The UFC’s dual-weight world champion Daniel Cormier has admitted that he took his UFC 230 bout with Derrick Lewis despite carrying an injury to his hand. Cormier well and truly saved the UFC’s blushes after the unanimously underwhelmed reaction to their decision to rebook Valentina Shevchenko from UFC 231 to a 125lb title bout against the relatively unknown Sijara Eubanks. …
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MMAFighting’s Luke Thomas will take the reins following Ariel Helwani’s departure from his role as host of the iconic YouTube chatshow The MMA Hour. MMAFighting staple Luke Thomas has been revealed as the man who will take over hosting duties on the weekly mixed martial arts show The MMA Hour following the departure of its creator and original host, Ariel Helwani. …
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Yoel Romero has chosen to put his beef with the former middleweight champion Michael Bisping to rest following the Brit’s decision to retire. UFC 225 is now just around the corner and with the middleweight title up for grabs, things could look quite different at 185lbs when all is said and done next weekend. Yoel Romero came up short last …
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Jake Shields has been a friend and teammate to the Diaz brothers for years and expects both of them to fight inside the octagon once again in the near future. It seems like an eternity has passed since we had anything resembling clarity on the future of the brothers Diaz, Nick and Nate, but in recent times, with their respective …
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Tyron Woodley has given his breakdown of how exactly he would go about taking out one of the sport of MMA’s most notoriously tough-chinned customers as speculation about him fighting Nate Diaz grows. The UFC’s welterweight champion has found himself on the verge of signing on to compete against one of the sport’s biggest names in Diaz, but he says the ongoing …
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Having spent twelve years attempting to become a UFC champion, Michael Bisping may opt to go out on top.
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On Tuesday, huge news broke in the world of MMA as Ariel Helwani confirmed that he would be airing a special edition of The MMA Hour in order to interview Nate Diaz. Just two days after a dramatic episode of The MMA Hour, on which Anderson Silva threatened to retire, Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino called in unexpectedly to talk about a …
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MMAFighting journalist Ariel Helwani has announced that he will be joined by Nate Diaz on a special live edition of The MMA Hour tonight, Wednesday May 3rd. Helwani tweeted the following last night… Mark it down: tomorrow at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 9 pm GMT. Special live edition of #TheMMAHour with @NateDiaz209 on @MMAFighting. See ya …
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In an Instagram post late last night, Conor McGregor suggested that his next fight will be announced “very soon”. Just hours later, UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley informed his Instagram followers that he was preparing to start training camp ahead of his next fight. #TRAININGCAMP Starts #Today The next time I set foot in the #Octagon it will be 4 …
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UFC lightweight Kevin Lee hasn’t really needed any help in generating headlines as of late. In November, after he submitted Magomed Mustafaev in Belfast, Lee cut a very heelish promo in which he antagonized the hometown fans and called out UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor. The line, “I would put McGregor on his back right now in this arena and …
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Famed MMA journalist Ariel Helwani has used his platform on the most recent edition of the MMA Hour to blast the UFC’s recent marketing direction as far as their fight-promos are concerned. Ariel Helwani is a man who speaks his mind more than most. Over the years he has had several run-ins with the UFC’s president Dana White due to …
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Derek Brunson has drawn first blood ahead of his UFC 208 matchup with Anderson Silva, claiming the Spider knows he will get KO’d if he chooses to taunt him mid-fight. Brunson, whose last fight ended in a stoppage defeat to the Australian Robert Whittaker in November, is now looking to bounce back from that loss with a win over one …
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For all of the talk of Conor McGregor’s every gag and zinger that he throws out there at just about every post-fight interview/press conference/general public appearance, his coach John Kavanagh possibly doesn’t get quite enough credit for having a cracking sense of humour too. Perhaps it is down to his more laid-back demeanour as well as the obvious fact that …
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“There’s options,” Conor McGregor told the world’s MMA media as he sat before them at the UFC 205 post-fight press conference. “There always is many options after these events. I’m happy with that – options are always a good thing.” It wasn’t the first time that McGregor had expressed such sentiment after a fight, but the wealth of options laying …
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Khabib Nurmagomedov is becoming more and more like the villain from a cheesy 1980’s sports movie with every passing day. The sight of the Russian ruthlessly pounding on a near helpless Michael Johnson at UFC 205 whilst casually instructing him to face the inevitable and quit was almost surreal. As was watching him converse with UFC president Dana White, who …
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Though UFC president Dana White has been adamant that Conor McGregor will relinquish one title should he add the lightweight belt to the featherweight strap already in his possession at UFC 205, ‘The Notorious’ Irishman’s recent comments don’t support that suggestion. At the UFC 205 press conference back in late September, McGregor told members of the media and fans who …
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John Kavanagh speaks to Ariel Helwani before UFC 205 this coming weekend. It’s finally fight week in New York, as Conor McGregor aims for history at UFC 205. The brash Dubliner takes on Eddie Alvarez in the main event, and is bidding to become the promotion’s first ever two-weight world champion. This promises to be the biggest ever UFC card, …
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UFC Welterweight Sage Northcutt has said that Mickey Gall’s wins over CM Punk and Mike Jackson were a bit like ‘fighting someone’s dad’ after Gall called out Northcutt following the former’s first round finish over CM Punk at UFC 203. Northcutt questioned the experience and credibility of Gall’s two UFC opponents and said that if he and Gall fight in the …
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