Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champ Anderson Silva jumped up on the cage and celebrated his first official victory since October 2012 after knocking out Michael Bisping at the very end of the third round in the main event of a UFC card in London on Saturday.
Even after he lost his belt to Chris Weidman when he was knocked out more than two years ago and suffered another defeat when he broke his leg in the rematch, former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champ Anderson Silva was still widely recognized as one of the greatest fighters in mixed martial arts history.
Michael “The Count” Bisping and Anderson “The Spider” Silva spoke with media ahead of their middleweight tilt. At the event, Bisping insisted that Silva had used steroids throughout his fighting career.
One of the final questions of a Wednesday afternoon news conference to promote their hastily arranged UFC 196 main event bout March 5 at the MGM Grand Garden prompted answers from Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz that perfectly exemplify the difference between the Ultimate Fighting Championship stars.
Ben Askren, widely considered the best welterweight fighter in the world outside of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, will defend his title against Nikolay Aleksakhin in the main event of the ONE: Champions Collide event at Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on April 15.
Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey doesn’t regret telling Ellen DeGeneres she thought about killing herself after suffering a second-round knockout loss to Holly Holm in November.
Ultimate Fighting Championship star Nate Diaz is a popular fighter who just had the best performance of his career at exactly the right time.
UFC 196’s championship superfight was scrapped on Tuesday after UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos announced he had broken his foot and would be unable to square off with UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.
An eight-fight winning streak that resulted in a shot at the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight title looked great from the outside. But Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone just wasn’t having fun.
It took Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone more time than a bull ride to finish Alex “Cowboy” Oliveira when they met in the main event of UFC Fight Night 83 in Pittsburgh on Sunday night, but not much longer.
With the way Ultimate Fighting Championship star Conor McGregor has embraced Las Vegas and everything it stands for, it would be logical to assume the star featherweight champion plans on a long-term commitment to the fight capital of the world.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC FIght Night 83 in Pittsburgh.
The family of Dhafir “Dada 5000” Harris issued a statement Saturday after rumors surfaced the fighter had fallen briefly into critical condition at a Houston hospital following his Friday night loss to Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson on a Bellator MMA card.
After all the hype and anticipation for Friday night’s Bellator MMA card in Houston, the worst-case scenarios played out in the headlining bouts.
When prosecutors in New Mexico decided not to charge former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champ with a probation violation after he was cited in a traffic stop last month, it appeared he had caught a huge break.
