UFC News
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Report: UFC sale has been completed
According to a new report from Jeremy Botter at FloCombat Zuffa has allegedly completed the sale of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The buyers are reported to be a group of investors led by William Morris Endeavor (WME) that also includes Chinese media, entertainment and search engine company Tencent, as well as…
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Transcript: Michael Bisping’s corner audio from UFC 199 title win
Michael Bisping’s performance at UFC 199 was an unexpected one, and put the cherry on top of a very successful career that always seemed to have fallen short when it mattered most. Despite the many doubters, there was certainly one man that was confident in Bisping’s abilities against Luke Rockhold…
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UFC 199: Rockhold vs Bisping – Winners and Losers
The strangest thing about this event has been the fact that it was greatly overshadowed by so much of the hype surrounding the biggest Brazil card ever at UFC 198 and the grandest event they’ve planned for thus far at UFC 200. In fact, even headliner Luke Rockhold didn’t want to…
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UFC 199 Embedded video, part 2 – ‘You call that a penis?’
UFC 199 is just around the corner and the amusing and insightful Embedded series continues to follow the participants as they finalize their training and make some final adjustments before making the trip to the Los Angeles area for Saturday’s event. In this installment, we see middleweight champion Luke Rockhold get…
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Jones responds to Cormier: ‘I’m balls deep in your head right now’
Former UFC light heavyweight champion and current interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones didn’t take very kindly to Daniel Cormier’s new punching bag, responding in kind to the post today on Instagram. //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js It’s good to see you enjoying your last days as paper champ Daniel. I was actually planning on leaving…
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Report: UFC’s women’s BW Valentina Shevchenko involved in shootout, coach injured
In a report from earlier today from Peruvian outlet RPP, a shootout took place late last night in the Chorillos district in Lima, Peru in a robbery gone sideways. The incident took place at a local chicken shop as the robbers had ordered the employees to empty out their registers and…
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Jessica Eye in favor of women’s flyweight in UFC, won’t compete in it
Jessica Eye may have started her professional fighting career at 125lbs, but she now competes in the UFC’s bantamweight division, and has no intention ever of leaving it. Ever since the news broke of a flyweight fight between Joanne Calderwood and Valerie Letourneau next month at UFC Ottowa on June 18th,…
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Nate Diaz on Conor McGregor’s rise: ‘Who the f**k is Dennis Siver?’
On a very special Wednesday edition of The MMA Hour, UFC mainstay Nate Diaz had some choice words regarding his ongoing saga with the organization as well as his thoughts on his most recent opponent Conor McGregor. The main point of his displeasure rests in the way that both he…
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UFC on Fox: Teixeira vs Evans – Winners and Losers
This card, I tell ya. We lost some really good fights to get here, and yet ended up with some decent action in the end. We still ended up with a former title challenger and a former champion in the main event, as well as an unofficial #1 contender’s match…
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UFC Zagreb: Rothwell vs Dos Santos – Winners and Losers
As far as international expansion efforts go, we’ve seen Zuffa put on events in various locales around the world in the last few years, and it’s always great for any organization to make a major impression on their first visit. So with the UFC setting up their inaugural Croatian event,…