By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | March 8, 2021 11:00 pm LAS VEGAS – Kai Kara-France beat Rogerio Bontorin with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Kara-France, who got back in the win column after a submission loss this
Jake Paul and Ben Askren will take place in Atlanta. The fight which goes down on April 17 will take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. There will be no public ticket sales for the Paul vs. Askren card but a limited number of fans and guests will be invited to attend the event. In addition to
7:17 AM ET With four champions in action, UFC 259 was always going to have an outsized fallout compared to almost any other UFC card. And while Amanda Nunes continued to bolster her GOAT credentials with a thorough defeat of Megan Anderson, that’s as close as pre-show expectations for the three pay-per-view title fights came
History was made Saturday at UFC 259 when Petr Yan became the first UFC champion to lose his title by disqualification. Yan dropped the bantamweight belt to Aljamain Sterling after connecting with an illegal knee to the head in the fourth round of their fight, a strike that was prohibited while Sterling was in a
Outlook: The underdog got it done again. Jan Blachowicz did what no man has done in mixed martial arts: he defeated Israel Adesanya. Moreover, he did it in rather comfortable fashion. While the fight was competitive, the scorecards indicated a relatively clear win for the Poland native, so there is not another “champ champ” in the
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo, who retired from mixed martial arts (MMA) after smashing Dominick Cruz at UFC 249 back in May 2020, is planning to make his return to combat sports. Then again, Cejudo posts all sorts of wacky shit (like this), so maybe we should temper our expectations. “I
ESPN releases footage of Petr Yan’s corner after controversial illegal knee Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling were fighting a close battle for Yan’s bantamweight belt at UFC 259 on Saturday. The fight finish, which saw Sterling laid out on the canvas, resulted in Yan losing his belt. The result came after Yan drove an illegal
By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | March 8, 2021 3:30 pm LAS VEGAS – Uros Medic beat Aalon Cruz with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Medic, who stayed unbeaten and kept his perfect string of stoppages intact, as
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya moves up in weight to challenge light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz at UFC 259 on Saturday, March 6. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/ To
Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman allowed us to watch his final weight cut prior to the UFC 210 weigh-ins. Weidman, who meets Gegard Mousasi on Saturday night, talked about the cut, the crossroads of his career, what he’s learned from cuts in the past and more. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog:
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Megan Anderson has released her first statement following her lopsided loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 259. In the second of three title fights at UFC 259, Megan Anderson fell far short of her goal of becoming bantamweight champion when Amanda Nunes submitted her in the first round preceded by some devastating strikes that foreshadowed
3:35 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim There was no new inductee into the UFC’s exclusive champ-champ club on Saturday night. That’s what this UFC 259 main event was all about, right? Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya‘s quest to add the light heavyweight belt to become the fifth fighter to rule two weight divisions simultaneously and push toward
UFC veteran Antonio Carlos Junior is the latest to sign on to the PFL roster for its Season 3 tournament. Junior, the winner of The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 heavyweight tournament, will step in for Jordan Johnson to fight fellow octagon vet Tom Lawlor at a PFL event scheduled for April 29. Johnson was forced
“Jake’s a very tough opponent and I take all my opponents very seriously, but I know I’m gonna win, and after that, I need a ranked opponent,” said Brady. “I need somebody with a number next to their name. I don’t like to say I deserve anything, but I think I would deserve a ranked
Event: UFC Vegas 21: “Edwards vs. Muhammad”Date: Sat., March 13, 2021Location: APEX in Las Vegas, NevadaBroadcast: ESPN+ UFC Vegas 21 Main Event on ESPN+: 170 lbs.: Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad UFC Vegas 21 Main Card, Prelims on ESPN+: 135 lbs.: Davey Grant vs. Jonathan Martinez170 lbs.: Matthew Semelsberger vs. Jason Witt115 lbs.: Jinh Yu
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By Mike Bohn | March 7, 2021 8:00 pm The UFC’s biggest event of 2021 so far went own Saturday with UFC 259, which took place at the UFC Apex at Las Vegas and aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+. Three championship fights were featured on the card, but the main event