Author: By E. Spencer Kyte

Answering questions just a few days before his featherweight debut, Anthony Pettis’ tone isn’t what you might expect.Moving down in weight in the midst of a three-fight losing streak, it wouldn’t be surprising if “Showtime” was all business – serious answers and the traditional sports clichés about still being the same fighter that once held the lightweight title and looked destined to be a cornerstone for the UFC. But that isn’t the case.“I’m nervous and it feels good to be nervous again,” he admits, fresh into Vancouver for h … Read the Full Article Here

For the second time this year, the UFC Octagon heads north of the border, landing in the stunning city of Vancouver for the fourth time with the first UFC on FOX event to be held on Canadian soil.Headlined by a welterweight clash between Demian Maia and Carlos Condit and featuring anticipated bouts featuring former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis, Dancing with the Stars runner-up Paige VanZant and Jim Miller and Joe Lauzon running back their 2012 classic, this is an event laced with familiar names and fights that reach out and grab your attention.But earlier on the card and flying below … Read the Full Article Here

Before Nate Diaz, Conor McGregor and the rest of the athletes taking part in UFC 202 hit the scales on Friday, two longstanding rivals that will meet for a second time took the stage to discuss their pending altercation.Middleweight champ Michael Bisping will defend his title for the first time at home in Manchester, England on Saturday, October 8 when he takes on MMA icon Dan Henderson in the main event of UFC 204.After getting under each other’s skin while coaching opposing sides on the ninth season of The Ultimate Fighter, the two met at UFC 100, where Henderson ended the contest … Read the Full Article Here

While the very small number of fighters above him in the welterweight rankings are carefully planning their next step and trying to set themselves up for the biggest pay day possible, Neil Magny just wants to fight.The most active fighter in the UFC over the last three years, the 29-year-old Colorado resident, who sits at No. 7 in the rankings, has only fought once in 2016, collecting a third-round stoppage win over Hector Lombard in one of the most chaotic clashes this year. After surviving a dire first-round onslaught from the former Cuban Olympian, Magny turned the tables on Lombard and w … Read the Full Article Here

Lorenz Larkin’s trip from California to Las Vegas for UFC 202 turned into a fitting corollary for how the fighter was feeling before getting the call to step in for Dong Hyun Kim against Neil Magny this weekend in the UFC FIGHT PASS featured bout.
The 29-year-old welterweight was one of the myriad drivers delayed as the Blue Cut fire grew to set over 15,000 acres ablaze in Cajon Pass. What is normally an easy two-and-a-half, maybe three-hour drive had more than doubled, leaving the Riverside, California native champing at the bit to hit some open road and make his way towards the flashi … Read the Full Article Here

This will come as a surprise to no one, but Donald Cerrone doesn’t exactly have a plan for where his career is headed and what comes next.Whether it’s figuring out which division to compete in or who’s next on his hit list, the perennial lightweight contender who has looked outstanding while freelancing at welterweight is pretty much winging it and doesn’t have any intention of changing that any time soon.“I have no idea; no clue,” Cerrone says, his voice crackling on the other end of the phone as he hauls a flatbed full of grown-up toys down the black top … Read the Full Article Here