Everyone has a fighting chance
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight Kajan Johnson has been officially let go by the promotion after suffering back-to-back losses to Islam Makhachev in July and most recently to Rustam Khabilov in Moscow last month.
Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight challenger Colby Covington believes that sometime in the future Irish mega star Conor McGregor will return to the welterweight division and “Chaos” will be ready to greet him when he does.
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Luke Rockhold, a teammate of Khabib Nurmagomedov, believes that Conor McGregor shouldn’t be given an immediate rematch based on his performance last Saturday.
The official announcement that Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight and light heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier will defend his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis on Nov. 3 in New York has been met with mixed reactions amongst fans as well as at least one notable fighter
Khabib Nurmagomedov is still waiting to learn his fate for inciting an all-out brawl after submitting Conor McGregor at UFC 229 on Oct. 6, but for the moment he retains both the belt and a dry sense of humor.
Khabib Nurmagomedov showed on Saturday night why he is undefeated in his professional mixed martial arts career, by shutting down arguably his most dangerous opponent to date in Conor McGregor.
It appears Khabib Nurmagomedov has an unlikely ally in the aftermath of his title defense match against Conor McGregor on Saturday night, when he jumped into the crowd after submitting the Irishman.
Zubaira Tukhugov‘s first strike landed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship cage in two years may be his last, as he confirmed on Instagram that it was he who entered the Octagon on Saturday after the fight between his teammate Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor and confronted the Irishman before slapping him “as promised.”
To no one’s surprise, Colby Covington has an opinion on the post-UFC 229 fracas, and expressed it bluntly. It had been a quiet few weeks on social media for the former Ultimate Fighting Championship interim welterweight champion, who is usually quite vocal about goings-on in the sport.
Most of the talk coming out of the UFC 229 event over the weekend focused on the brawl that ensued after the main event between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor, where the man from Dagestan put on a clinical performance, taking down his Irish opponent at will before submitting him with a hold that was half neck crank, half rear-naked choke.