LAS VEGAS, N.V. — UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey knew she was going to be coaching on the next season of The Ultimate Fighter. She just didn’t know who would be joining her until undefeated Cat Zingano roared to a vicious third-round TKO victory over Miesha Tate at Saturday’s The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale. [...]
LAS VEGAS — UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey discusses the Tate vs. Zingano fight, coaching against Zingano on TUF, the Hall vs. Gastelum fight, and more after the TUF 17 Finale.
LAS VEGAS — Uriah Hall discusses how his TUF coach Chael Sonnen was a positive influence, his expectations, the pressure he’s facing, why he’s not training with Chris Weidman, his upcoming fight against Kevin Gastelum and why he’s looking to develop more but would accept a fight with a top 10-ranked opponent if offered at [...]
At the TUF 17 finale weigh-ins, all 24 fighters taking part in Saturday night’s TUF 17 finale fights will step on the scale Friday afternoon, and we’ll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com. In the main event, bantamweights Urijah Faber and Scott Jorgensen will have to make the weight limit of 135 pounds. The [...]
All 22 fighters who participated in The Ultimate Fighter season 16 Finale returned negative results from drug tests taken during the Dec. 15 event. The results were announced by Nevada state athletic commission executive director Keith Kizer, who distributed them to MMA Fighting and other media outlets via email. Fighters are tested for drugs of [...]
BURBANK, Calif. — Dana White knows the drill by now. He’s promised the greatest, most amazing season in the history of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) so often that such talk runs the risk of going in one ear and out the other. But the UFC president couldn’t resist making the pitch again Wednesday during a [...]
A trio of fighters initially booked for UFC on FOX 5 have received their next assignments. Heavyweight slugger Lavar Johnson (17-6) will meet TUF 10 alumnus Brendan Schaub (8-3) at UFC 157, while TUF 15 winner Michael Chiesa looks to avoid a sophomore slump against Finnish lightweight Anton Kuivanen (17-5) on the same card. Promotion [...]
December might be the busiest month in the calendar year for the UFC. That’s not solely because of the number and frequency of shows, although there’s that. It’s also because news regarding future UFC match-ups is breaking left and right. None are more important than UFC 158′s Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz bout. Frankly [...]
Running shows on successive nights ended up as a mixed bag when it came to the UFC’s weekend ratings. The Friday night show, headlined by the finals of “The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes,” a series that was not broadcast in the U.S., did 972,000 viewers. That number was the lowest of the eight live main [...]
Revitalized welterweight veteran Mike Pyle led the disclosed payroll for Saturday’s The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale, pocketing $78,000 for his TKO victory over James Head, according to figures released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Fighting on the final undercard bout of the night, Pyle rebounded from early trouble to crush Head ($12,000) with a [...]