Alain Ngalani vs. Mahmoud Hassan at ONE Championship 10
2:13 PM ET One top Bellator star will be defending her belt next month. Another will be giving up his title. Bellator president Scott Coker said Wednesday on The MMA Hour that Cris Cyborg will defend her women’s featherweight title against Sinead Kavanagh on Nov. 12 in Hollywood, Florida. Coker also announced that Patricio “Pitbull”
Matt Bessette has always been known as one of the toughest, most durable fighters in the New England region, and now that it’s known he’s been competing with a serious injury for the last several years, it takes that reputation up another notch. Bessette, a UFC and Bellator veteran, became a two-division champion for CES
Oct 9, 2021; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Deontay Wilder (red/black trunks) is knocked out by Tyson Fury (black/gold trunks) during their WBC/Lineal heavyweight championship boxing match at T-Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Tyson Fury retained his WBC heavyweight title with a knockout win over Deontay Wilder in the 11th round of their
Dustin Poirier believes one of the UFC’s greatest ever champions could one day replace Dana White as its President. The Louisiana-native will attempt to enter the same rarefied air on December 11 when he faces off with Charles Oliveira for the lightweight title at UFC 269. But with that encounter some months away, Poirier sat
The Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder trilogy came to a close on Saturday night from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and it ended with bang as Fury knocked out Wilder in the 11th round. The final tally on the three fights: 2-0-1 for Tyson Fury. All three fights were wildly entertaining, which is something
UFC Champ Israel Adesanya reacts to Tyson Fury stopping Deontay Wilder in trilogy bout | Video UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya tuned in on Saturday to watch the heavyweight boxing championship trilogy bout between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. Fury defeated Wilder for the second time, finishing “The Bronze Bomber” in the 11th round in
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The strawweights spent the first few minutes feeling each other out in space, both offering tepid range-finders, but neither throwing anything of real substance early in this potential five-round affair. Rodriguez landed with the first clean strike midway through the round, touching Dern’s lead leg with a low kick. Dern pressed forward, closing the distance
2:45 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing a barn burner of a main event between Calvin Kattar and Giga Chikadze in January, multiple sources told ESPN. Contracts have not been signed, but the UFC is working on booking the featherweight bout as its headliner for a UFC Fight Night on Jan. 15. Kattar
James Krause is shouldering some of the responsibility for Tim Elliott’s latest loss. On the UFC Vegas 39 main card Saturday, Elliott dropped a unanimous decision to Matheus Nicolau after three competitive rounds of back-and-forth action. Though both fighters had their moments, judges saw Nicolau as having the slight edge thanks to some timely striking
Credit: UFC UFC Vegas 40 will take place inside the UFC APEX, in Las Vegas, Nev., on October 16. The card will be headlined by women’s featherweight bout pitting 145-pound contender Norma Dumont (6-1) against short-notice replacement, and third-ranked bantamweight, Aspen Ladd (9-1) in her division debut. The card also features several action-fighters in France’s
Paulie Malignaggi is convinced that his bare-knuckle boxing loss to Artem Lobov was a direct result of the bias of “MMA judges.” In 2019, Artem Lobov pulled off a stunning upset when he defeated former boxing world champion Paulie Malignaggi at BKFC 6. What made the upset less shocking, aside from Artem Lobov being the
UFC Vegas 39 went down last night (Sat., Oct. 9, 2021) inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada featuring a main event bout between Marina Rodriguez and Mackenzie Dern. After 25 minutes of action, Rodriguez won the fight via unanimous decision (see it again here). In the co-main event, Randy Brown defeated Jared Gooden, getting
Tyson Fury: ‘Wilder shook me. We took a lot of punishment’ | Video Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury spoke to the media following his epic trilogy bout with Deontay Wilder during the event’s post-fight press conference on Saturday. Fury scored a knockout finish over Wilder in the 11th round of their match at T-Mobile Arena
LAS VEGAS – Randy Brown thinks it’s just right for him to be fighting in New York. The wants a spot on the UFC 268 card set for Nov. 6 at Madison Square Garden. Brown (14-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC), who lives in Queens, took a unanimous decision from Jared Gooden in the co-main event of
FC returns to UFC APEX with a critical strawweight contenders’ bout as No. 4 ranked Mackenzie Dern and No. 6 Marina Rodriguez face off with potential title implications on the line. In the co-main event, exciting welterweights Randy Brown and Jared Gooden lock horns. UFC FIGHT NIGHT: DERN vs RODRIGUEZ will take place Saturday, October 9 from UFC APEX in Las Vegas. All bouts will
Jan Blachowicz’s ascension to the top of the UFC light heavyweight division was the feel-good story of 2020. In the main event of UFC 267 on October 30, the man with the “legendary Polish Power” puts his title on the line for the second time against veteran Brazilian contender Glover Teixeira, who promises that his