Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone has had such a problem with slow starts throughout his career, he even made a joke about it Thursday during the final media appearance before his Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight title bout against champion Rafael dos Anjos.
While doing interviews on Thursday in advance of his Saturday night fight against Michael Johnson, Nate Diaz looked at the event poster and realized he was nowhere to be found. So he grabbed a marker and drew himself in as a flexing stick figure with a six-pack of abs.
Lance Palmer struggled to hurt Alexandre Almeida, but he thought he racked up enough style points to win the headline fight for the World Series of Fighting 26 on Friday. So did many in attendance at the Chelsea inside the Cosmopolitan hotel.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC on Fox 17 today at Amway Center in Orlando, Fla.:
Even though Junior dos Santos has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship for more than seven years and reached the organization’s pinnacle when he captured the heavyweight title in 2011, he finds himself feeling like a rookie again.
After months of speculation as to what direction Rizin Fighting Federation officials would go in naming a replacement opponent for heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko’s return to competition on New Year’s Eve, the organization will go back to the original plan.
At this point in his career, veteran heavyweight striker Alistair Overeem is singularly focused. His choice of training camp helps make sure he stays that way.
Didn’t get enough mixed martial arts at the Cosmopolitan last week? The Strip hotel will host the World Series of Fighting 26 inside the Chelsea on Friday.
UFC veteran Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is not the kind of fighter to obsess over capturing the belt. He’s always made it quite clear he competes in mixed martial arts mostly for a paycheck and to a certain extent because frankly, he enjoys the thrill.
For the short period of time the lengthy title reigns of Ultimate Fighting Championship stars Jon Jones and Anderson Silva overlapped, mixed martial arts fans drooled at the prospect of a super-fight in much the same way boxing fans yearned for a battle between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. before they finally met in the ring earlier this year.
After a wild weekend that featured three Ultimate Fighting Championship cards in three nights, this week’s CoveringTheCage.com rankings look significantly different.
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm says she is perfectly fine giving former champ Ronda Rousey a rematch at UFC 200 inside the new Las Vegas Arena on July 9. She’s just not certain that should be her next fight.
Newly crowned UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor is a man with many career options after exponentially growing his star power with the fastest finish in Ultimate Fighting Championship title fight history in the main event of UFC 194 on Saturday night.
Saturday night’s Ultimate Fighting Championship card at the MGM Grand was the organization’s most successful Las Vegas event ever at the box office.
Yoel Romero took a huge step forward in the middleweight division, but it might have been aided by holding himself up.
