UFC News

Thomas Taylor - January 26, 2019

Earlier this week, UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov discussed the upcoming UFC debut of former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight titleholder Ben Askren. “He never fight in the UFC,” Nurmagomedov told Submission Radio of Askren. “He has to fight in the UFC first of all. He has to show his levels because I see how someone smash him in ONE FC. Somebody like smashed him in ONE FC. He just signed to the UFC and tried talk, you know. But now everybody tries to talk and promote these things, but you have to compete in the UFC, then we’re gonna see his levels.”

Chris Taylor - January 26, 2019

UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway does not seem to agree with Conor McGregor that ‘Proper Twelve’ is Ireland’s best whiskey. ‘Blessed’ recently took to Twitter where he shared the following post proclaiming ‘Jameson Whiskey’ to be a “true pillar of Ireland”.

Chris Taylor - January 26, 2019

Ronda Rousey has responded to the recent rumors that she will be leaving the WWE after Wrestlemania in order to start a family. According to the reports, the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion, Rousey, was going to put Becky Lynch over at Wrestlemania so that she could step away from the WWE in order to start a family with her husband Travis Browne.

Chris Taylor - January 26, 2019

Nikki Bella is not the only professional wrestling star taking notice of UFC flyweight kingpin Henry Cejudo, so is the reigning WWE Champion. That’s right, the WWE champion Daniel Bryan, who is also the brother-in-law of the aforementioned Nikki Bella, recently issued a challenge to “The Messenger” in an interview with ABC 15 Sports.

Chris Taylor - January 26, 2019

Curtis Blaydes doesn’t believe that Greg Hardy intentionally broke any rules in his disqualification loss to Allen Crowder at UFC Brooklyn. The controversial former Dallas Cowboy, Hardy, made his octagon debut at last weekend’s UFC on ESPN+ 1 event against Allen Crowder.

Chris Taylor - January 26, 2019

Kevin Lee was given the opportunity to move up a weight class and fight one of the UFC welterweight divisions biggest stars in Darren Till. Shortly after suffering his second career loss to Al Iaquinta at UFC on FOX 31 this past December, the promotion offered “The Motown Phenom” a main event spot opposite Darren Till at UFC London on March 16.

Drake Riggs - January 25, 2019

When it comes to amazing wrestlers in mixed martial arts, there are few if any that are better or more dominating than current UFC lightweight king Khabib Nurmagomedov and former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight champion, Ben Askren. Thus making a fight between the two something to salivate over. Whether or not we’ll ever see it come to fruition remains to be determined, however.

Tom Taylor - January 25, 2019

The UFC had a very difficult time locking down a main event for the UFC 230 card in New York City in early November. Eventually, however, the promotion convinced UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier to make a short notice title defense against fearsome knockout artist Derrick Lewis on the card. Daniel Cormier has never hid the fact that the UFC made it well worth his while to step in and fight Lewis in the short-notice UFC 230 main event.

Tom Taylor - January 25, 2019

Henry Cejudo needed just 32 seconds to defend his UFC flyweight title against UFC bantamweight champ TJ Dillashaw at the recent UFC Brooklyn event on ESPN. Unfortunately for him, some members of the MMA community — Dillashaw and UFC President Dana White included — feel the referee intervened a little too early in this fight. Speaking ahead of the Bellator 214 card, where he will serve as a cage-side commentator, veteran MMA referee “Big” John McCarthy gave his take on this controversial stoppage.

Tom Taylor - January 25, 2019

Ahead of UFC 232, several Jon Jones drug tests detected trace amounts of the banned substance turinabol, which prompted the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) to deny the light heavyweight legend a license. This forced the UFC to move the entire UFC 232 card to Los Angeles, California, as the more lenient California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) was willing to license Jones. Since then, a Voluntary Anti Doping Agency (VADA) test administered on the night of the UFC 232 weigh-ins has once again detected the same banned substance in the system of Jon Jones. Despite this new information, however, the CSAC will not be punishing Jones, maintaining that the anomalies on his test results are due to his previous ingestion of a banned substance — for which he’s already been punished.

Tom Taylor - January 25, 2019

Ahead of UFC 232, several Jon Jones drug tests turned up trace amounts of the banned substance turinabol. Despite these test anomalies, the light heavyweight legend was still allowed to fight — albeit in Los Angeles, not Las Vegas — and ultimately defeated Alexander Gustafsson in the card’s main event. Unfortunately, it was learned earlier this week that a drug test administed by Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) on the night of the UFC 232 weigh-ins also turned up traces of turinabol in Jones’ system.

Christopher Taylor - January 24, 2019

Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor appears to be down for a fight with former lightweight title challenger Donald Cerrone. Following Cowboy’s impressive stoppage victory over Alexander Hernandez at UFC Brooklyn, McGregor took to Twitter with the following.