The Fights Page 42 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Where Is The UFC's Next Generation Of Stars?
Max Holloway is everything the UFC and its fans could possibly want in a young champion. His high-octane, aggressive, and dangerous but technical style makes him appealing to both the base desire to see blood and the intellectual side of fandom simultaneously. He could conceivably reign over one of ...
El Ciclón De Guantánamo Blows Away
In January of 2010, Yuriorkis Gamboa blew my mind. I saw him fight live for the first time at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, the small lower arena whose ceiling is crisscrossed with strings of lights like a fishing net. He was matched against Rogers Mtagwa, a Tanzanian with a rugged reputatio...
Zolani Tete Scores Fastest Title Fight Knockout In Boxing History
South African bantamweight Zolani Tete has always had serious knockout power. He started his pro career off with seven straight knockouts, and now he holds the all-time record for fastest KO in a major title fight. ...
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UFC Moron Gets Hit With A Boomerang After Calling Brazilians "Filthy Animals" [Update]
UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington has fashioned himself as a heel, although unlike, say, fellow heel Michael Bisping, Covington’s idea of a good troll is to just call the champ in his division a scared girl until he agrees to fight him. He’s also into shitting on Brazilian fighters and call...
Old Guy Who Called Mayweather-McGregor A "Farce" Changes Mind, Asks For Fight
There’s no bigger meal ticket in combat sports right now than Conor McGregor. Everyone wants to fight him, from his fellow mixed martial artists in the UFC lightweight division, to fighters in his former featherweight division, to boxers who suck. The reasoning is simple: Fight McGregor and make a f...
Conor McGregor Invades Cage After Fight, Argues With Ref, Swats At Official
Moments after Charlie Ward defeated John Redmond at today’s Bellator 187 in Dublin, an overstimulated Conor McGregor hopped into the ring, hug-tackled the victor, and argued with referee Marc Goddard....
The Warlords Who Rule Chechnya And Bahrain's Repressive Regime Are Bonding Over MMA
This past April 5, Ramzan Kadyrov, the longtime head of the Chechen Republic, arrived in Bahrain for an official state visit with the kingdom’s royal family. Flanked by a delegation from the Chechen government—intimidating henchmen with atrocious résumés of human rights abuses among them—Kadryov bro...
Boxer Tries To Smooch Her Opponent During Faceoff
Boxers Mikaela Lauren and Cecilia Braekhus were performing the obligatory staredown at a press event Monday when Lauren went in for a kiss. It’s surprising that more boxing faceoffs don’t end like this. They get so close to each other!...
UFC's Henry Cejudo On Escape From California Wildfire: "I’m Just Happy To Be Alive"
Last weekend, UFC flyweight Henry Cejudo was attending a charity event in Santa Rosa, Calif., which largely no longer exists. Cejudo narrowly escaped his hotel after the Tubbs Fire roared into town and devastated the area. He told Yahoo Sports that he ignored an alarm around 2:00 a.m. before having...
Tony Ferguson, Conor McGregor's Perfect Opponent, Will Likely Never Get To Fight Him<em></em>
Saturday, at UFC 216, the UFC awarded an interim 155-pound belt to Tony Ferguson following a third-round triangle choke of Kevin Lee. It was a wild, action-packed, back-and-forth fight between two legitimate talents in MMA’s deepest and most compelling division....
Mighty Mouse Broke The UFC Title Defense Record With An Otherworldly Move
Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson, the greatest of all time, got more of a fight last night from challenger Ray Borg than many expected. Borg is a gifted wrestler and he worked Mighty Mouse into a few tight spots at times. This is what passes for a close fight right now, since Johnson is a near-perf...
UFC Dickhead Allowed To Pull Off Unscrupulous Weigh-In Shenanigans
Kevin Lee, a dickhead, is scheduled to fight Tony Ferguson for the UFC’s interim lightweight title tomorrow. (The interim belt is only available because Conor McGregor is off looking at boats and pretending to be a boxer while Khabib Nurmagomedov can’t figure out his own physiology, which really say...
Demetrious Johnson Is Still The Perfect Champion, And It Still Doesn't Matter To The UFC<em></em>
The best fighter on Earth is a diminutive video-game enthusiast. He hasn’t lost a fight in six years. Along with Anderson Silva, he currently holds the record for consecutive title defenses in the UFC: 10 consecutive opponents have tried and failed to take his belt. Slick kickboxers, gritty grinders...
Boxing Manager Melts Down At Press Conference: "I Fuck Your Wife! In Your Bed!"
Chris Eubank Jr. and Avni Yildirim will fight this weekend at 168 pounds, but the best fight of the event took place this morning, when Yildirim’s manager went ballistic. Ahmet Öner got into it with a member of Eubank’s camp and repeatedly yelled at him. He then threatened to fight him, sat down, th...
Kickboxing Superstar Gökhan Saki Is Ready To Shake Up The UFC
There’s not a ton of top-line UFC talent fighting this fall. Mighty Mouse and Tony Ferguson are both fighting for titles (sort of) in October, but David Branch just co-headlined a card, and there’s not really that many fights that grab your attention until November’s bonkers Madison Square Garden ca...
Andre Ward Announces Retirement
Andre Ward, the light heavyweight considered by many to be the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, has announced his retirement....
No Justice For Good Boys
“WHORE the ramparts, weeee watched...” Some lady was singing the national anthem. “WHORE the lan-nnddd of the freeee...” We don’t care about that. We don’t care about any of that. We only want the Grade-A violence, now. ...
Adalaide Byrd Will Now Only Be Issuing Baffling Scorecards In Unimportant Fights
Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez put on a hell of a show on Saturday night. You could make a case that either fighter won the fight, and before the scorecards came out people were already talking rematch....
Adalaide Byrd Must Have Slept Through The Middle Rounds
Saturday night’s middleweight bout between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez was a good one. The two judges who didn’t shock and appall viewers with their scorecards had it as a close one—Dave Moretti had it as a narrow (115-113) Golovkin win, while Don Trella had it as a 114-114 draw. All three j...
Canelo Álvarez And Gennady Golovkin Fight To Mighty Draw
The IBF, IBO, WBA, and WBC world middleweight titles will not be changing hands after Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez found himself unable to deal Gennady Golovkin his first career loss as a professional, settling for interrupting the Kazakh’s 37-0-0 record with a dazzling display that left both fighters unsa...