The Bellator cage has landed in London ahead of Friday night’s Bellator 267 event at the SSE Arena at Wembley, and the main event features one of London’s own looking to exact revenge for his only career defeat. Michael ‘Venom’ Page lost his undefeated record when he was spectacularly knocked out by Douglas Lima at Bellator 221. Now, after winning ...
The featherweight title battle between Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega served up an instant classic at UFC 266. It was one of the best title fights we’ve seen inside the octagon in some time, and a fight that Daniel Cormier described as the best fight he’s ever called live. Volkanovski claimed a landslide decision on the scorecards, earning scores of ...
Alexander Volkanovski produced a brilliant performance to retain his UFC featherweight title in the main event of UFC 266, but his victory didn’t come without a major scare. After bossing the opening two rounds against challenger Brian Ortega, Volkanovski found himself in big trouble when he was decked by a left hand, then caught in a deep guillotine choke. How ...
Alexander Volkanovski produced a brilliant performance to retain his UFC featherweight title in the main event of UFC 266, but his victory didn’t come without a major scare. After bossing the opening two rounds against challenger Brian Ortega, Volkanovski found himself in big trouble when he was decked by a left hand, then caught in a deep guillotine choke. How ...
With a huge UFC pay-per-view event set for Saturday night in Las Vegas, the UFC’s behind-the-scenes fight week documentary series, UFC Embedded, is back. In Episode 5, Cynthia Calvillo, Robbie Lawler and Lauren Murphy get in some fight week work in at the UFC Performance Institute, while Brian Ortega checks out the ambience at the UFC Apex. Meanwhile, Nick Diaz ...
With a huge UFC pay-per-view event set for Saturday night in Las Vegas, the UFC’s behind-the-scenes fight week documentary series, UFC Embedded, is back. In Episode 4, Lauren Murphy, Robbie Lawler and Brian Ortega arrive in Las Vegas to get their respective fight weeks underway. Also in the episode, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski takes part in a high-energy photo ...
The main event of KSW 64 is set to feature one of (quite literally) the biggest fights of 2021 as two of the most physically imposing heavyweights on the planet get set to go toe to toe in Lodz, Poland. Five-time World’s Strongest man Mariusz Pudzianowski is well known to the KSW fanbase. The strongman-turned-fighter is one of the biggest ...
With a huge UFC pay-per-view event set for Saturday night in Las Vegas, the UFC’s behind-the-scenes fight week documentary series, UFC Embedded, is back. In Episode 3, we spend some family time with featherweight title challenger Brian Ortega and his sons, and with women’s flyweight title challenger Lauren Murphy and her daughters. Also on the episode, we catch up with ...
Seventeen years after their first meeting at UFC 47, Nick Diaz and Robbie Lawler are set to throw hands in the UFC octagon once again, and the MMA world can’t wait to see it happen. Former Strikeforce welterweight champion Diaz returns after more than six years away from the octagon to face former UFC welterweight champion Lawler on the main ...
With a huge UFC pay-per-view event set for Saturday night in Las Vegas, the UFC’s behind-the-scenes fight week documentary series, UFC Embedded, is back. In Episode 2, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is put through his paces by his team at the UFC Performance Institute before facing the cameras for a photoshoot. Meanwhile, his rival Brian Ortega wraps up his ...