The Ultimate Fighting Championship has always supported the troops throughout the years and now they are holding an online auction and the proceeds will go to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Funds and The National Intrepid Center of Excellence. The auction is live right now. The items that are up for auction can be found at:...
Anderson Silva has always been adamant about not facing Lyoto Machida. “I’ve already said it, and I’ll say it again. Lyoto and myself— we are brothers. Jacare and myself we are friends— camp friends. So we have a code of honor amongst ourselves that we don’t fight against ourselves regardless of wins and losses, money...
Fight of the Night: Luke Barnatt vs. Andrew Craig Luke Barnatt and Andrew Craig put on an impressive performance in the preliminary bouts that aired on Facebook. It was so good, in fact, that it was the only preliminary bout to air on Fox Sports 2. Andrew Craig showed a good display of composure throughout...
UFC Executive Vice President Garry Cook spoke out earlier this week to discuss the future of the UFC in Europe – a venture that Cook believes will take off significantly this coming year as the organization plans to bring MMA to prime time viewing for European countries. By Christopher Murphy @MurphMMA This week...
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is putting the U.S. Market on the outs next year as part of their European expansion with at least six events made for a Euro-only audience. The first of which is in the planning stages and according to UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta it will be a major event at London’s O2...
The fight card for UFC Fight Night 32: Belfort vs. Henderson has been finalized with a total of 12 fights divided between a preliminary card that will stream live online and a main card that will air on FOX Sports 1. By Christopher Murphy @MurphMMA The UFC has announced its line-up for next...
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced today that its top stars will be visiting different cities across North America for 20 days leading up to UFC 167: ST-PIERRE vs. HENDRICKS on Saturday, Nov. 16 in Las Vegas. The tour will begin in Denver, Colo., the site of UFC 1, on Oct. 28, and make...
Before tonight’s pay-per-view broadcast kicks off, the ‘UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos III’ event goes live with a stellar, eight-fight preliminary card event. If you can’t make BJPENN.COM’s Live broadcast of the prelims, or missed the preliminary Fox Sports 1 airing, than tune in here for all the blow-by-blow and round-by-round action you can...
Before the UFC 166 event hits Fox Sports 1 for the Preliminary Card Broadcast, four exciting fights will go down live, right here on BJPENN.COM. TJ Waldburger vs Adlan Amagov, Tony Ferguson vs Mike Rio, Jeremy Larsen vs Andre Fili, and Dustin Pague vs Kyoji Horiguchi will all go down from the Toyota Center in...
A packed out Toyota Center in Houston, Texas witnessed today’s UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos weigh-ins ceremony. All but one fighter missed their mark this afternoon. That fighter was preliminary card competitor Andre Fili. If you missed BJPENN.COM’s live stream of today’s special event here are the official results: MAIN CARD: (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m....
“I want to taste blood in this next fight because I’m so mad at myself, because I just under-performed, and I just hate that,” Julie Kedzie told BJPenn.com in a recent interview. The UFC women’s bantamweight fighter recounts her UFC debut and uses that to get fired up for her next fight, a December 6...
There has only been one man to defeat the UFC’s heavyweight champion of the world. That man is former champion, Junior dos Santos. Marred with controversy, an injured Cain Velasquez entered the cage for the UFC on FOX 1 main event and lost quickly due to the vicious striking prowess of Junior dos Santos. The...
UFC Middleweight Alessio Sakara (pictured) will be taking on promotional newcomer, Nicholas Musoke, at UFC Fight Night 30 later in October. Musoke has replaced Sakara’s opponent, Magnus Cedenblad, who was replacing Sakara’s original opponent in Tom Watson. By Christopher Murphy @MurphMMA Alessio Sakara has a new opponent for UFC Fight Night 30 later...
Tonight from the Jose Correa Arena in Barueri, Sao Paulo, Brazil the UFC hits Fox Sports 1 with ‘UFC Fight Night 29: Maia vs. Shields.’ Starting at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET, BJPENN.COM will be providing live play-by-play results of the event starting with the first fight of the preliminary card through the...
