Category: Boxing / UFC / MMA

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The UFC's top knockouts of 2024 is a robust list of nearly four dozen finishes, and if you're dealing with any post-holiday seasonal depression, watching these might pick ya right back up. And sure, the ones you expect to be there are there from Alex Pereira and…

Donald Cerrone is taking the proper steps to make his UFC return a reality in 2025. Cerrone (36-17 MMA, 23-14 UFC), who at a time held UFC returns for fights, wins, finishes and bonuses, retired from competition in July 2022. He went winless in his…

How's this for an "overreaction"? 2025 will be the last year Jon Jones fights in the UFC ... if we're lucky. Jones returned from injury in 2024 to fight only once at UFC 309 last month, when he finished Stipe Miocic to retain the heavyweight…

When Conor McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather in the second biggest boxing event of all time, Drake was on his side. When McGregor walked on stage to weigh in for the biggest MMA fight of his career against Khabib Nurmagomedov back at UFC 229, Drake was pa

Check out these images of actor Ryan Destiny and boxing and PFL standout Claressa Shields. Destiny plays Shields in "The Fire Inside," a biopic about Shields' life and career.

Henry Cejudo and Kamaru Usman have opposing views on the potential biggest UFC fight in 2025. Usman thinks if the heavyweight title-unification bout between champion Jon Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) and interim champ Tom Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) materializes, the…

Michael Johnson fought the who's who in MMA – including Khabib Nurmagomedov. Johnson was submitted by Nurmagomedov in the third round of their lightweight bout at UFC 205 in November 2016. Johnson hung tough, but Nurmagomedov's grappling proved to be…

In the past several years, the PFL has signed plenty of big-name talent away from organizations like the UFC. But those big names often have arrived to their new promotion to unceremonious welcomes from their opponents – to the tune of some serious upsets. There were…

Chan Sung Jung, or better known as "Korean Zombie," is considered by many as an MMA legend due to his insane fighting style. But although he had a reputation as a wild brawler, he was also a technical fighter. In May 2012, Jung picked up arguably the biggest win of…

Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker is contemplating a move to light heavyweight, which is something Chael Sonnen would love to see. Sonnen can speak from experience because he challenged for the UFC middleweight and light heavyweight titles –…

Henry Cejudo couldn't help but laugh at Chael Sonnen's speech to Colby Covington after UFC on ESPN 63. Sonnen cornered Covington (17-5 MMA, 12-5 UFC) in his doctor stoppage TKO loss to Joaquin Buckley earlier this month in Tampa, Fla. Covington suffered a cut on hi

How's this for an "overreaction": 2025 will be yet another year without Conor McGregor fighting in the UFC. We're coming up on three-and-a-half years since McGregor last competed inside the octagon, when he broke his leg and lost by injury TKO in a trilogy

Conor McGregor hasn't competed in the UFC in roughly three-and-a-half years and the way things are going, Joe Rogan isn't sure the promotion's biggest star will ever step back into the octagon. Rogan's pessimistic outlook on McGregor's fighting career comes after the…

Robert Whittaker is not ready to write off fellow former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya just yet. Adesanya (24-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC) will look to snap a two-fight losing skid when he takes on Nassourdine Imavov (15-4 MMA, 7-2 UFC) on Feb. 1 in the UFC…