Boxing and MMA’s Most Influential: 2024 Power Rankings Unveiled Here’s a summary of the rankings of the 50 most influential figures in combat sports according to The Independent: Gordon Ryan – Renowned jiu-jitsu competitor known for advocating performance-enhancing drugs. Jon Anik – Emerging as the leading voice of the UFC broadcasts. Bruce Buffer – Renowned […]
Johny Hendricks was truly a welterweight champion in the world of MMA. Hendricks was a UFC Champion and was in his prime from 2009 up until his early retirement earlier this year. His last fight was at UFC 217 in November with a loss to middleweight Paulo Costa. On The MMA Hour earlier this week, […]
Nick Diaz has been cleared of domestic violence charges as of Thursday. Nevada’s Clark County District Attorney’s Office dropped the charges made against Diaz, which included one misdemeanor and three felony charges. Diaz (26-9 MMA, 7-6 UFC) allegedly strangled a woman and slammed her to the ground. The woman’s hip was severely injured as a […]
“The Notorious” Connor McGregor is reportedly in negotiations for a return to UFC. The lightweight champion has not been in professional UFC competition since November 2016, when he became a two-weight champion. His longtime trainer, John Kavanagh, revealed to ESPN that the lightweight champion has once again found his competitive spark. “I do see [McGregor] very hungry, coming down to regular […]
The main event for this past Saturday’s UFC 214 featured two of the best mixed martial artists of all-time. Then-light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier squared off against his biggest rival Jon Jones in one of the biggest rematches in UFC history. The build up to the fight was entertaining, emotional, dramatic, and, most importantly, personal. […]
The matchup that once seemed foolish is now mere days away as on August 26th Conor McGregor will make his professional boxing debut against arguably the greatest boxer of all time in Floyd Mayweather. The fight has been analyzed and dissected in every which way since it was made official earlier this year, so I […]
Two weeks after his KO loss to rival Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier made his first public appearance in an interview with MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour” to discuss how he has been handling defeat and where he sees himself next. Cormier revealed during the interview that after his loss to Jones, former NBA […]
The showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is just days away. The fight that many (though not all) fans wanted to see will finally take place later this month in the fight capital of the world, Las Vegas. In preparation for his upcoming fight, Floyd Mayweather held an open workout at his gym in […]
It may seem a bit odd when a person who is in the middle of roasting another person, suddenly stops to offer a public apology to a third person. Well, that happened during the Mayweather-McGregor World Tour. During their second press conference in Toronto, Floyd Mayweather was in the middle of roasting Conor McGregor, calling […]
When the Floyd Mayweather – Conor McGregor super fight was announced a few weeks ago, a lot of fans were more hyped about the build up to the fight rather than the fight itself. Many believe that Mayweather will run circles around McGregor in a boxing ring for obvious reasons, however, that has not slowed […]
Just hours before the start of UFC 213 devastating news broke revealing that women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes was in the hospital and had to pull out of her fight against Valentina Shevchenko. The two were set to square off in the main event, however, those plans were quickly derailed once the news broke that the […]
Last year there were a lot of choices for the 2016 UFC fighter of the year. Heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, two-division champ Conor McGregor, women’s bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes. There were some good names that all were deserving of the honor. So far in 2017, there seems to be one clear favorite, new interim middleweight […]
