AJ McKee is intrigued at the thought of mixing it up with the best fighters from different promotions. McKee is due for the biggest bout of his pro MMA career. Mckee will challenge Patricio “Pitbull” Freire for the Bellator Featherweight Title. This will also serve as the final bout in the Bellator Featherweight World Grand
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11:36 PM ET Chris Weidman has another hurdle to overcome after a gruesome broken leg sustained in a fight earlier this year. The former UFC middleweight champion wrote Wednesday on Instagram that he will need another surgery on the right leg he fractured in a fight with Uriah Hall at UFC 261 on April 24.
A new bantamweight champion will be crowned at BKFC 20 on Friday night, Aug. 20, as Johnny Bedford clashes with Reggie Barnett Jr. in the main event. Bedford previously held the bantamweight title before losing a close decision to Dat Nguyen at BKFC Knucklemania back in February. Nguyen was then stripped of the title after
Credit: Jeff Bottari/Handout Photo via USA TODAY Sports For Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight king Francis Ngannou, there are three specific options for his first title defense. Either a dream fight with former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. A trilogy bout with two-time heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, or the winner of August’s UFC 265 interim title
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Vitor Belfort is among the many MMA legends chasing boxing money. The former UFC champion is currently scheduled to face boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya in a professional boxing match set for Sat., Sept. 11, 2021 inside Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. However, that’s likely not the end of
Andrea Lee goes to the beach, ‘snatches’ up hammerhead shark | Photo No. 11 ranked UFC women’s flyweight Andrea “KGB” Lee recently went to a Texas beach and ‘snatched’ up a young hammerhead shark. She posted photo proof on her Instagram account. She’s also not a bad football punter. Lee last fought at UFC 262
LOS ANGELES – Chris Gonzalez spoke to the media ahead of Bellator 263 at Wednesday’s media day. Gonzalez (6-0 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) discussed being happy that he got a top-five matchup in Goiti Yamauchi, having “no regrets” pivoting from the Olympic wrestling trials to pursue MMA, “definitely looking to contend for the (lightweight) belt soon”
Former UFC heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic could move to One Championship, Joe Rogan reveals on the Joe Rogan Experience, that Conor McGregor asked for post UFC 264 interview, after he lost against Dustin Poirier, Michael Chandler responds to Justin Gaethje, wants to face him next Islam Makhachev and Rafael Dos Anjos (RDA) keep going after
Aljamain Sterling is taking aim at fans who are buying into the narrative that TJ Dillashaw came clean. Dillashaw recently made his return to the Octagon after serving a two-year suspension under USADA after failing a drug test for EPO. He went one-on-one with Cory Sandhagen in the main event of UFC Vegas 32. Dillashaw
8:00 AM ET Scott Coker took the reins of Bellator MMA in 2014 with a firm plan for growth. The longtime combat sports promoter was going to apply some of the principles that worked well when he ran Strikeforce, from its first MMA event in March 2006 until it was acquired by the UFC’s parent
To say that Mickey Gall’s first five years with the UFC have been eventful would be an understatement. Since being signed in 2015 from Dana White’s Lookin’ for a Fight show after just one pro bout, Gall has fought former WWE Superstar CM Punk, highly touted prospect Sage Northcutt, inaugural Ultimate Fighter winner Diego Sanchez,
Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports Ultimate Fighting Championship strawweight Tatiana Suarez is out of UFC 266 due to a knee injury that will require surgery. Tatiana Suarez out of UFC 266 bout with Roxanne Modafferi Suarez (8-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) has already been out of the octagon for the last two years due to a
Chris Weidman just suffered a major setback on his road to recovery. The former UFC middleweight champion will require more surgery to repair the damage incurred against Uriah Hall as part of the UFC 261 pay-per-view (PPV) event back in April, a first-round leg break that put the “All American” out of action for more
2021 World MMA Awards nominees announced The nominees for the 2021 edition of the 13th annual World MMA Awards presented by Fighter’s Only have been announced per a press release. Visit worldmmaawards.com to vote for each respective category, the nominees can be found below. Charles ‘Mask’ Lewis Male Fighter of the Year Kamaru Usman Brandon
Chris Weidman has experienced a setback in the recover from his catastrophic leg injury. Weidman (15-6 MMA, 11-6 UFC) infamously suffered a nasty broken leg in his UFC 261 fight with Uriah Hall in April. Previous updated indicated his rehabilitation was going smoothly, but now he’s discovered that’s not the case. The former UFC middleweight
The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC Vegas 32! Check out all the changes below! Men’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Strawweight: No Changes Women’s Flyweight: Maycee Barber (#13) and Miranda Maverick (#14) swap positions after Barber’s controversial victory at UFC Vegas 32. Women’s Bantamweight: Julia Avila
6:59 PM ET The UFC has had to make several changes to its Fight Night card for Saturday in Las Vegas. The scheduled co-main event pitting rising heavyweights Shamil Abdurakhimov and Chris Daukaus was removed from the card due to COVID-19 protocols involving Daukaus’ camp, UFC officials told ESPN on Tuesday. In addition, a welterweight
Ricky Turcios is again just a win away from becoming a UFC fighter. Team Volkanovski’s No. 3 bantamweight pick became the first fighter to advance to The Ultimate Fighter 29 finals, taking a convincing decision in an action-packed scrap with Team Ortega’s Liudvik Sholinian (9-1-1)*. As he did in his semifinal thriller opposite Dan Argueta,
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