One could hardly blame Ilima Lei-Macfarlane if she was confident on the verge of arrogant at this stage of her career. After all, she’s made a sport as difficult as mixed martial arts look as easy as can possibly be during her four years as a pro. The proud Hawaiian is 9-0 as she heads […]

Controversial manager Ali Abdelaziz is back in the spotlight, this time offering former lightweight champion Conor McGregor a fight against Justin Gaethje in a post on Twitter. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

ATLANTA – Amanda Nunes plans on alternating defenses of her two UFC title starting with her next matchup against Holly Holm at UFC 239. Nunes (17-4 MMA, 10-1 UFC), the women’s bantamweight and featherweight titleholder, will put her 135-pound belt up for grabs against Holm (12-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) at the July 6 event, which […]

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For the first time in his UFC career, Israel Adesanya has opened as a betting underdog. The newly crowned UFC interim middleweight champion was slotted as a +160 betting underdog in opening lines released Monday by online bookermaker BetOnline for a potential title unification bout against UFC middleweight titleholder Robert Whittaker. Whittaker, who has held […]

ATLANTA – Kamaru Usman had to put together a long winning streak just to force his way into the UFC’s welterweight title picture, much less actually get a championship match.  So now that he holds the gold, Usman has a message for would-be challenger Colby Covington: Slow your roll. “Now you have to beg me […]

That killer super slow-motion stuff is back, and Saturday’s UFC 236 card had plenty of reasons to geek out on the format. UFC 236, which aired on pay-per-view from State Farm Arena in Atlanta, saw Dustin Poirier (25-5 MMA, 17-4 UFC) beat Max Holloway (20-4 MMA, 16-4 UFC) to win the interim lightweight title in […]

Less than two weeks after Justin Scoggins replaced Ulka Sasaki to take on Kai Asakura at the upcoming Rizin 15 show in Yokohama, Japan, on April 21, the match-up has been scrapped from the card, the promotion announced Monday. According to the Japanese promotion, Scoggins suffered a meniscus and ligament tear in his knee. ”I […]

On this edition on the Monday Morning Analyst, Luke Thomas takes a look at what made the war between Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya at UFC 236 so good. View full post on MMA Fighting – All Posts

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Check out the best photos from Charles Oliveira’s submission win over Nik Lentz at UFC Fight Night 67 at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil, on May 30, 2015. (Photos by Jason Silva, USA TODAY Sports) View full post on MMA Junkie

ATLANTA — Backstage at UFC 236, Henry Cejudo discusses his upcoming bantamweight title fight with Marlon Moraes, T.J. Dillashaw’s failed drug test for EPO, never wanting to fight T.J. Dillashaw again, the flyweight division, wanting to prove the critics wrong and more. View full post on MMA Fighting – All Posts

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It’s hard to argue with the promotion’s logic in electing to hand out a pair of “Fight of the Night” bonuses at UFC 236. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

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The first time they fought, Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier were practically kids. At UFC 236, they’ll have the rematch under very different circumstances. Holloway, the reigning UFC featherweight champion, is moving up a division to run it back with Poirier on Saturday night in Atlanta, this time with the interim lightweight title on the […]

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