At UFC 252, Sean O’Malley suffered an unfortunate injury that led to the end of his fight with Marlon Vera. Now, retired fighter Ben Askren weighs in on what happened, and he was not exactly generous to the bantamweight prospect. Askren is someone who is familiar with having a ton of hype behind them in
At UFC 252, Marc Goddard missed a big eye poke between Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier. However former ref Big John McCarthy does not think the Goddard is to blame for what happened. An unfortunate footnote to the trilogy between Miocic and Cormier, was the aspect of eye pokes in the fights. The first two
The UFC has been struggling to find a fight for former middleweight champ Anderson Silva. However it would seem that one bout that they are not interested in, is one with Conor McGregor. Talks about a fight between Silva and McGregor circulated for a brief time, earlier this year. Each party expressed interest in facing
With Jon Jones vacating his light heavyweight title, there was speculation that this could open up a route for him to move to heavyweight. It would seem that this has come true, and in even less time than expected. Although Jones had been stressed out with the UFC for some time, it was still surprising
Recently, Jon Jones vacated his UFC Light Heavyweight championship. And, he’s already reflecting on his legacy in a way that will even more interest into the ever-changing 205lb division. Jones is already tweeting about the state of the division. Furthermore, he doesn’t believe that anyone will ever be able to break his record of title
Since Jon Jones officially vacated his UFC Light Heavyweight title, the organization seems to be in a frenzy. Not in a negative sense, but the 205lb division is truly heating up. Almost immediately after vacating, the UFC announced Dominick Reyes vs Jan Blachowicz at UFC 253. Now, a former divisional mainstay in Anthony “Rumble” Johnson
UFC Light Heavyweight superstar Jon Jones teased awhile back that he would vacate his 205lb championship. After feeling disrespected by the organization financially, Jon took to social media today to make the news official. With the division now being up for grabs, it appears that the UFC is acting rather quickly to advance the division.
It would seem that Jon Jones was not making idle threats about vacating the light heavyweight title. He officially revealed that he has given up his belt. For the last decade, the light heavyweight division has been synonymous with Jon Jones. Despite his many, many transgressions outside of the cage, he was always regarded as
Prior to his first career lost at UFC 252, Sean O’Malley talked a ton of smack to a few people. That is seemingly coming back around, as Henry Cejudo and Cody Garbrandt mocked O’Malley in defeat. Although O’Malley was a highly touted prospect headed into UFC 252, it was expected that Marlon Vera would likely
Khabib Nurmagomedov would be lying if his father’s recent death wasn’t affecting him in training. Nurmagomedov is set to return to action at UFC 254 on October 24 when he faces Justin Gaethje in a lightweight title unification fight in the main event. That contest will take place only a couple of months following the
Daniel Cormier has officially called time on his career. The former two-weight champion suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Stipe Miocic in their heavyweight title trilogy match this past weekend at UFC 252. As a result, he missed out on the opportunity to retire on top in what was highly-expected to be his last fight
It has been six months since Dominick Reyes had a close and controversial fight with Jon Jones. Now a recent message from the Devastator seems to suggest a rematch may be incoming. When Reyes faced off against Jones, he was counted out by many due to his tenure as a middleweight and relatively unknown skillset.
After this past weekend’s PPV event is in the books, fans are looking ahead to the next title fight. Before Israel Adesanya and Paulo Costa take to the Octagon, UFC 253 got a super sleek promo package. UFC 253 will be going down on September 26th, 2020. It will feature a middleweight title fight between
On September 26th, Brazil’s Paulo Costa will be fighting for the middleweight title. However, a month and a half out from the fight, he is walking around the size of a heavyweight. One of the worst kept secrets in all of MMA, is that Costa is way bigger than any other middleweight on the UFC
Daniel Cormier endured a unanimous decision setback to Stipe Miocic in their trilogy match at UFC 252 last night. Both competitors showed flashes of brilliance early on. Especially Miocic, who succeeded to drop Cormier towards the end of the second round and looked to have all the momentum. However, Cormier would go on to hurt
Weeks ago, mixed martial arts fans gathered the television to watch Michael Chandler get a big KO victory over Benson Henderson at Bellator 243. With that being the last fight on Chandler’s Bellator contract, fans automatically began fantasy booking him against the UFC’s best. That is if he were to sign with the UFC, as