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 ...
Heavyweight champion Ryan Bader unified the Bellator heavyweight title at Bellator 273, then revealed that the pre-fight odds only served to light a fire under him heading into his title clash. Bader defeated Russian interim champion Valentin Moldavsky at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday night in the promotion’s first-ever title unification bout, and said he used the ...
The Bellator heavyweight title will be re-unified on Saturday night when reigning champion Ryan Bader takes on interim champ Valentin Moldavsky in a champion-versus-champion bout at Bellator 273. The two hard-hitting heavyweights will headline the event at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, with both men determined to walk away as the top dog in Bellator’s heavyweight division. The two ...
UFC president Dana White heaped praise on heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou following the Cameroonian’s successful title defense against Ciryl Gane at UFC 270. Ngannou adopted an unexpected gameplan against his former training partner as, instead of relying on his prodigious knockout power, he turned to a side of his skillset few had seen before – his wrestling. “The Predator” caught ...
Two of sports entertainment’s biggest powerhouses have reconnected, with the UFC and Dwayne Johnson linking up for a new global footwear partnership deal. The UFC has announced that Johnson’s motivational performance brand, “Project Rock” is now named the official footwear partner of the UFC in a multi-year deal. A UFC press release explained the nature of the deal. Under the ...