Anthony Smith is going with the underdog in the UFC 275 headliner this weekend. UFC 275 goes down Saturday night in Singapore as Glover Teixeira looks to defend his light heavyweight title for the first time against Jiri Prochazka. While Teixeira is currently undergoing a career renaissance that saw him win the strap at 42,
Ricky Hatton believes Paddy Pimblett should take better care of his body The former professional boxer does not agree with Pimblett’s alarming level of weight gain between fights. Hatton had won multiple world championships at light-welterweight and one at welterweight to become an endeared figure in the UK. Now that he sees another rising prospect
Eight UFC fighters have lost their jobs. The UFC is doing some summer cleaning to make room for this year’s season of Dana White’s Contender Series. Yesterday and today, the algorithm-based Twitter account UFC Roster Watch revealed that Louis Smolka, Frank Camacho, Alex Da Silva, Andreas Michailidis, Felipe Colares, Tristan Connelly, Niklas Stolze, and TJ
Michael ‘Venom’ Page is set to face Mike Perry at BKFC 27. Coming off an interim title loss to Logan Storley at Bellator 281, Page is set to venture into a new sport before returning to the octagon in Bellator. He was riding a six-fight win streak before the loss and rebuked the judges for
MMA fans are nuts. We watch two people fight in a steel cage in their underwear and then cheer them on. However, a particular MMA fan took their fandom to a whole new level. On Wednesday, UFC fan Jack Millard posted a picture of his new tattoo. It is Darren Till and Khamzat Chimaev, aka
Ariel Helwani shared some insight on the return of Conor McGregor. Former UFC two-division champion Conor McGregor has remained on the sidelines for about a year since his most recent outing last July. McGregor succumbed to back-to-back losses to his adversary, Dustin Poirier in 2021. During their second contest at UFC 264, he suffered a
It was almost a very bad training session for Israel Adesanya‘s coach. Last week during practice, Adesanya was very close to landing a head kick on one of his coaches, Carl Van Roon. Van Roon runs Van Roon Martial Arts gym in Auckland, New Zealand, and has been working with Adesanya ahead of his title
Gilbert Burns wants to challenge Jorge Masvidal for the BMF Title in his next time out inside the Octagon. Gilbert Burns eying Jorge Masvidal’s BMF Title Burns was recently interviewed on Jimmy Smith’s “Unlocking The Cage” radio show on Sirius XM, and discussed what could be next for him inside the Octagon. The former welterweight
If you have an opinion on Daniel Cormier and his commentary, it no longer affects him. Cormier has been a regular UFC commentator over the last few years and with the job, comes plenty of criticism from fans as well as his fellow fighters. After all, who can forget the whole Dominick Cruz saga? Cormier
Manel Kape is not a fan of Deiveson Figueiredo speaking out about possibly leaving the flyweight division. Last week, UFC flyweight champion Figueiredo spoke to Ag. Fight and said he was thinking about leaving flyweight and moving up to bantamweight because he felt disrespected by the UFC for creating an interim flyweight title. Ungrateful Flyweight
To say that boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya has had a rocky relationship with Dana White would be an understatement. The boxing Hall of Famer has traded numerous verbal jabs with the UFC President over the years. During the debut MMA show for Golden Boy Promotions, De La Hoya bashed White over the issue
The UFC president shoots down a potential fight between Nick Diaz and Kamaru Usman, rightfully so. When the leader of the Diaz Army came out and said he wanted to fight the pound-for-pound best fighter in the UFC, everybody rolled their eyes but, at the same time, became slightly curious. Big John McCarthy even went
Former UFC fighter Tim Kennedy recently rescued a Fox journalist from Ukraine. Fox news correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was assigned to duty on the frontlines of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, was badly injured while reporting from Kyiv. He was in a local hospital for two days before Kennedy’s team was able to rescue him. Motivated
Jiri Prochazka will be challenging the reigning UFC light heavyweight champion Glover Teixeira this June 11. At UFC 275, the inaugural and former Rizin FF Light Heavyweight Champion Prochazka will look to finish Teixeira, who has racked up six wins in a row going into the bout. Teixeira will defend his belt for the first
Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan suggested making a change to mixed martial arts (MMA) scoring recently, however, that change was already made in 2016. Joe Rogan suggests a change that has already been made Rogan recently hosted UFC bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, on his podcast, where the pair discussed the judging and scoring criteria in
Daniel Cormier gave his insights about the looming fight between Stipe Miocic and Jon Jones DC addressed his long-standing feud with “Bones” If there’s someone who could give the most truthful prediction for the brewing Stipe Miocic vs. Jon Jones heavyweight clash, that would be no other than the man who fought them both twice-