It looked like Cormier wouldn’t fight, but Anderson Silva stepped up to the plate on 48 hours notice. And the light heavyweight champion made the most of the opportunity, much to the dismay of the Las Vegas crowd, by beating Silva on Saturday night by unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26). MORE: UFC 200 live blog | Best UFC 200 photos “I was a little nervous,” Cormier said to Joe Rogan....
The main event features Michael Bisping defending the middleweight championship against former welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre. The co-main event is another title fight, with Cody Garbrandt defending the bantamweight championship when he faces former teammate and former 135-pound champion TJ Dillashaw. Another title bout highlights the show when Joanna Jedrzejczyk looks to make a record-setting title defense when she puts up the strawweight title against Rose Namajunas. MORE: Who headlines the November pound-for-pound rankings?...
It got to the point where he thought about walking away from the sport, since getting beat up for a living wasn’t worth the little pay he was earning. But the UFC went out and did something out of the UFC norm: the company gave Iaquinta a new contract that’s worth more than his previous deal. Iaquinta signed a new four-fight contract in the beginning of 2018, which he says is three-times more than the old one: that deal reportedly paid him $52,000 a fight....
I’d known Tai for a while, but only in passing. We knew of each other, but our dads were always closer than we were. I really met him at one of his birthdays when we had dinner with our dads there. That was when we were maybe 19 or 20 but when we both started getting serious about fighting that we got really close quite fast. Now we’re both fighting in the UFC and he’s also got a son with my sister, Brierly....
Boy, were we wrong. In one of the most bizarre fights in recent memory between fighters who are known for their vicious knockout power, Lewis defeated Ngannou by unanimous decision. There really was no winner in this one, however. Ngannou and Lewis stared at each other throughout the three-round affair. The fireworks everyone expected were nowhere to be found. Jeers filled T-Mobile Arena as fans entertained themselves by waving their cell phones, chanting “Fight!...
Could Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor join forces? In an interview with TMZ Sports, the boxing legend is thinking about calling Dana White so he could attend UFC 229 in Las Vegas on October 6. Mayweather even went as far to say that he would be willing to help his old rival ahead of his challenge against undefeated lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. “I’ll talk with Dana, I may talk with Conor to get some tickets,” Mayweather said....
Several pro wrestlers took to Twitter and let their feelings be known. A few even compared the events of UFC 229 to sports entertainment. Certainly, the drama and the madness that followed the fight had some on social media asking if indeed it was scripted. Chris Jericho is certainly no stranger to working an angle through social media. Remember how the whole angle with Kenny Omega leading up to their match was orchestrated through a feud on Twitter, getting the audience invested beforehand?...
In case you didn’t know.. Sijara Eubanks is an American professional mixed martial artist and is number four on the rankings in the UFC women’s flyweight roster. She is also well versed with Brazilian jiu-jitsu and has secured the first place in the Women’s No-Gi Advanced Absolute division, during the 2011 Grapplers Quest World Championship Finals. She also fought with Invicta FC before making her way to the UFC by making her debut against Lauren Murphy at UFC Fight Night, on June 1st, 2018....
McGregor answered those questions definitively. He came out firing and dusted Cerrone in just 40 seconds at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night. “I’m the first fighter in UFC history to secure a knockout victory at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight,” McGregor said in his postfight interview. “I’m very, very happy. I’m very proud.” Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year McGregor (22-5) charged right at Cerrone and missed with a left hand....
That’s how the Tritons improved to 9-1 Sunday with a 69-65 win over Cal State San Marcos after five players fouled out and another went down with an ankle injury. MORE: Bo Ryan’s best (craziest?) faces | College basketball’s biggest men UCSD, ranked 11th in the country, led 66-65 with 14 seconds to play when Drew Dyer fouled out. Game officials asked Tritons coach Eric Olen where his sub was....
The UCLA quarterback made waves in October after he posted pictures on Instagram of an inflatable hot tub he managed to install in his dorm room. MORE: Early Heisman frontrunners | 10 bold predictions UCLA’s residential housing policies forced Rosen to remove the hot tub, but in another “power move,” Rosen posted a picture of a new, full-size ping pong table where the tub once resided. A video posted by Josh Rosen (@josh3rosen) on Oct 17, 2015 at 12:15pm PDT...
First, Washington’s Steve Sarkisian had glowing remarks for the sophomore who blistered his Huskies for 366 passing yards and three scores and another 88 yards and a TD on the ground. This week, UCLA’s Jim Mora Jr. is making a pre-emptive strike. “You watch his facial expressions, he never looks rattled,” Mora told reporters this week. “He’s 6 feet 3½, has a rocket arm, incredible intelligence, great poise, runs a 4....
Having lost the first leg of their quarter-final contest 3-0 at home, Juve were on the verge of forcing extra-time at the Santiago Bernabeu as they led by the same scoreline heading into stoppage time. But then Oliver penalised Medhi Benatia for bundling Lucas Vazquez over from behind in the area and subsequently sent off Gianluigi Buffon for his reaction, which involved him putting his hands on the referee....
The technology will also be used in the Champions League for the 2016/17 season, and it will be implemented from the playoff stages itself. According to UEFA, the system will be installed at all venues but they will continue to have assistant referees near the goal. The assistant referees will not only monitor everything that takes place inside the box to help the referee make decisoins but also make calls on potential goal/no-goal decisions....
The group stage fixtures generally start in September and last till December. In all the total number of matches played in the group stage come out to be 96. With 16 matches being played every matchday. When so many games are played in the group stage, it is not hard to see a fixture where one of the team ends up absolutely dominating the other. In the group stage, the possibility of a small team facing off against one of the biggest names across Europe is the highest and thus the possibility of a high scoring game is the highest in the group stage....
Looking at their World Cup form and performances, Portugal aren’t a fair match for the Croatians. However, Ronaldo and his men have come out big when people have underestimated them; the group-stage game against Spain, for instance, and their fixture against Croatia will be one tough yet interesting match for the viewers. Portugal Portugal will want to start their UEFA Nations League campaign with a win over Croatia, as their World Cup journey wasn’t very convincing....
“It feels amazing,” Pettis told Sporting News. “I’ve been out for a long time and knowing that I’m this close to a fight, my body feels good, my mind is right, camp was amazing, weight’s right and everything is on point. I feel like I’m picking where I left off a year ago.” Being gone from what you love to do for any amount of time is heartbreaking especially when you are competing in front of 15-20,000 people....
The UFC 211 fight card features Miocic vs. dos Santos 2, a rematch for the UFC heavyweight championship of the world, as Stipe Miocic defends the gold against former heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos in the main event. The co-main event for the UFC women’s strawweight title, Joanna Jędrzejczyk looks to defend the strap for the fifth consecutive time when she goes up against Jessica Andrade. The first Miocic vs....
A two-time black belt world champion in Brazilian jiu jitsu and daughter of BJJ legend Wellington “Megaton” Dias, the 24-year-old has earned the call to the Octagon less than two years after making her professional debut. Reaching this level was a foregone conclusion for Dern, who arrives on the biggest stage in the sport with a perfect 5-0 record as she prepares to take on Ashley Yoder this weekend in the final preliminary card fight at UFC 222....
Those generally-wise words may ring true in most instances, but for Khabib Nurmagomedov there should be regret for something he did do after defeating Conor McGregor to complete the most famous victory of his mightily impressive MMA career. MORE: Join DAZN and watch more than 80 fight nights a year It should have been a moment of jubilant celebrations. McGregor, for all his typical pre-fight brashness and gusto, endured more misery in Las Vegas 14 months on from his defeat to Floyd Mayweather Jr....
