By MMA Junkie Staff | April 1, 2021 9:06 am Follow @MMAjunkie UNCASVILLE, Conn. – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Thursday’s official Bellator 255 fighter weigh-ins. The weigh-ins take place at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The same venue hosts Friday’s event, which has a main card on Showtime and MMA Junkie
8:30 AM ET There are three new faces at No. 1. One got there with a bang, one in a delayed reaction and the other in just about the most anticlimactic way possible. Francis Ngannou has taken over the top spot at heavyweight in the latest ESPN divisional MMA rankings after knocking out UFC champion
Damon Jackson needs a new opponent. On Wednesday, Jackson’s scheduled featherweight opponent T.J. Laramie announced that he has been forced to withdraw from their May 1 UFC Fight Night encounter. The 23-year-old Canadian did not go into detail as to why he is out of the fight, writing, “I’ll be back as soon as I’m
The Champ is here! UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling joins Jim and Matt to kick off the show (2:15). He talks all things related to his controversial DQ win against Petr Yan to win the bantamweight belt, including what went through his mind immediately after the illegal knee that ended the bout and the smack
Jon Jones has shared some early negotiation details between himself and the UFC regarding a fight with UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. Jon Jones bore witness to the crowning of a new UFC heavyweight champion right alongside the rest of the world when Francis Ngannou knocked out Stipe Miocic at UFC 260. We know this
Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz have one of the most bitter rivalries in all of mixed martial arts (MMA), so at any given moment it can all boil over, especially when it comes to the easy access of social media. After “Notorious” requested UFC create the “McGregor Belt,” he responded to a fan’s comment on
UFC 260 Fight Motion: Francis Ngannou folds Stipe Miocic Take a slow motion trip through some of the most exciting exchanges and highlights from the heavyweight championship fight between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou at UFC 260 this past weekend, as well as highlights from bouts up and down the card. [embedded content] (Video courtesy
By Nolan King | March 31, 2021 8:30 pm UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Emmanuel Sanchez has heard it all throughout the span of his professional mixed martial arts career. He shouldn’t win. He can’t win. He won’t win. But oftentimes, Sanchez (20-4 MMA, 12-3 BMMA) does win. Even when deemed improbable by the oddsmakers, Sanchez consistently
See what Dana White is calling “one of the nastiest knockouts I’ve ever seen in the fight business, let alone on the Ultimate Fighter” as Team Sonnen’s Uriah Hall and Team Jones’ Adam Cella go toe-to-toe in Episode 3 of The Ultimate Fighter. Catch new episodes every Tuesday on FX at 9PM ET/PT. Missed this
At the UFC 234 weigh-ins, Israel Adesanya and Anderson Silva faced off for the final time ahead of their co-main event fight this weekend in Melbourne. Silva got very emotional following the staredown, breaking down into tears. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z
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11:26 PM ET Nate Diaz is back. Diaz, one of the most popular fighters in MMA, will meet Leon Edwards at UFC 262 on May 15 in Houston, sources told ESPN. Both fighters have verbally agreed to the fight, though the contract is not signed yet. The fight will serve as a five-round co-main event
This past weekend, Francis Ngannou knocked out Stipe Miocic to claim the UFC heavyweight champion. The win should have set up a superfight between Miocic and light heavyweight GOAT Jon Jones, however, immediately following UFC 260, UFC President Dana White began throwing cold water on that idea. Immediately after Ngannou’s win, Jones sent out a
The second came against Gilbert Burns, who’s victory catapulted him into a championship fight against Usman, where he tagged the champion in the early moments of the contest before the Nigerian-born titleholder gathered himself, regrouped, and garnered a third-round stoppage win. And his most recent setback came opposite Colby Covington, the polarizing perennial contender who
On the brink of returning to the UFC, Luke Rockhold spoke about Dana White and his hold over the fighter’s pay. Luke Rockhold is getting prepared to return to the UFC after some time away. When Rockhold walked away from the UFC back in 2019 it was never an official retirement, but with so many
Nate Diaz will make his long-awaited return to action to face Leon Edwards in the co-main event of UFC 262 on May 15, 2021 in Houston, Texas. That’s according to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, who dropped the unexpected late night nugget no one saw coming. That’s not all. The fight will be Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC)
Darren Till out of UFC on ABC 2 headliner No. 5 ranked UFC middleweight Darren Till has pulled out of his bout on April 10 against no. 6 ranked middleweight Marvin Vettori. The main event, which is scheduled to take place UFC on ABC 2, is still up in the air as a result of