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Germaine de Randamie put her status as the top contender in the women’s bantamweight division beyond any doubt with a quick finish of Aspen Ladd at UFC Sacramento. Sure, it was a finish that did not come without its fair share of dispute, but like many of the other controversies that have surrounded The Iron Lady in recent years, nothing …

Holly Holm has released a short statement from her official Instagram account after her brutal first-round TKO defeat to Amanda Nunes at UFC 239. And when we call it brutal, it was brutal in the sense that Holm’s most iconic weapon, the head-kick, was the one used to end her night in a defeat that in many ways could well …

Katie Taylor’s manager Brian Peters expressed his interest in potentially setting up a matchup between the Bray-native and the UFC star, Holly Holm. To those who know of Holm only from her spectacular but also stuttering run in MMA, the fact that The Preacher’s Daughter holds an extensive and decorated history in the sport of boxing may come as a …

Jon Jones spoke to the media about watching his Jackson Wink MMA gym-mate Holly Holm TKO’d by 135lb champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 239. Holm’s stunning UFC 193 head-kick knockout of Ronda Rousey is a win that will no doubt be played on highlight reels in fifty years time but like many fighters who reach such heights, replicating that achievement …

UFC 239 was one of the best fight-cards we’ll have the pleasure of witnessing for quite some time and with that in mind, here are fifteen things we learned after all was said and done in the T-Mobile Arena last night. Jon Jones is still very much human  Jones did just enough to edge out the decision over the powerful …

Amanda Nunes just solidified her place as the greatest fighter in the history of WMMA with a stunning head-kick KO of Holly Holm. To score a knockout of this nature on the fighter responsible for perhaps the most famous head-kick KO in the history of the UFC is a simply astounding feat. At UFC 239, Amanda Nunes proved her greatness …

The women’s bantamweight championship will be up for grabs in the UFC 239 co-main event as Amanda Nunes makes the fourth defense of her crown.  Standing between Nunes and defense no. 4 is the legendary Holly Holm – a fighter who, despite playing a part in some of the most important fights in the division’s history, has lacked the consistency …

UFC 239 is now just a matter of hours away and at the event’s media day, the fighters involved faced off for the penultimate time before fight-night. UFC 239 is shaping up to be one of the year’s finest events, with a mixture of certified action fighters, upper-tier talents, and elite prospects on display from start-to-finish. Today’s weigh-ins will stand …

Hard-hitting heavyweights are looking set to collide on the UFC 239 main-card as Francis Ngannou takes on the former champ Junior dos Santos. Ngannou’s resurgence of late came only after the pair of major speed-bumps in the form of his drubbing at the hands of the former heavyweight king Stipe Miocic and his universally-panned matchup with Derrick Lewis. It was …

Two huge UFC championship bouts are very close to being signed for July’s UFC 239 in Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena according to ESPN. Brett Okamoto of ESPN reported first that the UFC are close to booking two massive title-fixtures for their International Fight Week headliner, UFC 239 on July 6. So far, only the 205lb debut of Luke Rockhold is to be …

Amanda Nunes has confirmed her intention to move down in weight to fight Valentina Shevchenko for the UFC flyweight championship belt. In a time where exclusivity of dual-weight champion status is diminishing by the blockbuster PPV, the newly-crowned queen of the women’s featherweight division is planning to push it one step further. Taking to her official Twitter account, Nunes announced …

UFC 235 is shaping up to be the first major blockbuster event of 2019 and from the looks of things, it could well be an all-time classic. The first title-defense of the latest Jon Jones reign atop the 205lb division, the return of the seemingly unshiftable welterweight kingpin Tyron Woodley, the long-awaited debut of Ben Askren and the first major …

The UFC announced recently that Ronda Rousey is to be inducted into their hall of fame, something that elicited a mixed response from the MMA community. Fans of mixed martial arts tend to have short memories. Making a point of noting this is not headline news by any means but over the years we have seen fan opinion do a …

Megan Anderson makes her UFC debut against the veteran former-champ Holly Holm tonight at UFC 225, so why exactly has such a high-profile fight been made for the promotional newcomer? UFC 225 has experienced its fair share of memorable moments in its leadup but all things considered, very little attention has been drawn to the absolutely crucial women’s featherweight contest …

The women’s featherweight champion of the world made a rather bizarre admission during a recent appearance on the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani. It might not have been long since the UFC announced their plan to establish a women’s 145lb weight-class for their roster but despite the fact that the champ Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino managed to bring in some pretty …

UFC 219’s pay-per-view estimates have been released and it managed to rank surprisingly high on 2017’s list of most-watched events. Despite what Dana White and all of those others operating as representatives of the UFC would have you believe, 2017 will have to be remembered as something of an off-year for the promotion from a financial stand-point. Sure, there were a …