Slovakian contender Pavol Langer played the role of spoiler as he defeated local hero Alexander Poppeck to capture the interim light heavyweight championship at Oktagon 44 in Oberhausen, Germany. Langer, who entered the bout as a 2-to-1 underdog with the oddsmakers, went toe to toe with Poppeck over the full five-round duration to edge the verdict on two of the ...
UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling has been racking up the accolades over recent years, and he picked up another at CFFC 120 on Friday night in Atlantic City as he was named as the first inductee into the Cage Fury Fighting Championships Hall of Fame. In his three-year stint with the promotion, Sterling went 5-0 under the CFFC banner, and ...
Vilson Ndregjoni claimed a statement victory in the main event of CFFC 120 in Atlantic City, but left without the title after being forced to relinquish the belt before even stepping into the CFFC cage. Ndregjoni failed to make championship weight ahead of his scheduled bantamweight title matchup with Wendel Araujo, who was still eligible to win the belt after ...
The vacant IBO world super bantamweight title will be on the line when Lee McGregor makes a hero’s return to Edinburgh next month. ‘Lightning’ faces the dangerous Mexican Erik Robles at the Meadowbank Sports Centre on Friday, July 21, live-and-free-to-air on Channel 5. Excitement levels were already through the roof for McGregor’s homecoming, but the stakes have been raised with ...
WBC heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury has claimed that the UFC has offered him a ‘hybrid fight’ with their heavyweight champion, Jon Jones. Over the last twelve months, the 34-year-old Fury has been trading words with both Jones and former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. Ngannou, who left the UFC when his contract expired, has been pushing for a boxing ...
All 24 fighters hit their respective marks as the full fight card for UFC Vegas 75 was declared official for Saturday night at the UFC Apex. The fighters took to the scale on Friday morning in Las Vegas, with headline stars Marvin Vettori and Jared Cannonier both registering identical weights, coming in at 185.5 pounds for their non-title middleweight clash. ...
The UFC has announced three more main events as the promotion starts to fill out its schedule for the third quarter of 2023. UFC president Dana White took to social media to post a special announcement video announcing three events for upcoming UFC Fight Night shows in the second half of the year. Saturday, August 5 sees the UFC head ...
UFC color commentator Joe Rogan, on his popular podcast, gave his take on last Sunday's fiasco in Miami, Florida, where the Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III boxing exhibition took place. The fight was called off in the sixth round by referee Kenny Bayless, because Mayweather and Gotti refused to stop trashing talking to each other. Bayless had warned both ...
The main event of UFC Vegas 75 features a pair of middleweights desperate to gatecrash the title picture again at 185 pounds, and if the pre-fight talk is anything to go by, we could be in for a cracker. That’s certainly Marvin Vettori’s hope, with “The Italian Dream” reacting excitedly to comments made earlier in the day by his opponent, ...
Featherweight hot prospect Dennis Buzukja knows where he wants to be, and that’s the UFC’s Octagon. The 25-year-old Longo-Weidman MMA prospect was all set to do just that in May when he accepted a short-notice fight with undefeated Russian contender Movsar Evloev at UFC 288, only for Evloev to opt to face Diego Lopes instead. It left Buzukja on the ...