After UFC 317, in a post-fight interview, newly crowned UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria challenged Paddy Pimblett after defeating former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira on Saturday.
The buzz coming out of UFC 317 hasn’t slowed down. After Ilia Topuria’s dominant performance in the main event, speculation over who might challenge him next has only intensified.
UFC pound-for-pound king Ilia Topuria has a willing adversary for a potential move to the welterweight division. Ilia Topuria is the talk of MMA after winning a second UFC title by knocking out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 last Saturday in Las Vegas.
Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya didn’t appreciate one UFC fan’s attempt to get him to troll Jon Jones. Jon Jones‘s retirement continues to send shockwaves around MMA.
UFC superstar Paddy Pimblett responded to Dricus du Plessis’s recent assertion that he’s set to feature in the UFC 319 co-main event opposite Justin Gaethje.
The rivalry between UFC lightweights Paddy Pimblett and Ilia Topuria has long simmered and stems from a social media feud in which Pimblett hurled insults towards the country of Georgia and its people, and Topuria fired back.
UFC lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan is one of the few who shrugged off Ilia Topuria’s knockout at UFC 317. Ilia Topuria completed his conquest to become a two-division UFC champion by knocking out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317.
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This past Saturday on the main card of UFC 317, we saw a flyweight contest that might go down as the fight of the year. Former title challenger Brandon Royval (17-8) was taking on top prospect Joshua Van (15-2).
Dustin Poirier is set to make the walk for one last dance in several weeks time. UFC 318 sees the Octagon make its long-awaited return to Louisiana where, for the majority of fans, it’s all about the main event in which ‘The Diamond’ will compete for the last time.
The UFC landscape has shifted dramatically in the wake of UFC 317, as Ilia Topuria, the newly crowned lightweight champion, has officially claimed the No.
At UFC 317, Ilia Topuria became the new lightweight champion after a brutal knockout win over Charles Oliveira. The lightweight division is fiercely competitive, and all top contenders were present at the arena, closely eyeing the new champion.
UFC 318 has hit a bump after one of its fighters broke a toe in training. Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway are set to headline the pay-per-view in New Orleans, Louisiana, on July 19 – and fight fans can breathe a sigh of relief that the main event is still intact.
Ilia Topuria has become one of the biggest stars in the UFC following his remarkable rise to become a two-time UFC champion. At UFC 317, ‘El Matador’ achieved success in a second weight class by winning the vacant lightweight title after vacating his featherweight belt.
On the main card of UFC 317, we saw a lightweight matchup between two ranked contenders who were supposed to fight earlier this year. Contenders Beneil Dariush (23-6-1) and Renato Moicano (20-7-1) squared off with a potential spot in the top ten on the line.
This past weekend in the co-main event of UFC 317, the flyweight title was on the line. Alexandre Pantoja (30-5) was looking to defend his title for the fourth time as he took on dangerous knockout artist Kai Kara-France (25-12).
Merab Dvalishvili left himself out when ranking the top 3 pound-for-pound fighters in the UFC. How the UFC’s P4P conversation looks now is a lot different than it did a year or two ago and it extends beyond just the new faces at the top of the rankings like Ilia Topuria, Dricus du Plessis and now Dvalishvili.
For years, the UFC flyweight division was synonymous with Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson, whose reign as champion set a standard that seemed untouchable.
The MMA world is buzzing after UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis appeared to inadvertently leak a blockbuster co-main event for UFC 319. In a casual moment captured on video, Du Plessis named Paddy Pimblett vs.
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Magomed Ankalaev and Jiri Prochazka are yet again trading online insults. Ankalaev, who claimed the light heavyweight title from Alex Pereira at UFC 313, is still to announce his first title defense.
After Jon Jones retired from the sport of MMA, relinquishing his undisputed heavyweight title and consequently awarding the interim champion, Tom Aspinall, the undisputed strap, questions have been asked about his legacy.
Since the moment that Tom Aspinall knew that it was a possibility that he was going to fight Jon Jones, everything has been centered around trying to be the only fighter that would ever beat the GOAT in the ring.