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John Kavanagh has spoken about his desire to see a matchup between his fighter Conor McGregor and the perennial featherweight/lightweight contender, Frankie Edgar. And it’s a fight that has been in discussion in one way or another for the last four or five years. Edgar, whose most recent outing saw him lose to Max Holloway, has been hanging around the …

Richard Kiely spoke to us here at Pundit Arena ahead of the biggest fight of his career, a Bellator Dublin clash with Michael ‘Venom’ Page. When the Bellator co-main-event contest between Michael ‘Venom’ Page and Richard Kiely was first announced back in July, my initial reaction was a mixture of both surprise and excitement. I’ve followed the career of the …

Yair Rodriguez has spoken about the divisive end to his UFC Mexico City showdown with Jeremy Stephens and the subsequent ‘no-contest’ the bout was declared as. You do have to feel for Yair to a certain extent. Though brash in his immediate reaction to the unfortunate stoppage, Rodriguez had just lost out on his first opportunity to truly blossom as …

UFC Mexico City’s main-event between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens fell apart in a matter of seconds after an accidental eye-poke in the opening exchange. An outstretched hand from El Pantera grazed the eyeball of Lil Heathen, causing referee Herb Dean to bring proceedings to a halt before allowing Stephens his full allocated five minutes to recover. It became apparent …

Another landmark event in the history of Irish MMA is upon us and with that in mind, we’ve made up a list of everything you’ll need to know going in. When is it on? Bellator Dublin will take place on Friday, September 27. Where is it on? The 3Arena, N Wall Quay, North Dock, Dublin 1, Ireland Who’s headlining? The …

The UFC Mexico main-event will see the highly-touted contender Yair Rodriguez take on the destructive veteran Jeremy Stephens.  It’s easy to forget just how odd Yair’s road through the UFC up until this point has been. Demolishing a massively-deteriorated BJ Penn was enough to earn him a crack at the division’s perennial contender Frankie Edar – a challenge that was …

Thursday night’s official press conference for UFC 244’s main-event pairing of Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz gave us an interesting insight into a potential change in the UFC’s attitude towards fight-promotion. Let’s be real, the presser was a bit of mess. Sound issues that were no doubt exacerbated by the choice of setting were joined by some excruciatingly bad questions …

Dustin Poirier has vowed to reclimb the 155lb mountain and avenge his brutal and one-sided UFC 242 defeat to Khabib Nurmagomedov. Poirier certainly gave it a go and in fairness to him, he did better than most. He briefly had two great moments, of course, one in the second round and another in the third but overall, it was the …

Dan Hardy has made his wish to fight Nate Diaz clear ahead of his eventual return to the UFC octagon after a lengthy period spent on the sidelines. It’s almost easy to forget that The Outlaw was once upon a time one of the finest welterweights on the planet – one who challenged the legendary Georges St-Pierre for the divisional …

Justin Gaethje moved his current run of form to three straight first-round TKO’s, this time passing the test set for him by Donald Cerrone in the UFC Vancouver main-event. At the end of the day, the sheer power possessed by the former-WSOF champion was simply too much for the veteran Cerrone to deal with. Though famously a slow-starter, Cowboy appeared …

Justin Gaethje took a moment to explain the changes that led to him scoring back-to-back knockouts of James Vick and Edson Barboza.  The former WSOF champion will take on Donald Cerrone in the UFC Vancouver headliner – a bout that understandably has fans salivating. If you want to know how we think that contest is going to shape up, read …

Lightweight fan-favourites will collide in the UFC Vancouver main-event, a fight that many are singling out as a potential Fight Of The Year in the making. Understandably dwarfed by last weekend’s UFC 242 and the return of Khabib Nurmagomedov, it was almost easy to forget that we were being served up this potentially volatile five-rounder so soon after. It doesn’t …

The team of UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov have explained why 30-0 is the perfect record for their fighter to take into his inevitable retirement. Of course, given the championship belt around his waist and the sheer calibre of the sharks that are circling, for Khabib to reach such a milestone would be incredibly impressive. Beating Dustin Poirier in such …

Ahead of his return to the octagon at UFC Vancouver this weekend, we took a moment to reflect on Michel Pereira’s promotional debut. Some of the greatest fighters to ever do it didn’t manage to bring half the electricity to proceedings in their own debuts as this relatively unknown 25-year-old from Rio de Janeiro did during his first appearance as …

ESPN’s Ariel Helwani has made it known that he believes Khabib Nurmagomedov to be the most-dominant fighter in the history of the UFC. And it’s a viewpoint that does seem to be gathering in traction with each passing victory from The Eagle. After making the divisional interim-champion Dustin Poirier look completely out of his depth for the vast majority of …

Dustin Poirier suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of Khabib Nurmagomedov in the UFC 242 main-event in Abu Dhabi last weekend. And it truly was a one-sided fight save for a pair of moments of near-brilliance from The Diamond. Even with that being said, there wasn’t even a second of that fight where Nurmagomedov was in any critical danger. …

Jon Jones revealed to the world via Twitter that he will be making a ‘big fight announcement’ soon so with that in mind, we’re going to take a look at the opponents who could potentially fit such a billing. UFC president Dana White spoke to the media in the wake of last weekend’s UFC 242 and explained how Jan Blachowicz, in …

Khabib Nurmagomedov produced a sublime performance in the UFC 242 main-event, submitting Dustin Poirier to defend his lightweight title. Khabib is the type of fighter will inevitably raise the standard for what it takes to be a modern-day MMA athlete at the highest level in the same way that the likes of Georges St-Pierre and Jon Jones did. Those two, …