After finishing Holm in the first round of their clash at UFC 239, Nunes used her wrestling to neutralize de Randamie’s striking in their meeting at UFC 245, dropping a round to the challenger, but turning in an otherwise stellar effort that left many observers underwhelmed because the champion fought tactically. This nitpicking of champions
Jan Blachowicz doesn’t think we’ll be seeing Israel Adesanya visit the UFC’s 205 area code after he is sent packing this Saturday. In the UFC 259 main event, Jan Blachowicz will be defending his light heavyweight championship against a man trying to invade the division and plunder its gold. That man is none other than
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will hold a LIVE media day this afternoon for the upcoming UFC 259: “Blachowicz vs. Adesanya” pay-per-view (PPV) event, scheduled for this Sat. night (March 6, 2021) inside APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. The major players attached to the main card like Jan Blachowicz, Amanda Nunes, and Petr Yan will not
Bellator featherweight and lightweight champion Patricio Pitbull Friere and his coach “Captain” Eric Albarracin joined MMAWeekly’s Jim “Gries” Grieshaber for an exclusive interview recently in Scottsdale, Ariz., while training at Fight Ready MMA, home of Olympic Gold Medalist and two-division UFC Champ “Triple C” Henry Cejudo. Pitbull and Captain Eric told Gries about the Bellator
By Farah Hannoun | March 3, 2021 2:15 pm City Kickboxing coach Eugene Bareman thinks his star pupil is facing his sternest test to date when he attempts to become a two-division UFC champion. Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will move up a weight class to challenge light heavyweight champ Jan Blachowicz in Saturday’s UFC 259
Presented by Hyperice, champ Jan Blachowicz celebrates his birthday and goes mountain biking. Amanda Nunes takes her daughter to work. Aljamain Sterling unwinds in his second home. Champ Israel Adesanya arrives in Las Vegas. Visit https://hyperice.com/ Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription
Jorge Masvidal gets Nate Diaz respond after Kamaru Usman rematch announcement, Conor McGregor should not get a title bout says Dustin Poirier to Joe Rogan at the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Kamaru Usman shows what he will do with Gamebred next, Pedro Munhoz on TJ Dillashaw’s upcoming return, Amanda Ribas asks Michelle Waterson for the
2:04 PM ET Israel Adesanya was always going to be the smaller man moving up a division to fight Jan Blachowicz. But the UFC middleweight champion might be even lighter than many expected. Adesanya told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in an interview that published Tuesday that he is currently walking around at less than 200 pounds
A matchup between lightweight submission specialists is set to take place next month. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Jim Miller and Joe Solecki will square off at the UFC’s event on April 10, which currently does not have a venue or location. MMA Junkie was first to
Thiago Santos Key Stats: 11 KO/TKO wins (tied 2nd all-time), 4.36 strikes landed per minute, 64% takedown defense What It Means: Santos is perhaps light heavyweight division’s most potent knockout artist. He is never not looking to put his opponent out with every strike he throws, and he has the athleticism and ferocity to put
Rory MacDonald draws David Michaud in his first fight in the Professional Fighters League (PFL) 2021 season. The PFL announced their full fight card for the April 29 event, PFL 2 which is headlined by MacDonald and Michaud along with some other familiar welterweights and light-heavyweights. At the end of 2019 during their last event,
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Conor McGregor’s role in the whiskey business may be changing. A recent news release from Becle, a Mexican beverage company best known for their Jose Cuervo Tequila brand, included the line, “On February 23, 2021, the Company provided notice of the exercise of its call option to acquire 51% of the
Rory MacDonald and David Michaud headline PFL 2 in main event; Ray Cooper III, Emiliano Sordi, Chris Camozzi, Jordan Johnson and Tom Lawlor star in PFL 2 main card NEW YORK (March 2, 2021) –The Professional Fighters League (PFL), the fastest growing and most innovative sports league, today announced its main event and full card matchups
By MMA Junkie Staff | March 3, 2021 1:45 am With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from February 2021: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s “Submission of the Month” award for February. At the bottom of the
7:20 AM ET UFC 259 represents a milestone during a stretch of fights that will have major consequences for the rest of the year. Three title bouts will shape the future of four divisions, with the card in Las Vegas headlined by a champion-vs.-champion clash between light heavyweight Jan Blachowicz and middleweight Israel Adesanya. If
The saga of Khamzat Chimaev’s future has now taken a political turn, with Chechnyan head of state Ramzan Kadyrov assuring his followers the UFC welterweight star is not retiring and will fight on after appearing to announce his retirement on Monday. In a post on the Chechnyan tourism department’s Instagram account, Kadyrov wrote that after
“He’s grown into that” is a tremendous choice of words from Saud, as a quick scroll through Nzechukwu’s Instagram feed shows that he’s physically matured a great deal in his time away as well. Still rocking the chin-strap beard and short Afro he sported during his twin Contender Series appearances and first two forays into
The Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov claims that he has been able to talk Chimaev down from the retirement ledge. It has been a hectic past few days in the world of Khamzat Chimaev. First, Khamzat Chimaev came out and called out Neil Magny for a fight in June after extending his gratitude