UFC welterweight contender Michael "Venom" Page doesn't think his ability to compete with the best stops at 185 pounds following a successful venture up to middleweight this past Saturday. After a defeat to Ian Garry last summer stalled his charge up the 170-pound ladder, Page chose to open his year with a one-off assignment up […]
Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou has told friend Israel Adesanya to keep his chin up following another setback inside the cage this past Saturday. After back-to-back losses at the hands of Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis, Adesanya returned to non-title, non-pay-per-view competition on Feb. 1. The ex-middleweight kingpin headlined the UFC's second visit […]
MMA News has you covered with this week’s UFC matchmaking bulletin, featuring all the additions to upcoming fight cards. With events being held most weekends, Mick Maynard and Sean Shelby have their matchmaking work cut out if they’re to fill them, meaning new bouts are confirmed each and every week. Between Monday, January 27, and Sunday, […]
UFC middleweight Shara Magomedov has claimed to have competed in Saudi Arabia in spite of an injury. Things didn't go to plan for Magomedov in Riyadh this weekend, with the one-eyed Dagestani falling to his first professional and UFC loss at the mixed martial arts leader's second event in Saudi Arabia. After a 4-0 start […]
The latest UFC Fight Night took place Saturday in Saudi Arabia, and MMA News has you covered with all of the action! After a pay-per-view inside Inglewood's Intuit Dome — and before focus turns to the UFC’s second numbered event of the year in Sydney, Australia — the MMA leader staged its sophomore event in Riyadh […]
UFC Fight Night: Israel Adesanya vs. Nassourdine Imavov takes place on Saturday, and MMA News is here to bring you the official weigh-in results! Before heading to Australia to stage its second pay-per-view of 2025 next weekend, the mixed martial arts leader has Fight Night business to attend to in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The main event […]
Regardless of the result this weekend — and in any future fight, for that matter — former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes his legacy in mixed martial arts is safe. Adesanya established himself as an all-time great at 185 pounds with a lengthy first title reign and an emphatic regaining of the gold against […]
The card for April's UFC 314 pay-per-view is beginning to take shape, and it looks to have had its first title fight added. Mixed martial arts' leading promotion is slated to return to the Kaseya Center in "The Magic City" on April 12, when its fourth numbered event of 2025 will go down. While the […]
Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland is pushing for one of his top teammates to be competing under the same banner as him soon enough. Strickland is currently gearing up for his first assignment of the new year — a chance at redemption opposite current 185-pound kingpin Dricus Du Plessis in the main event of […]
Rising UFC middleweight Shara Magomedov has explained why he believes his double spinning backfist finish last time out was superior to the consensus Knockout of the Year in 2024. Magomedov was in fine form inside the Octagon across the past 12 months, winning three straight fights to bring his UFC tally of victories to four […]
Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has unsurprisingly taken aim at longtime rival Conor McGregor and backed Paul Hughes in the Irishman's sudden back and forth with "The Notorious." The relationship between Hughes and McGregor has taken a firm downward turn this week after footage emerged of "Big News" discussing Ireland's most prominent fighter while […]
Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland will have a familiar face in his corner in Australia early next month. Strickland is set to headline the promotion's second pay-per-view of the new year, UFC 312 at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Feb. 8. There, he will look to exact revenge on Dricus Du Plessis […]
Dana White and co. will have their fingers crossed that there isn't a repeat of the late withdrawal in Los Angeles earlier this month when the promotion heads Down Under for UFC 312. After opening its pay-per-view schedule for 2025 with UFC 311 from Inglewood's Intuit Dome, the mixed martial arts leader is taking the […]
Israel Adesanya has the backing of a fellow former UFC middleweight champion ahead of his return to action in the Middle East this weekend. Adesanya is set to headline the MMA leader's second visit to Saudi Arabia, coming in the form of another UFC Fight Night card in Riyadh on Saturday. In his return to […]
Having cemented his grip on the UFC bantamweight title, talk of where Merab Dvalishvili fits among the division's all-time greats is picking up. Dvalishvili recorded his first defense a few weeks back, following his crowning at the expense of Sean O'Malley four months prior with a successful halting of Umar Nurmagomedov's championship ambitions. While the […]
Michael "Venom" Page is confident of recording yet another violent stoppage in mixed martial arts, this time at the expense of undefeated Dagestani Shara Magomedov. Page's first Octagon outing of 2025 will come in new surroundings, with the Londoner briefly departing his usual home of welterweight for a planned one-off battle opposite Magomedov at 185 […]
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jiří Procházka is still pondering a future drop to 185 pounds — but on one condition. Following a second knockout loss to reigning titleholder Alex Pereira last summer, Procházka assessed his options and seemed to point toward a divisional switch. The Czech star ultimately decided against an immediate pursuit of […]
UFC welterweight contender Gilbert Burns doesn't think Khabib Nurmagomedov handled things perfectly in the corner of his cousin, Umar, earlier this month. The previously undefeated bantamweight challenged for Merab Dvalishvili's title in the co-main event of UFC 311, staged inside the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. After a strong start, Nurmagomedov was unable to continue […]
Former two-time UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has been burying some hatchets in order to streamline all of his "negative energy" toward one individual — Nassourdine Imavov. Adesanya returns in the main event of this weekend's UFC Fight Night in Saudi Arabia, where his first assignment of the new year will come off the back […]
Alongside his first statement on this past weekend's result, Eddie Alvarez has revealed the brutal injury he sustained at BKFC KnuckleMania V. Alvarez, a former UFC lightweight champion, fell to a negative 1-2 record under the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship at Saturday's high-profile event in his home city of Philadelphia. After splitting his first two […]
