Everyone has a fighting chance
It seems that former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez may make his long-awaited return to the Octagon next February in the first event of the UFC’s new broadcast deal with ESPN.
Alex Oliveira’s fight against Gunnar Nelson at UFC 231 on Dec. 8 was a wild back-and-forth affair that ended in the memorable image of Oliveira tapping to a rear-naked choke while blood poured everywhere from a huge gash on his forehead.
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion Frankie Edgar is eager to get back into the title picture again after sitting out most of 2018 recovering from a bicep injury, and he has some big names on his wish list.
Recently retired Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Michael Bisping can look back on a career full of accomplishments, but he is happy to name one that he finds especially gratifying.
This week, the Ultimate Fighting Championship made the rare move to scrap a numbered pay-per-view, but incoming welterweight star Ben Askren claims he would have saved it for them.
One of the most hyped rematches in
Ultimate Fighting Championship history takes places later this month when Alexander Gustafsson locks horns with former champion Jon Jones for the soon-to-be vacant light heavyweight title, and “The Mauler” believes his opponent comes into the bout with some self-doubt.
In spite of being in the midst of the first losing streak of his career, Edson Barboza claims his scheduled clash with Dan Hooker this weekend is just a fight like any other.
SBG Ireland head coach John Kavanagh made headlines recently for his claim that his superstar pupil, Conor McGregor, “would have to convince” him to coach him for another fight, a statement that has earned him at least one notable supporter.
Francis Ngannou’s 45-second demolition of Curtis Blaydes at UFC Beijing last month sent the message that “The Predator” was back, but his head coach has an idea why Ngannou had been struggling to begin with.
Oscar de la Hoya has heard the sniping about Golden Boy MMA’s debut event, but for the same reasons he got into mixed martial arts promotion in the first place, he claims he’s here to stay.