Former KSW middleweight champion Scott Askham is the latest name to be added to the fight card for Oktagon 48 as the Czech-Slovak promotion continues its preparations for its first UK event. Askham will take on former KSW light heavyweight Marc Doussis in a 92.5-kilo (203.9 pound) catchweight matchup in the co-main event at the AO Arena in Manchester on ...
The UFC’s anti-doping program will continue, but it will be run in partnership with a different organization, the UFC has confirmed. At a press conference held in Las Vegas on Thursday night, the UFC’s executive vice president and chief business officer Hunter Campbell, and senior vice president of athlete health and performance Jeff Novitzky, confirmed that the UFC would not ...
The UFC has responded to the statement released by USADA CEO Travis Tygart surrounding the fight promotion’s decision to move on from the anti-doping administrators, claiming the comments made were designed as a “self-preservation” tactic as a result of losing a valued client. A UFC press conference was held in Las Vegas as the UFC’s executive vice president and chief ...
UFC’s Dana White insists that boxing promoters will have neither the moolah nor chutzpah to stage a fight at the latest entertainment spectacle in Las Vegas, The Sphere. In an interview with a group of reporters earlier this week, the CEO of the UFC relayed his “obsession” about trying to promote an event at the state-of-the-art venue (owned by Madison ...
Sodiq Yusuff is settling into the role of a UFC main eventer as he prepares to headline a UFC event for the first time. Yusuff takes on Brazilian legend Edson Barboza in the featherweight main event of UFC Vegas 81, which takes place Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. It’s an assignment he was excited to accept, ...
Edson Barboza may be in the veteran stage of his MMA career, but he still carries the “wow” factor into the cage every time he competes. The Brazilian’s highlight reel contains some of the most spectacular knockouts in UFC history, and in his most recent outing against Billy Quarantillo at UFC Kansas City, he showed that his ability to finish ...
The UFC’s contracted administrators of their anti-doping policy, USADA, have announced that the partnership between the two organizations will come to an end at the end of 2023. In a statement released via their website, USADA CEO Travis Tygart announced that Conor McGregor had re-entered the USADA testing pool, but went on to drop the bombshell news that the relationship ...
The fight card for UFC 294 received a second blow, then arguably a second upgrade, after Kamaru Usman signed to step in to replace Paulo Costa, who has been medically pulled from the fight card for Abu Dhabi. Costa was due to face Khamzat Chimaev in a middleweight co-main event bout at UFC 294, but earlier in the week caused ...
The final episode of Season 7 of Dana White’s Contender Series saw the UFC CEO smash his record for contract offers as he awarded five more deals after a bumper night of finishes at the UFC Apex. Five of the night’s six winners earned deals, with Brazilian winners Andre Lima and Lucas Rocha joining Americans Ramon Taveras, Connor Matthews, and ...
UFC CEO Dana White dished out five more contracts as the seventh season of the Contender Series came to a close at the UFC Apex last night. But that wasn’t the end of his contracts, as he revealed that he actually gave out another contract. UFC superfan Joe Reeves won the UFC’s Matchmaker Sweepstakes competition to become a UFC matchmaker ...