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UFC Golden Boy Sage Northcutt Loses By Submission, Again
UFC continues to insist 20-year-old blond wonderboy Sage Northcutt is the future of the franchise, but his rise up the MMA ranks has once again been retarded after his second-round loss by rear naked choke submission to Mickey Gall....
Sage Northcutt Tries Out Shit Talking, Enjoys It
Sage Northcutt is fighting Mickey Gall tomorrow in Sacramento, and he’s spent most of his time in California’s state capitol doing flips, grinning, and ripping apples. He also did a bit of media, which included something approaching real actual shit talk from the UFC’s 20-year-old Val Kilmer cosplay...
Sage Northcutt Is Running Wild In Sacramento<em></em>
It’s a dull, dreary day here in Northern California, as long-awaited rainstorms are replenishing the state’s meager water supplies and keeping citizens indoors sulking. That, however, is not nearly enough to dampen the spirits of the UFC’s premier Ken doll/golden retriever, Sage Northcutt, who is in...
The More We Learn About The Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association, The Shadier It Seems
As pretty much everybody saw coming, things aren’t going so well with the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association—the latest attempt at forming a sort of fighters union—and former Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney’s presence in the group is already threatening to ruin it....
Report: UFC Tried To Prevent Randy Couture From Speaking In Favor Of Pro-Fighter Bill<em></em>
The Muhammad Ali Expansion act, otherwise known as H.R. 5365, is a bill that was proposed by Oklahoma congressman and former professional MMA fighter Markwayne Mullin. The bill proposes to expand the Professional Boxing Safety Act to cover MMA fighters and extend them the same provisions offered by ...
Conor McGregor, Who Is Definitely Serious And Not Trolling The UFC, Registers To Fight As A Boxer
Conor McGregor was the champion of two UFC weight classes for all of two weeks until the UFC stripped him of the featherweight title last weekend. He hasn’t fought as a featherweight in almost a year, and the UFC vacated his title in part to spice up UFC 206's new main event and make it a title figh...
UFC Fighters Join With Fight Promoter To Demand Fair Treatment, Rule Out Fighting For It
Five UFC fighters and a former fight promoter held a conference call with reporters this afternoon, in which they announced the formation of the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association, a trade association that hopes to win substantial increases in pay and benefits for all UFC fighters. While those ...
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Domain Registry Records Link Fight Promoter Bjorn Rebney To "MMA Athletes Association" [UPDATED]
Former Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney—who is named in a press release touting an “industry defining” announcement tomorrow, and whose wife’s public relations firm sent the release out—is the owner of the domains mmaathletesassociation.info, mmaathletesassociation.net, and mmaathletesassociation.org. It ...
Georges St-Pierre, Others To Make Mysterious Announcement, Possibly About MMA Fighters Union<em></em>
MMA journalists received a surprise press release yesterday, touting an “industry defining” announcement and conference call to take place Wednesday. Named in the release were current and former UFC fighters Cain Velasquez, Georges St-Pierre, Donald Cerrone, T.J. Dillashaw, and Tim Kennedy, as well ...
Sage Northcutt Wants To See You Rip An Apple
Other people who work at this website have previously expressed their fascination with UFC fighter Sage Northcutt. It wasn’t until today, when I saw the video embedded below, that I began to understand that fixation:...
Daniel Cormier Withdraws From UFC 206 Main Event Fight
Poor Daniel Cormier. A few months after Jon Jones was forced out of his UFC 200 rematch against Cormier for a positive drug test, Cormier will now have to miss his light heavyweight title defense against Anthony “Rumble” Johnson at UFC 206 on Dec. 10 with an injury. MMAFighting first reported the ne...
Eddie Alvarez Explains His Loss To Conor McGregor: "I Fucking Blew It"
Eddie Alvarez was completely dominated by Conor McGregor during their lightweight championship bout on Saturday. On his Instagram account today, Alvarez offered a succinct and depressing explanation for the loss:...
Conor McGregor Won And He's Not Going To Fucking Apologize
Conor McGregor has pissed off a lot of people, which is generally what happens when you talk a lot of shit and throw drinks and do other things of that nature. So in his first act after becoming the only UFC fighter ever to hold two belts at the same time—now adding a lightweight title to his feathe...
Conor McGregor To Guy Who Told Him Not To Call Him A Bitch: "Bitch"<em></em>
Conor McGregor is a louche-ass provocateur who will waste no opportunity to talk wild shit to or throw objects at anyone he’s fighting. He doesn’t really draw a line there either, as he’s been known to roast thirsty fighters who have nothing to do with him. Which brings us to Tyron Woodley, who got ...
Conor McGregor Acted All Crazy And Tried To Throw A Chair
Conor McGregor will be fighting Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 on Saturday night, and today both fighters were at the pre-fight press conference. As you can see in the video above, McGregor arrived late, stole Alvarez’s belt, and then tried to throw a chair....
Report: Mo Wilkerson Was Benched For Missing His Own Birthday Party
Yesterday against the Dolphins, Jets coach Todd Bowles benched two of his best players, Mo Wilkerson and Sheldon Richardson, for the first quarter. Bowles declined to reveal to the press why he sat two of the team’s only indispensable players during a quarter in which the Dolphins put up two touchdo...
Jon Jones Handed One-Year Suspension For Failed Drug Test
Four months after a positive drug test got Jon Jones pulled from his headlining bout with Daniel Cormier in UFC 200, Jones has officially been handed a one-year suspension in an arbitration proceeding before the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The ban will keep him out of the octagon until next July....
Liam McGeary Enjoys Violence
Thirty-four-year-old Liam McGeary is undefeated over the course of his MMA career. The lanky, British-born fighter won Bellator’s light-heavyweight championship in February of 2015, and went on to defend it that fall. But having nursed a nagging leg injury since 2014, McGeary stopped competing to fo...
Arsonist Sets Anthony Pettis's Cars On Fire
Milwaukee police are investigating a fire that torched three of UFC fighter and former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis’s cars in his driveway early Thursday morning. ...