UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping is stumping for a welterweight bout next between opponents leon Edwards and Jorge Masvidal. Edwards defeated Nate Diaz via unanimous decision at UFC 263, while Masvidal is coming off of back-to-back losses to UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. With Colby Covington next in line to fight Usman for the…
On this week’s episode of What the Heck, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck talking with UFC welterweight Colby Covington (7:24) to give an update on the negotiations for the rematch with Kamaru Usman, discusses when and where the fight could happen, Leon Edwards’ win at UFC 263 against Nate Diaz and why he believes he won’t…
Former UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo respond after losing his belt to Brandon Moreno by third-round submission at UFC 263. Deiveson Figueiredo entered the rematch with Moreno as the champion after they fought to a draw in a 2020 “Fight of the Year” candidate at UFC 256 last December. But after struggling on the scale…
Italian mixed martial artist Marvin Vettori during a press conference after the UFC 263 tournament said that in the next fight, he would like to share the octagon with the second number of the UFC middle division rating Paulo Costa. The Brazilian did not delay the answer and said that he also agreed to hold…
Dana White always says he’d more correct not address Jake Paul, Logan Paul, and the circus that follows their fighting careers, but he seems to get drawn back into it quite often. The latest example came after UFC 263 on Saturday night when the UFC president was asked about the recent boxing exhibition between Floyd…
Long before the fight of Nate Diaz against Leon Edwards at UFC 263, the famous video blogger Jake Paul suggested that in 2022 he would fight against the MMA star. Now, when Nate lost the fight to Leon, Jake felt even more confident and said that he would knock out Diaz after he dealt with…
Marvin Vettori (17-5-1 MMA, 7-3-1 UFC) lost his rematch with UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya (21-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) by unanimous decision, dropping all five rounds on the scorecards across the board at Gila Rivera Arena in Glendale, Ariz. Although he did land some solid strikes and had the champion in some compromising positions on…
Israel Adesanya be in Marvin Vettori’s position before and he chose to handle things differently – for a reason. Following his UFC 263 unanimous decision win over the first-ever Italian title challenger in the promotion’s history, Adesanya (21-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) and Vettori (17-4-1 MMA, 7-3-1 UFC) argued about whether or not the scoring was…
The second number of the ranking of the lightest division of the UFC, Askar Askarov, hopes to get a fight against the newly minted champion of the 125-pound division, Brandon Moreno. This morning, the Mexican won an early title rematch with Davison Figueiredo in the co-main event of UFC 263. According to the Russian fighter,…
Just in Glendale (Arizona, USA) at the Gila River Arena, the UFC 263 co-main event ended, in which MMA fans saw a rematch between the current light heavyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo (20-1-1 MMA, 9-1-1 UFC) and Mexican Brandon Moreno (18-5-2 MMA, 6-2-2 UFC). The champion allowed Moreno to work the first number, and he began…
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