Новости за 24.06.2016

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Never let it be said Joe Schilling doesn't have a sense of humor.

Daniel Cormier has all the skills and attributes to defeat Jon Jones but this fight is more about tactics and game plans than anything else. Cardio will also play a major factor in this fight. In my opinion, studying how Frankie Edgar works angles, movements, feints and take downs would greatly benefit Daniel Cormier. Alexander Gustaffson had a great game plan - avoid the clinch, change levels and punch in combinations. The key advantage that Cormier has over Gustaffson is being a dominate wrestler... Читать дальше...

As expected, Glover Teixeira has been pulled from the co-main event of UFC on FOX 20.

A woman's bantamweight bout between Bethe Correia and Jessica Eye has been added to UFC 203 in Cleveland. The news was announced by Eye through her Twitter account.

Ilima-Lei MacFarlane came out of the professional gates in a memorable way, laying waste to a fighter whose greatest strength in the cage seemed to be foolhardy willingness. It wasn’t her fault. Katie Castro, dubbed quickly the "Soccer Mom" as her helpless beat down in the Xplode Fight Series cage went viral, happened to be MacFarlane’s MMA debut. That’s just how things shook out. It was a 10-second ass kicking that everybody — including actual soccer moms, full in their powers of empathy — could watch in mock horror on YouTube. Читать дальше...

Watch Bellator 157 stream online on MMA Fighting for the preliminary card at 6:15 p.m. ET. The fight card for this portion of the event is as follows:

Justin Lawrence vs. Isao Kobayashi
Guilherme "Bomba" Vasconcelos vs. Jordan Dowdy
Kevin Engel vs. Chel Erwin-Davis
Matt Murphy vs. Justin Robbins
Joaquin Buckley vs. Chris Heatherly
Michelle Pearce vs. Katy Collins
Brad Jones vs. Tyler Claussen
Jason Christeson vs. Dewayne Diggs
Lee Burns vs. Byron Stevens
Steven Mann vs. Читать дальше...

Bellator attempts its second Dynamite show, this time in their second home of St. Louis. The card features the return of Rampage, the debut of a former UFC heavyweight contender and a lightweight title along with the trademark kickboxing of the Dynamite brand.

Quinton Jackson, better known as "Rampage," is returning to MMA, but this time it won't be as a light heavyweight.

TORRANCE, Calif. -- Urijah Faber thought about retirement after UFC 199. For maybe a few seconds.

MMA Fighting's Esther Lin takes a look back at her favorite photos for Kimbo Slice's MMA career. The MMA icon died earlier this month at 42 years old.

College Football Hall of Famer Herschel Walker is hoping to have another MMA fight this year and says he wants to fight "a worthy opponent."

Gesias Cavalcante won't waste any time getting right back in there.

"JZ" will defend his newly won lightweight title against Freddy Assuncao in the main event of Titan FC 40 on Aug. 5 in Coral Gables, Fla., officials told MMA Fighting on Thursday. The card will take place at the Bank United Center and air on UFC Fight Pass.

Cavalcante (20-8-1, 2 NC) is coming off a first-round knockout of Pat Healy to win the Titan lightweight title earlier this month. The Strikeforce and Dream vet finished the fight in just 2:07. Читать дальше...

MMA Fighting has Bellator 157 results for the Rampage vs. Ishii fight card Friday night at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo.

In the main event, Rampage Jackson will square off against Satoshi Ishii in a catchweight bout. Michael Chandler and Patricky Freire will battle for the vacant lightweight title.

Check out the Bellator 157 results below.

Main card (Spike at 8 p.m. ET)
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Satoshi Ishii
Michael Chandler vs. Patricky "Pitbull" Freire
Matt Mitrione vs. Читать дальше...

A featherweight bout pitting fan favorite fighters Dennis Bermudez and Rony Jason has been added to UFC Fight Night 92. The news was first reported by Newsday on Thursday.

Glover Teixeira was willing to fight anyone after Anthony Johnson pulled out of UFC on FOX 20, but he will have to wait for a new date for his return. Sources told MMA Fighting that won't compete on July 23.

Felice Herrig got her second chance. Following an anticlimactic run last year on American Ninja Warrior, the UFC strawweight veteran was given a do-over on this season of the popular show -- and she made the most of it.

Big Country's statement that Dana would sell a lot of tickets if he were to show up on a card is undoubtedly true. It will never happen though. I've been calling out the bald-headed coward for years through various connections. See my Open letter to Dana below. Like all bullies, Dana has the heart of a chicken although he once taught as a "boxercise" instructor, back in the day.

Five years after his Bellator debut, two-time lightweight tournament finalist Patricky Freire is finally fighting for the belt, but it’s not exactly the scenario he wanted.