Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is back in action this weekend courtesy of the UFC 261: “Usman vs. Masvidal 2” pay-per-view (PPV) event, scheduled for this Sat. night (April 24, 2021) inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. UFC 261 will be headlined by the 170-rematch between reigning welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and longtime contender
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By Farah Hannoun | April 21, 2021 12:52 pm It appears playing the waiting game could pay off for Colby Covington. Covington (16-2 MMA, 11-2 UFC), who hasn’t competed since stopping former champion Tyron Woodley last September, has made it clear that he wants to either run things back with UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman
8:37 PM ET Ben Askren isn’t really sure how to compute what happened over the weekend. The former UFC fighter and multiple-time MMA champion was knocked out in the first round by Jake Paul in a boxing match last Saturday night in Atlanta. Askren, a former Olympic wrestler, was never a great boxer. So, getting
Joanna Jędrzejczyk has demanded that she face the winner of the Weili Zhang vs. Rose Namajunas bout, and she could care less about your opinion on the matter. Former UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk has become quite familiar with title fights during her illustrious career in this sport. In fact, since 2015, only two of
Welcome to Midnight Mania! West Coast hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg has established an odd career for himself. It’s been nearly 30 years since his appearances on The Chronic and his debut masterpiece, Doggystyle, yet the rapper remains involved in … everything! The Snoop D-O-Double G has his hands in various films, a stage play, and
Pound For Pound Rankings Already considered one of the greatest fighters of all-time, Jones said he wants to turn his attention to heavyweight and says he has no intention of returning to 205 pounds. Adesanya rolled the dice in a move to light heavyweight but came up short against Jan Blachowicz and says he’ll now
7:51 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Saturday’s UFC 261 pay-per-view will not be the first card in UFC history to have two women’s championships on the line. That distinction goes to a 2015 event in Melbourne, Australia, which is notable for two other reasons: first, for filling Etihad Stadium with 56,214 fans, the most ever to
Things got a little dicey between Tyron Woodley and Jake Paul’s team shortly before the Paul/Askren boxing match this past Saturday. One of the names thrown around to be Jake Paul’s next opponent in his special-attractions-based boxing career is former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. Makes sense. The storyline writes itself: “Former UFC Champion Seeks
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is set to welcome fans back to live events starting with the UFC 261: “Usman vs. Masvidal 2” pay-per-view (PPV) card this Sat. night (April 24, 2021) inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. This marks the first UFC event not staged inside a special COVID safety bubble, which promotion
By Farah Hannoun and Ken Hathaway | April 20, 2021 12:50 pm LAS VEGAS – UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski wants to see if he can get in Brian Ortega’s head … by having fun. Volkanovski (22-1 MMA, 9-0 UFC) will coach Season 29 of “The Ultimate Fighter” opposite No. 1 contender Ortega, and the
7:21 PM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night co-main event between Jeremy Stephens and Drakkar Klose was canceled because of an injury Klose said he sustained when Stephens forcefully shoved him during their official weigh-in on Friday. Klose’s team told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani that according to his CT scan results, Klose suffered a cervical sprain of
Daniel Cormier believes Jorge Masvidal has as good a chance as anyone to dethrone Kamaru Usman. The UFC 261 headliner will feature a rematch between UFC welterweight champion “The Nigerian Nightmare” Kamaru Usman and challenger Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal. Their first encounter was a one-sided showing for the champ, with Usman pulling away on the scorecards
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Ben Askren’s fall has been brutal. It may seem a lifetime ago, but there was a time when people wanted to see Askren face-off with Georges St. Pierre! Prior to his UFC career, Askren was undefeated at 18-0, a former champion in both One Championship and Bellator. After a successful (if
By Simon Samano | April 20, 2021 12:56 am UFC president Dana White thinks matchmaker Sean Shelby should’ve been able to prevent Jeremy Stephens from shoving Drakkar Klose during their UFC on ESPN 22 faceoff. Last Friday at the weigh-ins, Stephens pushed Klose when they came nose to nose at the weigh-ins. It was a
7:00 AM ET Fight week for UFC 261 has arrived, and with a card of this magnitude, the stakes could not be much higher. Three title fights could reshape the trajectory of the welterweight, strawweight and women’s flyweight divisions overnight. If Jorge Masvidal defeats Kamaru Usman, they would be 1-1 in title fights. That could
Robert Whittaker is putting his foot down about who and what should be next after his victory at UFC Vegas 24: a world title shot against middleweight champion Israel Adesanya. It has been a year and a half since Israel Adesanya defeated Robert Whittaker to become the undisputed UFC middleweight champion. After dropping the title
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion Robert Whittaker has now captured three straight wins over Top 5 opponents and holds an 11-1 record in the 185-pound weight class dating all the way back to late 2014. The bookies remain unimpressed. Whittaker (23-5) opened as the +210 underdog against reigning middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, probably
By Farah Hannoun and Nolan King | April 19, 2021 12:30 pm UNCASVILLE, Conn. – After defeating Gregory Milliard at Bellator 257 on Friday, Julius Anglickas spoke about being an alternate in the Bellator light heavyweight grand prix. Anglickas (10-1 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) spoke to reporters on being chosen as an alternate, almost fighting Corey Anderson,