By MMA Junkie Staff | April 4, 2022 10:00 pm ET An exciting middleweight fight has been rebooked for an upcoming UFC Fight Night event. Kyle Daukauswill meet Roman Dolidze on June 18. The event does not yet have a confirmed location or venue. Both Daukaus (11-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) and Dolidze (9-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC)
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8:00 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim A championship prizefight makes a Saturday night feel special. And when there are two tussles for titles on the fight card, that doubles the big-event exhilaration. This weekend’s UFC 273 (Saturday, 10 p.m., on ESPN+ PPV) offers all that and more. The 13-fight event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in
UFC light heavyweight Anthony Smith doesn’t believe his fellow contender Magomed Ankalaev is the “boogeyman” that he’s being made out to be. It doesn’t feel like too long ago that the UFC’s 205-pound division was considered stale and unexciting. But in 2022, the weight class sits with an unlikely champion in Glover Teixeira, who provided
It will be tough for anyone to ever match the impact left behind by Ronda Rousey, but current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight titleholder Julianna Pena can at least say she did something “Rowdy” couldn’t. Rousey retired from mixed martial arts (MMA) in 2017 following a 48-second knockout loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207.
Fresh off filming “The Ultimate Fighter,” it appears Julianna Pena’s rivalry with Amanda Nunes is heating up. Peña (11-4 MMA, 7-2 UFC) scored a shocking upset finish to dethrone longtime bantamweight champion Nunes (21-5 MMA, 14-2 UFC) at UFC 269 this past December. The pair have been matched up for a rematch later this year. Before
UFC 273 is now days away, and leading the charge of a stacked pay-per-view card is a spring tripleheader set to take full bloom. In the main event, Alexander Volkanovski will have the opportunity to again show why he is one of the world’s best pound-for-pound fighters when he defends his featherweight title against “The
Two nights of WrestleMania 38 have just wrapped up from the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas and while there were plenty of twists and surprises, none of them involved Conor McGregor making an appearance. The Irish sports star often ends up in the rumor mill for a potential WrestleMania appearance. Back in 2018 those rumors
By MMA Junkie Staff | April 4, 2022 7:00 am ET The UFC returns to pay-per-view Saturday with UFC 273 at Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., with two title fights atop the card. Here’s how to watch UFC 273 with the featherweight and bantamweight belts up for grabs. Broadcast and streaming info UFC
12:31 PM ET UFC 273 is a fight card that keeps on giving. The April 9 pay-per-view event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, will be headlined by a men’s featherweight title fight between champion Alexander Volkanovski and Chan Sung Jung. For Jung, whom the UFC bills by his nickname, “The Korean Zombie,”
The following article was published on this day two years ago. It is presented to you in its original, unaltered form, courtesy of The MMA News Archives. On This Day Two Years Ago… [ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 3, 2020, 7:13 PM] Headline: Luke Rockhold Wishes He Had The Chance To Fight Anderson Silva Author: Fernando Quiles
Are things already getting “Rowdy” between Ronda Rousey and the WWE? For months, Rousey was being built up as the headliner for WWE’s WrestleMania 38 show on Saturday night. Then the WWE reportedly pulled one of their classic last minute switcheroos and decided Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Kevin Owens should be the final match
By Mike Bohn and MMA Junkie Staff | April 3, 2022 6:00 pm ET With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best fights from March 2022: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Fight of the Month award for March. At
UFC welterweight Gilbert Burns has worked with welterweight champion Kamaru Usman ahead of his UFC 273 clash with Khamzat Chimaev. Burns will face Chimaev in a potential No. 1 contender clash at UFC 273 on April 9. Burns has previously said that should he defeat the streaking Chimaev, he’ll take nothing less than a title
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey returned to the WWE ring earlier tonight (Sat., April 2, 2022) at WrestleMania 38 live on NBC’s Peacock from inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, as “Rowdy” took on Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown women’s title. Rousey went for a few submission attempts early,
By Nolan King | April 2, 2022 6:00 pm ET There is no UFC, Bellator, PFL, ONE Championship or Eagle FC this weekend. There’s not even a BKFC. So how are fight fans supposed to get their weekly helping of violence? That’s where XMMA comes in handy XMMA 4 takes place Saturday at The Fillmore
11:58 AM ET UFC middleweight Kelvin Gastelum will not fight at UFC 273 on April 9 because of an undisclosed injury. Gastelum (17-8) was forced to withdraw from a bout against Dricus du Plessis (16-2) scheduled next weekend in Jacksonville, Florida, per UFC officials. Additional sources told ESPN that du Plessis, of South Africa, is
After Daniel Cormier pulled out of their UFC 197 main event, Jon Jones needed a new opponent. He would ultimately be paired against Ovince Saint Preux, with Jones cruising to a unanimous decision victory. You can catch Jones’ Octagon interview from that bout below followed by an article where Jones was in hot pursuit of
Michael Chandler is once again lobbying for a fight against Conor McGregor, but this time around the lightweight contender is attaching a date to his callout. Chandler, who has turned into one of the more exciting fighters on the UFC roster since coming over from Bellator MMA just over one year ago, has long paid