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Joanna Jędrzejczyk Is The Greatest Female Fighter Ever
Joanna Jędrzejczyk fucking rules....
What The Hell Happened At The End Of The Eddie Alvarez-Dustin Poirier Fight?
In retrospect, it’s amazing that Eddie Alvarez survived his fight against Dustin Poirier long enough for it to descend into madness....
Kevin Lee's Joke About Michael Chiesa's Mom Sparks On-Stage <em></em>Brawl At UFC Press Conference
The UFC held their summer press conference this afternoon in Dallas, formally announcing the long-awaited Jon Jones-Daniel Cormier rematch and giving a host of fighters a platform from which to talk wild shit. It was a huge mess, and not quite as fun as press conferences past....
Julio César Chávez Jr.'s Wife Says He Was Robbed By Ladies Who Came To His Room And Showed Their Butts<em></em>
Julio César Chávez Jr. lost his fight against Canelo Alvarez this past Saturday, and he spent the next few days recuperating in Las Vegas. According to his wife, Frida, Chávez Jr. spent Monday night in his MGM Grand room with a British man and some women. Frida claims these people robbed Chávez of h...
The UFC Heavyweight Title Is On The Line Saturday Night. Does Anybody Care?<em></em>
There’s nothing wrong with Saturday night’s UFC heavyweight championship fight....
Julio César Chávez Jr. Lost So Much More Than A Fight<em></em>
Before this past Saturday’s fight, in which his son was thoroughly dominated by Saúl “Canelo” Alvarez, Julio Chávez Sr. assured anyone who would listen that his son had changed. Chávez Jr., he insisted, no longer was the apathetic boxer who woke up for an early evening bowl of cereal while wearing p...
Dumb Superfight Between Michael Bisping And Georges St-Pierre Called Off
Earlier this year, Dana White announced the nonsensical decision to pit UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping against retired all-timer Georges St-Pierre in a middleweight fight, a weight at which GSP has never fought. That misguided dream is, mercifully, dead....
Canelo Álvarez Will Fight GGG In September
Tonight’s snoozer of a PPV saw Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez dominate Julio César Chávez Jr. for 12 rounds, a fraud upon the viewing public that exposed itself to be purely the trailer for a megafight later this year after reigning, undefeated middleweight champ Gennady Golovkin appeared in the ring to join...
Come To Our Boxing Party Next Wednesday Night
This coming Wednesday, Deadspin will be holding a party at our New York offices to celebrate the release of The Bittersweet Science, the newly released anthology of boxing writing edited by Carlo Rotella and Mike Ezra and featuring, among others, our own Hamilton Nolan and Charles Farrell. What’s mo...
Nate Diaz Talks Outrageous Shit, Shows Off His Bongs And Very Cool Dog
Deadspin hero Nate Diaz spent an hour with Ariel Helwani this afternoon on a special edition of The MMA Hour. It did not disappoint. Let’s run through the highlights....
Boxing Is Betting It All On Anthony Joshua
Some of the people I write about are still alive and have done things that can’t be protected by the statute of limitations. For that reason, I won’t provide some names or talk about some things that happened. There are also people who are still alive who did me favors. I’d hardly be repaying them b...
12-Year-Old Set To Fight 24-Year-Old At Japanese MMA Event
Last year, Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov made his young sons take part in staged MMA fights against other children their age. His sons fought against other 9-, 10-, and 11-year-olds is what resembled a full-on UFC event, which meant small gloves and no protective headgear. He caught heat from Russ...
A Second Northcutt Appears
The professional MMA world will soon be blessed with a second Northcutt....
Adrien Broner Arrested After Being Pulled Over In SUV "Covered In Bullet Holes"
Boxer Adrien Broner was arrested today in Kentucky on an open warrant from a failure to appear in court for a public intoxication charge from 2014. The arrest came after he was pulled over early this morning in an SUV “covered in bullet holes,” according to the police dispatch log....
Confusion Still Reigns After UFC 210 Fight Ends In Bizarre TKO<em></em>
Last Saturday, Buffalo hosted its first UFC event since 1995, and Long Island’s very own middleweight contender, Chris Weidman, got to fight Gegard Mousasi in a co-main event bout. Mousasi was introduced by Bruce Buffer to a light smattering of boos, while Weidman was hailed with deafening chants o...
Jason Sosa Gets In Vasyl Lomachenko’s Ear, Is Mocked And Humiliated<em></em>
At the bell ending the fifth round of their Saturday night fight, Jason Sosa said something in Vasyl Lomachenko’s ear. On the HBO broadcast, Jim Lampley described whatever the challenger warbled to Lomachenko, the junior-lightweight champion, as trash-talking, and it probably was; boxing drives peop...
Daniel Cormier Miraculously Sheds 1.2 Pounds In Minutes To Make Weight
The main event of tomorrow’s UFC 210 card in Buffalo is a light heavyweight title fight match between Daniel Cormier and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. Cormier won the first fight, but the rematch almost didn’t happen after Cormier initially missed weight this morning....
Sage Northcutt On Trash Talk: "No Sir... I Would Never Be Out There Cussing"
You may remember that UFC golden boy Sage Northcutt tried his hand at trash talking before his December fight against Mickey Gall. Highlights included, “I’m going out there to win, and that’s how it is,” and “Sometimes people ask for things, and they gotta be careful what they say.”...
War Machine Found Guilty On 29 Of 34 Charges Of Violence And Sexual Assault
A Las Vegas jury found former MMA fighter War Machine (born Jon Koppenhaver) guilty today on 29 charges for when he brutally beat ex-girlfriend Christy Mack and her male friend Corey Thomas back in 2014. The jury deliberated for a day and a half before finding War Machine guilty of most of the charg...
Surviving Golovkin
“It wasn’t that bad.” That’s what Danny Jacobs said Saturday night, about Gennady Golovkin’s fearsome, world-ending, thunderous power. It may be true that compared to cancer, it wasn’t that bad....