Cris Cyborg Issues Statement In Response to UFC Athlete Retreat Incident
UFC featherweight Cris Cyborg has released a statement regarding the altercation between herself and strawweight Angela Magana at this past weekend's UFC Athlete Retreat. In case you missed it, Cyborg took offense to some Twitter posts Magana made a...
Logic: The Problem With the UFC’s Fight Night Bonus Structure
The UFC has been handing out "Performance of the Night" bonuses for years, rewarding fighters tens of thousands of dollars for high-quality or entertaining performances inside the Octagon. While more money for fighters is always good, when the process is...
Cris Cyborg May Have Sounded Death Knell for UFC Women’s Featherweight Division
Quick, name the top five ranked fighter's in the UFC's featherweight division, female side. Wait, what do you mean that the division doesn't really have any fighters outside of a champion in exile and featherweight wrecking machine Cris Cyborg...
UFC: Stop the Interim Insanity, I Want to Get Off
In the wake of Georges St. Pierre not being ready to fight until after October, UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping says he's injured, and isn't able to fight any time soon. That would be all well and good, except...
UFC 215: Potential Main Event Options for August’s Pay-Per-View
Now that the cards for UFC 213 and 214 are beginning to take shape, and we have UFC 211 behind us, we can begin to wonder who the promotion will call upon at UFC 215 in August. Currently unannounced, the...
Cowboy Cerrone: “There’s No Place I’d Rather Be” Than In the Octagon
Cowboy Cerrone is a man who loves to fight. That much is well known. Yet he's been out of action since January, which feels like years given the pace Cerrone fights at. That's mainly because, after losing to Jorge...
Luke Rockhold Tells Dana White to “Think Before You Run Your Mouth,” White Responds
Former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion Luke Rockhold doesn't seem to have been pacified by the news that Yoel Romero is back on deck for the division's next title shot. In fact, he's angry as ever and spitting fire...
UFC Heavyweight Francis Ngannou Channels Inner GSP, Is “Not Impressed” with Champ Miocic
Stipe Miocic picked up a big win Saturday night at UFC 211, knocking out former heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos to defend the heavyweight title for the second time. That ties the UFC heavyweight title defense record (Brock Lesnar,...
Three “Huh?” Moments in MMA Last Week: May 15 Edition
The UFC could be featuring more weight classes sooner than we think, while USADA's policies in the promotion continue to be a mess, and fighters begin to flock to the yet-to-exist women's flyweight division. Huh? Finding the proper response to...
UFC 211: The Card We Needed Ahead of a Fight-Filled Summer
A poor refereeing decision, canceled bouts, and one-sided title fights couldn't stop UFC 211 from delivering a fun card in Dallas. Last weekend's card came at the perfect time, cleansing our palates before a fight-filled summer. While it faced some issues,...