Conor McGregor was back on Twitter communicating with his followers and answering questions on Saturday. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC), a former two-division UFC champion, hasn’t fought since UFC 264 in July when he suffered a first-round TKO loss to Dustin Poirier in their anticipated trilogy fight. The contest ended when McGregor broke his leg
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10:53 AM ET UFC lightweights Beneil Dariush and Islam Makhachev have agreed to meet on Feb 26, manager Ali Abdelaziz told ESPN. The 155-pound, five-round contest will headline a UFC Fight Night, said Abdelaziz, who managers both fighters. The promotion has not yet announced a location for that event. “I don’t like it when two
The beef between Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling continues. It’s no secret that Yan and Sterling don’t like each other. The pair have exchanged barbs on social media since before their fight last March. When the highly-touted bout ended with Yan landing an illegal knee and people questioning the extent of the injury suffered by
Justin Gaethje did enough in his spectacular fight with Michael Chandler at UFC 268 to earn the next UFC lightweight title shot over the streaking Islam Makhachev. Despite what anyone else says, “Highlight” has earned his right to fight for the belt once again. Unfortunately, Gaethje needed to put himself through hell against Chandler to
Paul Felder wants to give credit where credit is due. The retired UFC lightweight can’t speak highly enough about the treatment and resources available to him as a UFC fighter at the Cleveland Clinic’s professional athlete’s brain study. Felder (17-6 MMA, 9-6 UFC) believes it’s extremely important to participate in the research and encourages fellow UFC
It might be Nick Diaz who is quoted as saying “They’re all on steroids,” but this was something that Julianna Peña heard from someone unexpected. Before she was a top contender at bantamweight, who is set to fight Amanda Nunes for the title at UFC 269, Peña was a young upstart competing on, and eventually
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Mike Perry walks to the beat of his own drum. At one point, Perry was 10-0 with nothing but knockout wins to his credit, a clearly talented bruiser at 170 lbs. Unfortunately, repeatedly poor decision-making continued to add up, and Perry eventually washed out of the UFC with a 7-8 record
A few days after he announced testing positive for COVID-19, UFC veteran Matt Brown says he’s doing all right now. Brown had been scheduled to fight Bryan Barberena next Saturday, Dec. 4 at UFC on ESPN 31, but the bout was canceled earlier this week as a result of Brown’s positive test. On Friday, Brown
UFC bantamweight contender Julianna Pena claims an unnamed coach at American Top Team (ATT) told her that most of the female fighters at the famed MMA gym, which is run by Dan Lambert in Coconut Creek, Fla., were “shooting their butts with steroids” when she spent a week on location back in 2013. “They were
Frank Mir, a former UFC heavyweight champion, says his fight on Saturday at Triller Triad Combat against Kubrat Pulev will be the highest payday of his career. Mir has been a part of massive fights and events like headlining UFC 100 against Brock Lesnar. He also headlined Bellator shows, as well, but on Saturday, he
UFC lightweight Michael Chandler continues his campaign to fight Conor McGregor, but he’s taking a different approach than most. Rather than talking trash and aggressively calling him out, Chandler (22-7 MMA, 1-2 UFC) has paid respect toward McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) not just as a showman, but as a fighter. McGregor has lost three
Joanna Jędrzejczyk is pleased with the growth of the sport since she was strawweight champion. While she was technically the second champion at 115lb in the UFC, beating inaugural Carla Esparza in 2015 to get the belt, she has the longest title reign in the division by a long shot. This has led to many
Welcome to Midnight Mania! 28-3 with an absurd 25 knockouts to his name, Jiri Prochazka is doing something right. The Czech athlete is 2-0 inside the Octagon, and the former Rizin champion is likely next in line for a shot at UFC gold. What’s his secret? The power puncher recently revealed a fairly uncommon training
American Top Team coach Mike Brown expects Dustin Poirier to leave the UFC 269 headliner against Charles Oliveira as undisputed lightweight champion. Poirier (28-6 MMA, 20-5 UFC) will attempt to dethrone Oliveira (31-8 MMA, 19-8 UFC) of the belt when they meet in the Dec. 11 main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The
[MMA NEWS ARCHIVES] On this day, three years ago, Tito Ortiz defeated Chuck Liddell via KO in an event put on by Golden Boy Promotions. After Ortiz picked up the KO victory, the MMA world inevitably reacted. That includes former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. The following article is presented to you in its
Triller Fight Club returns this Saturday November 27th with another unusual event: the debut of their Triad Combat promotion which is being marketed as a more fair venue for MMA fighters to compete against boxers. The ring is triangular, clinch fighting is allowed, and spinning backfists are cool. That about sums up the difference. Will
William Knight and Alonzo Menifield are on a collision course once again. Will the third time be the charm? The two hulking light heavyweights were originally scheduled to fight in February and then were re-booked for March, but both bookings were canceled due to COVID-19 protocols. Promotion officials announced Wednesday that Knight (10-2 MMA, 2-1
In a lot of ways, the rematch between Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington was closer than their first fight, but there may be a reason for that. The first fight between Usman and Covington was an all-out war, with both men having big moments and the judges having it even on the scorecards ahead of