That is how you make a debut. Last night (Jun. 26) Antonina Shevchenko made her long awaited UFC maiden voyage as part of season 2, week 3 of the Dana White Tuesday Night Contender Series. Look it was almost a given that Shevchenko would be signed by the UFC eventually regardless of the outcome Tuesday
Former NFL player Greg Hardy, whose promising career destroyed after charges of domestic violence and continued behavioral issues, was recently signed by UFC following his impressive MMA debut. Hardy defeated another former NFL player, Austen Lane, via 57-second knockout on the Tuesday Night Contender Series. UFC president Dana White was well aware of Hardy’s past
Disgraced former NFL star Greg Hardy has made a seamless transition into MMA. After going undefeated as an amateur, Hardy made his professional MMA debut on Dana Tuesday Night Contender Series and scored a first-round knockout less than a minute into the first round. Hardy sent fellow former NFL player Austen Lane in 57 seconds
Yesterday’s UFC 225 main card opened by a welterweight bout between former WWE star CM Punk aka Phil Brooks and Mike Jackson both entered a contest at 1-1. CM Punk failed to impress his hometown crowd after a second disappointing showing. Jackson busted Punk (0-2) with blows to the face throughout the fight and won
Trash talker Colby Covington dominates ex-lightweight champ Rafael dos Anjos to earn the interim UFC welterweight title at UFC 225 on Saturday night (June 9, 2018) by taking a hard-fought unanimous decision. Before the fight blunt Covington told, he would win the title and bring that strap to Donald Trump. After the win, Covington told
It looks like Fox Sports is out, and ESPN is in the game! ESPN was able to secure the full broadcast rights for the UFC events! The deal starts in 2019 but it also means Fox Sports will not broadcast UFC events anymore! Fox Sports was in the game since 2011. ESPN, the digital streaming
The days of UFC on FOX will soon be over after the UFC signed a new media rights deal with FOX rival ESPN beginning in January of 2019. The ESPN deal marks the end of seven years on FOX and FOX Sports networks, which was signed back in 2011. The multi-year ESPN deal will include
Nick Newell 32-year-old a one-handed fighter who racked up an impressive 14-1 record in the World Series of Fighting (WSOF), and the Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA). His only loss came to former World Series of Fighting lightweight champion and UFC lightweight contender Justin Gaethje. Newell has long tried to get to the UFC roaster now
You think Khabib Nurmagomedov can grapple? His technique pales in comparison to the Geomyidae family. That’s right. The entire wrestling tradition of Dagestan would get school by the natural ferocity of gophers. Don’t believe me? Check out this bus driver who found some gophers on the side of the road engaged in a grappling war that
Creepy Joe, we would like to introduce you to Sleepy Joe. Not to be confused with J-Lau. Maybe this was how Joe Lauzon was allegedly captured and brainwashed by his Reebok overlords? From what looks like some kind of drunken St. Paddy’s Day gathering, here is Joe Lauzon being choked to sleep by a random
Urijah Faber, a UFC Hall of Famer is not ready to close the door completely on his competitive career with the UFC. Faber, who retired in Dec 2016 with a record of 34 wins from 44 fights, said there’s always a chance to comes out of retirement as an active MMA fighter. No doubt, Faber
As 2017 about to come to a close, everyone debating which finish deserves The ‘Best Knockout of the Year.’ We pick out some impressive stoppages of the last 12 months, with some of the biggest names in the game involved. Marlon Moraes Beaten Aljamain Sterling at UFC Fight Night 123 in December: Marlon Moraes destroys
Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has been entangled in a dispute with the promotion’s matchmakers, which has fogged the middleweight division dating back to Michael Bisping’s days as champion. The biggest upset in MMA history when Bisping stopped Rockhold via KO at UFC 199 to win the middleweight title. Another unexpected upset few months
On Saturday night November 4, at Madison Square Garden in the co-event of UFC 217, TJ Dillashaw got his redemption, by knocking out former training partner Cody Garbrandt to recapture the UFC bantamweight title. Former teammates and training camp Team Alpha Male Dillashaw and Cody had been brewing longstanding rivalry over his departure from the
On the second episode of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender series, the world was introduced to 22 year knockout machine Sean O’Malley. The MMA Lab product O’Malley might be the first true breakout star from the show. After a sensational first round knockout of Edmond Tarverdyan trained Alfred Khashakyan, “Afro” O’Malley hit all the right
In the final fight of his career, Anthony Smith stepped inside the Octagon at UFC Kansas City for a scrap with Chinese knockout artist Mingyang Zhang. A perennial contender in the light heavyweight division, ‘Lionheart’ has gone toe-to-toe with some of the best in the world, including Rashad Evans, Jon Jones, Alexander Gustafsson, Glover Teixeira,