By MMA Junkie Staff | October 29, 2021 1:10 pm ET Follow @MMAjunkie Nearly two full years after the promotion’s debut event, Ares Fighting Championship is gearing up for its return. Led by MMA Factory Paris head coach Fernand Lopez, Ares FC 2 is set for Dec. 11 at Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan in Paris.
Month: October 2021
Cory Sandhagen packs light. Glover Teixeira sweats with a longtime training partner. Amanda Ribas is motivated by the competitive vibe of the athlete hotel. Khamzat Chimaev readies for his return. Champ Jan Blachowicz talks about his upcoming fight. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the
Li Jingliang speaks with the media ahead of his #UFC welterweight fight against Khamzat Chimaev at #UFC267 in Abu Dhabi. 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 Hour on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0NUQhyUeYQcbtHOV10qmbb Subscribe to MMA Fighting feed on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mma-fighting/id320642139 Check out our full
Nate Diaz will get his own fighting promotion, Dana White responds and offers him a UFC contract, Nate Diaz’s friend Chris Avila revealed the report about his future after the UFC, UFC Vegas 41 Marvin Vettori vs Paulo Costa salaries revealed, Sean O’Malley makes fun of former UFC champ Dominick Cruz ahead of UFC 269
Javid Basharat spoke to MMA Junkie and members of the media after earning a UFC contract with a win at Dana White’s Contender Series 45 in Las Vegas. #dwcs45 #ufc #JavidBasharat Visit us on the web: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com Part of the USA TODAY network: http://www.usatoday.com Be sure to subscribe to our channel to get the latest
5:25 PM ET A celebrity Italian DJ and television presenter says he took his allegations that Conor McGregor punched him in the face to police. Francesco Facchinetti confirmed with ESPN in an interview Thursday that he filed a complaint with Italian law enforcement several days after he claims he was struck by McGregor, the UFC
At the UFC 267 weigh-ins, all 30 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Abu Dhabi are set to step on the scale Friday, and MMA Fighting will have live weigh-in video, which can be seen above. In the main event, UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz and Glover Teixeira will have to weigh exactly 205
Former President Donald Trump, wraps up his rally, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. UFC welterweight Colby Covington confirmed on Wednesday that his most famous fans, members of the Trump family, will be in attendance for his UFC 268 main event title fight against Kamaru Usman. Former interim champion Covington (16-2) has
So unlikely was Glover Teixeria’s late career resurgence that even his friends doubted he could pull it off. The 41-year-old Brazilian will challenge for the light heavyweight title against Jan Blachowicz at UFC 267 on Saturday. It will be his second attempt at UFC gold, having previously challenged Jon Jones back in 2014, losing via
Welcome to Midnight Mania! If Cory Sandhagen defeats Petr Yan this weekend at UFC 267 he will call himself champion. Despite the bout being for the interim UFC bantamweight title “Sandman” believes a victory over Yan, the former 135-pound champion, is good enough to crown himself king. Even when current UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling
Dana White to meet with Hasbulla at UFC 267 in Abu Dhabi UFC president Dana White has a lot on his plate this week while in Abu Dhabi for UFC 267 fight week. He’s told the media that he hopes to break big news when he returns. White has several meetings planned with various entities
The champion that night was Jon Jones, six successful title defenses into his reign and at the height of his powers. “When I fought Jon Jones, they were already talking about him being one of the greatest,” said Teixeira. “Then you go in with that pressure.” Any fight for the title, especially against a fighter
By MMA Junkie Staff | October 28, 2021 10:00 pm ET Follow @MMAjunkie MMA Junkie will be reporting Friday’s official UFC 267 fighter weigh-in results live beginning at 1 a.m. ET (10 p.m. PT, Thursday). The early weigh-ins take place at the UFC host hotel in Abu Dhabi and precede the ceremonial weigh-ins for the
7:40 AM ET FOUR YEARS AGO Majdi Shammas was on the second floor of Allstars Training Center, the martial arts facility he owns in Stockholm, when he heard a disturbance downstairs. It sounded like someone was fighting. And not the kind of fighting that goes on in Shammas’ gym seven days a week. No, it
ABU DHABI — Jan Blachowicz joined in with the crowd to serenade his challenger, Glover Teixeira, with a rendition of “Happy Birthday” at the end of the UFC 267 pre-fight press conference. Teixeira, 42, is hoping to become the oldest fighter to ever win their first UFC title on Saturday when he challenge for Blachowicz’s
Cain Velasquez (wrestling) is inducted into ASU Athletic Hall of Fame during a luncheon at The Pera Club in Tempe on September 28, 2018.United Food Bank Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez discovered an unusual medicine that helped him heal from recent personal “trauma”: Psychedelics. Velasquez (14-3) had a very difficult 2019. In February of
It was natural to think that someday we would be seeing fighters in the UFC who were inspired by Conor McGregor, but few may have expected to hear that Khamzat Chimaev is one of them. Born in Chechnya and fighting out of Sweeden, Chimaev burst into the UFC scene in 2020, with three devastating wins
CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLEHEADER! Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Sat., Oct. 30, 2021, with another blockbuster event, headlined by two highly-anticipated world championship bouts. Light Heavyweight champion, Jan Blachowicz, goes for his second successful title defense when he takes on No. 1-ranked contender, Glover Teixeira. In UFC 267’s co-main event, former
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