News on ultimate fighting, UFC, MMA (MMA), M-1, Pride, K1, Strikeforce, Bellator and other mixed martial arts.
FormerU UFC two-weight champion Daniel Cormier is confident that Michael Chandler and Charles Oliveira, who will compete for the vacant lightweight title at UFC 262, deserve this chance. “Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje were so tightly woven into the lightweight title picture that it’s hard to imagine that in just 12 months we will have…
Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov reacted to the tragedy in Kazan. The athlete mentioned the events in Tatarstan on his Instagram page. “There are no other people’s children, we condole with all relatives and friends,” wrote Nurmagomedov, adding to the post a photo of the school in which the tragedy happened. The following entry…
UFC President Dana White says he doesn’t see this fire in Nick Diaz and asks how badly he wants to fight again. Diaz was a guest at UFC 261 last month and was reportedly dating White about a possible comeback. Diaz hasn’t fought since January 2015 when he fought Anderson Silva out of competition, but…
UFC President Dana White has said that Tony Ferguson will return to the lightweight elite with a win over Beneil Dariush at UFC 262. Ferguson is coming out of a tough 2020 when he lost to Justin Gaethje at UFC 249 and then via unanimous decision to Charles Oliveira at UFC 256. Ferguson was one…
UFC Women’s Heavyweight contender Yan Xiaonan hopes to earn a title shot by beating Carla Esparza on the weekend at UFC Vegas 27. Xiaonan (13-1, 1 NC) has quickly become one of the top heavyweights on the UFC roster since making her promotion debut in 2017. Since then, she has won allhis fights in the…
Russian fighter Islam Makhachev officially became a member of the top ten UFC lightweights, taking the tenth line in the division’s ranking. The updated rating was published by the official website of the organization. Nevertheless, in fact, the Russian is the eleventh member of the top ten, since he shares the last line in it…
UFC President Dana White is breaking crazy news for fans that a match between former UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and former 205lb thief Jon Jones is possible. Miocic recently lost his belt when he was knocked out by Francis Ngannou at UFC 260 in March, but he remains one of the sport’s top heavyweights…
Former UFC title contender Dan Hardy, who recently lost his job as a commentator due to an altercation with one of the promotion employees, has decided to permanently cut ties with the league, wanting to get rid of obligations as a fighter as well. “The only thing that’s happened is I’ve asked two different people…
Former coach for UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, Fernando Lopez admitted that the Cameroonian was not the formidable puncher he was known to be early in his career. “Ngannou was thin. Compared to what he is now, he was very thin. Very tall, thin, I knew that he had just gone through emigration. Then, when…
Diego Sanchez‘s coach, Joshua Fabia, explained what was happening in a strange training video that hit the net a couple of days ago and shocked the mma community. “I see guys getting knocked out all the time, but I’ve never seen them practice taking punch,” Fabia said in an interview with Mike Swick. “I beat…
