Cage Warriors crowned a hat-trick of new champions, with new flyweight, bantamweight, interim featherweight belt-holders added to the promotion’s roll of honour this past weekend. London’s iconic York Hall in Bethnal Green played host to the promotion’s latest “Trilogy” series, with Cage Warriors 127, 128 and 129 serving up three back-to-back nights of action, with a new champion crowned on ...
The Bellator cage landed in London for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the English fans came out in force for a wild night at Bellator 267. The SSE Arena at Wembley was packed to the rafters for the first big-arena MMA event since lockdown, and the event had the feel of a big reunion as the fans ...
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 ...
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 ...