The Independent Voice of Mixed Martial Arts
UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo felt slighted when he failed to receive a performance bonus for his submission win at UFC 255 on November 21st. He successfully defended his title by submitting Alex Perez in the first round via guillotine choke. It was impressive and admittedly a little surprising when it didn’t earn him the extra … Read more
The Roy Jones Junior versus Mike Tyson over 50 legends exhibition fight extravaganza just keeps getting more bizarre. First, it comes out that there will be no athletic commission assigned judges and then that there is apparently a no knock out rule. CBS reported that the term “sparring“ was what the California Athletic Commission referred … Read more
UFC strawweight champion Weili Zhang has been pretty impressive so far even more so when you take into account the fact that she only has five fights in the organization. Zhang won three in a row before getting her shot at Jessica Andrade’s belt. 42 seconds later she became the first Chinese champion in UFC … Read more
Hearing Chael Sonnen praise another fighter for not violating the drug testing policy is the cleanest best pleasure. I had to steal from Chris Hansen there. There is a debate raging right now on the MMA forums about whether or not Glover Teixeira should get the next light heavyweight title shot instead of middleweight champion … Read more
Week 8 of the Contender Series is over and some new contracts were given out. Heavyweight Jared Vanderaa weathered a storm from opponent Harry Hunsucker en route to a first round stoppage in one of the stand out bouts. Also receiving contracts were Carlos Ulberg, Ignacio Bahamendes, and Luis Saldanaa. Watch Dana announce them all.
I don’t think anyone was 100% certain one way or the other that undisputed lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov actually retired after defeating interim lightweight champion Justin Gaethje at UFC 254 this past Saturday. There was way too much emotion in the ring from the Russian as he visibly struggled with his first fight back in … Read more
I never thought I would say this. Dana White’s arms are one of the most talked about items from the UFC face-offs. Dana gets discussed a lot around fight week. His comments, his decisions and eventually something to do with President Trump. Today, next to the mammoth of a man named Paulo Costa he had … Read more
When fight week comes around and UFC president Dana White begins his whirlwind tour of duty‘s it has to be stressful. Today he shared on Twitter that he broke a tooth and had to kill a few hours getting it fixed and to top it all off we are in the middle of a quarantine … Read more
As most of you already know Nick Diaz is in every rumor section everywhere right now. A picture of him in phenomenal shape showed up on social media along with comments that he might be returning to the UFC very soon. Just about every few years we hear this and it never comes to pass … Read more
An Iranian execution is trying to be stopped from occurring by some very high profile Americans. UFC president Dana White and United States president Donald Trump have both publicly pleaded with the government of Iran to stop the execution of a popular wrestling champion named Navid Afkari. He is accused of playing a part in … Read more