MMA News

Chris Taylor - March 24, 2018

UFC Fight Night 128: Edson Barboza vs. Kevin Lee Fight Card The octagon will return to Atlantic City on April 21 for UFC Fight Night 128.

Chris Taylor - March 24, 2018

Josh Barnett reacts to beating USADA: “The time I lost though can never be regained.” Former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett received some great news on Friday when it was announced that he had received a reprimand instead of a suspension from USADA.

Chris Taylor - March 24, 2018

Cody Garbrandt takes aim at T.J. Dillashaw and Raphael Assuncao! Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt is looking to score an immediate rematch with former teammate turned bitter rival T.J. Dillashaw.

Chris Taylor - March 24, 2018

Current ONE Championship lightweight and featherweight title holder Martin Nguyen (10-1 MMA) moved down in weight to challenge Bibiano Fernandes for the promotions bantamweight title in the headliner of today’s “ONE Championship 68: Ill Will” event in Bangkok, Thailand. After four rounds of closely contested action, it appeared that today’s historic Martin Nguyen vs. Bibiano Fernandes super-fight would be decided by whichever man could win the fifth and final round of action.

Chris Taylor - March 24, 2018

Former two-time UFC welterweight title challenger Stephen Thompson will make the walk to the octagon in enemy territory on May 27 when he squares off with Darren Till in the main event of UFC Liverpool. BJPENN.com broke the news earlier this week after confirming with sources that “Wonderboy” had accepted a bout with the undefeated Liverpool native.

Chris Taylor - March 24, 2018

Tyron Woodley wants to return in July, so why is the promotion creating an interim title? Tyron Woodley captured his UFC welterweight title by scoring a jaw dropping first-round knockout victory over Robbie Lawler in the main event of UFC 201 in July of 2016.

Chris Taylor - March 24, 2018

Current UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier will be fighting for more than just the promotions heavyweight title when he squares off with Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 226 this July in Las Vegas. “DC” has the opportunity to join a group of fellow octagon legends in Randy Couture, BJ Penn, Conor McGregor and Georges St-Pierre who are currently the only fighters to have ever captured UFC titles in two different weight classes.

Drake Riggs - March 23, 2018

It isn’t easy being a fighter. And you don’t need to be told that. But sometimes things can go a little bit rougher and more unexpectedly than one would like. Thus was the case for former middleweight champion, Michael Bisping as he headed into his final attempted title defense at UFC 217 this past November. Bisping, never one to back down from a challenge, had finally earned a monster fight in the biggest position of his career, the main event in Madison Square Garden. His dance partner for the evening? None other than the legendary, one and only Georges St-Pierre.

Drake Riggs - March 23, 2018

To be blunt, “The Warmaster” Josh Barnett is no stranger to failing drug tests. In his illustrious forty-three fight career, he’s failed a total of three tests and all for PEDs. The second of these failures resulted in his stripping of the UFC heavyweight title back in 2002 which he won by defeating Randy Couture and making him the youngest UFC champion ever(until Jon Jones came along). The third came ten days prior to his highly anticipated showdown with MMA great, Fedor Emelianenko for Affliction. The failed test essentially killed the organization as the card couldn’t be salvaged and was canceled.

Drake Riggs - March 23, 2018

After several different reports and mixed potential matchups between both the UFC Chile and Liverpool cards, it seems things have finally been settled. For Liverpool, after some intense back and forth between the eventual headliner, Darren Till, and Kamaru Usman it looked like they may end up being the two to fight each other thus figuring things out for Liverpool but not Chile. However, we first discovered the main event for Liverpool which was not Till vs Usman but Till vs two-time title challenger, Stephen Thompson.

Tom Taylor - March 23, 2018

In the last 36 hours or so, the majority of the UFC’s top, available welterweights have all been linked to exciting new matchups. Rafael dos Anjos and Colby Covington are expected to scrap for the interim title at UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro. Darren Till and Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson are expected to battle in the main event of the UFC’s upcoming trip to Liverpool. Santiago Ponzinibbio is expected to take on Neil Magny in Chile this May 19…

Tom Taylor - March 23, 2018

Yesterday evening, our own insider extraordinaire Chris Taylor reported that the UFC’s upcoming debut in Chile will feature a welterweight showdown between ranked contenders Santiago Ponzinibbio and Neil Magny. Apparently, however, the card nearly got a welterweight showdown between Ponzinibbio and Kamaru Usman instead. At least, that’s what Usman is claiming. In a Thursday evening Twitter post, Usman divulged that he’d been offered a fight with Ponzinibbio, and that he had accepted this offer. He then claimed that Ponzinibbio turned down the fight.

Tom Taylor - March 23, 2018

This weekend, BJJ ace Garry Tonon will make his anticipated MMA debut, as he’s set to battle Richard Corminal at ONE:IRON WILL. While “The Lion Killer’s” move to MMA might look like a scheme to make more money in a more mainstream sport, this actually isn’t his main motivator.

Tom Taylor - March 23, 2018

At UFC 223, which goes down on April 7 in Brooklyn, New York, Conor McGregor training partner Artem Lobov will return to the Octagon for a scrap with TUF veteran Alex Caceres.

Tom Taylor - March 23, 2018

Yesterday morning, Chris Taylor of BJPenn.com reported that UFC 224 will feature an interim welterweight title fight between top contenders Rafael dos Anjos and Colby Covington.  While this news was met by a tidal wave of excitement among fans, a few members of the MMA community pointed out that it’s been far less than a year since reigning welterweight champion Tyron Woodley fought. His most recent fight also marked the end of a busy stretch during which he fought 4 times in just 12 months. The need for an interim title fight, then would seem to be nonexistent…

Drake Riggs - March 22, 2018

The welterweight division is finally getting some fights at the top booked once again. First, we had the report of an interim title fight between Rafael Dos Anjos and Colby Covington in the works for UFC 224, then the equally as big one broke as Darren Till and Stephen Thompson headline UFC Liverpool.

Drake Riggs - March 22, 2018

One of if not The Ultimate Fighter’s biggest underdog in the show’s history has blossomed into one of the finest mixed martial artists in the world today. The young twenty-one year old at the time, Kelvin Gastelum wasn’t expected to make it very far on his season(17) of TUF but ended up winning the whole thing. Fast forward five years and he’s one of the very best young talents in the game. Gastelum was a career middleweight until he won TUF 17 where he would go on to drop to welterweight afterward before winning some big fights but having weight troubles at the same time. He now finds himself back at 185-pounds and potentially just one win away from his first ever UFC title shot.

Drake Riggs - March 22, 2018

Looks like we will be getting Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson vs Darren Till after all! The two were initially expected to fight back at what ended up being UFC on Fox 28 on February 24th expect in London. However, things didn’t pan out as Wonderboy was still recovering from thumb injuries that occurred in his last outing at UFC 217 in November.