Dominick Cruz has spent enough time in rehab to read an injury report properly. His verdict on Conor McGregor's knee is more encouraging than most. McGregor blew out his right knee 69 seconds into his UFC 329 loss to Max Holloway and has since confirmed the damage as an ACL and meniscus tear. Plenty of […]
Alex Pereira has a message for Paulo Costa: keep complaining, and Poatan might just come back and take the title shot himself. Costa moved up to light heavyweight this past April after years of misery at 185 pounds, and it worked immediately. He knocked out Azamat Murzakanov in the third round at UFC 327, the […]
Magomed Ankalaev isn't letting the Alex Pereira thing go. The former light heavyweight champion returns this weekend against Bogdan Guskov, looking to get back on track after Pereira took the title back from him in their UFC 320 rematch. Ankalaev has made clear that a third fight with Poatan is still the goal, wherever it […]
Rose Namajunas isn't done fighting. She just needs to know why she's doing it. The former strawweight champion has been out since her UFC 324 loss to Natalia Silva, a fight in which she suffered a nasty eye poke that required surgery days later. Namajunas explained on the Weighing In podcast that the recovery was […]
The image went everywhere: Conor McGregor, beaten and hurting, with his head on Bruce Buffer's shoulder. Buffer says there was nothing staged about it. The UFC's legendary announcer addressed the viral moment in an interview with Ariel Helwani, days after McGregor's comeback collapsed 69 seconds into his UFC 329 rematch with Max Holloway. Buffer said […]
Kamaru Usman has heard the retirement calls. He isn't listening. The former welterweight champion dropped a unanimous decision to Dricus du Plessis in the UFC Oklahoma City main event, losing the first four rounds on all three scorecards as the bigger man hurt him repeatedly. Both men earned post-fight bonuses. At 39 and now on […]
Ben Askren didn't tell anyone how bad it really was. Not even his closest friends. Askren returned to competition at RAF 11 on Saturday, a little over a year after a double lung transplant saved his life. He lost to Belal Muhammad, who erased a 3-0 deficit to take the match in the third period, […]
Paddy Pimblett stole the show at UFC 329. Matt Brown still isn't buying him as a future champion. Pimblett was the bright spot on a night McGregor's knee ruined, choking out Benoit Saint Denis in under a minute in the co-main event to send T-Mobile Arena into a frenzy. Brown loved the energy. He's just […]
Dustin Poirier doesn't get what Michael Chandler is still chasing. Chandler has always been box-office, but the results have dried up. He's lost four straight and gone 1-6 in his last seven, stopped four times in that stretch. His latest outing ended with Mauricio Ruffy finishing him in the first round on the UFC Freedom […]
Paddy Pimblett's latest troll job just fell apart. On Monday, "The Baddy" claimed on Instagram that he'd dropped $13,700 on a UFC auction site to buy the stool Ilia Topuria sat on when he lost his lightweight title to Justin Gaethje at UFC Freedom 250. It was the stool Topuria slumped on after the fight […]
Israel Adesanya wanted Kamaru Usman to win. He still walked away impressed by the man who beat him. Dricus du Plessis returned to form at UFC Oklahoma City, controlling Usman over five rounds for a unanimous decision, rocking the former welterweight champion with a clean knee upstairs along the way. Adesanya, who has his own […]
Max Holloway will wait on a Conor McGregor trilogy. If it doesn't come, he's got a title in mind instead. Holloway evened the score with McGregor in the UFC 329 main event, beating the returning Irishman 13 years after dropping their first meeting. The rematch was over almost before it started, with McGregor blowing out […]
Sean O'Malley doesn't mind waiting, as long as the payoff is Petr Yan. O'Malley picked up his second straight win at UFC White House, stopping Aiemann Zahabi in the second round and planting himself right back in the bantamweight title mix. He already holds a win over reigning champion Yan, but Yan has unfinished business […]
Dana White thought no production team could botch celebrity shots worse than the UFC's. The World Cup proved him wrong. White has ripped his own crew before for misidentifying famous faces at the cage, most infamously mixing up boxing star Terence Crawford with Kendrick Lamar, and more recently tagging Shakur Stevenson as the Thunder's Jalen […]
Conor McGregor has put a name to the damage, and he's already talking about coming back. A day after Dana White confirmed McGregor tore his ACL at UFC 329, the former two-division champion filled in the rest on social media. He said the injury is an ACL and meniscus tear, and that it's the same […]
Fans want Kamaru Usman to retire. Dana White isn't hearing it. Usman returned from more than a year out to face Dricus du Plessis in Saturday's UFC Oklahoma City main event, moving up to middleweight and dropping a unanimous decision. At 39 and now 1-4 in his last five, the former welterweight king drew a […]
The RAF 11 press conference turned into a real fight after the wrestling was over. Belal Muhammad and Colby Covington had spent the buildup trading barbs, and it boiled over Saturday night in Milwaukee once both men had their hands raised. In the main event, Covington handed Arman Tsarukyan his first loss in any discipline […]
It's official: Conor McGregor tore his ACL at UFC 329, and Dana White is done entertaining what comes next until it heals. McGregor's comeback ended in 69 seconds when he went for a flying kick, landed awkwardly on his right leg, and blew out the knee against Max Holloway. He'd assumed a torn ACL from […]
Dustin Poirier thinks Conor McGregor has burned his last fan. McGregor's UFC 329 return lasted 69 seconds before his knee gave out against Max Holloway, and the fallout has been ugly. The card drew the largest gate in UFC history at $26.4 million at T-Mobile Arena. Two years earlier, UFC 303 pulled a gate near […]
Jon Jones likes what he's seeing from Conor McGregor, and it has nothing to do with fighting. McGregor's five-year wait ended in 69 seconds at UFC 329, his right knee giving out on the first strike he threw at Max Holloway. He walked out of the octagon looking broken. In the days since, he's flooded […]
