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Video: Tyrone Spong nails another KO in boxing match
Even though he may be done with kickboxing for now, Tyrone Spong continues his campaign of separating people from their consciousness. After breaking his leg against Turkish powerhouse Gokhan Saki at Glory 15 in April of 2014, he worked on rehabilitating his leg and later announced he would be retiring…
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Opinion: CM Punk simply cannot win
Remember UFC 181? Way back in early December of 2014, the UFC announced the latest and boldest of signings, former Ring of Honor and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstar CM Punk (government name Phillip Jack Brooks). The move turned heads in quick fashion, as the straight-edge star was coming off…
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UFC Fight Night Hamburg – Winners and Losers
The UFC continues to have an amazing ability to really find compelling matchups and platforms to elevate lesser-known regions during the last few years of their global expansion. This largely has held true for more and more of the European cards, with the increase in quality local and regional fighters…
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Overeem doubts McGregor and Mayweather earn as much as they claim
For years, fans and media have speculated on full paydays for MMA fighters, mostly due to the secretive nature of the sport when it comes to financials. Despite disclosure from various commissions and organizations, there’s always the undisclosed contractual pay for some of the bigger names, making things more nebulous…
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Tyron Woodley talks about racist fan backlash to winning title
Before UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley won his title, he had faced a degree of derision from some fans that were not excited about the possibility of him fighting Robbie Lawler. Fans saw other contenders to be more worthy, and pointed at the fact that Woodley had been sitting out…
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Former Bellator lightweight contender Marcin Held signs with the UFC
Another Bellator talent has joined the UFC, and this time it’s season 10 lightweight tournament winner and Polish MMA grappling phenom Marcin Held. The 24-year-old fighter had previously been released from the promotion earlier this year after a win over fellow former Bellator fighter Dave Jansen, and has amassed a…
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UFC on Fox 21: Maia vs Condit – Winners and Losers
Growth. That was the theme for so many of these fights tonight. Performances that showed new wrinkles for some fighters, while others refined the items in their toolboxes to put on a show. Despite being primarily set up to be an action card, there was a fair amount of divisional…
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White on possible McGregor/Diaz trilogy: ‘We’re definitely not doing this a 3rd time right now’
In some regards, UFC 202’s main event was worth the price of the PPV overall. It was an obvious fight of the year candidate that had plenty of swings in tempo and control with both fighters throwing everything they had at each other. Chief among the parties that were thrilled…
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Dominick Cruz on Cody Garbrandt: ‘I thought he was CM Punk’
After a brutal stoppage win over #11 ranked bantamweight Takeya Mizugaki, Cody Garbrandt had some choice words for champion Dominick Cruz, who was doing desk duty for the Fox Sports team as an analyst. Not a bad moment to do so, considering that the champion was right there and Garbrandt…
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UFC 202: McGregor vs Diaz 2 – Winners and Losers
How often do we as fans get an hotly anticipated event that is headlined by a fight that has no true divisional relevance and serves for little more than bragging rights in the end? We truly are spoiled, and that’s a great thing. In fact, a fair amount of these…