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I hated seeing former featherweight champion Jose Aldo drop down to bantamweight because he looked like a walking skeleton. Look at his chicken legs in the above picture and tell me that isn’t just a tad scary. Aldo has usually looked pretty solid at the featherweight 145 pound limit so seeing that emaciated version of … Read more
Tomorrow night at UFC 245, Colby Covington will try to prove he can back up his talk when he faces welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. Germaine De Randamie will challenge consensus female GOAT Amanda Nunes for her bantamweight belt. The other championship bout is current featherweight king Max Holloway vs the surging Alexander Volkanovski. Jose Aldo … Read more
For the love of… Former featherweight king Jose Aldo is apparently deathly serious about fighting down one weight class. Aldo has fought the 145 pound rogue’s gallery and was pretty much running out of opponents he had not faced. The solution? He is moving to the bantamweight division if he is able to make the … Read more
Love him or hate him this Irishman moves pay per view buy needles. Former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor hasn’t been in The Octagon since getting submitted by current lightweight king Khabib Nurmagomedov in October of 2018. Fans, including us, have been asking UFC President Dana White for information on a potential return … Read more
What in the actual hell is going on? Bestfightodds.com has UFC 244 Bovada odds for two fights. One is the Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz bout and the other is a rematch between Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor. What? To no one’s surprise Conor is the favorite in the fight given how quickly he dispatched … Read more
Conor McGregor hasn’t fought inside the UFC octagon since he was submitted by Khabib Nurmagomedov for the lightweight championship at UFC 229 in October 2018. The 31-year-old Irish multi-millionaire is by far the most popular and wealthiest mixed martial arts superstar in history. And upon his return the betting apps will be in high demand … Read more
We’re usually hesitant to report retirement announcements because it inevitably turns out not to be true. We get that ‘one more fight’ from the retiree. Randy Couture….Chuck Liddell….anyone… ever. The latest retiree is perennial featherweight contender Chad Mendes. Chad has been competing in the UFC since 2011 and he has fought for the organization’s featherweight … Read more
He’s the miggity, miggity, miggity, miggity, max daddy and he’s also the figgity featherweight chizzamp. I just lost 500 street cred points. Moving on… Max Holloway rules the featherweight division literally with an iron fist. He has won 4 fights in a row by KO/TKO with the last being a beatdown of Brian Ortega at … Read more
Conor McGregor was ambushed by TMZ as they have a tendency to do. When asked a question about Jose Aldo’s big first round TKO win over Jeremy Stephens at UFC Calgary we got an interesting answer from the Irishman. I’m so happy for him. To see the joy he had after… It’s a crazy business … Read more
Folks, Dustin Poirier is a favorite over former lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez. Jose Aldo is a favorite over Jeremy Stephens making this kind of the betting Twilight Zone. UFC on FOX 30 goes down tonight and either Eddie Alvarez and Jeremy Stephens make some gamblers happy or Dustin Poirier may get a title shot and … Read more