7:56 AM ET UFC president Dana White is fond of saying there are no tune-up fights in the UFC — and for the most part, he’s right. There really aren’t many. But Miesha Tate did get one this year. Tate (19-7) returned from a nearly five-year layoff in July and picked up a dominant TKO
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Joanna Jędrzejczyk is thinking about her return to the UFC and who she would face. The strawweight division in the UFC is stacked at the top. Champion Rose Namajunas just had her first title defense against Weili Zhang. Who is next for her might be up for debate right now but always waiting in the
Venerable 135-pound bruiser Ketlen Vieira will look to quell the uprising of former women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate when they go to war in the UFC Vegas 43 headliner, set for five rounds inside the promotion’s APEX facility on ESPN+ this Sat. night (Nov. 20, 2021) in Las Vegas, Nevada. LIVE! Stream UFC Vegas 43
A bare-knuckle boxing organization has filed a lawsuit against Triller alleging copyright infringement pertaining to the ring design for an upcoming event. BYB Extreme Fight Series and Lights Out Productions, LLC, filed a civil complaint Thursday in Florida Middle District Court, which accused Triller, Triller frontman Ryan Kavanaugh and streaming service FITE TV of design
For months, fans salivated over the mere thought of Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler competing in their UFC 268 bout. And when it finally happened, boy did it live up to the expectations. Justin Gaethje had his arm raised on November 6. But for perhaps the first time in his lifelong sporting career, Chandler did
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Al Iaquinta may have made his final walk to the Octagon at UFC 268. The 34-year-old veteran’s first trip to the Octagon in over two years did not exactly go as planned. Almost immediately, Bobby Green figured out his timing and started landing counters. Iaquinta tried to pressure through and find
The Association of Boxing Commissions recently suspended an entire fight card’s worth of athletes – 20 in total – who competed in a bare-knuckle boxing event that the ABC has said was “unsanctioned.” However, the promotion involved and an independent regulatory body disagree with that categorization and subsequent suspensions. The event in question, “BKFC Fight
UFC lightweight contender Michael Chandler is relieved that his barnburner with Justin Gaethje at UFC 268 was three rounds rather than five. After falling short of the 155-pound mountaintop at UFC 262 in May, where he suffered a TKO loss at the hands of Charles Oliveira, Chandler hoped to bounce straight back to the title
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight phenom Khamzat Chimaev, who looks right at home in the middleweight division, will battle fellow UFC contender Jack Hermansson in a special freestyle wrestling match as part of the Bulldog Fight Night 9 event on Nov. 19 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Watch both fighters come face-to-face at the conclusion of the
Conor McGregor had an inkling, he said, that his leg may break in his trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier at UFC 264. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) broke his leg at the end of Round 1, but the former UFC dual-champ had previously revealed that he entered the fight with stress fractures in his leg. The
American Kickboxing Academy head coach Javier Mendez is not sure who will get the lightweight title shot between Islam Makhachev and Justin Gaethje. Mendez has been coaching and singing the praises of Makhachev for a while, even starting the rumors that he is better than his close friend and former lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov. With
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Safe to say, Dan Hooker’s decision to accept a short-notice bout vs. Islam Makhachev did not exactly pay off. Hooker’s gutsiness in accept the bout definitely earned him some extra respect from the fans, but once the cage doors actually locked, Makhachev pretty immediately had his way with the Kiwi. Makhachev
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is baffled by Max Holloway not pushing for a trilogy bout against him. Since losing to Volkanovski (23-1 MMA, 10-0 UFC) for a second consecutive time in July 2020, Holloway has battered Calvin Kattar and Yair Rodriguez in record-shattering performances, solidifying his No. 1
8:00 AM ET Miesha Tate reached out to UFC president Dana White in the summer of 2020. Tate and her husband, Johnny Nunez, had just had their second child, Daxton, and Tate was contemplating a comeback to the Octagon. At the time, Tate and Nunez were living in Singapore. Tate was working in an office
UFC light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith has responded to Conor McGregor after the Irishman mocked his and Belal Muhammad’s analysis at UFC Vegas 42 last weekend. McGregor’s antics and arguments with fellow fighters on social media is nothing new. But while he’s been tweeting and deleting insults for years, the former two-division UFC champion’s tendency
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is holding a special pre-fight media day this afternoon (Weds., Nov. 17, 2021) for the upcoming UFC Vegas 43: “Vieira vs. Tate” mixed martial arts (MMA) event, scheduled for this Sat. night (Nov. 20) inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. LIVE! Stream UFC Vegas 43 On ESPN+ Ultimate
If the name Anthony Garrett doesn’t immediately ring a bell, perhaps a recap of his most notable fight to date will serve as a reminder. Remember when Bellator heavyweight Jake Hager kneed that one dude twice in the junk, and the guy collapsed to the canvas, writhing in pain? That’s Anthony Garrett. “The whole Jake
Randa Markos, who entered the UFC in 2014 is no longer a member of the UFC’s roster. Markos fought out her UFC contract back in October as she beat Livia Renato Souza by decision. The victory snapped her four-fight losing streak, but she is just 11-11-1 as a pro, so the UFC decided not to