Ryan Benoit Lets Slip About Secret Training Sessions Ahead of UFC Fight Island 1
With Frankie Edgar vs. Pedro Munhoz being pushed back to UFC 252 next month, Ryan Benoit got something of a gift ahead of his fight with Tim Elliott at UFC Fight Island 1 this Wednesday. The pair have been moved...
UFC Fight Island 1: Jimmie Rivera Reveals “Hard Lesson” Learned in Petr Yan Fight
Having overcome COVID-19, Jimmie Rivera gets back in the octagon this Wednesday at UFC Fight Island 1. There, he'll meet fellow bantamweight Cody Stamann in a featherweight bout. That's a side effect of the short-notice nature of the fight. Still,...
UFC Fight Island 1’s Calvin Kattar: “There’s an awful lot of talking going on,...
Calvin Kattar enters his UFC Fight Island 1 main event with Dan Ige on the first fight of a new deal. Something he calls a "six-fight opportunity" — one that could likely land him in the title picture with...
Kenneth Bergh Out of UFC Fight Island 1
The UFC on ESPN 13 fight card — commonly known as UFC Fight Island 1, the first Abu Dhabi event following UFC 251 this past weekend — is down a fight. That's due to light heavyweight Kenneth Bergh pulling...
Welcome to the UFC: Jorge Gonzalez and Kenneth Bergh
Four days after a prestigious UFC 251 card the UFC is back to Fight Island, this time on a Wednesday. The UFC on ESPN 13 (UFC Fight Island 1) card is headlined between a featherweight bout in Dan Ige...
UFC on ESPN 13: Kattar vs. Ige Weigh-In Results
Just four days out from UFC 251, the UFC will be back in action on Fight Island. This time, it's UFC on ESPN 13, or UFC Fight Island 1, despite being the second event on what is actually Yas...
The Weight Cutting Chronicles: UFC Fight Island 1
Like it or not, weight-cutting is deeply rooted in mixed martial arts. MMA adopted its weight-cutting from the sport of wrestling, where it is presumed to be very advantageous to be the biggest and strongest in your weight class....
UFC Fight Island 1: Abdul Razak Alhassan Nearly Driven to Suicide During Sexual Assault...
There's no sugar-coating it: Abdul Razak Alhassan has not fought in the UFC since September of 2018 because he was on trial for sexual assault. The welterweight was 4-1 in the promotion, with three straight wins via stoppage, when his...
UFC Fight Island 1: Dan Ige Surprised, but Respects Calvin Kattar for Fighting Down...
Dan Ige was most certainly an interested party when it came to Max Holloway's fight with Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 251 over the weekend. Ige (14-2), who features in his first UFC main event this week at UFC Fight Island...
UFC 251: Makwan Amirkhani Opens Up on the Loneliness of Losing
Sometime after his UFC 244 fight with Shane Burgos, Makwan Amirkhani had what you might call an epiphany. "I'm not here anymore for the money. That was the old me," he told Cageside Press of the fighter whose goal was...

























