UFC Fight Island 3: Pannie Kianzad Feels She’s Had a Harder Road to the...
It took a minute, but it feels like Pannie Kianzad has finally arrived in the UFC. The bantamweight, who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 28 (at featherweight), wasn't gifted a contract at the end of the season. Few fighters were....
UFC Fight Island 3: “Reserved” Tom Aspinall Not About to Replicate Teammate Darren Till’s...
MMA is a sport full of colorful personalities. But not everyone can be a Chael Sonnen, Rampage Jackson, or Conor McGregor. For every Darren Till, quite frankly, there's a Tom Aspinall. And that's fine. Let's be honest, one Darren...
Bellator 242: Mark Lemminger Dug Bellator Debut, Open to More
"To be honest, it did not play out the way I thought it was going to play out," Mark Lemminger said following his Bellator 242 fight with Jake Smith. The welterweight pair threw down on the preliminary card of Bellator's...
Bellator 242: Raufeon Stots Feels Difficulty Finding Opponents Means He’s Finally Getting Noticed
Raufeon Stots earned his second straight win inside the Bellator cage on Friday. Submitting the previously undefeated Cass Bell by rear-naked choke in the third round at Bellator 242, the bantamweight continued his steady progress up the 135lb ladder. That...
Jason Jackson Credits Gilbert Burns, Vicente Luque following Bellator 242 Victory
"Have fun, smile, and don't have bad energy." That, at least in part, was what welterweight Jason Jackson saw as keys to his performance at Bellator 242. Whether the positive approach helped or not, the result was the right one....
Bellator 242: Ras Hylton Knows He’s Not Ready for “Bad Ass” Darth Bader —...
To start last week, Ras Hylton had no fight planned. Then came Tuesday morning. Eventual Bellator 242 opponent Rudy Schaffroth had been expected to face Hard Knocks 365 heavyweight Steve Mowry. But Mowry was forced out of the event due...
UFC Fight Island 3’s Nathaniel Wood Always Ready for Opponent Changes
Nathanial Wood got back in the win column Saturday at UFC Fight Island 3. Not that he'd been gone for long. Wood (17-4) had suffered the first loss of his UFC tenure earlier this year. Yet it had come in...
Bellator 242: Jay Jay Wilson Apologizes for Missing Weight, but Staying Put at 145lbs
Wilson wins split decision in Bellator's return on Friday night. Undefeated featherweght prospect Jay Jay Wilson took home a split decision victory over dominant wrestler Tywan Claxton at Bellator 242. However, the bout came at a catchweight — Wilson had...
UFC Fight Island 3: After Fighting Out Contract, Fabricio Werdum Not Sure What’s Next
While the retirement of Little Nog (Antonio Rogerio Nogueira) perhaps overshadowed it, it shouldn't be forgotten that Saturday night may have been the last time we see Fabricio Werdum in action. At the very least in the UFC. Leading up...
UFC Fight Island 3: Whittaker vs. Till Post-Fight Press Conference
The UFC's stint on Fight Island is over. For the month of July, the MMA powerhouse set up shop on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. Dubbing it "Fight Island," the promotion put on four shows — the UFC 251 PPV,...
