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UFC 224 and Bellator 199 Go Head-To-Head Saturday, But Why?

MMA fans will be forced to make a choice next Saturday night as to what they watch. Not only will the NBA playoffs and...

4 Career-Defining Moments For UFC 224’s Amanda Nunes

Amanda Nunes has been on quite a roll. The reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women's bantamweight title holder is set for another defense. She'll put...

UFC Made Huge Mistake Letting Go Of Kyoji Horiguchi

On early Sunday morning in Fukuoka, Japan, flyweight sensation Kyoji Horiguchi picked up yet another dominant win, this time brutally knocking out former UFC...

Bellator 198’s Peak Numbers Show That Fedor Emelianenko Is Still A Big Draw

Earlier this week, the viewership numbers for last weekend's Bellator 198 event were released, and the event averaged about 750,000 viewers. That's not a...

Five Times Fedor Emelianenko Surprised The MMA World

Fedor Emelianenko will go down as one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time. Some still believe he's the greatest heavyweight ever and...

UFC Lightweight Appreciation Month: Looking Back and Ahead

As we say goodbye to the month of April in these winding hours, it seems fitting to take a step back and reflect on...

Fedor Silences His Critics With KO Win Over Frank Mir At Bellator 198

The main event of Saturday night's Bellator 198 event was a grand success. After trading heavy blows in the center of the Octagon, Fedor...

Kevin Lee Is Great At 155 But He Could Be Even Better At 165

The breakthrough performance at last weekend's UFC Fight Night 128 event, which took place last Saturday at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey,...

Does Matt Serra Deserve To Be In The UFC Hall of Fame?

There was a surprise announcement made during Saturday night's UFC Fight Night 128 telecast, as the world's leading MMA promotion revealed that former UFC...

UFC Fight Night 128’s Dan Hooker Is On The Rise At 155 Pounds

One of the standout performances at UFC Fight Night 128, which took place Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, came...

Edson Barboza & Kevin Lee Fighting For Relevancy at UFC Atlantic City

The UFC lightweight division is one of the most stacked, exciting weight classes in the world's top MMA promotion, and after two straight weeks...

Poirier Joins Alvarez As Top Challengers For Nurmagomedov

Last week, I wrote in an article here at MMANews.com that, in the wake of UFC 223, I believed Eddie Alvarez was the front-runner...

It’s Time For Michael Chandler To Get A Rematch Against Brent Primus

One of the biggest upsets of 2017 took place at Bellator NYC. It was there where Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler lost his belt...

UFC 223: Khabib vs. Rogan (This is #2 Bullsh*t)

No MMA analyst is more influential than Joe Rogan. Rogan has more Twitter followers than any other MMA analyst, with over four million, and...

Big Win At UFC Glendale Could Elevate Dustin Poirier & Justin Gaethje Into Title Contention

Just one week after UFC 223 crowned a new king of the lightweight division in the form of Khabib Nurmagomedov, two more of the...

Khabib Nurmagomedov Is The Lightweight King Now, So What’s Next?

The UFC lightweight division has been in constant flux ever since Conor McGregor defeated Eddie Alvarez to win the belt at UFC 205. Instead...

5 Takeaways From UFC 223

Within a matter of days, an absurd chain of events turned the most stacked card of the year into a potential dud. Luckily, two...

UFC 223: A Show of Resilience

Rocked? Or wobbled? After Michael Johnson landed a powerful left hand to Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 205, legions of fans swear to this day that...

Conor McGregor Incident Bad For The Fighters, But Great For Business

On Thursday afternoon in the loading dock at Barclays Arena in Brooklyn, New York, one of the craziest incidents in UFC history took place,...

Fluke Or No Fluke? Rose Namajunas Looks To Prove The Doubters Wrong At UFC 223

One of the biggest upsets of 2017 came at UFC 217, which took place this past November at Madison Square Garden in New York...

It Sucks Tony Ferguson Got Hurt, But Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Max Holloway Is Still A Great Fight

Some of the most disappointing and shocking news imaginable dropped late Sunday night, on April Fools of all days, when UFC president Dana White...

How Endeavor’s Purchase of NeuLion Could Affect The UFC

Last week, the UFC's parent company Endeavor (formerly known as WME-IMG) announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase stream technology company NeuLion...

UFC 223: Cursed Or Blessed?

It's no April Fools Day joke. In the blink of an eye, UFC 223: Ferguson vs. Khabib became UFC 223: Khabib vs. Holloway. "It happened!...

An Early Look At UFC 223, The Best Card Of The Year (So Far)

It's been a solid start to the UFC calendar through the first three months of 2018. We've already seen some epic fights, stunning knockouts...

Top 10 Reasons You Don’t Have to Worry About Ferguson vs. Khabib Finally Happening

You can do it. You are just 10 days away from seeing a dream become a reality. All the years of patience, grit, and...