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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 ...

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:...

The Best Fight At UFC 205 Happened In The Crowd

Here’s some video from last night’s UFC 205 event at MSG. You can tell by the music that it’s just as Conor McGregor entered the arena, and it’s a lovely brawl. Reader Jason shot it, and we’re happy to actually have UFC video we can use for once. ...

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 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....

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....

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. ...

Daniel Cormier Betrayed By Talk Show Host

UFC light heavyweights Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson went on a Canadian morning show yesterday to promote their upcoming bout at UFC 206 in Toronto. Everything was going fine until the host accidentally fed Johnson some intel about his opponent....

The Dispute Between Georges St-Pierre And The UFC Is Getting Ugly

This morning on the MMA Hour, Georges St-Pierre said that his contract with the UFC has been terminated. St-Pierre, one of the greatest fighters of all time, was rumored to return for UFC 206 in Toronto, although Dana White poured cold water on that idea over the weekend. White has expressed doubt t...

Conor McGregor Fined $150K For Throwing Beverages At The Diaz Brothers

Before Conor McGregor took a narrow decision win over Nate Diaz at UFC 202, the rivals squared off and threw a bunch of water bottles at each other after McGregor arrived late to a press conference. It was a relatively harmless and entertaining spectacle, one that certainly hyped up the fight. McGre...

Some UFC Guy Tries To Diss Conor McGregor, Walks Straight Into Huge Burn

Nate Diaz came at Conor McGregor online this afternoon, and while we laud his utter disdain for the man and commitment to talk smack whenever we can, he still just did some tweets. At the UFC 205 press conference this afternoon, Some UFC Guy tried to diss McGregor to his face by claiming that he did...

Nate Diaz Is Still Talking Wild Shit About Conor McGregor

Last night, Dana White announced that the main event at November’s UFC 205 in New York City would be a lightweight title fight between Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor....

Fabricio Werdum Beats Travis Browne, Then Kicks Browne's Coach<em></em>

Fabricio Werdum defeated Travis Browne at UFC 203 tonight in a heavyweight bout that ended officially by unanimous decision but ended unofficially with Werdum kicking Browne’s coach, Edmond Tarverdyan....

No, CM Punk Did Not Win His UFC Debut

Mickey Gall annihilated CM Punk tonight in the former pro wrestler’s UFC debut, pummeling him until winning by a rear naked choke submission. Punk didn’t even make it out of the first round....

Dana White Tells Mickey Gall To Use Harder Entrance Music

MMA fighter Mickey Gall, who doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page and will take on former WWE wrestler CM Punk at UFC 203, had planned to use Toni Basil’s “Mickey” at his entrance music Saturday. Clever, right? UFC president Dana White wasn’t on board....

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