Category: UFC / MMA

As the UFC break continues, a few promotions are hosting events over the holidays and ringing in the new year with combat sports.

How's this for an "overreaction"? When it comes to who's the 2024 Male Fighter of the Year, Ilia Topuria’s quality over Alex Pereira’s quantity could not be ignored. To be sure, both Topuria and Pereira had incredible years. Topuria claimed the featherweight champion

Deiveson Figueiredo sees Merab Dvalishvili pulling off an upset title defense against Umar Nurmagomedov in the first UFC title bout of 2025. Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) will put his bantamweight strap up for grabs against the unbeaten Nurmagomedov (18-0 MMA, 6-0…

Tatiana Suarez finally will get her first crack at a UFC championship. Suarez (10-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) challenges strawweight champion Zhang Weili (25-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) in the co-main event of UFC 312 on Feb. 9 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. Suarez was scheduled…

Thursday's episode of MMA Junkie Radio with "Gorgeous" George and "Goze" is here. On Episode 3,526, the boys discuss

Approaching 20 years as an MMA coach and 100 UFC wins, Fortis MMA's Sayif Saud is pondering moving to a different stage in life.

(This story first appeared in the Detroit Free Press and USA TODAY.) DETROIT − When a new movie arrives about Flint, Mich., it's usually yet another documentary on the water crisis that has defined the city in the public ey

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…