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Update: Information received from ONE Championship has been added to the bottom of this post. On Thursday, August 15, ONE Championship broadcasted the official weigh-ins and hydration test for ONE Championship: Dreams of Gold on YouTube. Following the death of Chinese fighter Yang Jian Bing in 2015 as a result of weight cutting complications, ONE…
Being a professional athlete means more than just achieving fame and fortune for Tony Gravely. And while the rest of the world still gets used to MMA fighters being recognized as legitimate athletes, Gravely is using his position to promote positivity. The bantamweight prospect doesn’t even believe he fits the mold of the stereotypical fighter….
As of August 2, 2019, Darren Till is back in the game. It’s a clean slate from the frenzy that defined his first four years in fighting world’s spotlight, heralded with a post on a box-fresh Instagram account simply captioned, “F*** you.” European MMA hadn’t seen a star shine so bright since Conor McGregor: a…
The ESPN+ subscriber numbers are in and they’ve started to flatten out—but not for long. On August 6, Disney announced that ESPN+ had reached 2.4 million subscribers, up 400,000 from the 2 million mark it hit earlier this year. While the number is nothing to scoff, it’s less than half the subscriber growth over the…
“This was an argument I had in the UFC all the time,” WEC and UFC legend Leonard Garcia began. “We’d be in the back, they’d be wrapping my hands, and I would say, ‘Why do we have to wear gloves?’” It’s the same question David Feldman, the founder and owner of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championships…
The year is 2011 and it’s summertime in Ottawa. Friday night rolls around, so what better way to celebrate than to head downtown into ByWard Market, the city’s bustling nightlife hub. This is pre-Uber Canada, so taxis are the MO. Then again, maybe you want to travel in style. Rummaging in the seldom-visited back-portion of…
On Thursday, UFC Fight Pass announced via a press release that a newly-founded submission grappling promotion, Kinektic, would be launching on the UFC’s proprietary streaming platform. Kinektic Submission Grappling, the promotion states, was co-founded by UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber, Roy Jones Jr. Promotions CEO Keith Veltre, and veteran combat sports broadcaster Sean Wheelock….
Artem Lobov is in talks with BRAVE CF about a possible crossover fight with professional boxer Amir Khan, but he’s not ruling out a return to MMA in the future. Lobov was in attendance at BRAVE CF 24, which took place on July 25 in London, England. There, he spoke with Rhodri Morgan of The…
There is a saying in MMA: the window doesn’t close so much as it slams. And after watching James Vick lay on the canvas unconscious yet again, his window has closed. Actually, it’s more like he tried to climb into a fourth story window and got it shut on his fingers. A year and a…
UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker admitted he has struggled to get an international presence, particularly in the US. Whittaker takes on Israel Adesanya in the main event of UFC 243 this October in a venue that is likely to be in Australia. The middleweight title unification fight has been regarded as the biggest fight in…
