Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just one day away from the upcoming UFC 283 pay-per-view (PPV) event on ESPN+, locked and loaded for this Sat. night (Jan. 21, 2023) at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. UFC 283 will be headlined by the light heavyweight title fight between former 205-pound champion Glover Teixeira and
12:08 PM ET On Thursday, the UFC announced the addition of stricter language about wagering in its fighter code of conduct as well as the hiring of sports wagering monitoring firm U.S. Integrity. The two changes come as multiple governmental bodies are investigating a UFC fight between Darrick Minner and Shayilan Nuerdanbieke on Nov. 5
The UFC’s first pay-per-view of 2023 is set with a pair of championship fights officially ready to go. At Friday’s morning weigh-ins for UFC 283, which takes place Saturday at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Glover Teixeira and Jamahal Hill successfully made weight for the light heavyweight championship main event, as did flyweight championship
MAIN CARD Main Event – Light Heavyweight Title Bout: Glover Teixeira (205) vs Jamahal Hill (204.5) Co-Main Event - Flyweight Title Bout: Deiveson Figueiredo (125) vs Brandon Moreno (125) Welterweight Bout: Gilbert Burns (170) vs Neil Magny (171) UFC 283 Fight By Fight Preview Women’s Flyweight Bout: Lauren Murphy (125.5) vs Jessica Andrade (125) Light Heavyweight Bout:
UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill Weigh-In Results The athletes competing on Saturday’s UFC 283 pay-per-view fight card in Rio de Janeiro officially weighed in on Friday morning in Brazil. UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill takes place at Jeunesse Arena and is headlined by two world title bouts. In the main event former champion Glover Teixeira
With UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling still not ready to fight, Sean O’Malley wants an interim title shot. Sterling (22-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) currently is healing from a bicep injury and doesn’t want to risk rushing for his likely title defense against former two-division champ Henry Cejudo. Sterling even recently said on The MMA Hour
Bare Knuckle FC middleweights Lorenzo Hunt and Mike Richman brawled about a month before their fight. Hunt and Richman attended a KnuckleMania 3 pre-fight press conference on Thursday in Albuquerque. The two fighters will square off for the BKFC middleweight title on February 17th. Hunt and Richman, two of the most successful fighters in BKFC,
‘Tank’ makes his featherweight debut in March. MMA Mania confirmed today (Thurs., Jan. 19, 2023) with multiple sources that Jack Shore (16-1) will make his featherweight debut against Makwan Amirkhani (17-8) at UFC 286 in London on Mar. 18. The 27-year-old Welsh fighter leaves the UFC’s bantamweight division after six fights. He suffered his first
7:16 PM ET Raul Rosas Jr., the 18-year-old prodigy who became the youngest fighter to ever sign with the UFC, will return to the Octagon on April 8 to fight fellow prospect Christian Rodriguez at UFC 287, sources confirmed with ESPN on Thursday. Former UFC champion Anthony Pettis, who represents Rodriguez under the Showtime Group
Greg Hardy has booked his bare-knuckle fighting debut. The former NFL defensive standout and ex-UFC heavyweight will make his first appearance at BKFC KnuckleMania on Feb. 17 when he faces Josh Watson in a featured bout on the main card. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on
“I think I got a lot of advantages in this fight and I’m mostly just making sure I’m in shape because obviously he knows how to fight three-round fights. I think he’s a decision machine,” McKinney said. “You got to get there when you are fighting Terrance McKinney, that’s the problem.” McKinney makes a good
Matt Frevola blasts ‘dumb SF’ Dana White Slap Fighting show On Wednesday night Dana White’s Power Slap show debuted on TBS and it received mixed reviews. One of those reviews came from rising UFC star Matt Frevola, who took his thoughts to Twitter on Thursday morning. “I don’t want to know how much money went
Henry Cejudo is impressed with Jon Jones’ ability to keep growing his skills. Former light heavyweight king Jones widely is considered one of the greatest fighters of all time and has just one blemish on his resume: a disqualification loss to Matt Hamill in 2009 in a fight he was dominating. Jones (26-1 MMA, 20-1
Brandon Moreno has detailed how his status as the UFC’s first Mexican-born champion was a significant source of pressure before his title defense at UFC 270. “The Assassin Baby” is coming off a third-round stoppage victory over Kai Kara-France that saw him claim the UFC’s interim flyweight title, and now he’s set to try and
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After a one-week delay due to reasons Dana White would rather we not discuss, the UFC president’s new Power Slap league made its television debut on TBS last night (Weds., Jan. 18, 2023). What could possibly go wrong? Nevertheless, it was not a live event. The show was filmed months ago, featuring a The Ultimate
8:42 AM ET IT WAS A MID-DECEMBER evening at the UFC’s Performance Institute in Las Vegas, and Brandon Moreno was trying to find it in him to train at a world-class level. It wasn’t going well. Moreno was in the middle of camp for his title unification bout against Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 283 on
Featherweight finishers collide when Edson Barboza and Billy Quarantillo meet at a UFC Fight Night event on April 15. MMA Fighting confirmed the booking Wednesday following an announcement on Quarantillo’s OnlyFans page. Barboza (22-11) has struggled to regain his footing as a contender in recent years, losing seven of his past 10 bouts, but remains