Abu Dhabi – The timeline for Umar Nurmagomedov to return to a bantamweight title after UFC 321 could become very interesting. Nurmagomedov earned a hard-fought decision victory over Mario Bautista on Saturday and returned to the win column after suffering the first defeat of his professional career against Merab Dvalishvili earlier this year. Khabib Nurmagomedov’s […]
Abu Dhabi – A bit painful, but great. That’s how newly crowned strawweight champion Mackenzie Dern felt after UFC 321 on Saturday. Although she would have wanted a finish, a knockout or a submission, in her first UFC title fight, Dern (16-5) also knows she “left it all out there.” Ultimately, she earned a hard-fought […]
Abu Dhabi – After the unfortunate disappointment of Saturday’s UFC 321 main event, Dana White says the plan is to bring the fight back. The heavyweight title fight between Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane ended in a No Contest after Aspinall was stabbed in the eye and was unable to continue late in the opening […]
Quillan Salkilld, UFC 321 ceremonial weigh-in Credit: Dave Noseworthy/Cageside Press A pair of huge finishes delivered the performance bonuses at UFC 321 on Saturday, and with only three fights on the card finishing within the distance (barring a No Contest in the main event), it’s a good thing they were as big as they were. […]
Christian Natividad (left), LFA 92 Credit: Legacy Fighting Alliance When the UFC sent out the casting call for flyweights last season, Christian Natividad was initially interested. However, after talking to his coaches and management about it, they decided to wait for the summer and a shot at Dana White’s Contender Series. Unfortunately for him, that […]
Credit: ONE Championship ONE Championship was once again at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok for ONE Friday Fights 130, featuring Muay Thai, kickboxing and MMA action. The headliner found Nontachai Jitmuangnon taking on Turkey’s Soner “Golden Boy” Sen in bantamweight Muay Thai action; 2023 Road to ONE: Thailand winner Nontachai was looking for his 51st professional […]
Will Fleury (center), Oktagon 68 Credit: Oktagon MMA Martin Buday has wasted no time in getting his fighting career back on track following his rather surprising release by the UFC, and has now been booked for a title fight with Will Fleury at Oktagon 81 in December. Promotion officials announced the heavyweight title fight via […]
Tom Aspinall, UFC London ceremonial weigh-in Credit: Jay Anderson/Cageside Press The UFC is back in Abu Dhabi this weekend for UFC 321, which will see the highly anticipated showdown between England’s Tom Aspinall and France’s Ciryl Gane. A match-up that has been talked about for years has taken on new meaning, with Aspinall now the […]
LFA bantamweight Kasey Tanner has turned past setbacks into fuel and now stands on the brink of a breakthrough. Riding a potential three-fight winning streak, he looks to punch his ticket to the UFC with a win over Michael Cyr at LFA 220 on Saturday night. Tanner (8-1) got a shot at a UFC contract […]
A fight that has been talked about for years arrives at UFC 321, a battle between heavyweights of a new breed including champion Tom Aspinall and former interim champion Ciryl Gane – and yet somehow it’s not the fight anyone wanted. What state MMA and the UFC will be in as 2025 and the ESPN […]