Author: Mike Sloan

The Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., is the site for Friday’s massive Bellator 160 card and at Thursday’s weigh-ins, every fighter on the main card was able to come in on point, clearing the way for the event to go down as planned.

The popularity of Conor McGregor cannot be denied at this stage of his career and neither can his fighting prowess.

Though Ultimate Fighting Championship officials have yet to formally announce the venue for the finale of The Ultimate Fighter season 24, an item on the Aug. 23 agenda meeting with the Nevada Athletic Commission has given the mixed martial arts world a clue.

M-1 Global, Russia’s largest mixed martial arts promotion, announced Friday afternoon that welterweight champion Alexey Kunchenko will make the first defense of his title against Maxim Grabovich.

On Saturday night inside the excellent new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the latest much-publicized grudge match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship will be fought inside the Octagon.

Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White joined the assembled crew at TMZ Sports on Thursday afternoon and revealed that he isn’t exactly enthused by the way the main event combatants for Saturday’s UFC 202 acted on Wednesday.

Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts promotion Resurrection Fighting Alliance will invade the Visalia Convention Center in Visalia, Calif., on Friday night and it should be an entertaining card.

With just over a week to go before Bellator 160

With just over a week to go before Bellator 160

The story of the day in the world of mixed martial arts is without question Wednesday’s wild UFC 202 pre-fight press conference. It ended prematurely after Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor erupted in a profanity-laced water bottle-heaving hullabaloo