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Daniel Cormier Will Fight Anthony Johnson At UFC 210
Daniel Cormier, UFC light heavyweight champion, will take on Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, the weight class’s top contender, at UFC 210 in Buffalo. The title fight will happen on April 8, four months after the two were supposed to fight at UFC 206....
Ortiz Vs. Sonnen Will Give You What You Want
Saturday night, at the end of the first full day of the Trump administration, a former UFC champion will compete against a perennial UFC title challenger, but it’ll go down in Bellator, which is probably more appropriate for where we’re all psychically at right now. All fights have a theme, and this...
Mark Hunt Sues Brock Lesnar, The UFC, And Dana White
UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt accused the UFC, Dana White, and Brock Lesnar of racketeering, fraud, breach of contract, and other charges in a lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court yesterday. The lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages....
What's A Bad Way To Describe Amanda Nunes?
UFC announcer Bruce Buffer has an entry at the 26-minute mark of a podcast called The Pony Hour:...
Amanda Nunes's Destruction Of Ronda Rousey, In Photos
Amanda Nunes obliterated Ronda Rousey tonight, ending the former champ’s comeback attempt in a mere 48 seconds. Here’s how the fight looked through the lens of MMA’s best photojournalists:...
Amanda Nunes Annihilates Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey’s comeback came to a grinding halt as reigning UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes demolished the former champ in less than 50 seconds....
Mike Pyle Had A Bad Night
Alex Garcia took care of Mike Pyle tonight in their UFC welterweight bout. The night did not end well for Mike Pyle, or his brain cells. ...
IT IS ALL OVER: UFC Announcer Mike Goldberg Mercifully Sent To Nice Farm Upstate
Every so often, a play-by-play announcer will make a call that can’t be improved on—the kind that resonates years later, evoking all the drama and immediacy of a perfect and memorable moment. AGÜERRRROOO! ... Auburn’s gonna win the football game! Auburn’s gonna win the football game! ... In a year t...
Nate Diaz Figures The UFC Should Pay Him $20 Million To Fight
The UFC is in a bit of a bind. They’d like to book the entertaining Khabib Nurmagomedov in a March fight for one of their multiple lightweight titles, but for stupid reasons they don’t have a good matchup for him right now. MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani texted children’s role model and potential Nurm...
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 ...
Jon Jones: I Took Off-Brand Cialis Because I Have A Huge Cock
Jon Jones failed a doping test before UFC 200 this summer because he took an off-brand Cialis pill, he said on the Joe Rogan Experience yesterday. He told Rogan that he has a huge cock, and that he takes male enhancement because it “it puts the twist at the end of a punch” and “it’s a good time” whi...
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:...