MMA Fighting Morning Report: Daniel Cormier ready to fight Alexander Gustafsson or OSP if legal troubles sideline Volkan OezdemirMMA FightingEarlier this week, Volkan Oezdemir was arrested and charged with felony battery in Florida. The charges stemmed from a bar fight in August where Oezdemir allegedly hit an individual who then required staples for lacerations and […]
Linton Vassell knows that MMA tournaments rarely go according to plan. That’s why the former light-heavyweight title challenger is offering his services for the Bellator MMA World Grand Prix 2018. The tournament field includes eight fighters – four heavyweights and four light heavyweights – who fight for the organization’s vacant heavyweight title. Bellator heavyweight grand […]
MMA Fighting Kelvin Gastelum unsurprised by Anderson Silva’s USADA failure, but happy for ‘much, much bigger fight’MMA FightingKelvin Gastelum is happy Michael Bisping stepped up to fight him at UFC Shanghai. Esther Lin, MMA Fighting. Kelvin Gastelum lost an opportunity to test himself against Anderson Silva last week when the legendary former middleweight champion failed […]
shares share tweet pin sms send email By: Blue Corner | November 18, 2017 4:00 pm Follow @MMAjunkie Social media has become a significant part of the sporting landscape. But few, if any, professional sports match the level of interaction and personal access provided by MMA. In an individual competition in which nearly every athlete […]
Eraldo Peres/Associated Press On a brisk May night twelve years ago, Cristiane Santos walked to a ring in her hometown of Curitiba, Brazil. It was her first professional fight. She lost by submission, tapping out to a kneebar in just under two minutes. Mixed martial arts is full of stories like this. People fight once […]
Credit: WWE.com The move from WWE to MMA will be a decidedly uphill one, but it’s not best to bet against Jack Swagger. We have seen a long line of pro wrestlers stumble during that climb. CM Punk continued that tradition last fall when he crash-landed in the Octagon during his UFC debut. But Swagger (real name: […]
