Chimaev. Rodriguez and Holland were originally set to fight each other at UFC 279. Khamzat Chimaev weighing in at 178.5 lbs set off a turn of events that saw Holland bumped up to
10:32 AM ET The Professional Fighters League has signed 24-year-old Biaggio Ali Walsh, grandson of Muhammad Ali, to an amateur contract to compete in its tournament finals event in November. Ali Walsh is a former collegiate football player at the University of California, with an amateur MMA record of 1-1. He currently lives and trains
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Nate Diaz’s victory over Tony Ferguson at UFC 279 last weekend (HIGHLIGHTS) earned the Stockton slugger his freedom. Diaz ended the final fight of his UFC contract on a high-note despite all initial expectations, entering free agency as a hugely valuable commodity. Quite simply, he’s one of the sport’s biggest stars,
Sean Strickland thinks Khamzat Chimaev should stay at welterweight. Chimaev (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) came in 7.5 pounds over the welterweight limit for his originally scheduled bout against Nate Diaz this past Saturday at UFC 279. As a result, the card was shuffled and he fought Kevin Holland, instead, in a 180-pound catchweight bout. “Borz”
Michael Chandler has had a bit of fun with Dustin Poirier’s hot sauce in a video circulating Twitter. The lightweights are due to match up against each other at UFC 281 at Maddison Square Garden. The bout has been rumored for months and has finally been confirmed this past week. The pair look to once
7:50 AM ET FOR MAJDI SHAMMAS, the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 9 in Las Vegas were a manager’s worst nightmare. At approximately 4 a.m. local time, Shammas knew his fighter, Khamzat Chimaev, would not make weight for a UFC 279 main event against Nate Diaz. Chimaev and his team had done all they
RIZIN Fighting Federation is about to give Fight Circus a serious run for its money in the freakshow fight department. Last night (Tues., Sept. 13, 2022), RIZIN held a press conference to announce an additional match up for the upcoming doubleheader event day of Sept. 25, 2022. Going down at Super RIZIN, popular kickboxing star,
LAS VEGAS – UFC middleweight Gregory Rodrigues in on the verge of having his life change forever, and is happy the promotion granted his request for a fight in September. Coming off a first-round stoppage of Julian Marquez in June, Rodrigues (12-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) wanted to get one more fight in 2022 before he
Kyle Stoltz, MMA manager and founder of Janus Sports & Entertainment, has been sentenced after being arrested in a multi-agency undercover operation targeting pedophiles earlier this year. In December, several Nevada task forces including the FBI’s Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force arrested 9 suspects on suspicion of luring a minor with the use of
Sep 12, 2022 LOS ANGELES — Nate Diaz fought the final bout on his UFC contract last Saturday night, beating Tony Ferguson. That brings a boxing match between the wildly popular MMA fighter and Jake Paul — something both have talked about — closer to being a reality. Paul, the YouTuber-turned-prizefighter, will fight UFC legend
Welcome to Midnight Mania! As is usually the case, the latest episode of Contenders Series, which aired earlier tonight (Tues., Sept. 13, 2022) inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, was rather violent. Three of the five contests ended before the final bell, and the two that went all 15 minutes still showcased some strong
Sean Strickland’s return has been booked. The UFC middleweight contender is set to fight against Jared Cannonier in the main event of the last UFC event of 2022, which goes down on Dec. 17 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. UFC president Dana White confirmed the news following an initial report by Helen Yee.
Paulo Costa has hit the headlines for many strange reasons as of late, and his possible OnlyFans foray could be the weirdest. The Brazillian native Costa was in the news just this past fight week after getting into it with Khamzat Chimaev. The Chechen-born Swedish representative showed up team handed to a gym that Costa
8:00 AM ET The ESPN pound-for-pound MMA rankings you see below are only slightly different from the men’s and women’s top 10s we published Aug. 24, the last time our voting panel weighed in. That should come as no shock. There have been only two UFC fight cards and few other major events across the
RIZIN Fighting Federation closes out Sept. 2022 with a doubleheader showcase. Episode 19 of BROADENED HORIZIN is a special one, celebrating two full years of the show’s existence. To prepare for the upcoming Sept. 25, 2022, events, RIZIN 38 and Super RIZIN, a traditional big-name grouping of four guests joined the panel. Hiromasa Ougikubo made
Jake Paul and Anderson Silva continue to size each other up as their fight nears. The YouTube star and former UFC champion had a second faceoff to end their press tour promoting their Oct. 29 boxing match in Phoenix, Ariz. Much like the first one, there was plenty of respect from both combatants, but also
UFC welterweight Khamzat Chimaev has once again questioned Nate Diaz‘s “gangster” credentials, this time owing to their failed matchup at UFC 279. This past weekend, original headlining opponents Diaz and Chimaev had their hands raised in Las Vegas on a card that had been shifted late in the day. The changes, which saw six fighters