UFC Fight Night 70 Main Event Features Evenly Matched Fighters in Story, Silva

Welterweights Erick Silva and Rick Story are set to headline UFC Fight Night 70—also known as the finale of the fourth season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil—in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 27. Brazilian combat sports website Combate was the first to break the news, with MMAJunkie.com subsequently translating the report. The fight pits two 30-year-old […]

Welterweights Erick Silva and Rick Story are set to headline UFC Fight Night 70—also known as the finale of the fourth season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil—in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 27. Brazilian combat sports website Combate was the first to break the news, with MMAJunkie.com subsequently translating the report. The fight pits two 30-year-old […]

Fabricio Werdum Reveals Himself as Hero of the Story, TKOs Mark Hunt at UFC 180

Much of the lead-up to UFC 180 focused on Mark Hunt’s chance to complete his Cinderella run to the interim heavyweight title. After Saturday night’s final plot twist, however, it turned out Fabricio Werdum was the hero of this story all along. Despite some dicey early moments, Werdum was always the more complete MMA fighter […]

Much of the lead-up to UFC 180 focused on Mark Hunt’s chance to complete his Cinderella run to the interim heavyweight title. After Saturday night’s final plot twist, however, it turned out Fabricio Werdum was the hero of this story all along. Despite some dicey early moments, Werdum was always the more complete MMA fighter […]

UFC 180 Preview: Is the Bottom About to Drop out of Mark Hunt’s Feel-Good Story?

Mark Hunt couldn’t wait to get out of there. That’s the impression you got on Wednesday if you sat through all of Hunt’s long, uncomfortable interview with MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani. Just a few days prior to taking on 4-1 favorite Fabricio Werdum for the interim heavyweight championship at UFC 180, Hunt appeared distracted, displeased with […]

Mark Hunt couldn’t wait to get out of there. That’s the impression you got on Wednesday if you sat through all of Hunt’s long, uncomfortable interview with MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani. Just a few days prior to taking on 4-1 favorite Fabricio Werdum for the interim heavyweight championship at UFC 180, Hunt appeared distracted, displeased with […]

GSP’s ‘UFO Story’ Corroborated by WSOF Matchmaker Ali Abdelaziz

Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has an uncanny connection with the unknown. …Or so he says.  GSP recently appeared on an episode of fellow former UFC superstar Chael Sonnen’s podcast, You’re Welcome, and the subject turned to aliens and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).  This is, of course, not the first time GSP has talked about […]

Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has an uncanny connection with the unknown. …Or so he says.  GSP recently appeared on an episode of fellow former UFC superstar Chael Sonnen’s podcast, You’re Welcome, and the subject turned to aliens and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).  This is, of course, not the first time GSP has talked about […]

Triumphant Return of Dominick Cruz Is MMA’s Best Story of 2014

He was on the sidelines so long that we nearly forgot about him entirely. Nearly three years passed between Dominick Cruz‘s last two fights. He beat Demetrious Johnson back in 2011 for the second defense of his UFC bantamweight championship, and then he started getting injured. And injured. And injured again. And before we knew […]

He was on the sidelines so long that we nearly forgot about him entirely. Nearly three years passed between Dominick Cruz‘s last two fights. He beat Demetrious Johnson back in 2011 for the second defense of his UFC bantamweight championship, and then he started getting injured. And injured. And injured again. And before we knew […]

Gunnar Nelson vs. Rick Story: What We Learned from Welterweight Tilt

The UFC’s live broadcast from Sweden Saturday afternoon was shown on its always reliable Fight Pass. Headlining the card was a welterweight scrap between Rick Story and Gunnar Nelson, which was intended to be a showcase for the Icelandic native.  Instead, in turned into a spoiler for Story. He won a split decision, which should […]

The UFC’s live broadcast from Sweden Saturday afternoon was shown on its always reliable Fight Pass. Headlining the card was a welterweight scrap between Rick Story and Gunnar Nelson, which was intended to be a showcase for the Icelandic native.  Instead, in turned into a spoiler for Story. He won a split decision, which should […]