Everyone has a fighting chance
Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight contender Marlon Moraes heads into this weekend’s title fight at UFC 238 in Chicago full of confidence when he challenges Henry Cejudo for the vacant 135-pound belt. Moraes has further fueled the fire by suggesting that Cejudo’s win over T.J. Dillashaw “was a fluke.”
Aside from capturing a world championship inside the UFC’s famed Octagon, there isn’t much more that Anthony Smith needs to achieve in his career.
Aleksandar Rakic was on the fringe of the UFC’s light heavyweight rankings coming into his co-headlining bout with Jimi Manuwa on Saturday. Now he’s just outside the Top 10.
The UFC has not yet formally announced that Khabib Nurmagomedov’s lightweight title defense against Dustin Poirier will headline the promotion’s Sept. 7 card in Abu Dhabi, but the champion’s team is about to begin preparations for the rumored bout.
Eight-time Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Nick Hein has elected to hang up his four-ounce gloves.
Score another one for Rizin Fighting Federation in cross-promotional champion vs. champion superfights.
In a matchup that many boxing experts expected to be a virtual waste of everybody’s time, Andy Ruiz Jr. threw mud at them all.
Shortly after Alexander Gustafsson suffered a disappointing defeat to Anthony Smith in the UFC Stockholm headliner, he took his gloves off in the Octagon and exited with a simple message: “The show is over, guys.”
Aleksandar Rakic needed less than a minute to leave no doubt that a post-fight bonus check would be in his possession when UFC Stockholm reached its conclusion.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship will make its maiden voyage to Denmark this fall.