Written by Alexander Volkanovski | Photo by Paul Kane/Zuffa LLC Alexander Volkanovski will check off a lot of boxes if he defeats Islam Makhachev at UFC 284. With a win at the Feb. 12 pay-per-view in Perth, Australia, Volkanovski would capture the UFC lightweight title and earn champ-champ status, score arguably the biggest win of his career […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Barring any MMA weirdness (there’s a phrase one should never utter), we’re going to have a new UFC light heavyweight champion on Saturday, but the crowning is unlikely to come with the usual pomp and circumstance. With respect to Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev, two excellent fighters who have been […]
Olivier Aubin-Mercier: ‘When I was in the UFC, I didn’t really feel respected, I felt like a number’
Olivier Aubin-Mercier has a lot to be happy about these days. After wondering not that long ago if perhaps his fighting career was over, the 33-year-old Canadian is now the PFL’s 2022 lightweight champion and he is $1 million richer following his knockout of Stevie Ray in the finals of the year-long tournament this past […]
KSW MMA MMA Fighting has KSW 70 results for the Pudzianowski vs. Materla fight card and live KSW 70 Twitter updates. Heavyweights clash in the main and co-main event, with promotion star and former strongman champ Mariusz Pudzianowski set to face off against experienced KSW vet Michał Materla. Former Chelsea goalkeeper Ricardo Prasel returns to […]
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC LAS VEGAS – UFC middleweight Chidi Njokuani reacts to his brutal elbow KO of Dusko Todorovic at UFC Vegas 55, why he prefers quick finishes over “Fight of the Night” outings, and more.
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Instant replays could be aired in real-time with just 15 seconds elapsing between the opening bell and a concussion-producing punch from Matthew Semelsberger to Martin Sano at UFC 266. The welterweight bout had barely gotten started at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas when Semelsberger sat down on a straight […]