TJ Dillashaw believes Petr Yan will beat Aljamain Sterling to defend his bantamweight title for the first time at UFC 259. In the first of three title fights on the card, Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling are finally set to fight. It’s a very intriguing bout with many thinking Sterling is the better grappler while
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UFC Vegas 19 injuries and medical suspensions were submitted to MixedMartialArts.com earlier this week for those athletes competing at the “Blaydes vs. Lewis” event last weekend (Sat., Feb. 20, 2021) from inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, a fair share of combatants were handed mandatory timeouts, including heavyweight headliner Derrick Lewis. “The Black
By Mike Bohn | February 23, 2021 11:50 am Holly Holm was beginning to get somewhat impatient with her situation before finally securing a fight with Julianna Pena. Holm (14-5 MMA, 7-5 UFC), a former UFC women’s bantamweight champion, has been waiting for her next assignment since a dominant decision win over Irene Aldana in
5:18 PM ET Deciding who should be next to challenge UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman is perhaps the hottest topic in MMA, and it involves some of the biggest names in the sport. Usman dispatched Gilbert Burns via second-round TKO at UFC 258 on Feb. 13, and he immediately called out Jorge Masvidal as his
Gilbert Burns does not believe Jorge Masvidal should be in the title picture and that the six days’ notice he had prior to UFC 251 is irrelevant. Reports of a potential rematch between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal have remained strong after Usman’s post-fight callout of Masvidal at UFC 258. Usman’s opponent at the event,
Conor McGregor’s return to mixed martial arts (MMA) didn’t quite go as planned for him after he was knocked out by Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 257 earlier this year on “Fight Island,” giving him his second defeat in last three fights (see it again here). Despite the setback, “Notorious” isn’t giving
By Simon Head | February 22, 2021 9:20 pm Every time fighters step into the cage or ring, they’re looking to claim a win, make a statement and progress their careers toward a specific goal. Some are looking to climb the ladder. Others may have a score to settle. And the sport’s top athletes have
8:04 AM ET Ariel Helwani: It’s time to focus the attention on Derrick Lewis One of the big storylines heading into Saturday night’s main event was what should Curtis Blaydes do if he beats Derrick Lewis? Ordinarily, a victory like that — which would have been his fifth in a row — over a quality
Khabib Nurmagomedov believes that it is time for Frankie Edgar to call it a career. At UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov, Frankie Edgar competed in a bout that could have very well earned him a world title shot with a victory when he took on Cory Sandhagen in the co-main event. Instead, there are
UFC 259 is right around the corner on March 6th, 2021, and if the UFC was still giving their card one word power-names like they were in the first decade of the 00’s — VENDETTA, PAYBACK, FURY — this card would be STACKED. Three title fights, and the ‘weakest’ of them featuring the women’s GOAT
By Farah Hannoun | February 22, 2021 8:50 am Despite his long layoff, T.J. Dillashaw isn’t looking for a tune-up fight. The former two-time UFC bantamweight champion is looking to pick up right where he left off and face the winner of the title fight between champion Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling, which takes place
11:34 PM ET Curtis Blaydes made no apologies about his strategy coming into a huge heavyweight fight with Derrick Lewis. Blaydes was going to use his dominant wrestling early and often. He told anyone who would listen. Maybe it was a decoy. But Blaydes should have stuck to his original game plan, as Lewis crushed
There’s some bad news for Alex Volkanovski ahead of his UFC 260 title defense against Brian Ortega: He is the betting favorite. Alex Volkanovski may be the undisputed UFC featherweight champion, but he still feeds off being the underdog. When he faced Jose Aldo at UFC 237, he was an underdog who went on to
UFC Vegas 19 went down last night (Sat., Feb 20, 2021) inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Derrick Lewis pulling off a massive betting upset by delivering a brutal knockout victory via uppercut over Curtis Blaydes (see it again here) in the Heavyweight main event. In the co-headlining act, Yana Kunitskaya defeated top-ranked
By Blue Corner | February 21, 2021 8:45 pm Social media has become a significant part of the sporting landscape. But few, if any, professional sports match the level of interaction and personal access provided by MMA. In an individual competition in which nearly every athlete is chasing the same goal of financial success and
12:14 AM ET Ariel Helwani: It’s time to focus the attention on Derrick Lewis One of the big storylines heading into Saturday night’s main event was what should Curtis Blaydes do if he beats Derrick Lewis? Ordinarily, a victory like that — which would have been his fifth in a row — over a quality
Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis a typical heavyweight fight. The showdown served as the main event of the UFC Vegas 19 event on Saturday night (February 20, 2021) from Las Vegas, Nevada at the UFC Apex facility. As seen in the fight, Lewis landed some solid strikes in the early portion of the first round,
I genuinely haven’t a clue when the idea of a “new normal” snuck into the COVID-19 lexicon. I am sure I could look it up and find the first time that specific term popped up, but would it really matter when the last ten months have been a somewhat continuous blur for the majority of