Georges St. Pierre will finally step back into the octagon after an almost four year layoff when he faces Michael Bisping. on Nov. 4, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The two have been linked to a fight since earlier this year but after a few starts and stops the bout is…
It was a bad night for Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 Saturday night. Not only did he lose to his rival Jon Jones for the second time, he was knocked out and finished for the first time in his MMA career. After the fight was over Cormier tried to leave the octagon only to be…
The rumor going around online is that Brock Lesnar’s return to the UFC is inevitable. It’s no secret that Lesnar isn’t a pro wrestling fan and only shows up a few times a year because Vince McMahon is paying him insane amounts of money to do so. Lesnar competed at UFC 200 and defeated Mark…
Conor McGregor is knee deep in promoting his boxing match with Floyd Mayweather next month in Las Vegas. He and “Money” Mayweather went on a whirlwind media tour last week that was mostly theatrics and part spectacle to drum up attention for what could be the biggest boxing match of all time. Many have wondered…
We’ve been seeing subtle signs that Ronda Rousey may be headed to the WWE since she lost to Amanda Nunes last December. She appeared at Wrestlemania 31 several years ago with The Rock and a few months ago started following several WWE Superstars on Twitter. Rousey was spotted with Stephanie McMahon earlier this week at…
After all the hoopla of Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather it was only a matter of time before Nate Diaz chimed in with his two cents. And in typical Nate Diaz fashion he didn’t disappoint. Diaz took to Instagram earlier this week to take shots at not only McGregor but UFC President Dana White as…
Justin Gaethje improved to 18-0 with a second round TKO win over Michael Johnson in Las Vegas at the TUF 25 Finale. Gaethje was in control for most of the fight but almost got knocked out late in the first round. The UFC rookie survived the round to finish Johnson in an instant classic at…
Right now Enzo Amore is knee deeps in a feud with his former tag team partner, Big Cass but it looks like Vince McMahon may have big plans for “Smacktalker Skywalker” next year. Enzo tweeted Conor McGregor last month out of the blue making many WWE fans start to wonder if there was something brewing…
Ronda Rousey has been quiet about her future plans since losing to Amanda Nunes last December. Last month it was announced that the former UFC champ would be featured on the reboot of “Battle of the Network Stars” on ABC. The show ran the 70s and 80s and is being brought back later this year…
Jose Aldo was untouchable from 2006 to 2014 and thought to be the greatest pound for pound fighter in UFC history until he ran into the Conor McGregor buzzsaw in 2015. Aldo rebounded from the defeat and outpointed Frankie Edgar to win the interim featherweight title at UFC 200 last July. At 30 years of…
Tonight Vitor Belfort fought in Brazil at UFC 212 in what could be his final fight in the octagon. Belfort had been teasing retirement since losing to Kevin Gastelum in March. The fight was eventually ruled a no contest due to Gastelum failing a postfight drug test. However with the no contest “The Phenom” was…
The UFC returns to Rio tonight with a lot of big fights that feature a lot of Brazilian fighters who will have the fans 100% in their corner. We’ve seen that in fights down there that the hometown fighters fair really well and it’s usually a bad night if you are an American. That doesn’t…
UFC 212 is finally here and we will get to see if Max Holloway can go into Brazil and take out the legendary Jose Aldo in front of 15,000 of his closest friends. Aldo will be the favorite but Holloway has been proving people wrong for several years. Holloway is the only fighter in the…
Anytime you have the #1 and #2 contenders in a division facing off it’s a big deal. Tonight in Sweden that’s what we got when Alexander Gustafsson returned from an eight month layoff when he faced off against former title contender Glover Teixeira. With a potential title shot on the line both men laid it…
The UFC is trying to figure out what to do after Cody Garbrandt pulled out of the main event at UFC 213 in July against TJ Dillashaw. Dillashaw has been lobbying for a fight against flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson now that he can’t fight his old teammate, Garbrandt. Dana White seemed to be onboard and…
Tonight we will finally find out if Stipe Miocic can avenge his last defeat in the octagon against Junior Dos Santos. Miocic is the UFC heavyweight champ but he lost a decision to Dos Santos in 2014. Since then Miocic has won four straight fights and has been unstoppable with KO wins over Alistair Overeem,…
The UFC rolls into Dallas tonight with two big title fights at UFC 211. Joanna Jędrzejczyk will defend her women’s strawweight title against Jéssica Andrade and UFC heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic will take on Junior Dos Santos. There are a lot of intriguing matchups and most importantly some good betting lines if you want to…
Michael Bisping has not been seen in the octagon since defending his UFC middleweight title last October against Dan Henderson. The reason “The Count” has been out of action so long is due to filming the life story of Lenny McLean. Bisping is portraying Roy “Pretty Boy” Shaw in the new movie that will be…
Anderson Silva will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for UFC 212 on June 3. But we aren’t exactly sure who the former UFC champ will be fighting at the event. “The Spider” was scheduled to face Kevin Gastelum but after the former TUF winner got popped by USADA it messed up the fight and…
The UFC invades Nashville, Tennessee tonight with a very lackluster card. What it lacks in star power it makes up for with opportunities in betting lines. It’s very rare you see a guy who is +500 in the main event but when your record is 13-12-1 Vegas oddsmakers don’t give you much respect. Let’s dig…
