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NEW YORK CITY — Watch the first faceoff between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia from Tuesday’s press conference at the Palladium in Times Squre. Haney (31-0) is the current WBC super lightweight and the No. 7 pound-for-pound boxer in the world according to Ring Magazine. He will defend his title against Garcia (24-1) on April 20 at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. After a fairly standard press conference from the two fighters that saw them jaw back and for with one another to build the fight, things got really heated when it came time for the first faceoff, with…
The upcoming UFC Vegas 87 card on Saturday has undergone several changes just days ahead of the event. UFC officials announced the moves on Tuesday with two fights cancelled and two more fights saved with last minute replacement opponents. In the featherweight division, Brendon Marotte has been forced out of his fight with Mohammad Yahya and as a result the bout has been pulled from the card. Meanwhile, Josefine Knutsson has also been removed from her scheduled fight against Julia Polastri and that matchup has been pulled from the card. Polastri will now replace an injured Shauna Bannon and face…
The full card supporting Amanda Serrano and Jake Paul on Saturday in Puerto Rico has now been revealed. The event headlined by Serrano will give the multi-time women’s champion a chance to compete at home for the first time in nearly three years. Paul, who serves as Serrano’s promoter under his Most Valuable Promotions banner, will step into the co-main event slot for his 10th professional fight as he takes on another experienced boxer in his latest endeavor. Serrano will clash with Nina Meinke in the main event with the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO and Ring featherweight world titles going…
If Ryan Garcia is actually serious about challenging Sean O’Malley to an MMA fight, Golden Boy Promotions founder Oscar De La Hoya wouldn’t mind a piece of the action as well. “I like [O’Malley]. He’s a good striker,” De La Hoya said Monday on The MMA Hour. “It’ll be a hell of a promotion, right? … I would actually entertain that, because Ryan can fight the main event with this kid, and maybe I can do Dana [White] on the co-main.” For De La Hoya, 51, and White, 54, this is not the first time. Far from it. The two…
Raul Rosas Jr. and Ricky Turcios won’t fight at UFC Vegas 87 after all. The bantamweight matchup originally scheduled for UFC Mexico City was scrapped at the last minute after Rosas fell ill and his team decided to pull him from the fight. Not long after the fight was cancelled, UFC officials announced plans to rebook the fight one week later at UFC Vegas 87 with UFC CEO Dana White saying the matchup would take place at a catchweight so Rosas and Turcios wouldn’t have to endure another severe weight cut. Unfortunately, those plans have now been scrapped. Rosas and…
The UFC produced record revenues in 2023 as the full-year financial report from the company showed huge growth in live events and sponsorship for the year. As part of a year-end financial disclosure along with results from the fourth quarter of 2023, TKO Group Holdings — the parent company to UFC and WWE — reported huge gains for the MMA promotion for the entire year. Overall, the UFC produced $1.3 billion revenue — a 13-percent increase from 2022. The UFC earned $282.8 million in revenue for the fourth quarter, which is up from $271.7 million during the same time in…
Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones are never going to be cool with each other. One of the defining rivalries of modern MMA is the heated one between Jones and Cormier as the two men competed for the UFC light heavyweight title. Though Jones won both fights (the second was overturned to a No-Contest due to a failed drug test) the animosity between the two was among the most fervent in MMA history. Even in recent years as the rivalry cooled down, the two former UFC light heavyweight champions cannot resist taking shots at each other. Recently, Jones coached a seminar…
The fight night weights for UFC 298 have been revealed by the California State Athletic Commission with welterweight competitor Geoff Neal making the biggest jump between stepping on the scale on Friday and then facing Ian Machado Garry on Saturday. The report provided by the commission to MMA Fighting shows the percentage of weight gained by every fighter on the card. Over the past few years, the California commission has attempted to curb extreme weight cutting using tools like this and making suggestions to some athletes that a change in weight class could be necessary in the future. The biggest…
UFC 300 almost had a much different main event. Ahead of the historic card on April 13, UFC officials were scrambling to find the biggest possible fight to headline the card and Israel Adesanya says he got the call for a showdown against reigning middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis. The long rumored fight was plotted as the main event for UFC 300 but Adesanya claims that du Plessis and his team ultimately declined. “There’s some things that were meant to happen,” Adesanya said on Theo Von’s podcast. “They summoned me, I’m sure this is out there now … but they…
The PFL vs. Bellator event and UFC Mexico City fight card both took place on Saturday outside the U.S., and both delivered some exciting action — both in and out of the cage. But which card won the weekend overall, and what will be talked about more throughout the year? On an all-new edition of Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck gives his reaction to both cards, the pros and cons from the PFL’s return to pay-per-view, how Francis Ngannou fits into things and if he’ll actually compete in an MMA bout against main event winner Renan Ferreira,…