At UFC 160 on May 25, two heavyweights will collide in what is a hugely anticipated match.On the one side, former heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos. He took the belt from Cain Velasquez during the UFC’s first-ever broadcast on FOX, stopping the then-champion in just over a minute. He got paid back in full at UFC 155 in the Velasquez rematch, getting absolutely...
Nike has released its first commercial featuring UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones.The video focuses on Jones’ training and sparring, selling him as an athlete rather than selling any particular product linked to him.No doubt it’s the first of many. Jones’ range of Nike products went on sale at Nike.com and at Niketown New York this week.
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Fighters Only reported yesterday that Andre ’Dida’ Amade no longer plays the role of trainer to UFC light-heavyweight contender Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua. Instead, the head coach is now multi-time kickboxing and karate champion Glaube Feitosa. “Glaube is an excellent master, he can pass me informations clearly, besides observing my game a lot. We got a good...
This is superb. From the voice to the animation, whoever produced this video has nailed it. And its only the latest in a series - click through to his Youtube to see Diaz getting home-invaded by Vitor Belfort or daydreaming about Ronda Rousey.
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UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre drops in on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast to talk about weight cutting, superfights, Tommy Morrison's breast implants (?!) and aliens.
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The UFC and Georges St. Pierre are still manoeuvring when it comes to his next fight. It had been thought that the UFC had somewhat relented in its attempts to have St. Pierre face middleweight champion Anderson Silva in a superfight but it seems not.UFC president Dana White said last week that top welterweight contender Johny Hendricks “might not be next” for...
FUEL TV drops in on the ever-intriguing Gunnar Nelson in his native Iceland.
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Finally Ronda Rousey addresses the burning issues you lot have always wanted to hear her talk about - sports bras and the things which go in them…
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Dana White addresses Stanford Business School about how the UFC is looking to continue to expand the audience for the sport, seeking out new talent in countries such as China, India, and Mexico.
White explains that prior to hosting events in a country, the UFC goes to emerging markets and scouts talent and then trains prospective fighters. White's goal is is to...
Georges St. Pierre dropped in on Canadian chat show ‘Studio Q’ to talk about his new book, "The Way of the Fight", which explores his childhood, his challenges, and his victories.The interview is interesting because the interviewer is skilled and is not from the MMA world, which leads him to draw St. Pierre out on a slightly different tangent than we are used to....