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Conor McGregor explains that he hasn't had "sparring sessions" in preparation for Mayweather
Chris Taylor - August 11, 2017
UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor took center stage at today’s UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas. “Mystic Mac” headlined the second consecutive media day for his upcoming super fight with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather – who had been featured yesterday evening from his own gym in Sin City.
VIDEOS | Watch Conor McGregor hit the bags at today's media workouts
Chris Taylor - August 11, 2017
We are just over two weeks away from what could be the biggest fight in combat sports history, as current UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor will square off with undefeated legend Floyd Mayweather inside the boxing ring on August 26. The second of two consecutive media days took place this evening live from the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas.
Conor McGregor explains why he passed on working with Vasyl Lomachenko
Chris Taylor - August 11, 2017
UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor hosted his media workout earlier this evening in Las Vegas, Nevada. The brash Irish star showed up to the UFC Performance Institute in style rocking a Versace Robe that would have even wrestling legend Rick Flair glowing with envy.
Paulie Malignaggi claims Mayweather's last opponent, Andre Berto, canceled plans to spar with Conor McGregor
Russell Ess - August 11, 2017
Floyd Mayweather’s last opponent, Andre Berto, and Conor McGregor have a friendly relationship. So, you would think it would make perfect sense for Berto to be helping out “The Notorious” in his training camp, right? According to McGregor’s former sparring partner Paulie Malignaggi, Berto had plans to join McGregor’s camp to help prepare the UFC champ for his mega-million dollar boxing match against Mayweather. However, after seeing and hearing how McGregor went about treating Malignaggi and Chris Van Heerden in the past, Berto’s plans changed.
VIDEO | 40-year Floyd Mayweather looking ready for Conor McGregor during media workout
Russell Ess - August 11, 2017
We are nearly two weeks away from what could set the record for the richest fight in combat sports history as superstars Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor are set to meet in the boxing ring on August 26. On Thursday, Mayweather put on an open workout for the media where he showed some of his “hard work” and “dedication” in the gym.
New Contest Sends You to Mayweather vs. McGregor on Conor's Private Jet
Justin Golightly - August 11, 2017
Maybe things aren’t going your way in life right now. You’ve been pacing back and forth, knowing you’ll never pay the hefty pay-per-view price to watch Conor McGregor box Floyd Mayweather. The hard truth is that, if you’re not a celebrity or extremely lucky, there’s no way in hell you’d be able to go to the fight itself. You might as well save for a house than try and buy tickets. The good news is, you don’t have to worry. Any average Joe now has a chance to fly in style to the biggest fight in the history of our tiny world thanks to this contest. Fly Notorious. ✈️🎫🇺🇸
Mark Hunt Bashes 'Biggest Cheaters in the World' Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar
Justin Golightly - August 11, 2017
It is no secret that “The Super Samoan” Mark Hunt is not a fan of current WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar. The former heavyweight title challenger has ripped “The Beast” for pretty months following their fight in July of 2016. Hunt was defeated by the former UFC heavyweight champion at UFC 200 via unanimous decision. However, that bout was later overturned to a no-contest after it was revealed that Brock had tested positive for Clomiphene. Lesnar, who returned to the WWE following his scrap with Hunt, recently found his way back into mixed martial arts headlines. Or, should we say forced back into the MMA media world? All it took was a single answer on Jon Jones’ Facebook live to spark talk of a super fight between Jones and Lesnar. The fight has garnered some mixed reactions, but overall there seems to be a lot of excitement surrounding the potential scrap. Not from Mark Hunt though, who flamethrowed both of their names on Mike Swick’s “Quick Swick” podcast.
Stephen Thompson Defends Woodley's Smart Performance Against Maia
Justin Golightly - August 11, 2017
Stephen Thompson is all healed up and ready to spin kick the top five in the UFC welterweight division, all on a journey to get back to a title shot. Tyron Woodley (18-3-1 MMA) successfully defended his welterweight title at last month’s UFC 214 event in Anaheim, defeating top division contender Demian Maia via unanimous decision. Woodley put on absolute defensive clinic to stuff all 21 of the Brazilian submission specialist’s takedown attempts, leaving Maia with a pair of badly swollen eyes to take home with him after five rounds. When you stuff 24 takedown attempts and make your third successful defense … @TWooodley pic.twitter.com/uC8iHizOGR
EXCLUSIVE | Stephen Thompson is Healed and Ready to Return For Masvidal or Lawler
Justin Golightly - August 11, 2017
The UFC is about to get a lot more Karate Kid again. Former UFC welterweight title challenger Stephen Thompson is ready to make his octagon return. Thompson was put on the sidelines following his majority decision loss to Tyron Woodley at March’s UFC 209 due to a knee injury which required surgery. Despite Jorge Masvidal saying Thompson’s injury was fake, “Wonderboy” spoke to BJPENN.com’s Chris Taylor yesterday evening where he revealed that he has been cleared by doctors and is now eyeing a November return to action at super stacked UFC 217. “Yea, so I got cleared. You know the doctors said I was good on Wednesday. So now I am getting back into the swing of things. I am training again, so I think I should be ready to go in November. That is the plan. I know that me and (Jorge) Masvidal verbally said that we would fight. I haven’t heard nothing from the UFC yet. So hopefully they will jump on board and want to make that fight happen. You know I’ve been out for 5 or 6 months now. It seems like I’ve been out forever man. I am just itching to get back out there and do it again. So hopefully the UFC will jump on board and want to get us on the [UFC 217] card. That is the plan anyway.”
