Tag: Kamaru Usman

BREAKING: UFC 261 Will Host Usman vs. Masvidal 2 & Full Crowd

The UFC is all systems go for their return to a full capacity crowd for UFC 261 on April 24 with a card that will boast three world title fights. Dana White ambushed fans with some exciting news Monday when he revealed that Jacksonville, Florida will h…

The UFC is all systems go for their return to a full capacity crowd for UFC 261 on April 24 with a card that will boast three world title fights. Dana White ambushed fans with some exciting news Monday when he revealed that Jacksonville, Florida will host the first full-capacity crowd UFC event since March […]

BREAKING: Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal Added To UFC 261, Fans Are Back

Masvidal Kamaru UsmanUFC 261 is shaping up to be a monumental card. Two title fights including a women’s flyweight bout between Valentina Shevchenko and Jessica Andrade and a women’s strawweight encounter between Weili Zhang and Rose Namajunas were already confirmed for the event taking place April 24. Now the rematch between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal is […]

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UFC 261 is shaping up to be a monumental card.

Two title fights including a women’s flyweight bout between Valentina Shevchenko and Jessica Andrade and a women’s strawweight encounter between Weili Zhang and Rose Namajunas were already confirmed for the event taking place April 24.

Now the rematch between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal is also official with the welterweight title fight headlining the event. Their first fight, of course, was a short-notice bout that headlined the UFC 251 pay-per-view event in July last year. Usman won a drab unanimous decision on that occasion.

Somehow overshadowing that fight announcement, however, was the news that fans would be back in full capacity with the event taking place at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida.

The news was announced in a video Monday night by a jubilant UFC president Dana White.

It will be the first UFC event with a full audience since UFC 248 took place in March last year. White has since claimed the UFC would be the first sports organization to get the fans back in full capacity and it looks like he has stuck to his word.

What do you make of this news? And what are your predictions?

Matchmaking The Top Of UFC’s Welterweight Division After UFC Vegas 21

In the main event of UFC Vegas 21, Leon Edwards was making his return against Belal Muhammad. The hope was the fight would add some clarity to the top of the crowded welterweight division, but that is far from the case. Early on in the fight, Edwards w…

In the main event of UFC Vegas 21, Leon Edwards was making his return against Belal Muhammad. The hope was the fight would add some clarity to the top of the crowded welterweight division, but that is far from the case. Early on in the fight, Edwards was having a ton of success and landed […]

Covington Gives Uncensored, NSFW Details On Recent Fight Negotiations

Colby Covington is not known to have a filter when placed in front of a camera, and he certainly continued to live up to that reputation and then some when discussing some details behind his recent fight negotiations. Last Saturday at UFC Vegas 21, Leo…

Colby Covington is not known to have a filter when placed in front of a camera, and he certainly continued to live up to that reputation and then some when discussing some details behind his recent fight negotiations. Last Saturday at UFC Vegas 21, Leon Edwards took on Belal Muhammad in the night’s main event. […]

Kamaru Usman, Gilbert Burns Cross Paths At Sanford MMA

Kamaru UsmanUFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and his former teammate and last opponent Gilbert Burns, have recently crossed paths at Sanford MMA. The two were teammates for years at the South Florida gym but Usman left to start training at Team Elevation under Trevor Wittman in Colorado. Soon after the fight between Usman and Burns was […]

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UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and his former teammate and last opponent Gilbert Burns, have recently crossed paths at Sanford MMA.

The two were teammates for years at the South Florida gym but Usman left to start training at Team Elevation under Trevor Wittman in Colorado. Soon after the fight between Usman and Burns was booked for the welterweight belt.

They finally met in February at UFC 258. Burns came out surging and dropped Usman early in the first round. Usman would go on to recover and ended up winning via third-round TKO to retain his title.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and Usman makes his return to the gym he use to call home to help a long-time training partner prepare for an upcoming fight. While there, he crossed paths with Burns.

The encounter can be seen below (via ESPN MMA)

After this interaction, Burns opened up about it in a video on social media. (H/T BJPenn.com)

“Last week, March 2, we got a special visit right here at Sanford MMA: The champion, Kamaru Usman, a former teammate and my last opponent,” Burns said. “He came here [because] a friend of ours is fighting in Abu Dhabi. He’s very close with Kamaru, so Kamaru’s going to be cornering him.”

Burns had nothing but good things to say about Usman in the aftermath of the their fight but added that he thinks they will meet again in the cage soon.

“He came to the gym, it was good,” Burns said. “The respect is still alive. We shook each other’s hands, we exchanged a couple words. We’re all good right now, but I still believe we’re going to see each other again soon, in the Octagon.”

Do you think Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns will rematch in the near future?