The co-main event of UFC 271 may not have a championship belt attached to it, but the combination of the two protagonists involved virtually guarantees an explosive encounter. Heavyweight knockout artists and fellow crowd-pleasers Derrick Lewis and Tai Tuivasa know a thing or two about putting their opponents to sleep, while keeping the crowd on their feet. Former title challenger ...
The UFC’s iconic reality show-turned talent-finding series, The Ultimate Fighter, is about to kick off its 30th season, and will be coached by both sides of one of the UFC’s newest championship rivalries. Newly-crowned women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Pena and women’s MMA GOAT, current featherweight champion and former bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes will to head to head as opposing coaches ...
Bellator’s broadcast footprint in the U.K. just got bigger. The promotion announced on Friday that they had struck an “exciting new partnership” with BBC Sport that will open up the brand to even more people in the U.K. Under their previous deal, all Bellator events were streamed live on BBC’s live and on-demand streaming platform, BBC iPlayer. But the promotion’s ...
They say three is the magic number, and that’s certainly the theme running through ONE Championship’s upcoming event on February 25. Titled, ONE: Full Circle, the fight card offers a quartet of top-drawer matchups that look set to thrill inside the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The top of the card features three world title fights, across three different sports. The main ...
Jack Hermansson plans to defeat Sean Strickland and give the UFC fans the chance to see a fresh matchup for the promotion’s middleweight title. Hermansson takes on Strickland in the main event of UFC Vegas 47 on Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, and the former Cage Warriors champion says he’s within striking distance of a shot ...
Casual fans looking at ways to dethrone UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya may think they have it all worked out, but former champion Robert Whittaker says their assessment isn’t quite as easy as it’s made out to be. With Adesanya’s world-class striking helping him to the 185-pound title, then helping him maintain his position as the undisputed middleweight champ, many ...
He may not be the biggest name in a welterweight division packed with big names, but Kazakhstan’s Shavkat Rakhmonov is on the verge of breaking into the elite bracket in the UFC’s 170-pound division. Rakhmonov is not just undefeated, his 14-0 record also boasts a 100% finish rate, with seven wins by KO and seven by submission. It’s that propensity ...
If it’s natural it can’t make you test positive, right? Maybe not. Natural anabolic agents may represent a new frontier in muscle building supplements, but they do things a little different. Many are researched because they act as myostatin inhibitors, which is one of the newest and least defined categories of prohibited substances in sport. While they appear to comply ...