Cageside Press

Returning to the octagon for the first time in over a year at UFC Vegas 13 this weekend is bantamweight Khalid Taha. And he's glad the wait is over. "It was a tough year. I think it was a...

With a lot of eyes on him Thursday night at Bellator 251, Corey Anderson did exactly what he needed to do in his promotional debut. Lined up against an aging Melvin Manhoef, Anderson relied on his wrestling, primarily his...

Accepting that the UFC's matchmaking is out of his control, Glover Teixeira says he'll watch the proposed Israel Adesanya vs. Jan Blachowicz title fight. Glover Teixeira is, not surprisingly, very happy to finally be at Fight Week for his bout...

Justin Osborn thought his career might be on hold when the COVID-19 pandemic hit earlier this year. But luckily, the 27-year-old will be returning to action this Saturday at Atlas Fights. "I was scared to death, to be honest," Osborn...

Like many Canadian prospects, Tyler Wilson will be heading down to the United States for his next fight as he battles DWCS veteran Jose Johnson at Strikehard Promotions 57. The Tristar MMA product credits Jeremy Rubin, a manager within the...

At long last, the light heavyweight bout between Thiago Santos and Glover Teixeira is set to go down. Fingers, quite frankly, crossed. The pair of top 205lb'ers have been circling each other for months. Santos was last seen pushing Jon...

ONE Championship returned to action on Friday, in a sense, with Inside the Matrix II. While the event aired on Friday, it was a pre-taped card building off of the original Inside the Matrix in Kallang, Singapore. The crown jewel...

It’s such a common cliché across the MMA-sphere now to say that Fighter A had a long road to the octagon. Nearly every fighter’s walk to the cage takes years that we don’t see, hurdles that they wouldn’t expect,...

A pair of light heavyweight contenders in Thiago Santos and Glover Teixeira will headline the UFC Vegas 13 card this Saturday. Also featured at the event are Andrei Arlovski, Cláudia Gadelha, Darren Elkins, and many young up-and-comers. Giga Chikadze (11-2 MMA, 4-0...

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....