Events & Results
Fight week coverage, live results and post-event fallout.
NewsBoxing death brings the usual questions, instead of the important one
I don’t know if a rapid extreme wight cut played a role in Smith’s death, what I do know is we now have another lower weight class fatality to add to the statistics.
NewsMaia: I was thinking about my life
Demian Maia: “You don’t know how your body will react, you don’t know how the infection will react. At one point, I was not even thinking about my fight career — I was thinking about my life.”
NewsShogun vs Little Nog official at UFC 190 in Brazil on Aug 1
Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua and Antonio Rogerio ‘Little Nog’ Nogueira have verbally agreed to a rematch. It will reportedly take place at UFC 190 on August 1 in Rio de Janeiro.
NewsWoodley calls out Hendricks
Tyron Woodley: “I’m tired of this, man…It’s at the point where I don’t want to sound like I’m whining and complaining, but why do we have a rankings system?”
NewsJones: It’s true. I can’t bust a grape
Jon Jones: “I have a great staff of people around me, really smart coaches. We’re not naïve to our strengths and our weaknesses. We’ll come up with an appropriate strategy to be successful.”
NewsBaszler jaded with some Internet MMA fans
Shayna Baszler: “That’s one of those things that has made me a little jaded about MMA and MMA fans is the lack of knowledge of the history of the sport.”
NewsShogun may drop to 185, return to Cordeiro
Mauricio Rua is considerng a drop to middleweight, as well as a return to coach Rafael Cordeiro, who now runs King’s MMA in Los Angeles.
