The life of a professional fighter isn’t all glitz and glamour. As if getting punched, kicked, kneed, choked and twisted into a pretzel on a regular basis isn’t enough, fighters attract a general wackiness that makes their lives, well…interesting. To commemorate these day-to-day hardships, slip-ups, pranks, and more, we bring you, “The Weekly Grind.” View […]

The sad plight of former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion B.J. Penn seems to have added another chapter. TMZ Sports published a report on Tuesday on an alleged altercation outside in Honolulu nightclub in which Penn brawled with the the club’s doorman. The TMZ report including a video of the incident, which occurred at Club […]

Top UFC featherweight contender Alexander Volkanovski is in good spirits after experiencing some unexpected complications in the wake of his win over Jose Aldo at UFC 237 this past weekend in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Shortly after Volkanovski’s fight, his manager Rhys Dal Cin sent out a statement explaining that instead of flying home to […]

It appears as though Urijah Faber is considering coming out of retirement to fight in his hometown. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Gallery Photos: Tony Ferguson through the years Conor McGregor is backing Tony Ferguson through what are some clearly difficult times for the former interim UFC lightweight champion. Over the past few days some details about Ferguson’s (24-3 MMA, 13-1 UFC) life outside the cage have emerged, including a judge granting a restraining order preventing Ferguson […]

Supervising police officer Bryce Martinez summoned two other officers, steps from where Nick Diaz sat in a Las Vegas Police Department patrol car. From the moment officers put him there, the 35-year-old UFC star said he was innocent, claiming a woman who’d that night called in a report of domestic violence was “obviously harassing me” […]

Nearly six years ago, the UFC gave women the chance to compete before its huge audiences, in arenas around the world, placing them on a playing field even with that of men. It was, by all accounts, a move worthy of praise, one representing arguably the biggest leap for women’s sports in two decades. Since […]

Daniel Cormier has quite the impressive collection of UFC belts, and as he’s already proven in the past, he’s not ashamed to show them off. Cormier (22-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC), the current UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion, has a remarkable eight championship belts after winning and defending in both weight classes. He’s coming off […]

LAS VEGAS – UFC welterweight Mike Perry has some new ink – and it was a painful process to get it done. Perry (12-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC), who meets Donald Cerrone (33-11 MMA, 20-8 UFC) in November’s UFC Fight Night 139 co-headliner, got an intense piece of art on his stomach just below his familiar “God’s […]

Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where Jed Meshew and Alexander K. Lee shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day. We’ve become used to seeing great action from fighters all over […]

Leon Edwards expected to be front and center at the UFC’s recent 25th anniversary press conference and hoped to be facing off with Jorge Masvidal. Masvidal accepted Edwards’ callout following the Birmingham native’s win over Donald Cerrone at UFC Singapore, but later revealed that he would instead serve as a cast member for the Telemundo […]

UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has been here before. Late Wednesday night it was announced that Max Holloway was forced out of his UFC 226 co-headliner with Brian Ortega after the featherweight champ was hospitalized with concussion-like symptoms. It’s a position Nurmagomedov (26-0 MMA, 10-0 UFC) is all too familiar with. Related Twitter reacts to […]