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Mike Tyson and Jake Paul | Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul just got a little bit bigger. On Monday, Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions announced the upcoming fight card between Paul and Tyson will also feature a WBC welterweight title fight between Mario Barrios and Abel Ramos. FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT MVP is […]
@iHeartGeorgius1, Twitter Merab Dvalishvil’s championship triumph rang across the continents. “The Machine” dominated Sean O’Malley in Saturday’s UFC 306 main event at Sphere in Las Vegas to earn a unanimous decision win and become the new UFC bantamweight champion. Back in his native Georgia, thousands of Dvalishvili fans gathered in a Tbilisi square to watch […]
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev is nearing a return date after suffering a torn ligament in his hand that delayed his next fight after dispatching Dustin Poirier in June. Most believed Makhachev would fight top ranked contender Arman Tsarukyan in October at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi […]
Photo by Michelle Farsi/Zuffa LLC The UFC continues negotiations with the plaintiffs involved in a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed against the company but after a judge denied the initial settlement agreement, it’s impossible to tell how this ends. In a surprising move, Judge Richard Boulware from Nevada shut down a settlement agreement in July […]
Alex Pereira | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Alex Pereira wants that Dricus du Plessis fight, he’s just not sure if the UFC middleweight champion feels the same way. “Poatan,” who is set to defend his light heavyweight title against Khalil Rountree in the main event of UFC 307 in Salt Lake […]
Merab Dvalishvili is the new UFC bantamweight champion after defeating Sean O’Malley in the main event of UFC 306, while Valentina Shevchenko is once again the flyweight champ following her dominant win over Alexa Grasso in the co-main event. Where do the new and now former champions go from Saturday’s event at Sphere? On an […]
Jon Jones | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Welcome to the latest update to the MMA Fighting pound-for-pound rankings, where every month our esteemed panel sort through the noise to answer one question: Who are the best overall male and female MMA fighters in the world? Let’s take a look at how things stand following […]
Michael Chandler claims he almost fought at UFC 306. Chandler, who has long been tied to a fight with Conor McGregor, now faces Charles Oliveira in a five-round, co-main event rematch at UFC 309 on Nov. 16 at Madison Square Garden. During a media scrum at this past Saturday’s pay-per-view event at Sphere in Las […]
Jon Jones | Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Jon Jones is edging closer to retirement. The UFC’s reigning heavyweight champion has said on multiple occasions that his next fight—which is now officially booked against Stipe Miocic for the main event of UFC 309 on Nov. 16—could be his last. Jones repeated that […]
Alexa Grasso | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Valentina Shevchenko finished the Alexa Grasso trilogy with a win at UFC 306 this past Saturday in Las Vegas, and the Mexican star was disappointed with her performance after five rounds of combat. Now 1-1-1 in title fights against “Bullet,” Grasso wrote her first words on social […]