Being a Nashville native I was pretty excited when I heard the UFC was coming to town when UFC Fight Night 108 was announced earlier this year. Then I looked at the card and wondered why they even bothered putting it together. It looks like the UFC had to fill a date on FS1 and…
It’s up to Jon Jones whether or not he wants to fight Daniel Cormier for the UFC light heavyweight title in July or not. Should Jones want to fight for the belt in his first bout in 15 months he will get to fight ‘DC’, a man he defeated by unanimous decision in 2015. But…
Demetrious Johnson has won twelve straight fights and cleaned out the flyweight division twice since winning the belt in 2012. He’s defeated the #1 contender, Joseph Benavidez by split decision then followed it up by knocking him out a year and a half later. After knocking out #3 ranked Wilson Reis last night in Kansas…
Robert Whittaker shook up the UFC middleweight division last night in Kansas City with a huge upset TKO win over “Jacare” Souza. Souza is a former Strikeforce middleweight champ who was in line for a title shot with a win over Whittaker. The TUF Smashes star didn’t get the memo and is now on his…
Tonight we will finally find out if Anthony Johnson can knock out Daniel Cormier and win the belt. The two men fought in 215 with “Rumble” dropping the champ but Cormier battled back to get a submission win in the third round. Tonight in Buffalo we will see if “DC” can do it one more…
UFC 210 will feature Daniel Cormier vs Anthony Johnson for the UFC light heavyweight championship. Cormier submitted Johnson two years ago after getting rocked early in the fight by “Rumble”. Johnson is the favorite in tonight’s matchup despite not beating the champ when he had the chance in 2015. There are a lot of intriguing…
Robbie Lawler and Donald Cerrone were set to face off last October at UFC 205 in New York. Unfortunately the fight never happened due to Lawler backing out after losing his welterweight title to Tyron Woodley. ‘Cowboy’ is always down to fight so all the UFC had to do was get Lawler onboard. Cerrone vs…
Will she or won’t she? That’s the questions Ronda Rousey fans were asking earlier this year about a possible return for the former champ got knocked out by Amanda Nunes last December. UFC President Dana White all but confirmed Rousey’s retirement on the UFC’s Unfiltered podcast with Jim Norton and Matt Serra in January when…
Despite four straight losses BJ Penn is headed back to the octagon to face Dennis Siver in Oklahoma City on June 25th in the main event of a likely FS1 card. The UFC announced the fight last week. Penn returned to the UFC in January after a 2 1/2 year layoff only to get knocked…
Jimi Manuwa is starting to turn heads in the UFC light heavyweight division. After knocking out Ovince St. Preux last year Manuwa knocked out the #6 ranked Corey Anderson today in London at the UFC Fight Night event in London in the first round. It only takes one 😴 😴 😴@PosterboyJM gets it done on…
After getting smoked last weekend by Kelvin Gastelum in Brazil Vitor Belfort doesn’t have much left in the tank. At 39 years of age the former UFC champ has lost three straight by TKO and has talked openly about fighting in a “Legend’s Division”. It now appears that he wants one more fight and it’s…
Fresh off of a win over UFC legend Vitor Belfort over the weekend, Kelvin Gastelum will head back to Brazil to face another in June when he gets Anderson Silva in Rio de Janeiro at UFC 212. Gastelum looks to get his fourth straight win and could be in title contention should he defeat “The…
Mirsad Bektic came into UFC 209 as a +700 favorite over Darren Elkins. And for 2 1/2 rounds he definitely looked like it. Bektic easily won the first two rounds and was cruising to a unanimous decision victory in Las Vegas when the unthinkable happened, Elkins knocked him out. What an unbelievable comeback by a…
Tonight we will finally find out who is the better fighter between Stephen Thompson and Tyron Woodley. The two men fought last year to a five round draw and both want to cement their legacies tonight with a win at UFC 209 in Las Vegas. Woodley has been telling everyone who will listen that he…
Georges St. Pierre is back. Dana White made it official this morning on ESPN and announced that “Rush” will face Michael Bisping for the UFC middleweight title. “He’s one of our biggest stars. If you look at the Chuck Liddell era – Anderson Silva, ‘GSP.’ He was one of the big stars who helped build…
Conor McGregor has been talking about a potential fight with Floyd Mayweather for a year now and it still hasn’t happened. The fight is a longshot at best and UFC President Dana White is now saying that McGregor will face the winner of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson at UFC 209 later in the year.…
For the past two years Georges St. Pierre has been teasing fans with a return to the UFC. After defending this title against Johny Hendricks at UFC 167 in 2013 GSP walked away from fighting. He gave up his title and did his own thing for a while. There have been rumblings that he wanted…
Anderson Silva came into UFC 208 as a pretty big underdog to Derek Brunson. The former UFC middleweight champ has hit a pretty bad skid with losses to Michael Bisping and Daniel Cormier in 2016 but could get back into the title picture with a win over Brunson. Brunson is coming off a loss of…
UFC 208 is upon us and there is a lot of intrigue surrounding some of the big stars on the card as to whether or not they can return to greatness. Anderson Silva and Holly Holm were on top of the world a few years ago but now they both find themselves needing a win…
Ronda Rousey hasn’t been heard from since losing to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 last December. Rousey got smashed and lost the bout in 48 seconds and quickly went into hiding like she did when she lost to Holly Holm in 2015. The former champ told fans in an open letter that she wanted to…