A Sparring Partner of Conor McGregor Says Paul Malignaggi is Talking Himself in a Hole
Justin Golightly - August 11, 2017
As much as Conor McGregor’s boxing camp in preparation for Floyd Mayweather has been about war and sharpening his skills, it’s also been a straight up gossip factory. He has his tight knit crew with him behind those closed doors, only the pictures he wants out, gets out. Of course, each one is going to make McGregor look better than the last. The controversy of short-lived sparring partner Paul Malignaggi and that infamous “knockdown photo” has made the rounds and back again. Tiernan Bradley, Irish boxing prospect and one who has stuck around for camp, claims Malignaggi is not speaking the truth in his weekly May/Mac column for The Irish News. https://t.co/BYLsV40K6Y
VIDEO | Floyd Mayweather says he knows Conor's gameplan, discusses McGregor's beef with Malignaggi
Chris Taylor - August 10, 2017
We are now just over two weeks away from what could be the biggest fight in combat sports history. On August 26, live from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, current UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor will make his boxing debut against undefeated legend Floyd “Money” Mayweather.
Max Holloway Throws Shade at Conor McGregor in Full Boxing Gear
Justin Golightly - August 10, 2017
Conor McGregor isn’t technically in the UFC anymore, but everyone still wants to fight him. Who can blame them? The red panty night is very real. Any guy who can talk his way into fighting Floyd Mayweather for his professional boxing debut, is a guy who knows how to make money. Only Nate Diaz was able to beat McGregor in the UFC, but Max Holloway lasted longer than anyone else. Since then, Holloway has dethroned Jose Aldo and is the “undisputed” UFC featherweight champion. Of course, he’d love a chance remove those quotation marks with a rematch. Maybe his recent tweet is a wink at that. I’ll be your sparring partner. pic.twitter.com/UhHhTBCrjC
Stephen Thompson Tells Jorge Masvidal to Get Ready to Fight at UFC 217
Justin Golightly - August 10, 2017
If UFC 217 wasn’t already stacked enough, it looks like another high profile fight is in the works. Jorge Masivdal has tried to fight everyone from Tyron Woodley to Ben Askren after losing to Demian Maia. One of those guys has been Stephen Thompson. Gamebred has been tweeting Wonderboy since June to goad him into the Octagon — even saying his knee injury is fake — and finally it looks like it has paid off. Thompson went on Severe MMA’s “Talking Brawls” podcast to tell Masvidal that he should start getting ready. Let’s not play no games I’m fighting @WonderboyMMA for a title shot after gsp. If his ass don’t want to fight, I’m next. #hoslapseason
VIDEO | Skip Bayless makes 'sumo' wrestling and 40-lb weight advantage arguments for Conor McGregor's loss to Nate Diaz
Russell Ess - August 10, 2017
The Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor mega-money fight is nearly two weeks away. As the media has been covering the highly anticipated fight, Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe picked their favorite to win the bout long before the fight was made official and continued their argument on a recent episode of their “Undisputed” show.
VIDEO | Jon Jones makes a case for Joe Rogan interviewing Daniel Cormier in the Octagon after being knocked out
Russell Ess - August 10, 2017
Joe Rogan was upset with himself after he interviewed Daniel Cormier in the Octagon following his KO loss to Jon Jones in the main event of UFC 214. Rogan previously stated that he no longer wanted to interview fighters that just suffered a nasty KO because they were not in the right mental state to do so. However, Rogan went against his own policy in all the madness following the devastating outcome and interviewed Cormier in the Octagon, who couldn’t help but let his emotions pour out.
Report: Anderson Silva rescheduled for matchup at UFC China event
Russell Ess - August 10, 2017
The MMA community has been patiently waiting for the return of the former middleweight king Anderson Silva. On Thursday, Damon Martin reporting for FloCombat stated that their sources confirmed that the former UFC middleweight champion is being targeted to fight Kelvin Gastelum at the UFC Shanghai card, which will be the first UFC event taking place in mainland China. The UFC Shanghai event is scheduled to take place on November 25.
Colby Covington gives update on possible fight with Demian Maia
Tom Taylor - August 10, 2017
Earlier this week, rising UFC welterweight Colby Covington made a clever callout of recent welterweight title challenger Demian Maia. On Wednesday’s edition of BJ Penn Radio, Covington gave an update on this fight, telling host Kinch that he hopes it happens at UFC 217, inside Madison Square Garden, on November 4. “I’m looking for November 4 in Madison Square Garden against Demian Maia,” he said.
Colby Covington trashes Magny and RDA: They wouldn’t fight me if I went up and b*tch-slapped them in front of their girl
Tom Taylor - August 10, 2017
Over the last few months, Colby Covington and his friend and training partner Jorge Masvidal have made repeated callouts of fellow welterweight contenders Rafael Dos Anjos and Neil Magny. Unfortunately, Magny and Dos Anjos didn’t oblige those callouts. So, you can imagine Covington and Masvidal’s frustration when a Magny and Dos Anjos were booked to fight each other at UFC 216. On the latest edition of BJ Penn Radio, Covington went off on Magny and Dos Anjos in a scathing rant. Check out what he had to say below: