BARUERI, Brazil — Dominick Cruz talks to reporters before UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Dollaway weigh-ins about his pending UFC bantamweight title fight with T.J. Dillashaw, what changed while he was out for nearly three years with injuries and his opinion on the UFC’s controversial signing of former WWE star CM Punk.
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LAS VEGAS – Todd Duffee waited almost two years to produce his come back to the Octagon.
From there, it turned out to be a simple matter of moments before he produced a Todd Duffee Unique.
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Well, Cub Swanson might be waiting quite a bit longer for his title shot. Swanson needed a big win Saturday night to convince UFC brass he was the right man to face featherweight champion Jose Aldo, but Frankie Edgar had his own plans. Edgar picked up right where he left off against BJ Penn, beating Swanson from pillar to post for nearly the full five rounds. Here’s how the pros reacted to UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Swanson.
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In the tail end of an uninspired UFC Fight Night, lovers in Uberlandia, Brazil waited until almost 4:00am local time to cheer on their national hero.
All was forgiven as Mauricio Rua made his walk to the Octagon, but sadly for them it continued longer in relation to the real main event against Ovince St. Preux.
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True to his word, Chad Mendes looked the same as a combatant reborn in his rematch against Jose Aldo at UFC 179. It simply was not enough, as Aldo bested Mendes yet again to defend his UFC featherweight title for a record seventh straight time in what proved to be one of the most combustible and sensational fights of 2014.
While Aldo came from Rio de Janeiro the owner of a 49-46 unanimous decision, the scorecards alone sell the fight brief. Just about any round featured numerous harrowing sequences and wild swings of momentum (and even a couple of minutes of controversy). So go ahead, relive all of the activity from an immediate classic with our jogging timeline in the experts below.
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Former UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva knows a thing or two about cheaters.
The guy spent almost half his UFC career fighting competitors who’d neglected some type of screening for performance enhancing drugs in their career. Throughout his historical 16-0 UFC run from 2006 to 2012, Silva conquered four distinct guys who’d later fail their post-fight test.
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Less than 10 months after his title bid against Chris Weidman ended in a ghastly scene, former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva sat perched upon a stage on a Tuesday afternoon in Rio de Janeiro, his tortured screams and mangled leg replaced by a seemingly endless cascade of easy smiles and even a sampling of his best Whitney Houston falsetto.
The memories of that night at UFC 168 will always linger for Silva, when a checked leg kick led to the shattering of his left fibula and tibia — as gruesome an end to a celebrated dynasty as could be written — but for now Silva’s story continues. With surgery and rehabilitation nearly behind him, the 39-year-old intends to return in early 2015, fighting in a blockbuster fight against Stockton’s favorite son, Nick Diaz.
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The saga between UFC president Dana White and former light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson rages on.
Now spanning years, the war of words took another turn this weekend as ‘Rampage’ insisted he wasn’t paid nearly as well as White would have you believe.
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It had been nearly seven months since Jake Shields was released from the UFC. And he treated his new home at World Series of Fighting as his own.
The former Strikeforce middleweight champion Shields went into his opponent Ryan Ford’s backyard of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in his WSOF debut and scored his first finish since 2009. He tapped out Ford with a rear naked choke at the 4:29 of the first round. The last time he finished an opponent was in June 2009 against Robbie Lawler.
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LAS VEGAS — UFC 178’s featured middleweight fight took a turn for the weird on Saturday night when Yoel Romero received extra time to recuperate involving the 2nd and third round after almost being ended under a flurry of punches by Tim Kennedy.
within an action of evident gamesmanship, Romero stayed on his stool almost 30 additional seconds more compared to required one-minute break between rounds despite continued demonstrations from Kennedy, who finally lost the fight via third-round TKO due to strikes.
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UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy had words for his UFC 178 competition Yoel Romero after their fight on Saturday night. Romero won the competition by quitting Kennedy with strikes in the 3rd round, but the fight had a contentious ‘stoppage’ between the 2nd and third round. While the call for ‘seconds outside’ was given prior to the start of the third and final round, Romero and his corner continued to remain with Romero sitting on his stool. This took place for almost 30 additional seconds, giving Romero time to recuperate when he was practically ended with strikes by the end of the next round.
In a Vine that is surfaced, Kennedy tells Romero that if your combatant struggles to start the round on time for some reason, he/she is likely to lose via TKO.
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Melvin Manhoef’s been at this match almost 20 years. Between an MMA profession which dates back to 1995 and a adorned kickboxing profession beginning in 1996, the Surinamese Dutch resident has more than 90 official fights on his curriculum vitae.
As Well As the 38-year old still has lightning in his fists.
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It’s been almost annually because the UFC’s former heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos fought, but it seems like there may be a time and location because of his return.
As reported on UFC Tonight, a fight between Dos Santos and quick-rising heavyweight Stipe Miocic is under consideration for December. Though nothing is set in stone yet, Ariel Helwani reported a source close to Miocic has told him that a confrontation in the UFC on FOX 13 card is “more than likely.” That event happens on Dec. 13 at the U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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This time Floyd Mayweather Jr. left no doubt. The unquestioned No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world handily defeated Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night, cruising to a unanimous decision win just four months after the tough Argentinian sucked Mayweather into a brawl and almost stole the pair’s first meeting.
Judges John McKaie and Dave Moretti both scored the rematch 116-111 in favor of Mayweather, while Judge Guido Cavalleri had it 115-112. Together with the triumph, Mayweather kept his welterweight and light middleweight titles and pushed his undefeated record to 47-0.
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