The UFC lined up a series of contenders for Robert Whittaker and has knocked them down one at a time as he bids to return to the top of the middleweight division. Whittaker put on a clinic Saturday night as he handily defeated Kelvin Gastelum over five rounds to cement his status as the next in line to take on ...
Robert Whittaker took one step closer to reclaiming the UFC middleweight belt after his commanding performance against Kelvin Gastelum at UFC on ESPN 22. Whittaker buzzed Gastelum with a head kick in the first round and dictated the rest of the fight with effective counter punching, kicks and takedowns. Gastelum continued to march forward to try and find a way ...
Robert Whittaker nears UFC middleweight title shot with big performance against Kelvin Gastelum Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker is one step closer to a title fight to reclaim his belt after defeating Kelvin Gastelum on Saturday night. “The Reaper” put on one of his finest performances to date as he comfortably beat the tough Gastelum over five rounds. Whittaker ...
The hunger to watch live MMA is strong after fans have been unable to attend events for over year amid the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. This was evident when UFC 264, which features a lightweight trilogy showdown between former interim UFC lightweight champion Dustin Poirier and former two-division king Conor McGregor, sold out “in seconds” according to the promotion. UFC ...
Just a couple of days after Conor McGregor said his trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier was off, UFC President Dana White announced the fight is on as planned. Poirier and McGregor will square off for a third time inside the Octagon at UFC 264. What’s more, the contest will take place in Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena in front of a ...
The goodwill built between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor appears to have passed. Poirier and McGregor were cordial in the lead up to their rematch at UFC 257 and after the bout when “The Diamond” scored a second-round TKO victory over the Irishman in January to even the score between these two fighters. The primary source of that aforementioned goodwill ...
Petr Yan will have to wait for his rematch against UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling. Sterling was diagnosed with a herniated disc, an issue he says has bothered him for around a decade, and will have an operation on his C6-C7 vertebrae later this week. Given the seriousness of such surgery, Sterling told ESPN that recovery from such a procedure ...
Marvin Vettori followed Derek Brunson’s blueprint to beating Kevin Holland as he took a wrestling-based approach to silence “Big Mouth” over five rounds at UFC on ABC 2 on Saturday night. Holland, who stepped in on short notice for the injured Darren Till, looked to be getting the better of Vettori in the early striking exchanges. However, he had little ...
Marvin Vettori gets unanimous decision win over Kevin Holland Wrestling proved to be Kevin Holland’s kryptonite against Derek Brunson a few weeks ago, and that very public insight proved the route to victory for Marvin Vettori on Saturday night. Holland started the five-round contest brightly against his short-notice opponent, getting the better of Vettori on the feet by utilising his ...
ONE Championship’s run on US television kicked off with a bang on Wednesday night. In the night’s MMA main event, former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson was looking to add ONE Championship gold to his trophy cabinet against champion Adriano Moraes. However, Moraes had different ideas and did what no one was able to do in the UFC: ...