Cageside Press

Former champion Jan Blachowicz is looking to maximize his opportunity to leap back into a title fight as he takes on a surging contender nearly ten years his junior in Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 282. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1600127932512407552?s=20&t=xHRnapsx_MRUaXWYXF34xQ Saturday night was always going...

Former Bellator MMA women's flyweight champ Ilima-Lei Macfarlane and current title holder Liz Carmouche were once the type of training partners who refused to fight each other. But having gone their separate ways in terms of teams, it appears they...

Bellator 289 saw Raufeon Stots defend his interim bantamweight title, clinch a berth in the 135lb grand prix final, and get the nod over rival Danny Sabatello. It's that last point that may actually make Friday's victory over Sabatello the...

Following what many saw as a clear-cut win for Cris "Sunshine" Lencioni at Bellator 289, fans in attendance at the Mohegan Sun Arena voiced their displeasure with the outcome. Picking up a split decision win over Cody Law, Lencioni (10-3)...

Heated exchanges were constant in the run-up to the interim title fight and grand prix semifinal between interim champ Raufeon Stots and top contender Danny Sabatello at Bellator 289. These two men simply do not like each other and have...

Liz Carmouche and Juliana Velasquez ran it back in the co-main event of Bellator 289 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT on Friday night. Their first fight had ended in controversy, at least if you were Velasquez. The...

The Bellator MMA Bantamweight Grand Prix continued Friday night, with the first of two semifinals at Bellator 289 featuring Patchy Mix and Magomed Magomedov. Mix had earned himself a decision win over ex-Bellator and RIZIN FF 135lb champion Kyoji Horiguchi...

A bantamweight match-up between two promising 135lb prospects has been booked for UFC 285. Da'Mon Blackshear (12-4-1) is set to take on Farid Basharat (9-0) at the event on March 4, 2023, with both men in search of their first...

Legacy Fighting Alliance was back in action on Friday, December 9, 2022 with a wetlerweight title fight topping LFA 148 in Commerce, California. In the main event, Alfonso Leyva, a rising Mexican prospect with an unblemished record, looked to claim...

A tale of two fight cards scheduled for this weekend went something like this: in one corner, you had UFC 282, decimated by injuries and lacking 205lb champ Jiri Prochazka, forced to vacate his title after wrecking his shoulder...