Tonight from the Jose Correa Arena in Barueri, Sao Paulo, Brazil the UFC hits Fox Sports 1 with ‘UFC Fight Night 29: Maia vs. Shields.’ Starting at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET, BJPENN.COM will be providing live play-by-play results of the event starting with the first fight of the preliminary card through the...
Today’s UFC Fight Night 29: Maia vs. Shields weigh-in event has concluded and all but one fighter made their contracted weight limit. The one blemish on today’s ceremony came in the form of Thiago Silva coming in two-pounds over the allowed light-heavyweight allowance at 208lbs. He was given one additional hour to make the...
“You never know. If you were to ask me, ‘Hey Chael, what’s it take to be a star in the UFC?’ I could give you a pretty good guess, but that’s all it would be. I don’t really know. Every year there’s something called a Fighter Summit. And the very first one we went to,...
Citing the fans as his motivation, UFC light heavyweight fighter Fabio Maldonado talked about his fight this Wednesday against Joey Beltran at UFC Fight Night 29. As fight night draws nearer, Maldonado’s confidence in defeating Beltran only grows. By Christopher Murphy @MurphMMA UFC light heavyweight fighter, Fabio Maldonado (19-6), will be taking...
When it comes to PPV buy rates we never really get disclosed true and accurate figures. However the one reliable and lone source for UFC pay-per-view figures has and always will be, Mr. Dave Meltzer. When people talk of buys, stating this PPV did this amount and this one did that, it is all based...
Ed Herman did not have to wait long to learn the name of his new UFC 167 opponent, as the promotion recently announced that former title challenger Thales Leites would be replacing Rafael Natal against “Short Fuse.” Natal was promoted from his schedueld UFC 167 bout, to the headliner of “UFC Fight For The Troops 3”...
When Michael Bisping injured his eye, former UFC light heavyweight champion, Lyoto Machida, was pulled from his scheduled bout with Tim Kennedy at ‘UFC Fight for the troops 3’ to replace “The Count” in the headliner of “UFC Fight Night 30” opposite Mark Munoz. The shuffling of opponents had left Tim Kennedy without a fight, so, he began...
Anthony “Showtime” Pettis (17-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) was able to pull off a slick first-round submission victory over Benson Henderson at August’s UFC 164 event in Milwaukee, to claim the UFC’s lightweight title. The dominant victory showed that Pettis is every bit as dangerous on the ground, as he is on his feet. Submitting a Brazilian...
A bantamweight bout has been added to the UFC’s return trip to Australia in the form of Nam Phan vs. Takeya Mizugaki. UFC officials announced the bout this afternoon. UFC Fight Night 33 is set to go down from the Queensland capital at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Dec. 7. In the main event heavyweights Mark hunt and...
The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s next “Fight for the Troops” card is set for November 6, and the lineup of 13 fights has been officially set for their broadcast on FOX Sports 1 and live stream on Facebook. Headlining the night of fights will be a middleweight showdown between Lyoto Machida (pictured) and Tim Kennedy. ...
The UFC $5 million man is still a mystery but you can cross two potential candidates off the list. UFC president Dana White said that the supposed fighter who earned $5 million after a fight is neither former heavyweight champ Brock Lesner nor current light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Last week, during a Google Hangout...
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has added a flyweight bout to its November card in Brazil, UFC Fight Night 32, that will feature local fighter, Jose Maria, and promotional newcomer, Dustin Ortiz. By Christopher Murphy @MurphMMA Another fight has been added to the UFC Fight Night 32 card, as UFC officials announced Jose Maria will...
December’s UFC Fight Night 33 just added a middleweight bout. Caio Magalhaes (6-1) vs. Nick Ring (13-2) is the latest fight to the card, UFC officials recently announced UFC Fight Night 33 takes place Dec. 7 in the Queensland capital at Brisbane Entertainment Centre. The event is expected to air on FOX Sports 1 or...
Live and free on facebook.com and Fox Sports 1, the UFC 165 preliminary card is stacked with eight fantastic fights. First up is a four-fight facebook.com free stream, which will be followed up by a another four-fights on Fox sports 1. The preliminary portion of the card kicks off at 3:15 p.m. PT / 6:15...
