Derek Brunson and Darren Till head into Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 191 main event in Las Vegas with their sights set on an impressive victory – and a shot a the undisputed UFC middleweight title. With reigning 185-pound world champion Israel Adesanya rapidly running out of fresh contenders to face him for his middleweight title, all eyes will be on ...
This Saturday night, September 4, several UFC hopefuls are set for action at UAE Warriors 22 at the Jiu-Jitsu Arena in Abu Dhabi as they look to score big wins to attract the attention of the top brass in Las Vegas. In the night’s main event, former BAMMA champion Rany Saadeh takes on decorated wrestler and longtime Bellator fighter Shawn ...
The fight card for Bellator’s return to the Emerald Isle is looking packed with British and Irish talent as the promotion prepares to head back across the pond for a pair of events that will feature a plethora of European fighting talent. Bellator will return to the SSE Arena, Wembley in London on October 1 for Bellator 268, with former ...
This Friday night, September 3, at UAE Warriors 21: Arabia 4, the promotion will crown their first ever Arabia champions at the Jiu-Jitsu Arena in Abu Dhabi. Former Bellator fighter and UAE native Mohammad Yahya (9-3) will face Algeria’s Yazid Chouchane (7-2) in the main event for the inaugural UAE Warriors Arabia lightweight championship while popular Kuwaiti fighter Abdullah Boushehri (8-2) will battle Morocco’s Badreddine Diani (3-1) in the co-main event ...
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 ...