By Danny Segura | September 8, 2021 10:10 pm ET Follow @dannyseguratv HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Evander Holyfield will step in the ring this Saturday while being a little over a year away from his 60th birthday. The multiple-time boxing heavyweight champion returns to action this Saturday, Sept. 11 against former UFC champion Vitor Belfort in
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12:11 PM ET UFC middleweight Darren Till went into his main event bout against Derek Brunson this past weekend with a torn ACL in his right knee, his head coach confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. According to Till’s head coach, Colin Heron, Till (18-4-1) completely tore his ACL approximately nine weeks before the fight. The
The UFC Vegas 36 medical suspensions list has been revealed, and one-half of the headliners, Darren Till, could sit for half a year. In the UFC Vegas 36 main event, Darren Till suffered his second consecutive loss at the hands of Derek Brunson. It could be a while before we see Till in the Octagon
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Evander Holyfield’s return to the ring this Saturday (Sept. 11, 2021) was not exactly planned. However, when Oscar De La Hoya was taken out by COVID-19, Vitor Belfort was left without a dance partner for his Triller boxing crossover. Holyfield jumped on the opportunity, and the Florida Athletic Commission didn’t have
The injury bug has affected an exciting lightweight matchup. Diego Ferreira vs. Grant Dawson was scheduled to take place on Oct. 2 at UFC Fight Night 193, however, due to an injury to Ferreira (17-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC), the bout will no longer take place on that date. Multiple sources confirmed the injury with MMA
8:09 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Two UFC weight classes have champions who are not the consensus top fighters within their own divisions. Another is headed by a champion whom some would argue is second to the standard-bearer in a second-fiddle fight promotion. Whatever happened to champions reigning supreme? Sure, there are a few dominant champs
Derek Brunson captured his fifth straight victory by submitting Top 10 middleweight Darren Till in the UFC Vegas 36 headliner last weekend in “Sin City,” a third-round finish (highlights here) that might send the longtime veteran into his first division title shot. Then again, it might not. That’s because Brunson (23-7) has some stiff competition
Former UFC owners Frank, and Lorenzo Fertitta are in the middle of litigation alleging unfair labor practices surrounding their Las Vegas Casino business enterprise. As revealed in a report from The Daily Beast, the pair of Fertitta brothers are set to appear and speak with a National Labor Relations Board judge. The Fertitta brothers have
Pound For Pound Rankings Already considered one of the greatest fighters of all-time, Jones says he wants to turn his attention to heavyweight and has no intention of returning to 205 pounds. While he failed in his bid to become a champ-champ, Adesanya looked quite dominant in his most recent middleweight title defense and is
11:00 PM ET The UFC awarded another five contracts on Dana White’s Contender Series on Tuesday, a night highlighted by two sub-minute knockouts. Welterweight Josh Quinlan (6-0) and flyweight C.J. Vergara (9-2) stole the show at the Apex in Las Vegas in the second consecutive week that the UFC elected to award contacts to five
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Jon Jones has a complicated legacy, undeniable greatness intermixed with a complicated drug test history and bad behavior outside of the Octagon. However, even Jones himself would likely admit to being a proponent of fighting mean: this is a man who has been admonished by referees for chin-butting an opponent and
The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC Vegas 36! Check out all the changes below! Men’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Strawweight: No Changes Women’s Flyweight: No Changes Women’s Bantamweight: No Changes Women’s Featherweight: N/A Flyweight: No Changes Bantamweight: No Changes Featherweight: No Changes Lightweight: No Changes
Carla Esparza appears in good spirits after taking a few days to digest the news she would not be next to challenge for the UFC strawweight title. Esparza (18-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC), who was the inaugural UFC champ at 115 pounds, has put together a five-fight winning streak in the weight class to seemingly position
10:30 PM ET LAS VEGAS — UFC president Dana White will inevitably be faced with some difficult decisions this year on Contender Series. But the first fight of the season sure didn’t present him with one. Light heavyweight prospect A.J. Fletcher (9-0) made White’s job easy on Tuesday, as he knocked out Leonardo Damiani (10-3)
Hopefully you didn’t have the “Giga Chikadze by submission” prop bet. Turns out the 33 year-old “Ninja” could have easily won his UFC Vegas 35 main event against Edson Barboza by submission, but since he promised to knockout the Brazilian featherweight, Chikadze instead released the hold and returned to his feet. It’s the old Sean
Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan has reminisced about how he got his start back in the promotion he’s been a member of for over two decades. Joe Rogan’s ties to the UFC go back to 1997. Then, he would interview combatants backstage. After the cost of traveling became too much, Rogan would leave the position
By Mike Bohn, The Blue Corner | September 6, 2021 6:30 pm ET Follow @MikeBohnMMA Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived and survived through various websites, forums, and – perhaps most importantly – social-media platforms. Fighters interact with fans, each other and many more
12:19 PM ET HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Jorge Masvidal‘s immediate goal is very simple. He wants a fight next that will put him in a position to challenge again for the UFC welterweight title. The UFC superstar’s future plans are a bit more complex. And both Jake Paul and Logan Paul are in his crosshairs.