source | MMAFighting.com Chan Sung Jung, the UFC featherweight fan-favorite affectionately nicknamed “The Korean Zombie,” is expected to be sidelined from mixed martial arts for the next two years to fulfill his mandatory military service required of South Korean male citizens, Jung’s manager Brian Rhee revealed to MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani. …
source | MMAJunkie.com Former world boxing champion Holly Holm (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) makes her UFC debut at UFC 181, where she’ll meet former “The Ultimate Fighter 18″ cast member Raquel Pennington (4-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) in a women’s bantamweight contest. “When I first started doing MMA, people asked me …
source | MMAJunkie.com The UFC Hall of Fame is having an increasingly bigger presence with rival Bellator MMA. Officials today announced that UFC 1 tournament winner and 2003 UFC Hall of Fame inductee Royce Gracie has joined Bellator as a nation brand ambassador. His new role comes after the organization’s …
source | UFC®.com Holly Holm, the former world boxing champion who stood atop the pound-for-pound rankings for much of her career in the ring, will make her long-awaited Octagon debut at UFC 181 on Dec. 6 when she faces The Ultimate Fighter 18 alum Raquel Pennington. Albuquerque’s Holm held a …
source | MMAFighting.com “At the end of the day, it’s a business,” said Fertitta. “[The] guy can literally drive numbers from an entire country. When Conor fights the entire country of Ireland shuts down. We get like a 60 share of the TV market there. Over 11 percent of the …
BattleGrounds MMA: O.N.E. Date: October 3, 2014 Venue: BOK Center(Tulsa, Oklahoma) Tournament Roan Carneiro vs. opponent TBA Luigi Fioravanti vs. opponent TBA Trey Houston vs. opponent TBA Brock Larson vs. opponent TBA Cody McKenzie vs. opponent TBA David Mitchell vs. opponent TBA Joe Ray vs. opponent TBA Jesse Taylor vs. …
Here is Wanderlei Silvas recent retirement video. source | MMAFighting.com Silva retired from the sport on Sept. 19, and vowed to start “a war” against promoters, claiming they underpay the fighters, and attacking the athletic commission. Banned for life and fined $70,000 by the Nevada Athletic Commission, Silva got a …
Here is the card so far. UFC®181: Hendricks vs Lawler II Date: September 26, 2014 Venue: MGM Grand Hotel(Las Vegas, NV) Main Card Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler Anthony Pettis vs. Gilbert Melendez Travis Browne vs. Brendan Schaub UnderCard Corey Anderson vs. Gian Villante Todd Duffee vs. Anthony Hamilton …
source | MMAFighting.com “This is a proud day for the sport of mixed martial arts and our organization and one that we hope will create a better opportunity for the fighters who put everything on the line every time they step inside the cage,” WSOF president Ray Sefo stated in …
Wanderlei: “With a heavy heart I come here today to declare: I am stepping down from the ring,” he said via video. “After today,Wanderlei Silva will not fight again. My career is over. Because I don’t have the stage to perform where the athletes get the proper respect. For these …
source | FaceBook® Francis Carmont(Yesterday at 7:32am) Original Je vous annonce qu’après 6 victoires et 3 défaites, je ne suis plus combattant pour la UFC . Néanmoins, c’est avec détermination que je continue les sports de combat. Un ami m’a dit, suite à mon combat contre Thales, “tu comprendra mais …
source | MMAFighting.com “I feel no pain at all,” Silva said in an interview to Fantastico. “My strength is back because I’m back to training. The hardest part is self-confidence, to kick again as I used to.” “I’ve worked with a psychologist so I can get rid of the ghosts …
VIEW WEIGH-INS HERE<— UFC Fight Night 51: Bigfoot vs. Arlovski 2 Date: September 13, 2014 Venue: Nilson Nelson Gymnasium(Brasilia, Brazil) Main Card (UFC® Fight Pass, 8pm et) Andrei Arlovski vs. Antonio Silva Piotr Hallmann vs. Gleison Tibau Efrain Escudero vs. Leonardo Santos Wendell Oliveira vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio Iuri Alcantara vs. …
RFA 18: Manzanares vs. Pantoja Date: September 12, 2014 Venue: Albuquerque Convention Center(Albuquerque, New Mexico) Main Card (AXS TV, 10pm et) Matt Manzanares vs. Alexandre Pantoja Abel Cullum vs. Ulysses Gomez Steve Hanna vs. Chidi Njokuani Mehdi Baghdad vs. Evan DeLong Heather Bassett vs. Brenda Gonzales Adrian Cruz vs. Joey …
source | MMAFighting.com Asked about the creation of his heel persona, Sonnen explained how he learned to embrace the role in 2011 when he plead guilty to federal money laundering charges while also testing positive for elevated testosterone levels following his UFC 117 loss to Anderson Silva. “I got hit …
source | NJ.com The cast of season 19 of “Dancing with the Stars” was revealed this morning on “Good Morning America” and it includes an Olympian, a YouTube sensation, a fashion designer and a former Calvin Klein model. Co-hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews, (who last year replaced the fired …