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57+ min ago (531+ words) Home " MMA News " Sean O'Malley " Sean O'Malley admits he fears for Jake Paul's safety" Sean O'Malley admits he is concerned for his friend Jake Paul in his upcoming boxing match with Anthony Joshua. For former UFC bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley, who is a good friend of Jake Paul's, the upcoming bout with Anthony Joshua is cause for concern. Sean O'Malley continued by suggesting that if Jake Paul can go the distance with Anthony Joshua, that in itself would be a win. "If Jake goes to a decision and loses a decision to A.J., I think that's a win. That's a massive win. If he goes out there and goes eight, three-minute rounds with Anthony Joshua, that is a win." As for "Suga', it was recently announced that the former bantamweight champion will return on January's UFC 324 main card lineup for a…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago (604+ words) Home " MMA News " Georges St. Pierre " Georges St-Pierre weighs in on a potential Jon Jones vs. Tom" UFC legend Georges St-Pierre admits that it would be difficult to bet against Jon Jones in a hypothetical matchup with Tom Aspinall. Jones (28-1 MMA) and Aspinall (15-3 MMA) were of course linked to fight back in 2024, this while "Bones" dawned the undisputed heavyweight title and the Brit served as interim champion. However, shortly following his stoppage victory over Stipe Miocic at UFC 309, Jones informed Dana White and company that he had decided to retire and thus would be vacating the promotion"s heavyweight championship. The news was disappointing for fight fans, but the division moved on by promoting Tom Aspinall to undisputed champion and scheduled him to fight against Ciryl Gane in his first title defense. Unfortunately for Aspinall, his long-awaited return to the…...

2+ hour, 59+ min ago (550+ words) Nunes is expected to return from retirement in 2026 to challenge UFC champ Harrison Amanda Nunes entered the octagon in June to face off with Kayla Harrison, setting up a megafight for her return from retirement in 2026 following Harrison's title-winning submission at UFC 316. Not only that, "The Lioness" invited Larissa Pacheco " the only woman to beat Harrison in MMA " to be part of her next training camp. The UFC has yet to announce a date for the planned championship collision, but Pacheco said Nunes is ready to enter the cage as soon as next week. Pacheco fought Harrison three times inside the PFL cage. The first two bouts took place in 2019, with Harrison winning both via decision to end that year as PFL champion and 7-0 in the sport. They would meet for a third time in November 2022, and Pacheco walked away…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago (645+ words) Home " MMA News " Arman Tsarukyan " Arman Tsarukyan names the only fight that makes sense following" Arman Tsarukyan will not be getting the next crack at the UFC middleweight title. Tsarukyan was slated to challenge former lightweight champion Islam Makhachev early this year, but was forced out of the fight with an injury at the eleventh hour. It quickly became clear the incident landed him on the UFC's naughty list, as it was revealed he would need to win another fight before challenging for the belt. Tsarukyan had his first fight since then earlier this month, when he dominated Dan Hooker to a second-round submission win in what had been billed as No. 1 contender fight. However, it was later revealed that new lightweight champ Ilia Topuria would be taking some time away from the sport, and that lightweight contenders Paddy Pimblett…...

4+ hour, 59+ min ago (454+ words) Aljamain Sterling says MMA is turning into boxing, questions where merit went in the sport. It's safe to say that some fighters are not happy with the recent trend of title fights in the UFC. "He's getting the next shot. Again!" Lopes said on his YouTube channel. "He's being allowed to get a rematch with Volkanovski, a guy who just beat him in his last fight. Volk hasn't fought since then. " "It's a big win. I get that. But he just fought the champ, lost to the champ in what was pretty one-sided, he gets a big win over a very, very popular dude who might have catapulted and leapfrogged everybody had he beaten Diego Lopes, the guy who just fought for the title. I'm just trying to make it make sense in my head." To be fair, Sterling isn't…...

5+ hour, 59+ min ago (300+ words) Paddy Pimblett lays out ambitious plans for 2026. Paddy Pimblett is planning on having a 2026 for the ages. On Thanksgiving, the UFC announced that Pimblett will take on Justin Gaethje for the interim lightweight title at UFC 324. This is Pimblett's first UFC title shot, and "The Baddy" is reveling in continuing to prove his doubters wrong. "Me and Gaethje now for the world title," Gaethje said in a video posted by the UFC. "It's interim, people are going to say, "Ah, it's only interim,' this and that, but I'm fighting for the world title. People said I'd never be ranked. People said I'd never do this, never do that. The goalposts always get moved with me. It's normal. "People think I'm still the same fighter who came in and fought Vendramini back in September 2021, when I'm a whole different animal." "First…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago (543+ words) Home " MMA News " UFC champ Alex Pereira under fire for brutal knockout of sparring" Every UFC fan knows what Alex Pereira is capable of. The one-time UFC middleweight champion and two-time light heavyweight champion is among the hardest hitters in the sport, with a staggering list of knockouts on his MMA resume. One would assume Pereira dials back his fearsome knockout punching power in the gym, so as not to hurt his sparring partners. However, it seems that is not always the case. On Saturday, a clip of Pereira brutally KOing a sparring partner began to surface on social media. In the clip, the UFC star can be seen landing a few hard shots on his sparring partner before shutting the lights out with a cracking punch to the chin. See the footage below (via Championship Rounds on X): Alex Pereira…...

6+ hour, 22+ min ago (546+ words) Home " MMA News " Greg Hardy " VIDEO | UFC, NFL outcast Greg Hardy quits on stool in latest" Things continue to get worse for Greg Hardy. Hardy was once a promising football player, but was kicked out of the NFL following a domestic violence scandal. He then tried to reinvent himself as a mixed martial artist. Despite some early success in the UFC, he was eventually exposed as a pretty mediocre fighter, and eventually parted ways with the promotion. After that, the UFC and NFL outcast spent some time competing in boxing'both traditional and bareknuckle. He picked up a couple of wins to start, but after a hot-and-cold stretch, he ended up spending over two years on the shelf. At 37, Hardy finally got back to the ring this week, taking on a guy named Evgeny Goncharov in an exhibition boxing match in…...

6+ hour, 59+ min ago (464+ words) Max Holloway talks about possible fight at UFC White House, defending "BMF" title. Max Holloway believes there"s a good chance he"s fighting at next year"s UFC White House card. "We"ll see what happens with the Conor thing, with Jon Jones coming back," Holloway told Korean Zombie"s Youtube channel. "I think the card idea is cool, but there"s no American champion. The only American champion there is is the "BMF" title, so you"re looking at the man. So am I going to be at the card? I like my odds of being on it." While Holloway is the only American, male UFC champion, he"s not the only American champion; both Kayla Harrison and Mackenzie Dern are American citizens, and hold the women"s bantamweight and women"s strawweight titles respectively. Holloway holds the…...

8+ hour, 59+ min ago (637+ words) Michael Chandler might get his wish to face Conor McGregor at the UFC White House card in 2026 but if that fight gets made official, the pressure immediately starts to mount. Now that's not just because the former Bellator lightweight champion is currently suffering through a three-fight losing streak because all of those fights came against top 15 level competition. But potentially serving as the American in the main event of a card that's meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, well that ratchets up the pressure even more. Chandler, who has obviously lobbied to face McGregor at the White House card, knows he's in a bigger must win situation than perhaps any other time during his career. "We would definitely have to go out there, dot our I's, cross our T's and go out there and not just beat…...