Category: Sport

Calf kicks are more prevalent than ever in MMA, and if you need proof, look no further than Randall “The Limb Reaper” Rayment’s fight-finisher from this past Saturday. In Saturday’s main event at Urban Fight Night 24 in Sydney, Rayment (10-3) landed one of the most damaging calf kicks in recent memory, clipping opponent Dean […]

Rory MacDonald finally has his PFL debut booked. The former Bellator champion and one-time UFC title challenger will face off with David Michaud in the main event of the upcoming PFL card slated for April 29. MacDonald signed with the PFL as a free agent following the end of his Bellator contract in 2019. He […]

For a few tense seconds, Dustin Poirier had the undisputed UFC lightweight title in his sights. Poirier’s guillotine choke had champ Khabib Nurmagomedov in trouble in the second round of their UFC 242 title unifier in September 2019. What happened in the middle of that sequence perhaps left the former interim champ with a lifetime […]

Dan Hardy may have lost out an ideal matchup for his return, but he has quickly moved on to somebody else that’s potentially planning a comeback. This past month, Hardy and Matt Brown had been going back and forth on social media in hopes of setting up a fight. On Monday, MMA Fighting was first […]

Gabriel Benitez and Jonathan Pearce look to get win streaks going when they meet in May. MMA Fighting confirmed with sources with knowledge of the matchup that Benitez (22-8) and Pearce (10-4) will meet in a lightweight matchup at a May 1 UFC event with a location still to be announced. Benitez returned to the […]

On the heels of a new UFC contract, standout Edson Barboza has booked his next fight, facing off with Shane Burgos at UFC 262. Multiple people with knowledge of the booking confirmed it to MMA Fighting after an initial report from Combate. UFC 262 takes place May 15 at a location and venue to be […]

The saga of Khamzat Chimaev’s future has now taken a political turn, with Chechnyan head of state Ramzan Kadyrov assuring his followers the UFC welterweight star is not retiring and will fight on after appearing to announce his retirement on Monday. In a post on the Chechnyan tourism department’s Instagram account, Kadyrov wrote that after […]