A security guard from Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas called Las Vegas police after another guard noticed that Jon Jones’ fiancee, Jessie Moses, was bleeding. MMA Fighting obtained audio of the call to Las Vegas police. Subscribe to MMA Fighting on YouTube: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: http://Apple.co/themmahour Subscribe to The MMA
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12:26 AM ET Dustin Poirier will indeed get his chance to hold UFC gold by the end of the year. Poirier (28-6) has agreed to challenge Charles Oliveira (31-8) for the lightweight championship at UFC 269 on Dec. 11. The matchup had been in talks for weeks, and Poirier told ESPN late last month there
Brian Kelleher’s next fight will kick off his 2022 campaign. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that a bantamweight matchup between Kelleher and Saidyokub Kakhramonov will take place at the UFC’s event on Jan. 15, which does not currently have an announced location or venue. MMA DNA was first
Credit: UFC After a finished-filled night this past Saturday, the UFC returns on Oct. 9 with UFC Vegas 39 from inside the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nev. The card will be headlined by a battle of top-six strawweights when Brazilians MacKenzie Dern (11-1) and Marina Rodriguez (14-1-2) look to add to their winning streaks
UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich believes a new age psychotherapy technique could help Jon Jones exorcise his demons. Jones certainly needs all the help he can get after a celebratory trip to Las Vegas turned into yet another legal nightmare last weekend. Hours after his induction into the UFC Hall of Fame, the 34-year-old
You can always count on Chael Sonnen to provide a unique perspective when it comes to combat sports news, and he’s had no shortage of opinions when it comes to former opponent Jon Jones’ latest troubling brush with the law. Jones was arrested in Las Vegas the morning after his UFC Hall of Fame induction
Kevin Holland reacts to headbutt No Contest | UFC Vegas 38 Video Middleweight Kevin Holland‘s UFC Vegas 38 co-main event bout against Kyle Daukaus was ruled a No Contest after an accidental headbutt changed the course of the fight. The fight was allowed to continue by referee Dan Mirgliotta and Daukaus finished Holland via rear-naked
With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from September 2021: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s “Knockout of the Month” award for September. At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by
The fight heated up in the second, Santos starting to throw and land, but after some heat between the two, it was back to pecking and poking at range from both. With under two minutes left, Santos landed two thudding body kicks, and that might have been enough for him to take the round. Santos
2:44 PM ET A women’s bantamweight fight between Aspen Ladd and Macy Chiasson is off this weekend’s UFC card after Ladd appeared shaky at the weigh-in. Ladd was unsteady on the scale Friday morning as Nevada State Athletic Commission chief assistant Jeff Mullen was attempting to register her weight. Every time Ladd attempted to put
Former UFC champs Georges St-Pierre and Khabib Nurmagomedov went face-to-face over the weekend during a fun surprise in the United Kingdom. Nurmagomedov, who retired almost a year ago with as lightweight champion and a 29-0 record, was on stage at the Arnold Sports Festival UK doing a live interview, when suddenly St-Pierre came out from
Credit: ONE Championship When it comes to the results of the lightweight title fight last month at ONE: Revolution, new champion Ok Rae Yoon doesn’t subscribe to the notion that his victory over division king Christian Lee was controversial. Over five hard-fought rounds Yoon, 30, went toe-to-toe with the division’s best fighter in the headliner
Derek Brunson thinks he will be fighting Israel Adesanya for the belt early next fight. Adesanya is expected to rematch Robert Whittaker in January next year in a highly-anticipated fight. However, nothing has been made official and for Brunson, he thinks the challenger won’t make it to the fight for some reason. With that, Brunson
The UFC Vegas 38 weigh-ins ended on a pretty bad note Friday afternoon when women’s bantamweight fighter Aspen Ladd spent several minutes shaking and trembling on the scale as the Nevada commission employee struggled to get an accurate weight reading for her. Ladd had weighed in fully clothed at 141 pounds, and then had the
Thiago Santos: ‘I want a Top 5 opponent who can bring me to the title shot’ | UFC Vegas 38 Video Thiago Santos entered the octagon at UFC Vegas 38 on Saturday against No. 10 ranked Johnny Walker ranked No. 5 in the light heavyweight division. “Marreta” defeated Walker by unanimous decision and wants his
Johnny Walker thinks he may have suffered a serious foot injury in his UFC Fight Night 193 main event loss. Walker (18-6 MMA, 4-3 UFC) fell short in his first octagon headliner Saturday with a unanimous decision defeat to Thiago Santos (22-9 MMA, 14-8 UFC) in the light heavyweight matchup at the UFC Apex in
UFC returns to UFC APEX with a thrilling light heavyweight contenders’ bout that will see No. 5 ranked Thiago Santos battle No. 10 Johnny Walker. Also, No. 14 ranked middleweight Kevin Holland takes on Kyle Daukaus in the co-main event. UFC FIGHT NIGHT: SANTOS vs. WALKER will take place Saturday, October 2 from UFC APEX in Las Vegas. All