The UFC women’s flyweight title is on the line on Saturday night at UFC 266 as all-conquering 125-pound women’s champion Valentina Shevchenko takes on the latest challenger to her crown. ‘Lucky’ Lauren Murphy has certainly earned her shot at UFC gold. The 38-year-old 19-fight veteran has gone 6-1 since dropping from bantamweight to flyweight, and heads into Saturday’s co-main event ...
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 1, UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko joins forces with her male counterpart, Brandon Moreno as they train together at the UFC Performance Institute. Also on the vlog, we catch up with UFC featherweight ...
Former Bellator light heavyweight champion Phil ‘Mr. Wonderful’ Davis welcomed former UFC middleweight title challenger Yoel Romero to the Bellator cage by handing the Cuban a decision defeat, then paid tribute to his parents. Davis never looked in trouble as he controlled most of the three-round main event bout in San Jose, California on Saturday night. But, even though one ...
Lightweight prospect Max Rohskopf will look to deliver another statement when he returns to action for his second appearance under the Cage Warriors banner on Sunday, October 17. Rohskopf (6-1) will take on Jordan Bailey in a lightweight bout at Cage Warriors 130, which takes place at Humphreys on the Bay in San Diego, California and will stream live worldwide ...
One of the UFC’s biggest crowd-pleasers has called it a career. MMA Fighting broke the news that Carlos Condit, known to his legion of fans as ‘The Natural Born Killer’ is calling time on a 19-year, 46-fight career that took him to championship glory in both the WEC and the UFC. Condit won the WEC welterweight title in March 2007 ...
Alexander Volkanovski may be one of the world’s best fighters, but prior to his octagon successes, Australia’s reigning UFC featherweight champion was chasing greatness in a completely different sporting realm. Volkanovski previously played rugby league back home in Wollongong, Australia, where he played for Warilla Gorillas alongside his friends as a prop forward. Despite his small stature, Volkanovski was a ...
The long-awaited Bellator debut of Yoel Romero is finally here. “The Soldier of God,” an Olympic silver medallist in freestyle wrestling and multi-time UFC title challenger, was all set to kick off his Bellator career against Anthony “Rumble” Johnson at Bellator 258 in May, but he was ruled out of the light heavyweight grand prix bout after failing his pre-fight ...
Brazil reigned supreme at Triller Fight Club: Legends II as former UFC champions Vitor Belfort and Anderson Silva served up a pair of first-round finishes in Florida. The main event of the evening saw Belfort, who was originally set to face Oscar De La Hoya, take on 58-year-old Evander Holyfield, and scored a mercifully quick stoppage victory over the former ...
Three former UFC champions will pull on the big gloves and throw hands in the two featured bouts of the night in Florida at Triller Fight Club’s latest pay-per-view offering on FITE TV. The main event of the evening was all set to feature former UFC champion Vitor Belfort against boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya. But, after “The Golden ...
There’s very little in MMA as eye-catching and spectacular as a head-kick knockout, and the sport has seen a host of highlight-reel moments from fighters perfecting the technique over the years. To celebrate the best finishes seen inside the Bellator cage, the promotion has put together a two-part compilation of the best head-kick knockouts ever seen in the organisation’s history. ...