Fun fights are going down this summer. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is returning to “Music City” in two months on Sat., July 12, 2025, for UFC Nashville and it’s bringing along a pretty fun fight card. The main event for the card has already been announced as former two-time UFC Heavyweight title challenger, Derrick Lewis, … Read more
Chael Sonnen and Daniel Cormier won’t be fighting at the conclusion of The Ultimate Fighter 33, but you can bet they badly want bragging rights in their coaching matchup. The season premiere of TUF 33 aired Tuesday and featured the familiar formula of two established stars—UFC Hall of Famers Cormier and Sonnen this time around—leading … Read more
Trash talk on a Tuesday. Top Flyweight contender Maycee Barber makes her return after a year-long hiatus to face Erin Blanchfield in the main event of UFC Vegas 107 this weekend (Sat., May 31, 2025) inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Barber’s fights are often accompanied by fiery trash talk, but she was … Read more
B.J. Penn’s mother Lorraine Shin has filed for a restraining order against her son after the UFC legend was arrested twice in the past two days for abuse of a family or household member. On Tuesday, MMA Fighting received a copy of the request for a restraining order that Shin filed with the courts along … Read more
Belal Muhammad didn’t stick to the game plan. Earlier this month, Muhammad lost the UFC welterweight title, dropping a unanimous decision to Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 315. Heading into the fight, Muhammad—known for his grappling and pressure—assured fans he was bringing “Canelo hands” to the table against Della Maddalena. Most fans assumed this was … Read more
Jon Jones hasn’t signed on to fight Tom Aspinall, but that hasn’t stopped him from frequently jabbing Aspinall over social media. Despite insisting he has no interest in unifying their titles—Jones currently holds undisputed UFC heavyweight champion status, while Aspinall holds an interim title and the No. 1 spot in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings—“Bones” … Read more
Messing around with Nate Diaz isn’t the best idea, so says Jon Jones. On Wednesday, news broke that Nate Diaz was already out of the reality show he was filming alongside Jones in Russia, with video surfacing of an insane brawl between some of the competitors on the show and Diaz and his team. Jake … Read more
Jon Jones isn’t exactly rushing back to the cage. The reigning UFC heavyweight champion, who has recently been filming a reality show in Thailand, has been keeping himself busy outside the sport while just about everybody else is curious about when he might fight Tom Aspinall. Jones previously said in a cryptic statement that the … Read more
Nate Diaz has already exited a Russian reality show he was filming alongside Jon Jones in Thailand. The UFC veteran traveled there to film an Ultimate Fighter type series where he was coaching alongside Jones but it didn’t take long for mayhem to erupt, which resulted in Diaz leaving the show and flying back home … Read more
Ilia Topuria and Jean Silva may no longer be in the same weight class (here’s why), but that isn’t stopping them from going back-and-forth through the media. Silva kicked things off by laying out a laundry list of alleged holes in Topuria’s game before offering to help Charles Oliveira prepare for his career-defining fight against … Read more