The UFC has a new cable home in Canada.
The company, which had long been broadcast on Rogers Sportsnet, will now be seen on TSN and it’s French-language counterpart, RDS, the company formally announced on Monday. MMAFighting.com first reported the news of the impending deal on Friday.
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Rashad Evans is back. And now it’s official.
Evans will return to the Octagon for the first time in more than a year to meet Glover Teixeira in the main event of UFC Fight Night 61 on Feb. 22 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the UFC announced Friday. It will be the UFC’s first trip to the city. The main card will air live on FOX Sports 1. The bout was first reported by Globo.
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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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On Thursday, Brazilian outlet Globo reported that a bout between former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans and Glover Teixeira has been verbally agreed upon for the main event of UFC Fight Night 61 on Feb. 22 in Porto Allegre, Brazil.
However, Teixeira’s manager, Jorge Guimaraes, has called the report premature. Guimaraes says that Teixeira, who was medically suspended after his UFC 179 loss to Phil Davis, has yet to be cleared to return to competition by Brazil’s athletic commission.
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A few days removed from their emotionally charged dialogue, UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub and commentator Joe Rogan each pulled away to their particular corners to reflect in the event.
Record an episode of Schaub’s podcast for FOX Sports earlier this week, Rogan was critical of the former’s recent first-round TKO loss to No. 3 heavyweight Travis Browne at UFC 181 on Dec. 6.
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Dan Miller will not be making his return to the Octagon this year.
Anticipated to confront Daniel Sarafian at UFC Fight Night 58 in Barueri, Brazil, on Dec. 20, Miller was removed from the card as a result of an undisclosed reason. Sarafian now meets UFC rookie Antonio dos Santos. MMAFighting.com supported the change with sources near the scenario adhering to a report from Combate.
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Josh Samman understood before he even got word in the UFC.
“I believe I recently wrote the check,” he told reporters Saturday night after his unbelievable head kick knockout of Eddie Gordon at UFC 181.
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Well, somehow word got back to UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy that Chael Sonnen lately had some words for him.
Earlier this week Sonnen chided Kennedy for being upset over his contentious UFC 178 loss to Yoel Romero, less affectionately known as ‘stoolgate.’
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The UFC is going to be making its first trip to Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2015.
Porto Alegre, the hometown of lately crowned UFC heavyweight interim champ Fabricio Werdum, will host UFC Fight Night 61 on Feb. 22, the UFC announced Thursday. MMAFighting.com first reported the Feb. 22 date for Brazil.
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Coming off a massive triumph over Nam Phan, Mike Richman returns against a former winner in March.
Richman, who desired 46 seconds to knock Phan out on Nov. 15, is set to collide with former Bellator bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas at Bellator 134 in Thackerville, Oklahoma, on March 27. Lancenet first reported the fight, and MMAFighting.com supported with sources near the problem.
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As if Conor McGregor’s coming Jan. 18 fight against Dennis Siver did not already have high enough stakes, it seems the silver screen has now come calling the popular Irishman as well.
MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani reported on Wednesday’s episode of ‘UFC Tonight’ that several film deals are “in the works” for the 26-year old, based on manager Addie Attar, but that McGregor is only going to focus his attention in the chances after he takes care of business against Siver.
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Bellator light heavyweight Joe Vedepo was detained this past Friday day after supposedly hospitalizing an Iowa City police officer within a drunken altercation outside of a sports bar.
According to your report from KCRG, policemen reacted around 2:22 p.m. to a call from Sports Column suggesting that Vedepo, 31, was intoxicated and refused to leave the premises. Vedepo allegedly told officers that he “understood his rights” and resisted law attempts as he tried to reenter the pub, ultimately head-shoving one policeman in the chest, sending him to the hospital with back injuries.
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LAS VEGAS – When Jon Jones takes his corner after walking out for his UFC 182 title shield against Daniel Cormier on Jan. 3, do not anticipate any of his cornermen to show his light heavyweight title belt for enthusiasts and television viewers to see.
“I could not bring my belt out to the cage,” Jones told reporters at last week’s “The Time is Now” media event.
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It has been reported that World Wrestling Entertainment wouldn’t let CM Punk walk out with Chael Sonnen for Sonnen’s UFC fight a couple of years back. Now, we understand the motive WWE gave him.
Punk said this week on wrestler Colt Cabana’s podcast that WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon told him he cannot appear on UFC television as it was “barbaric.”
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Despite strategies to host GLORY 19 in December, the organization has made a decision to push the event back. Based on a report from Liver Kick, GLORY will not hold its nineteenth occasion until February.
“Clearly I am disappointed that we needed to go off the December 19th date,” GLORY CEO Jon J. Franklin said. “But I had happen to be even more disappointed if we continued using the hard work necessary to put on an occasion like GLORY does and it did not live to the conventional our supporters have come to expect and demand.
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An significant lightweight fight was added to UFC 183.
The UFC has reserved Joe Lauzon (24-9) vs. Al Iaquinta (10-3-1) for the Jan. 31 card in Las Vegas, Newsday first reported on Wednesday, and the UFC later confirmed the news with MMAFighting.com.
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Although former UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre and his protege Rory MacDonald claim to have never seriously discussed the matter, the pair hasn’t wavered over refusing to fight one another.
Calling St Pierre ‘one of the more welcoming individuals’ during his 2010 move to Montreal’s Tristar Gym, MacDonald says the then-champ never handled him like a future challenge.
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When Nick Diaz retired in March 2013 fresh from losing a lopsided unanimous decision to then-UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre, he told reporters that the only fights to could coax him back to the cage will be a rematch contrary to the Canadian or a superfight against Anderson Silva. At that time, Diaz’s requests were mostly scoffed at. This is a man who had lost two straight trips; he was not just in the position to barter for another huge chance.
But a funny thing occurred in the 16 months that followed that night. St Pierre retired, lifting the curtain to the sport’s drug outbreak on his way outside; Silva lost simply not once, but twice in outrageous manner; Chael Sonnen unceremoniously left the limelight; a rash of harms sailed from the other side of the UFC’s top echelon; the promotion’s fading draws disappeared only somewhat more.
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John Moraga needs a new opponent for his UFC on FOX 13 bout after Brazilian flyweight Jussier Formiga has been forced out of the card with an injury.
Formiga’s head coach Andre Pederneiras told MMAFighting.com that the flyweight has suffered a knee injury, a partial LCL tear, and won’t be able to recover in time to compete for the Dec. 13 card. MMA Junkie first reported the news.
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LAS VEGAS – Nick Diaz has it in his head that fighters can take pretty much anything they want up in Canada, without repercussion.
Diaz, who returns from his self-imposed exile to meet Anderson Silva in the main event of UFC 183, told reporters on Tuesday that he’d be down for a rematch of his last fight, a unanimous-decision loss to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 158.
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