The light heavyweight title fight between long-reigning champion Jon Jones and surging contender Anthony “Rumble” Johnson might just have a landing spot. According to UFC President Dana White on The Jim Rome Show (via Fox Sports), the promotion is eyeing May. UFC 187 is the lone pay-per-view planned for May (according to the completely subject-to-change schedule released in […]
The light heavyweight title fight between long-reigning champion Jon Jones and surging contender Anthony “Rumble” Johnson might just have a landing spot. According to UFC President Dana White on The Jim Rome Show (via Fox Sports), the promotion is eyeing May. UFC 187 is the lone pay-per-view planned for May (according to the completely subject-to-change schedule released in […]
Demetrious Johnson is widely considered one of the best pound-for-pound fighters competing in MMA today. Yet, despite his success inside the Octagon, UFC flyweight contender John Dodson believes Mighty Mouse is having a negative impact on the division. Speaking with Shaun Al-Shatti of MMAFighting.com, Dodson praised the champion’s abilities inside the cage but pointed to […]
Demetrious Johnson is widely considered one of the best pound-for-pound fighters competing in MMA today. Yet, despite his success inside the Octagon, UFC flyweight contender John Dodson believes Mighty Mouse is having a negative impact on the division. Speaking with Shaun Al-Shatti of MMAFighting.com, Dodson praised the champion’s abilities inside the cage but pointed to […]
Three-and-a-half years ago, in the early fall of 2011, the present-day reality of the UFC’s light heavyweight title picture would have seemed outlandish, ridiculous and utterly impossible. “Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson will never fight Jon ‘Bones’ Jones,” you would have said. Bones was coming off a fourth-round destruction of Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in his first title defense; […]
Three-and-a-half years ago, in the early fall of 2011, the present-day reality of the UFC’s light heavyweight title picture would have seemed outlandish, ridiculous and utterly impossible. “Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson will never fight Jon ‘Bones’ Jones,” you would have said. Bones was coming off a fourth-round destruction of Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in his first title defense; […]
Anthony “Rumble” Johnson shocked the world…well at least all of Sweden. Early Sunday morning in Stockholm, Johnson stopped hometown favorite and the No. 1 contender in the light heavyweight division, Alexander Gustafsson, in the very first round. Per Odds Shark, Gustafsson was a minus-242 favorite to win, but Rumble doesn’t care much about odds. He […]
Anthony “Rumble” Johnson shocked the world…well at least all of Sweden. Early Sunday morning in Stockholm, Johnson stopped hometown favorite and the No. 1 contender in the light heavyweight division, Alexander Gustafsson, in the very first round. Per Odds Shark, Gustafsson was a minus-242 favorite to win, but Rumble doesn’t care much about odds. He […]
Could Alexander Gustafsson secure the rematch? Even when Jon Jones isn’t directly involved, he looms like Bald Mountain over just about everything that happens in the UFC these days, especially in the light heavyweight division. So when Gustafsson laments answering the same questions about Jones over and over again, you nod your head in sympathy, if not complete […]
Could Alexander Gustafsson secure the rematch? Even when Jon Jones isn’t directly involved, he looms like Bald Mountain over just about everything that happens in the UFC these days, especially in the light heavyweight division. So when Gustafsson laments answering the same questions about Jones over and over again, you nod your head in sympathy, if not complete […]
Twenty-four hours ago, my colleague Jonathan Snowden and I put together the latest edition of our new series, The Question. In it, we tried to answer two questions: 1: Did the UFC miss the boat by not forcing an immediate rematch between Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson after their classic bout in September 2013? 2: […]
Twenty-four hours ago, my colleague Jonathan Snowden and I put together the latest edition of our new series, The Question. In it, we tried to answer two questions: 1: Did the UFC miss the boat by not forcing an immediate rematch between Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson after their classic bout in September 2013? 2: […]