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I'm Sick Of Dana White's Fat, Sweaty Head

Yesterday, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather kicked off the Let’s All Pretend Conor McGregor Isn’t Going To Get His Ass Kicked press tour for their fight on August 26. The first press conference ended with the two fighters facing off and talking shit, which would have been fun to see if not for th...

Conor McGregor And Floyd Mayweather Started The Dumbest Possible Road Show Today<em></em>

This afternoon in Los Angeles, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather made their first joint public appearance since announcing their superfight last month. They’ll also be holding press conferences every day for the rest of this week, because this is the deadest week of the sports calendar and they ar...

MMA Reporter Ariel Helwani Says UFC Booted Him From McGregor-Mayweather Press Tour

Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather are embarking on a short world press tour to promote their very dumb fight next month, and it kicks off today in Los Angeles. UFC czar Dana White will be there, but the most prominent member of the MMA media will no longer be working the event for Showtime....

Justin Gaethje Is The UFC's New Crown Prince Of Violence

LAS VEGAS—The thing nobody tells you about watching fights live is how quiet the arena can get....

Everything Is A Work

Amanda Nunes Is Out Of Tonight's UFC 213 Main Event

Amanda Nunes, who was scheduled to headline tonight’s UFC 213 pay-per-view in a bout against Valentina Shevchenko, has dropped out due to undisclosed medical reasons....

Does Anybody Miss Michael Bisping?

Time waits for no one, as the Rolling Stones once said, and UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping is currently in the process of proving the now-geriatric rockers right....

UFC Fighter To Opponent: "Did Your Mom Have Sex With Her Brother To Have You?"

Michael Johnson and Justin Gaethje will fight in Las Vegas in a week to close up this season of The Ultimate Fighter. The two exchanged barbs at the UFC’s summer press conference, and Gaethje revealed himself to be perhaps not the best shit-talker. Thursday, Johnson went at Gaethje and called him th...

Everyone Is Hopping Mad After Early Stoppage In UFC Main Event<em></em>

Sunday’s UFC Fight Night 112 in Oklahoma City was a suitably silly affair, with Justine Kish getting decisioned after a rear naked choke plus an ensuing emergency defecation, hall-of-famer B.J. Penn getting embarrassed by an elderly German, and Johny Hendricks, the man who once stood toe-to-toe with...

UFC Fighter Appears To Shit Herself While Getting Choked Out

Russian-American kickboxing specialist Justine Kish squared up with UFC veteran Felice Herrig in Oklahoma City during tonight’s UFC Fight Night event. Herrig won in a unanimous decision, although the previously undefeated Kish did an admirable job of wriggling out of a rear naked choke late in the t...

Ex-UFC Fighter Tim Hague Dead At 34 After Getting Knocked Out In Boxing Match

Canadian heavyweight fighter Tim Hague was knocked out in the second round of his boxing match with Adam Braidwood this weekend. It was just the fourth professional boxing bout for the MMA veteran, and he suffered a brain hemorrhage during the fight. His family announced yesterday that he died as a ...

UFC Icon Matt Hughes Airlifted To Hospital After Crash With Moving Train [Update]

Matt Hughes hasn’t fought in the UFC since 2011, but he held the welterweight championship for two stints during the mid-2000's and is considered one of the greatest fighters of all-time in the 170-pound division. He beat MMA legend Royce Gracie and is one of two people ever to defeat Georges St-Pie...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Is Fighting Conor McGregor. What The Fucking Fuck?

It’s really happening....

The McGregor-Mayweather Fight Will Be Dumb As Dogshit

After what feels like years of chest-puffing and across-the-aisle shit talking, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather have finally agreed to fight each other for what will undoubtedly be a huge pile of money. The fight will take place in Las Vegas on August 26. It will be a 12-round bout at 154 pounds...

UFC All-Timer Demetrious Johnson Mocks Bald Clown Dana White<em></em>

Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson is perhaps the greatest MMA fighter of all time, and yet he’s not a star....

The End Of José Aldo

In championship-level combat sports, as with generations of inbred European royalty, there’s never really an interregnum. The end of one reign is simultaneously the beginning of another. The moment the new champion’s hand is raised and the belt fitted around his waist, we’re officially living in a n...

At UFC 212, Can José Aldo Hang Onto Greatness One More Time?<em></em>

Every once in a while, a fight comes along that offers the promise not just of sheer bloody violence, but of it being delivered with the utmost technical skill....

Devastating Punch Leaves Fighter Stumbling Around "Like A Freshly Born Horse"

Serbian Bojan Velickovic took a third-round win by TKO when his counterpunch left Sweden’s Nico Musoke so brain-scrambled that he stumbled around the ring for several moments at today’s UFC event in Stockholm. (Velickovic later landed a punch straight to Musoke’s forehead before referee Kevin Sataki...

Deadspin Signs Historic Deal To Promote Floyd Mayweather Vs. Conor McGregor Bout

Deadspin says it has signed a record-setting deal to promote a fight between boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor....

Joanna Jędrzejczyk Is The Greatest Female Fighter Ever

Joanna Jędrzejczyk fucking rules....