UFC Paris live stream results and play-by-play updates: Heavyweight hurters Ciryl Gane and Tai Tuivasa are leading the charge for the promotion’s debut in Paris, France, by way of Accor Arena on ESPN+ today (Sat., Sept. 3, 2022), a 12-fight MMA card that also features the middleweight co-main event between former champion Robert Whittaker and
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Abus Magomedov arrived in the UFC in a big way Saturday. After multiple debut cancellations, Magomedov (25-4-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) finally debuted with a 19-second TKO victory over Dustin Stoltzfus (14-5 MMA, 1-4 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 209 in Paris. The finishing sequence began with a brutal front kick that snapped Stoltzfus’ head back.
UFC Paris headliners Ciryl Gane and Tai Tuivasa were among the fighters who came face-to-face one more time at Friday’s ceremonial weigh-ins. Gane and Tuivasa feature in a heavyweight UFC Paris main event between two of the top contenders in the division. The winner could potentially earn a title shot for their next Octagon appearance.
1:52 PM ET PARIS — UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou told ESPN on Friday that the most realistic timetable for his return to competition is early 2023. Some reports had surfaced that the UFC was hoping that Ngannou, who had knee surgery to repair his right ACL and MCL in March, would be back by
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Even among the highly athletic and dedicated ranks of the UFC’s elite at 170 lbs., Kamaru Usman stands out. “The Nigerian Nightmare” has definite skill on the feet and on the canvas, but it’s always been his physicality that separates him from the pack. Usman has immense physical strength and can
By Dan Tom | September 2, 2022 10:00 pm ET MMA Junkie analyst Dan Tom breaks down the UFC’s top bouts. Today, we look at the main card for UFC Fight Night 209. UFC Fight Night 209 takes place Saturday at Accor Arena in Paris. The main card airs on ESPN+ beginning at 3 p.m.
UFC legend Georges St-Pierre feels that Kamaru Usman‘s loss to Leon Edwards came to a single mistake which led to the UFC 278 head kick knockout. Usman looked well on his way to defeating Edwards at UFC 278 before getting knocked out unconscious with a head kick. It was the first loss of Usman’s UFC
Tai Tuivasa and coach Shaun Sullivan go back a long way. Growing up playing rugby league in western Sydney — Sullivan played with one of Tuivasa’s older brothers — their sporting endeavors have long been intertwined. Now, more than a decade on from when a 15-year-old Tuivasa was the second heaviest player at Penrith Panthers
The stacked UFC 280 event has lost a pivotal bout in the Strawweight division. Speaking with MMA Mania today (Fri., Sept. 2, 2022), No. 3-ranked 115 pound contender, Marina Rodriguez (16-1-2), revealed that her upcoming match up with the No. 8-ranked Amanda Lemos (12-2-1) will no longer take place at UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi,
PARIS – UFC Fight Night 209 ceremonial fighter weigh-ins took place Friday, and the fighters came face-to-face one final time before Saturday’s event. The weigh-ins took place at Accor Arena. The same venue hosts the event, which streams on ESPN+. Check out the video above to see the athletes from all 12 scheduled matchups come
Former interim lightweight champion Justin Gaethje has revealed which of his fights he’d choose to have inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame down the line. The annual UFC Hall of Fame Ceremony went down in Las Vegas during International Fight Week. While former champions Daniel Cormier and Khabib Nurmagomedov drew most of the attention
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Marvin Vettori likely has his hands full this weekend (Sat. Sept. 3, 2022) at UFC Paris opposite former champion Robert Whittaker, but that doesn’t mean “The Italian Dream” can’t send a stray shot in Darren Till’s direction. Vettori is famously angry, and for whatever reason, Till is the latest target for
PARIS – Robert Whittaker and Marvin Vettori have made weight for their massive middleweight showdown at UFC Fight Night 209. Former UFC champ Whittaker (23-6, 14-4 UFC) and former title challenger (18-5-1 MMA, 8-3-1 UFC) are set for a key showdown in Saturday’s co-main event, but ahead of stepping in the octagon, they had to
Nate Diaz is taking a massive gamble on himself by fighting out his UFC contract against Khamzat Chimaev, and MMA journalist Ariel Helwani believes this is a gamble that should pay off if he wins. After months of negotiating and trying to figure out exactly how he would fight out his UFC contract, it was
Aug 22, 2022 The UFC will pack a big punch for its Paris debut when top-10 heavyweight strikers Ciryl Gane and Tai Tuivasa headline Fight Night on Saturday. The fights at Accor Arena are on ESPN+, with the 3 p.m. ET main card preceded by prelims at noon. Gane (10-1) will be trying to bounce
Marvin Vettori? Bitter? Maybe … or maybe he just wants reigning middleweight champion Israel Adesanya — who registered two wins over “The Italian Dream” inside the Octagon — to get knocked out by Alex Pereira so badly that “The Last Stylebender” needs an oxygen mask to recover. Kind of like he did at Glory of
PARIS – After a decade at bantamweight, Nathaniel Wood gave himself a fresh start at featherweight earlier this year. But in a bit of a rarity, he said it was a fight that never happened that gave him the push to move up a division. When Vince Morales pulled out of a March fight on
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