Legends League? It’s going to be a big year for the upstart Global Fight League, which has been building up steam (and much needed capital) for its 2025 launch. At the end of January, the team-based combat sports promotion will run a draft where fighters will be assigned to six city-based squads. Then, there’ll be
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Israel Adesanya may be fighting Nassourdine Imavov in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in Feb. 2025 (details here), but he’s got his eye on rising contender, Caio Borralho, too. Borralho is 16-1 in mixed martial arts (MMA) and undefeated (7-0) in UFC and most recently dismantled Jared Cannonier to bring his Middleweight ranking up to No. 6.
Ilia Topuria has only had a few in-person encounters with Conor McGregor … and they creep him out to this day. In a resurfaced clip from an appearance on The Wild Project podcast, Topuria described the vibe he got from McGregor when they were both fighting on the same card at UFC 264 back in
If you’ve got a New Year’s resolution you’re looking to start in 2025, why wait? Start now! That’s what “Suga” Sean O’Malley did and he’s already feeling … well, he’s feeling some type way about it. The social media star declared his intention to ditch social media last week, hoping the move would ensure he
Khabib Nurmagomedov has a gameplan for Henry Cejudo to end his career (again) with a bang, but it involves serious discipline and a busy 2025 for UFC’s former double champ and Olympic gold medalist. In a fascinating new video shared on Cejudo’s site, “Triple C” told Khabib he was considering a return to 125 pounds,
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO, Dana White, ended 2024 by saying he has something special lined up for 2025. While nothing has been revealed at the moment regarding that particular nugget, there are several juicy bouts that await us in the new year, with most fight fans salivating for a highly-anticipated Heavyweight title fight between
Donald Cerrone has officially announced plans for his mixed martial arts (MMA) comeback. Indeed, the man we all know as “Cowboy” revealed during a recent interview with former NFL star, Adam “Pacman” Jones, that he has started the proper steps in order to make his return to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Octagon in mid-2025
After suffering back-to-back losses at the hands of Sean Strickland and Dricus du Plessis, Israel Adesanya will make his highly-anticipated return to action to face Nassourdine Imavov in the main event of UFC Saudi Arabia on Feb. 1, 2025. With two tough defeats looming in the back of his mind ahead of a tough bout
Chan Sung Jung, or better known as “Korean Zombie,” is considered by many as an MMA legend due to his insane fighting style. But although he had a reputation as a wild brawler, he was also a technical fighter. In May 2012, Jung picked up arguably the biggest win of his career, which served as
In the past several years, the PFL has signed plenty of big-name talent away from organizations like the UFC. But those big names often have arrived to their new promotion to unceremonious welcomes from their opponents – to the tune of some serious upsets. There were some big names on the PFL’s list of upsets
Michael Johnson fought the who’s who in MMA – including Khabib Nurmagomedov. Johnson was submitted by Nurmagomedov in the third round of their lightweight bout at UFC 205 in November 2016. Johnson hung tough, but Nurmagomedov’s grappling proved to be too overwhelming. “I fought mine on two weeks’ notice,” Johnson said on the “Overdogs Podcast.”
Henry Cejudo and Kamaru Usman have opposing views on the potential biggest UFC fight in 2025. Usman thinks if the heavyweight title-unification bout between champion Jon Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) and interim champ Tom Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) materializes, the lure of Jones never being beaten makes it the biggest fight. However, Cejudo
Check out these images of actor Ryan Destiny and boxing and PFL standout Claressa Shields. Destiny plays Shields in “The Fire Inside,” a biopic about Shields’ life and career. Los Angeles Premiere of Amazon MGM Studios’ ”The Fire Inside” at the DGA Theater Olympic boxer Claressa Shields and actress Ryan Destiny attend the Los Angeles
When Conor McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather in the second biggest boxing event of all time, Drake was on his side. When McGregor walked on stage to weigh in for the biggest MMA fight of his career against Khabib Nurmagomedov back at UFC 229, Drake was part of his crew. Knowing that, one might conclude that
How’s this for an “overreaction”? 2025 will be the last year Jon Jones fights in the UFC … if we’re lucky. Jones returned from injury in 2024 to fight only once at UFC 309 last month, when he finished Stipe Miocic to retain the heavyweight championship. That title, however, is in dispute considering Tom Aspinall
Donald Cerrone is taking the proper steps to make his UFC return a reality in 2025. Cerrone (36-17 MMA, 23-14 UFC), who at a time held UFC returns for fights, wins, finishes and bonuses, retired from competition in July 2022. He went winless in his final seven octagon appearances and admitted his love for the
The UFC’s top knockouts of 2024 is a robust list of nearly four dozen finishes, and if you’re dealing with any post-holiday seasonal depression, watching these might pick ya right back up. And sure, the ones you expect to be there are there from Alex Pereira and Max Holloway and Ilia Topuria and Tom Aspinall.
(This story first appeared in the Detroit Free Press and USA TODAY.) DETROIT − When a new movie arrives about Flint, Mich., it’s usually yet another documentary on the water crisis that has defined the city in the public eye for the past decade. But that’s not the case with “The Fire Inside,” a film