Welcome to the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill fold. In case you didn’t notice the final four months of 2017 is an all you can eat MMA buffet of events. Starting on September 9th the UFC alone will hold 15 live events before your personal sun dial clicks over to 2018. In December, the UFC will
The combat sports world survived. The Sunday Morning Rumor Mill lives another week thanks to Floyd Mayweather’s strategy and Conor McGregor’s cardio. For twelve minutes, McGregor was on the verge of pulling off the greatest upset in sport’s history. Then the final six rounds happened, Mayweather went into Voltron mode and picked apart his slower,
Six days. Six days and one Sunday Morning Rumor Mill until the final chapter of the biggest combat sports story ever told. To prep it’s self for the greatest government sanctioned freak show the MMA world has gone radio silent for most of August. The most recognizable unbeaten boxing star of the past 20 years
If you even have the smallest about of celebrity online just don’t use iCloud for your photos; ever. This week, some nude photos of 1-5 UFC fighter Kailin Curran (4-5) were leaked on The Internet. The odd phenomenon of hackers sneaking into famous people’s cloud photo galleries has picked at a crazy pace in 2017.
Truth is stranger than fiction while the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill is becoming more normalized by the week. The combat sports world is less than two weeks away from the biggest money-generating event in boxing or MMA history and neither Team Mayweather or Team McGregor are taking their foot off the gas. The never-ending story
For those still stuck inside Mexican boarders after a late night UFC Mexico City after party, hola. For the rest of the world enjoy your already scheduled Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. The UFC followed up their biggest show of 2017 in UFC 214 with the MMA equivalent of a weekday pro wrestling house show. With
Bones is even head kicking MMA rumors. This is Jon Jones world and the rest of MMA is just occupying his space. Even an excellent Rizin card beginning moments after Daniel Cormier is still crumbled in the cage could not overshadow Jon “Bones” Jones legacy. With Conor McGregor off doing Conor McGregor things, it’s up
While some wander the streets of Long Island in search of other humans, others wander the Internet in search of MMA rumors. Before you head down to the shore let the week that was in MMA cure your UFC Long Island hangover. Only one week away from UFC 214, the MMA world was on its
Uncle Joey Diaz for MMA journalist of the year. End the voting, close the polls, comedian Joey Diaz has got all the scoops and all the best opinions on the sport of human cage fighting. With an enthusiasm sport like we’ve never seen before, now Diaz is commenting on the lush river that is the
Form Voltron! In a MMA world where five robot lions which can combine to form a giant sword swinging Voltron, MMA rumors also run wild and free. After a four city, four day world media tour Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather nearly destroyed the combat universe via verbal thermonuclear fallout. In lieu of unearthing five
If you survived UFC’s International Fight Week then congratulations. Though UFC’s 2017 version of International Fight Week’s bare little to no resemblance to the company’s original incarnations, the post-UFC 213 fallout is still as strong as ever. Roaming the sun drenched Las Vegas desert for seven consecutive days has caused the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill
The end is near but MMA rumors are infinite. The MMA world is about to embark on a 29-day period where the UFC schedule just fell asleep at their keyboard. March had three UFC shows. April had three UFC shows. May only had two events while June came with a respectable four shows. From July
While still in a Bellator food coma the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill just got sucked up into a UFC Oklahoma City tornado. There is no MMA off-season and sometimes the biggest event of one promotion’s history is immediately followed by another promotion’s Fox Sports Sunday night filler content. Whether in the morning, afternoon, evening or
The Sunday Morning Rumor Mill has got Dad Jokes. In the wake of the biggest MMA star boxing the biggest boxing star in some kind combat sport’s version of a Batman vs. Spiderman crossover, the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill is pumping gold nuggets at a record-breaking pace. Is this real life? When Conor McGregor shocks
Is Bellator New York City really the best MMA pay-per-view of year? Can the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill arrive in the afternoon? UFC 211 and to a lesser extent UFC 210 would like to have a word with Bellator’s June PPV. Fedor, Wanderlei Silva, Chael Sonnen, Douglas Lima, Michael Chandler and Lorenz Larkin all make
It kind of adds up and the equation reads Ronda Rousey. The best part of pro wrestling isn’t always the action in the ring, sometimes fantasy booking the million scenarios that could eventually happen in the ring. With network television ratings falling by the week and in a constant pursuit of mainstream media attention, the