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All eyes will be on Abu Dhabi when September 7 rolls around, as Dustin Poirier steps up to contest dominant lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in a highly anticipated UFC 242 battle. Both men have been on impressive runs of form in their own respective careers in the organisation in recent years and all roads now lead … Read more
UFC 242 is fast approaching in what is set to be a memorable event as the organisation moves to Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. This will be just the third visit from the UFC to Abu Dhabi, following the first back in 2014. The event is scheduled for September 7th and will also see the … Read more
The poster for lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim lightweight champion Dustin Porier’s September 7th throwdown was debuted on the UFC’s official Twitter account. Khabib last fought in October of 2018 against Conor McGregor in a fight the Russian won fairly easily. Dustin is on an impressive five fight win streak defeating names like Justin … Read more
Someone in the UFC finally has Conor McGregor’s best interests in mind. There are rumors circulating that welterweight contender Jorge “the Askren Assassin” Masvidal might be taking on Conor McGregor upon the Irish mega star’s return. This would be McGregor’s first fight since getting submitted by lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov back in October of 2018 … Read more
Robert Whittaker we salute you sir. UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker was sidelined after needing emergency surgery for an intestinal hernia and a collapsed bowel in February. Because of this an interim bout occurred between surging Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum. Israel would win that bout and wear the belt and that seems to have … Read more
There were a lot of ups and downs at UFC 236 this past Saturday. Featherweight champion Max Holloway missed out on becoming the interim lightweight title holder. Dustin Poirier announced his return to form by playing spoiler for Max’s dream and taking it instead. Israel Adesanya lived up to the hype by capturing the interim … Read more
There were two wars in the main and co-main event spots at UFC 236 this past Saturday. Unfortunately that means suspensions are rampant. Did you like the article title? A Game of Thrones reference for an MMA piece on suspensions. Give me some props homies. MMAFighting was able to provide the entire list of suspensions … Read more
After Dustin Poirier was announced the winner of his interim lightweight championship fight with featherweight champ Max Holloway we got to hear from him inside the Octagon and the elation in his voice was front and center. Since 2011 he has been one or two fights from a shot at a belt. Not anymore. Holloway … Read more
A lot happened over the weekend at UFC 236. This will contain spoilers if you haven’t seen it. Stop reading here. If you kept reading we assume you watched it. Dustin Poirier did what the odds makers said he couldn’t and made a few lucky gamblers a decent chunk of change along the way. He … Read more
UFC 236 goes down tomorrow night in Atlanta, Georgia at the State Farm Arena. In the main event we are getting Max Holloway vs Dustin Poirier for the interim lightweight title. In their first go around Dustin beat the debuting Holloway via submission. That was way back in 2012 and a lot has changed since … Read more