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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
UFC on ESPN 4 is giving us one of the best rematches we could ask for. Heavy hitters Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley will try to knock each other’s heads off. The first go around saw Woodley take the welterweight title off of Lawler back in 2016. Woodley just got manhandled by Kamaru Usman in … Read more
The weigh-ins for Saturday’s UFC Wichita is in the books. The main event of Derrick Lewis and Junior Dos Santos is greenlit with ‘Hot Balls’ tipping the scales a 1/2 of a pound over the 265 pound weight limit. The full results are below (via BJPenn.com). The Main Card | 8 pm ET on ESPN+ … Read more
Former NFL player turned UFC prospect Greg Hardy gets a shot at redemption at UFC on ESPN 3. The event is not on the channel ‘ESPN3’ it is the third card hosted on ESPN. They didn’t think this naming through did they? ESPN is reporting that Hardy will face Dmitrii Smoliakov at UFC on ESPN … Read more