The two championship bouts at the top of the fight card at UFC 284 were officially rubber-stamped after all four of the fighters involved made championship weight in Perth. Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is moving up to lightweight to challenge for the lightweight title in the main event, and the Australian made weight with half a pound to spare, tipping ...
Oktagon MMA has made a big-name addition to its fight card for this weekend’s Oktagon 39 event, with former Bellator middleweight champion and UFC veteran Hector Lombard joining the lineup for a special boxing match. Lombard, whose career has spanned 48 professional MMA fights, will take on Oktagon knockout artist Vlasto Cepo in a boxing match at Munich’s Audi Dome ...
UFC veteran Mike Perry explains that he will be more than ready to replace light heavyweight prospect Tommy Fury in a scheduled fight with Youtube star turned boxer Jake Paul. Fury is set to face Paul on February 26 in Saudi Arabia. When the event was first announced, it was revealed that Perry had been secured as a backup opponent ...
Islam Makhachev certainly isn’t easing himself into life as the undisputed UFC lightweight champion. Rather than contenting himself with a title defense against a top 155-pound contender, the newly-crowned champion has bigger goals in his sights. Makhachev will welcome the challenge of the UFC’s pound-for-pound number-one fighter and current UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski in the main event of UFC ...
Alexander Volkanovski thinks that talent and skills alone won’t be enough to dethrone UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev at UFC 284, but says he has the key attribute needed to get the job done. UFC featherweight king Volkanovski is moving up to 155 pounds to challenge newly-crowned lightweight champion Makhachev in the main event in Perth, Australia. It’s a bout ...
The fight card is now officially set for Bellator 292, with the promotion returning to San Jose, California on March 10 with a stacked card featuring some of the best talent on their roster. The latest big name to be added to the card is that of Michael “Venom” Page, who returns to action after his unsuccessful tilt at the ...
Oktagon MMA’s first event of 2023 sees the promotion head over to Germany to break new ground with their first event in Munich. Oktagon 39 will see eight German fighters take to the cage at the Audi Dome on an 11-fight card that will see a host of familar names to regular watchers of Oktagon shows. Welterweight contender Christian Jungwirth ...
The UFC’s ongoing global expansion will continue in 2023 with the opening of a new UFC Performance Institute in Mexico City. The new facility, which is planned to open in Q4, will offer the same state-of-the-art facilities that have already been established at the UFC’s other Performance Institutes in Las Vegas and Shanghai. Now the organization plans to build a ...
Roy Jones Jr. still feels that he has some fight left in him. The 54-year-old will meet former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis in an eight-round professional boxing match on April 1 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bout will headline a pay-per-view card promoted by UFC welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal’s Gamebred Boxing. The show will feature several ...
Moldova’s Serghei Spivac continued his impressive form in the UFC heavyweight division with a first-round submission finish of Derrick Lewis at UFC Vegas 68, then set his sights on Jon “Bones” Jones. Spivac headed into the bout as the betting favorite against the two-time former heavyweight title challenger, and he made good on the bookies’ confidence as he finished “The ...