The Fights Page 49 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Why Are UFC Champions Hanging Out With An Accused Russian War Criminal?
Here is a delightful vignette: UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman doing his best impression of the lezginka, the national dance of the North Caucasus region of Russia, in the palace of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic. You can see Kadyrov in the video—he’s the short, bearded gentlem...
Dana White Can't Stop Lying About UFC Fighters Being Domestic Abusers
When Dana White isn’t busy calling female reporters “fucking dumb bitches” or those reporters’ sources “fucking faggots,” the UFC president spends his time whitewashing his fighters’ domestic violence histories. There’s Thiago Silva, arrested on charges he put a gun in his wife’s mouth, threatened t...
Something Tells Us This Romney-Holyfield Fight Isn't On The Level
We feel this whole affair is better presented with a complete lack of context. (There’s some video below.)...
Anderson Silva Petitioning To Compete In Taekwondo At The Olympics
Troll King Anderson Silva is petitioning the Brazilian federation to allow the MMA fighter to compete in his original discipline, taekwondo, at the Rio Olympics in 2016. As the host nation, Brazil will have four guaranteed slots in the event, and Silva will meet with the Brazilian sport chief this ...
Don't Believe The Hype: Mayweather-Pacquiao Is Not Good Vs. Evil
The many failings of Floyd Mayweather to follow the basic rules on how to be a good human being are well documented. He’s a serial woman beater who once evicted his father and pleaded no contest to threatening his children. His odiousness speaks for itself. But his competitor, Manny Pacquiao, is bus...
UFC Hires Former IRS Shitbag, Presumably To Oppress Its Athletes
The UFC, lately embarrassed by its fighters failing a lot of drug tests, has hired shitbag/former IRS agent Jeff Novitzky, best known as beloved baseball legend Barry Bonds’s persecutor, to be its “Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance.” This seems like a high-falutin’ and more than faint...
UFC Fighter Has A Message For President Obama About College Wrestling
Clay Guida won his featherweight bout at UFC Fight Night today by unanimous decision over Robbie Peralta, but it was his enthusiastic pro wrestling-style promo he cut afterward that draws our attention today as Guida shouted out to President Obama to “don’t forget wrestling.”...
Report: Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV Will Cost $99
Exactly one month from today, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will meet in the fight everyone wanted five years ago. You’d better start saving up now....
Diego Maradona Prepares For Coming Alien Invasion With Boxing Dummy
Just know that, when the giant blue Martians that have been hibernating miles deep in the Earth's crust finally emerge and begin their assault on this wonderful thing we call human civilization, Diego Maradona has been training and will knock those sons of bitches right back to where they came fro...
Ronda Rousey Considers Herself An "Ovarian Goldmine"
Allison Glock of espnW interviewed Ronda Rousey earlier this month, and the conversation produced a few funny quotes. For example, we now know that high-school-aged Ronda Rousey was mean as hell, courtesy of her friend Marina Shafir:...
Brock Lesnar Admits He's Done With The UFC, Will Remain A Pro Wrestler
Brock Lesnar, who is scheduled to defend his WWE heavyweight champion title against Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 31 this weekend, went on SportsCenter today for an interview with Michelle Beadle. Once there, he announced that he had re-signed with WWE, and will not be returning to UFC....
Idiot Referee Makes Possibly The Worst Call In UFC History
On the prelims of tonight's UFC Fight Night event in Rio de Janeiro, airing on Fox Sports 2, lightweight Leandro Silva—the fighter wearing orange in the video below—defeated Drew Dober by ... who the fuck knows?...
Heyman Promo: Brock Lesnar Will "Unify" The UFC & WWE Titles
The fuzzy lines that divide pro wrestling from UFC got even more blurred tonight on WWE Raw when promoter Paul Heyman offered up a threat that his charge, Brock Lesnar, would return to UFC and "unify" the pro wrestling and MMA heavyweight belts....
Jumpin' Jehoshaphat, Take A Look At This Goddamned 7-Foot Chinese Boxer
This is probably nothing. Probably, this is an oddity that will resolve itself well outside the view of the general boxing public. But just in case it isn't, this here is Taishan Dong, a 26-year-old, 7-foot, 280-pound former kickboxer out of China, and he moved to 3-0 this weekend. ...
Ronda Rousey Isn't The Female Anyone; She's The First Ronda Rousey
On Saturday night, undefeated UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey took on Cat Zingano, a strong and undefeated fighter in her own right, and one of maybe two women alive who, on paper at least, possibly had a chance to at least maybe show Rousey something. Then the fight started, and it b...
Kimbo Slice Wants To Show You His Romantic Side (It's His Dong)
Kimbo Slice—yes, that Kimbo Slice—and Ken Shamrock announced a fight this week on a June 20 Bellator card, so Slice made an appearance on Highly Questionable. When Papi asked for Slice's romantic side, the fighter pretended to take off his pants. That must have been a fun few seconds for Dan Le Bata...
MMA Fighter Gets Punched Into Another Dimension, Tries To Keep Fighting
Welterweight Matt Dwyer landed a Superman punch on William Macário for the knockout Sunday night at UFC Fight Night 61. Macário got hit so hard, his mind was transported to another dimension in which he was fighting an alternate-universe Dwyer. And then he fell to the mat and lost....
The Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao Fight Is Officially On
Floyd Mayweather Jr. will face Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd in Las Vegas, bringing to reality a fight for which boxing fans have clamored for years (and one which is likely to be terrible for numerous reasons.)...