SYDNEY – In some ways, this weekend’s UFC on FX 2 fight will be a walk in the park for British heavyweight and UFC newcomer Oli Thompson. After all, two years ago as a relative MMA novice, he fought three times in a single night. And he won only one of the them. Such is [...]
SYDNEY – Joseph Benavidez is finally where he belongs. And in many ways, it feels like he’s just now making his UFC debut. As one of four competitors in the UFC’s historic and inaugural flyweight tournament, Benavidez has essentially written off his first two UFC fights and considers Friday’s bout with Yasuhiro Urushitani his real [...]
After a nearly four-year absence from MMA, Nate Loughran is getting back on the horse. The UFC vet is dropping from middleweight to welterweight and is slated to meet Jaime Jara at “Cage Combat FC: The Return,” which takes place Saturday at Grace Pavilion in Santa Rosa, Calif. A student of onetime UFC middleweight challenger [...]
The European-based Cage Warriors promotion has signed seven fighters to exclusive long-term deals, officials today confirmed with MMAjunkie.com. The seven top prospects will compete in upcoming Cage Warriors shows, 17 of which MMAjunkie.com streams live this year. The list includes Mats Nilsson, Matteus Lahdesmaki, Diego Gonzalez, Brett Bassett, John Michael Sheil, Pavel Kusch and Vladimir [...]
MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the show “Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey” co-headliner K.J. Noons and Bellator 60 competitor Daniel Straus. Additionally, we meet “The Ultimate Fighter 15″ competitor Mike Rio, who tries to fight his way onto the reality show next week. MMAjunkie.com Radio airs from noon to 2 p.m. ET (9-11 a.m. PT) live [...]
SYDNEY – Andrew Craig’s career got off to a fairly quick and productive start. In his second fight, just four months after he turned pro, he made a big-show debut with Bellator Fighting Championships and earned a TKO victory over then-undefeated Rodrigo Pinheiro. However, he hopes his upcoming UFC debut results in a better fallout [...]
Back in September, regional powerhouse Titan Fighting Championships hosts its 20th event. One of the featured bouts from the card, which featured a Jamie Varner vs. Dakota Cochrane, included two of the Midwest’s top bantamweight prospects: Andrew Whitney and Laramie Shaffer. In this week’s installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, our fight-of-the-week feature, we take [...]
Halt any talk about Frankie Edgar moving down to the featherweight division. Fresh off his unanimous decision loss to Ben Henderson at UFC 144, the former lightweight champion says that he’s staying right where he is, and that he wants an immediate rematch. Known for his soft-spoken style outside of the cage, Edgar made probably [...]
There’s a good chance that Dakota Cochrane won’t amount to anything special. That’s no knock on him or his fighting skills. I’m just playing the odds, here. History tells us that in any field of Ultimate Fighter contestants, there’s rarely more than a handful that make it into the UFC and stay there for any [...]
It’s a funny thing, second chances. Some of us get them, some of us don’t. Ian McCall got do-overs in both his personal and professional lives. The second one wouldn’t have been possible without the first. For a while, all of his talent was in danger of going wasted, another kid who couldn’t resist the [...]