It’s MMA, so anything can happen, Ali Abdelaziz acknowledged. But absent some fluke, he says the next UFC light heavyweight title fight is all but locked up. It’s been the consensus, anyway, that 205-pound champ Alex Pereira (12-2 MMA, 9-1 UFC) will take on Abdelaziz client Magomed Ankalaev (19-1-1 MMA, 10-1-1 UFC) next, but Pereira
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Despite fighting some of the world’s best under the UFC banner for well over a decade, Jeremy Stephens feels he hasn’t exactly gotten the respect he deserves from the combat sports world. Stephens, a former UFC featherweight veteran, believes he has the perfect opportunity to change his legacy and fan perspective later this month, as
The good news is, ex-rivals Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold are on decent terms now. Maybe they aren’t sharing a table at Friendsgiving, but they’re probably not putting sugar in the other guy’s gas tank, either. So when they got together on fellow former UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s podcast recently, they did some playful
Matheus Camilo entered in adversity, but exited in a dream. As Camilo (9-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) boarded a plane back home to Las Vegas from South Korea, he did so with a new job title: UFC fighter. His performance on “Dana White: Lookin’ for a Fight” was enough to get a signature “Welcome to the
The upstart Global Fight League recently announced a slew of female signings. And just like the women, the men signed to the new promotion is a who’s-who of former standouts. The new GFL will hold its inaugural draft later this month, and hundreds of fighters will be on the list.The GFL will be a team-based
It’s been more than 30 years since Onyx dropped “Slam” into our earholes, and it remains a classic. And for all that time, we’ve gotten occasional slam finishes in MMA that are so brutal that they make you say “But, but, but wait, it gets worse!” The UFC has compiled all the slam knockouts in
Jeff Wagenheim Dec 23, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The year of the champion. That’s what 2024 has been in the UFC. How so?There were 16 title fights this year, and in 11 of those, the defending champion walked out of the cage still holding onto the belt. That might not seem so
Youssef Zalal has been spectacular in his second UFC stint, and now he’s looking to level things up further in the biggest fight of his career. After putting together a 2024 campaign that included three submission wins against Billy Quarantillo, Jarno Errens and Jack Shore, the surging Zalal now draws longtime contender Calvin Kattar at
Yazmin Jauregui has a date and opponent for her first fight of 2025. The strawweight has been paired against Dione Barbosa for UFC on ESPN 64, which is set to go down March 29 at Arena CDMX in Mexico City. The news was first reported by Ag.fight and later confirmed by both fighters on social
In a pause period over the holidays and into the New Year like many other combat sports promotions, BKFC is looking to kick off 2025 with a bang. Among its year-opening events is a BKFC on DAZN card scheduled for Feb. 1 at Mohegan Sun Arena. The card is the promotion’s second in New England
Eddie Alvarez is one of the few MMA legends still competing in combat sports, and being 40 and having more than 40 professional fights, it’s safe to assume the end of his career is near. But how close is retirement for “The Underground King”? It seems the combat sports won’t get a heads-up, as that’s
The MMA Junkie 2024 Awards season is in the books. Now, for the first time, you can see all of our staff members’ honors from the past year in one spot, from our top fighters of the year to the biggest stunners and more. We’ve compiled all our awards coverage and best-ofs into one spot.
There were several storylines that remained consistent throughout 2024 with one of the biggest being the debate of who is the No. 1 pound-for-pound best fighter in MMA today. The biggest instigator of that discussion was none other than UFC CEO Dana White, who insisted Jon Jones was the only choice for the debate and