Junior dos Santos doesn’t think Tyson Fury would do well in MMA. Fury is the current WBC and The Ring heavyweight champion and is set to face Dillian Whyte on April 23 in a very intriguing matchup. He has said this will be his retirement fight but he has hinted about doing special fights or
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Top-ranked grinder, Belal Muhammad, will square off opposite Brazilian finisher, Vicente Luque, this Saturday (April 16, 2022, 2021) at UFC Vegas 51 inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s been six years since the last time these two met inside the Octagon. Both men have improved significantly and picked up the biggest wins of
By Farah Hannoun | April 14, 2022 9:15 am ET A battle between lightweight prospects is on tap for June. Damir Ismagulov (20-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) will take on Guram Kutateladze (12-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) at a June 18 UFC event which doesn’t yet have an announced venue or location. A person with knowledge of
3:29 PM ET Marlon Moraes, long one of the best bantamweight fighters in MMA, is retiring from the sport, his manager, Ali Abdelaziz, told ESPN on Wednesday. Moraes, 33, held the World Series of Fighting (WSOF) bantamweight title from 2014 to 2016 before signing with the UFC, racking up five title defenses in WSOF. “Magic”
Zhang Weili has opened as a narrow favorite for her upcoming rematch with fellow former UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk. It’s safe to say that no fight could have sent fans out of an arena for the final time pre-COVID-19 more satisfied than the barnburner between Zhang and Jędrzejczyk did. In the co-main event
Khamzat Chimaev showed up and showed out at UFC 273 with his big win over Gilbert Burns (watch highlights) and the rest of the division is taking notice. This weekend (Sat., April 16, 2022), top Welterweight contenders Vicente Luque and Belal Muhammad will run things back in the main event of UFC Vegas 51. Despite
By Matt Erickson and Nolan King | April 13, 2022 9:30 pm ET SAN JOSE, Calif. – Ahead of his first attempted title defense, A.J. McKee thinks he’s simply on a different level than the rest of the world’s featherweights. McKee (18-0 MMA, 18-0 BMMA) beat Patricio Freire (32-5 MMA, 20-5 BMMA) in 2021 to
7:29 AM ET A big victory resulted in a small (but significant) move for Alexander Volkanovski. The UFC men’s bantamweight champion had his way with Chan Sung Jung on Saturday in their UFC 273 title fight, outstriking the South Korean by 152-51 on his way to a one-sided fourth-round TKO. The win, Volkanovski’s 21st in
Michael Bisping is not holding back with his criticism of Jake and Logan Paul for their recent callouts for fights in boxing and MMA. Logan recently hinted at a future potential move to the UFC to fight upstart lightweight prospect Paddy Pimblett. When he confronted UFC President Dana White on his podcast regarding a potential
This weekend (Sat., April 16, 2022), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to Las Vegas, Nevada and the UFC Apex for UFC Vegas 51. I won’t lie to my readers: this is a bleak card, particularly after a high-profile pay-per-view (PPV) weekend. There’s no substantial jump in quality from the preliminary portion of the event
By Mike Bohn | April 13, 2022 8:00 am ET The UFC schedule continues this week with UFC on ESPN 34 on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there to help guide viewers through the experience. Details of who will work as commentators and analysts
1:09 PM ET Cain Velasquez has broken his silence for the first time since being charged with attempted murder in a shooting-related incident last month. In a statement posted to his social media, the former two-time UFC heavyweight champion thanked everyone who has given him support and said his case is “complex and slowly unraveling
MMA referee Wiekus Swart got more than he bargained for while officiating a recent Extreme Fighting Championships bout. Welterweights Ziko Magengele and Martin von Staden were going toe-to-toe at EFC 93 when the two of them through a flurry of punches. As Swart attempted to stop the action as the first round came to a
Jared Cannonier seemingly sealed his first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) title shot the same night as his division’s title was contested. Going into Cannonier’s UFC 271 matchup with Derek Brunson, Brunson was riding high after five straight wins that coincided with him dying his hair to become “Blonde Brunson.” Cannonier predicted he’d change “Blonde Brunson”
Rankings Pound For Pound Rankings #1 Kamaru Usman Win 20 Loss 1 Draw 0 Usman has five consecutive defenses of the UFC’s 170-pound title and is now in the discussion as the greatest welterweight of all time. #2 Israel Adesanya Win 22 Loss 1 Draw 0 While he wasn’t completely satisfied with his latest win
10:37 PM ET Alexander Volkanovski has welcomed Henry Cejudo’s return to the USADA testing pool, but the Australian says he is instead focused on a shift to lightweight and an immediate crack at becoming a two-division UFC champion. Fresh off his domination of Chan Sung Jung at UFC 273, Volkanovski is already mapping out his
MMA journalist Ariel Helwani has discussed what he’s heard about UFC featherweight Zabit Magomedsharipov’s ongoing absence from the Octagon. Entering 2020, Zabit was ranked #3 in the 145-pound division and unbeaten in six fights on MMA’s biggest stage. En route to title contention, the Dagestani increased his professional record to 18-1 with victories over Sheymon
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Though the bout is not officially booked, UFC and Dana White have made it clear the plan moving forward at 170 lbs. is to book Colby Covington vs. Khamzat Chimaev. Chimaev has already agreed to the match up, promising to “smash his face,” and “Chaos” has mentioned the Chechen several times