UFC women’s flyweight Maryna Moroz says the UFC’s official Russian Instagram account blocked her based on her nationality. While fighting is, in itself, an intense sport with high stakes, not many will have entered a cage in as difficult a scenario as Moroz did this past weekend. With war waging in her native country of
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) makes its return to the “Sunshine State” for the upcoming UFC 273: “Volkanovski vs. Korean Zombie” pay-per-view (PPV) card, locked and loaded for Sat., April 9, 2022 inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., and the promotion recently unveiled the official fight poster for the championship event. UFC 273 will
By Farah Hannoun | March 7, 2022 8:00 am ET Surging welterweight contenders will square off in May. Randy Brown (14-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC) meets Khaos Williams (13-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) at UFC 274, which takes place at Footprint Center in Phoenix on May 7, promotion officials announced during the UFC 272 broadcast this past Saturday.
10:49 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Khabib Nurmagomedov is headed to the UFC’s Hall of Fame. The UFC announced on Saturday that Nurmagomedov (29-0), the undefeated former champion from Dagestan, will be inducted as part of the UFC Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022 during the promotion’s International Fight Week in July. Nurmagomedov was in
The UFC 272 headliners have both reacted to Drake’s whopping loss of $275,000 by betting on Jorge Masvidal to defeat Colby Covington. After The Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA championship, it appeared “The Drake Curse” had been lifted. Drake was now free to publicly back athletes without them having to fend off the dreaded
Renato Moicano showed a lot of guts stepping up on four days notice to fight Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 272. And then he showed even more guts by surviving five hard rounds with “RDA,” who beat Moicano up so badly the ringside physician was called in twice to check on him. Dos Anjos would
LAS VEGAS – Rafael dos Anjos wants his next fight to be one that excites him. Like so many other fighters, the name Conor McGregor gets his competitive juices flowing. Shortly after his UFC 272 win over Renato Moicano at T-Mobile Arena, dos Anjos (31-13 MMA, 20-11 UFC) took a look at the landscape of
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz 1:08 AM ET Colby Covington dominated Jorge Masvidal to claim a one-sided unanimous decision Saturday night at UFC 272 at T-Mobile Arena in a grudge match between former teammates turned bitter rivals. The judges scored the bout 49-46, 50-44 and 50-45 for Covington. Covington wasted little time going to
UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira will make his next title defense against former interim champion Justin Gaethje at UFC 274. The UFC confirmed the booking during the UFC 272 broadcast. Oliveira is coming off of his first successful title defense against Dustin Poirier at UFC 269. After withstanding an early barrage from Poirier, Oliveira was
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to intensify, it was impossible to ignore the conflagration at UFC 272. Two moments during the event that stuck out followed the wins of Russian Umar Nurmagomedov and Ukrainian Maryna Moroz, who addressed the conflict directly during her post fight speech. Nurmagomedov, who hails from the Russian republic
By Mike Bohn | March 6, 2022 8:00 am ET LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 272 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $236,000. The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC
1:36 AM ET Colby Covington utilized a clear strategy to wear down Jorge Masvidal over five rounds and earned a unanimous decision victory at UFC 272. Covington’s wrestling was simply too much for Masvidal, resulting in most of the fight being contested on the mat. Masvidal did have his moments, but they were few and
Drake now has $275,000 less in his massive bank account. Hip hop superstar Drake is one of the biggest names in the music industry, with over 170 million records sold worldwide; multiple awards, including the Billboard Music Awards’ Artist of the Decade; and a discography of never-ending hits. All things considered, it’s fair to say
Top-ranked welterweight contender Colby Covington recently told the combat sports media that he wanted to earn a third fight against reigning 170-pound titleholder Kamaru Usman after coming up short against “The Nigerian Nightmare” at UFC 245 and then again at UFC 268. The means to that end? Defeating Jorge Masvidal. Covington captured a unanimous decision
By MMA Junkie Staff | March 5, 2022 7:38 pm ET LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Saturday’s UFC 272 event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Be sure to follow along with the latest card updates in our UFC 272 live results post, and then discuss the event
8:55 PM ET One of the top women’s fighters in the world will be back in the cage before summer. A women’s flyweight title bout between champion Valentina Shevchenko and Taila Santos is being targeted for UFC 275 on June 11, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. MMA Fighting was the first to report the
UFC lightweight Arman Tsarukyan has once again expressed his desire to share the Octagon with Gregor Gillespie, who he believes is “scared” to face him. If Tsarukyan wasn’t on your radar as one of the hottest prospects in the UFC before UFC Vegas 49, he certainly is now. After falling to a loss on promotional
Colby Covington is entering his grudge match with Jorge Masvidal with supreme confidence and it’s showed all week. The two former friends turned rivals will finally collide in a five-round main event later this evening (Sat., Mar. 5, 2022) at UFC 272 live on ESPN+ PPV from inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It