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UFC middleweight Kelvin Gastelum is disappointed with former middleweight champ Robert Whittaker’s performance in his loss to new champion Israel Adesanya. Meanwhile, water is wet. Gastelum told ESPN MMA that Robert tried to pull some things from his playbook that just didn’t work. He also briefly touches on his own loss to Adesanya revealing he … Read more
Rock..is that you? ESPN’s Brett Okamoto dropped some knowledge on Twitter about someone dropping some big cheddar. The bet in question was on Jorge Masvidal in his upcoming UFC 244 welterweight bout with Nate Diaz and it was a big one. The huge $30K on ‘GameBred’ to some may seem steep but the mainstream predictions … Read more
One heck of a scrap is coming our way on September 21st. Yair Rodriguez (11-2) and Jeremy Stephens (28-16) will face off in the main event of UFC Fight Night 159 on ESPN+. Ahead of that we got a good look at just how intense this bout may prove to be. Those shades though…. Please … Read more
Amanda Nunes is going to be featured in the ESPN Magazine body issue which has featured other prominent female MMA athletes in the past. Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, and Gina Carano have all appeared in the popular publication. ESPN posted a behind the scenes video featuring the UFC women’s featherweight/bantamweight champion. Check it out. Please … Read more
ESPN Magazine’s Blockbuster issue cover features WWE women’s champ Becky Lynch and GLOW series star Alison Brie. The two look like pro wrestling stars from the Attitude Era of the 90’s and we are okay with that. Check it out. Please like & share:
Dana White along with pretty much everyone who watched UFC 239 was perplexed at some of the judging. In the main event, light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and challenger Thiago Santos squared off in what made for a fairly entertaining fight ending in a baffling split decision. One of the judges scored the bout for … Read more
This weekend we will get to see two top ranked light heavyweights go to war. Alexander Gustafsson takes on Anthony Smith in a bout that has title shot implications. Gus has lost twice to current 205 pound king Jon Jones meaning it is unlikely that he would get another crack at the title anytime soon. … Read more
This is incredible. According to Dave Meltzer the buy rate for UFC 236 is very low. The UFC moved its pay per views to ESPN+ exclusively making it the only method to purchase them. If Dave Meltzer and his Wrestling Observer newsletter are correct, and they usually are, the buy rate was under 100,000. To … Read more
The card for UFC 237 is finalized and we put an asterisk next to that because in MMA nothing is ever set in stone. Injuries and illnesses can appear at any time to devastate an event. Here is the line-up for the PPV and the offerings on ESPN. PPV on ESPN+ UFC Strawweight Championship(c)Rose Namajunas … Read more
When Edson Barboza got knocked out by Justin Gaethje on March 30th for all of ESPN to see we were admittedly surprised. We thought this would be one of those wars that received a standing ovation no matter who managed to win out in the end. We were obviously wrong. Edson’s coach Anderson Franca was … Read more