The UFC has lined up two big championship fights, plus a title eliminator, as the promotion officially unveiled its main card lineup for UFC 290. The event, which takes place at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday, July 8, forms the main attraction of UFC International Fight Week as the promotion’s annual week-long jamboree of combat sports festivities take place in Las ...
England’s best hope for UFC heavyweight gold returns to action on home soil on July 22. One day short of a year since he tore knee ligaments against Curtis Blaydes at The O2 Arena, Tom Aspinall will make his return to the Octagon in the main event of UFC London on Saturday, July 22. Aspinall will take on Polish contender ...
The Cage Warriors flyweight title will be on the line when the promotion returns to Italy later this summer. Cage Warriors 158 will take place Saturday, July 29 at Fiera Roma, Rome, with a champion-versus-champion clash set to top the fight card. The main event will see the promotion’s bantamweight champion, Italy’s Michele Martignoni, drop down a division to challenge ...
Bellator 296 fight week kicked off with a showpiece press conference as Bellator president Scott Coker, flanked by the stars of the main and co-main events, answered questions from the media at the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Joining Coker on the dais were former middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi and middleweight contender Fabian Edwards, who will face off in ...
UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling once again showed his grit and resolve as he outpointed returning former two-division champion Henry Cejudo at UFC 288. Sterling retained his undisputed UFC bantamweight title via split decision at the Prudential Center to extend his remarkable run of fork to nine straight wins as he turned back the challenge of Cejudo with a gutsy ...
His nickname might be “Remember the Name,” but Belal Muhammad’s performance in the co-main event of UFC 288 shouted to the rooftops for people to put some respect on his name as he earned himself a shot at the UFC welterweight title. Muhammad comprehensively defeated Brazilian contender Gilbert Burns at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey to earn a ...
The battle for the undisputed UFC bantamweight championship of the world is officially on after champion Aljamain Sterling and challenger Henry Cejudo both made weight for the matchup on Friday. The pair took to the scale during the early-morning weigh-in session in Newark, New Jersey, with Sterling coming in at 134 pounds, and Cejudo bang on the bantamweight limit, at ...
On Friday night, ONE Championship makes its first foray onto US soil. ONE Fight Night 10 has a stacked card with a host of their star names set for action in Colorado. Here’s a quick rundown of eight reasons why you should make sure you’re in front of a screen to check it all out. It could be “Mighty Mouse’s” ...
He’s been away from the cage for three years, but Henry Cejudo looked like he hadn’t missed a day as he took to the stage for the UFC 288 press conference and eased straight back into his “King of Cringe” pre-fight persona. The former Olympic wrestling champion and two-division UFC champion started out life in the UFC trying to put ...
Bantamweight title challengers Dylan Hazan and Caolan Loughran had no issues on the scale as they both successfully made championship weight for their 135-pound title fight at Cage Warriors 154 on Saturday night in Rome. Both Hazan and Loughran hit the championship limit of 135 pounds at the official weigh-ins in Rome on Friday morning, but tensions were high when ...