By Farah Hannoun | April 12, 2021 11:46 am Sage Northcutt’s highly anticipated return to ONE Championship has been delayed. Northcutt (11-3) is out of his April 28 welterweight fight vs. Shinya Aoki (46-9) at ONE on TNT IV due to lingering effects from COVID-19, officials announced on Monday morning after an initial report from
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12:42 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim It took Ryan Bader nearly a decade to get payback, but when it finally came on Friday night, it came in a big, brutal way. Bader, the reigning Bellator heavyweight champion and former light heavyweight champ, put a ferocious beating on former UFC light heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida on his
Rose Namajunas has never been one for trash talk, but her recent comments seem to run much deeper than that and bleed into family lineage & political ideology. At UFC 261, Weili Zhang will defend her strawweight championship against Rose Namajunas in the co-main event. Both women are known to be two of the most
Day one of the WrestleMania 37 event went down yesterday (Sat. April 10, 2021) from inside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. In the headlining act, XXX defeated XXX Get the rest of WrestleMania 37’s Day One results here. Day Two will go down TONIGHT (Sun., April 11, 2021), featuring a Universal Championship bout that
By Mike Bohn | April 11, 2021 8:39 pm Dustin Poirier claims Conor McGregor didn’t follow through with his sizable charity donation in the aftermath of UFC 257. Prior to their rematch in January, McGregor promised to donate $500,000 to Poirier’s “The Good Fight Foundation.” MMA Junkie confirmed with representatives from both teams the night
6:25 PM ET Fans tuning in Saturday to ABC were not watching a UFC replay, though they might as well have been. Kevin Holland fought for the second time in the last three weeks — and the result was almost exactly the same. Marvin Vettori took Holland down over and over en route to a
The final UFC on ABC 2 betting odds are in for as this event is quickly approaching for the Las Vegas-based promotion. The event is here, and it goes down today (Saturday, April 10, 2021) from Las Vegas, Nevada at the UFC Apex facility Kevin Holland vs. Marvin Vettori will headline the show while Arnold
Kevin Holland had a wild 2020, fighting five times and earning five wins (four of them by KO/TKO). But while his pace has been similar in 2021, the output has not generated the same results. Four months into the year, Holland is 0-2 and has only won one round out of the ten he’s fought.
By Simon Samano and Nolan King | April 11, 2021 11:00 am UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Cat Zingano woke up Friday morning and received some motivation from her son before her Bellator 256 fight. Zingano’s son had his first high school wrestling match one night earlier. She’d have been there if not for the fact that
6:39 PM ET UFC middleweight Marvin Vettori was as dominant as ever with a unanimous decision victory over Kevin Holland in Saturday’s Fight Night main event in Las Vegas. The Italian middleweight had no problem taking Holland to the ground and maintaining control throughout the fight. Mackenzie Dern also had a standout performance on Saturday,
The UFC on ABC 2 post-fight press conference will be live once the action concludes. In the headliner, Kevin Holland vs. Marvin Vettori will collide in a middleweight clash. UFC on ABC 2’s co-main event will see a clash between Arnold Allen and Sodiq Yusuff. More action will also be featured on the main card
The stage is set for the WrestleMania 37 tonight (Sat., Apr. 10, 2021) inside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. And you can expect a packed house full of fans because “The Sunshine State” has lifted COVID-19 restrictions, which is the reason Florida will also be the home of UFC 261: “Usman vs. Masvidal 2”
By Mike Bohn | April 10, 2021 9:30 pm Bellator’s second event of the year took place Friday with Bellator 256 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The opening fight of the Bellator light heavyweight grand prix headlined the card. Former champ Ryan Bader (28-6 MMA, 6-1 BMMA) became the first man to advance
10:16 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi UFC middleweight Kevin Holland agrees — he blew it three weeks ago in Las Vegas. It was his first appearance in a UFC main event, and he lost nearly every
Former UFC champion Lyoto Machida plans on fighting for a while to come, regardless of the outcome of his fight against Ryan Bader tonight in the opening round of the Bellator light heavyweight grand prix tournament. In their first meeting in 2012, Lyoto Machida knocked out Bader in spectacular fashion. Prior to the fight, Machida
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight sluggers Marvin Vettori and Kevin Holland will clash TONIGHT (Sat., April 10, 2021) at UFC Vegas 23 inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Vettori debuted inside the Octagon at 22 years of age back in Aug. 2016, showing his talent with a quick stoppage win. The prospect took a
By Nolan King | April 10, 2021 10:00 am UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Ryan Bader advanced to the Bellator light heavyweight grand prix semifinals. That’s good news for Bader (28-6 MMA, 6-1 BMMA), who seeks to avenge the title he lost last August. At the same time, that’s bad news for the Bellator heavyweight division in
8:30 AM ET For UFC middleweight Marvin Vettori, the past year has been equal parts rewarding and frustrating. Vettori (16-3-1) will face Kevin Holland (21-6) in the main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday afternoon — just the second UFC event to air on ABC (3 p.m. ET, prelims at noon on ESPN, early