World Series of Fighting held a conference call Tuesday for their upcoming WSOF 2 fight card scheduled for Saturday, March 23 in Atlantic City. Headliners Andrei Arlovski and Anthony Johnson, along with co-headliners Tyson Nam and Marlon Moraes and WSOF president Ray Sefo answered questions from reporters for over an hour. Read More »
World Series of Fighting has put together an in-depth video preview for the WSOF 2 heavyweight main event between Andrei "The Pitbull" Arlovski and Anthony "Rumble" Johnson. WSOF 2 is scheduled for this Saturday, March 23, in Atlantic City, N.J. and will air live on NBC Sports Network, with the prelims streaming live on Sherdog. The preview does a good job showing the story lines leading up to this fight as Arlovski, a former UFC heavyweight champ, tries to put together his fifth straight victory as he takes on Johnson, who used to fight at welterweight with the UFC. Read More »
Most of the time when somebody gets knocked out in an MMA fight, there's a winner and a loser. However, in a fight that took place a few days ago in a Galaxy Fight Night 4 event there were two fighters that got knocked out at the same, during the same fight! Read More »
Shortly following tonight's UFC 158 Welterweight Championship main event between Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz, fight fans can watch a live stream of the post-fight press conference here at ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com). UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz is being held at the Belle Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada . Read More »
We've managed to assemble a handful of ProMMAnow.com's staff to share their thoughts and predictions for UFC 158 going down Saturday in Montreal. We've got Mr. St-Pierre putting his welterweight title on the line against Mr. happy-go-lucky himself, Nick Diaz. We've got Johny Hendricks battling Carlos Condit for a next shot at the title, Then we've got Jake Ellenberger and Nate Marquardt breathing down their necks. Read More »
UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Nick Diaz both hit the mark and made weight for their UFC 158 main event bout that's set for Saturday night in Canada. St-Pierre spoke with FUEL TV's Ariel Helwani about the process of dealing with Diaz and the expectations of how the fight will go on Saturday night. Read More »
The Bellator MMA promotion makes its return to Atlantic City from Revel on April 4th live on Spike. The night will feature reigning Bellator Featherweight Champion Pat Curran putting his title on the line against Season 7 Tournament winner and explosive Russian striker Shahbulat Shamhalaev. Read More »
UFC President Dana White spent over an hour answering questions in a media scrum today following the UFC 158 pre-fight press conference in Montreal. White discussed such topics as Nick Diaz missing the open workout and what will happen if he wins the title, Nick's volatile personality, his continuous use of marijuana, Georges St-Pierre's aggravation doing media, Dana's views on TRT, his plans to lobby against it, the UFC's past issues with Nate Marquardt, ticket sales and much much more. Read More »
ESPN was on scene in Montreal today for the UFC 158 pre-fight press conference and spoke with UFC President Dana White about the main event between Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz, and what it has been like having to deal with Diaz. ESPN also interviewed GSP and Diaz, as well as UFC 158 co-headliners Carlos Condit and Johny Hendricks, and Nate Marquardt and Jake Ellenberger as well. Read More »
Nick Diaz already missed the UFC 158 open workouts. But will he make it to today's UFC 158 pre-fight press conference? Tune in to find out when the live stream begins at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT). Diaz's main event opponent UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre, along with co-headliners Johny Hendricks and Carlos Condit, as well as Nate Marquardt and Jake Ellenberger are also scheduled for today's presser. Read More »
MMA Tonight returned Wednesday evening on the 102.5 FM The Game radio airwaves in Nashville. This week's guest was UFC 158 co-headliner and top welterweight contender Johny Hendricks, who came on to discuss his bout with Carlos Condit which takes place Saturday LIVE on Pay-Per-View. Read More »
Countdown to UFC 158 takes a look at six of the top welterweights in the world as they prepare to converge on Montreal, Quebec, Canada this Saturday night, March 16. Georges St-Pierre puts his UFC welterweight title on the line against Stockton bad boy Nick Diaz in a bad blood match no one wants to miss. Johny Hendricks and Carlos Condit go at it in the co-main event to flesh out the next contender, and Jake Ellenberger and Nate Marquardt will also go to war as they make their climb toward the top of the division. Read More »
This week's Independent MMA Link Club features Alyssa Vaszquez talking about her fight with transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, results from Shock'n'Awe 13 in the U.K., the winner of the recent XFC tryouts, thoughts on the point-fighting trend in MMA, an interview with ONE FC's Ronald Low and a complete breakdown of the BJJ/Abu Dhabi connection. Read More »
Bas Rutten, MMA legend and longtime co-host of Inside MMA on AXStv, is a guest Monday on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Tune in as Bas recounts some of the most memorable moments throughout his career and discusses today's MMA landscape. Read More »
The "Inside MMA" weekly TV show that airs on AXStv went against the grain a little this past week. The show featured a writer who isn't a MMA fan. In fact, Dave Begel doesn't even think MMA is a sport. Read More »
UFC heavyweight Alistair Overeem is back with another episode of his current season of "The Reem" and takes a look at his UFC 156 knockout loss against Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. The footage shows Overeem before the bout as well as right after the knockout loss. Read More »
Everyone seems to be on point, including Nick. He’s blessed to have a good support system and I feel blessed to be a part of it. I say what’s up to everyone and when I approach Nate, I pick up on a weird vibe from him. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t approve of me working with the camp at the American Kickboxing Academy headquarters, where I’m a combat sports recovery coach. Nate is hardcore like that. Read More »
UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey isn't planning on fighting Cyborg Santos anytime soon, but sure is spending a lot of time talking about her lately. In part, it's THE women's fight that fans want to see and media keep asking Rousey about her. Read More »
It's almost time guys. We're just a week away from Georges St-Pierre stepping in the Octagon with Stockton bad boy Nick Diaz. The two went at it hard on the UFC 158 conference call Thursday, and clearly Diaz is in St-Pierre's head. We've never seen St-Pierre go to this "dark place" before and it's all helping build the anticipation for March 16 when the two will square off for the UFC welterweight championship. Read More »
UFC light heavyweight Brandon Vera took a little time to speak with our friend Aaron Tru from MMAPrime.tv after corning one of his fighters at a Bellator event. Vera talked about a recent MCL injury that will keep him out of action until around July, and why he's hungrier than ever now since fans and critics thought he was washed up but he proved that he's not in his last fight with Shogun Rua. Read More »
Our old pal Aaron Tru recently caught up with Cris Cyborg -- the one woman in the world right now MMA fans think might be able to dethrone UFC women's bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey. However, that fight is still only a dream as Cyborg gets ready to make her Invicta FC debut on April 5 against Ediane Gomes in Kansas City. Read More »
UFC officials have announced a number of new bouts for the upcoming UFC on FOX 7: Henderson vs. Melendez event. The event is set for April 20 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California and will be headlined by the UFC lightweight title fight between champion Ben Henderson and former Strikeforce champion Gilbert Melendez. Read More »
