Report: Two Bids for UFC Eclipse $4B; Owners Bought for $2M
Buy low, sell high. That time-tested business wisdom guides the sale of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Buy low, sell high. That time-tested business wisdom guides the sale of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
The UFC reversed itself on a ban on Ariel Helwani reporting at its event.
Fighting back tears on Monday, MMA journalist Ariel Helwani recounted the UFC de-credentialing and ejecting him from UFC 199 for beating the promotion to the punch on several fight announcements.
Former WWE wrestler-turned former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar compared himself to former MLB and NFL star Bo Jackson Monday while discussing his return to UFC on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” “I’m a crossover athlete,” Lesnar told ESPN’s Hannah Storm. “I’m the modern-day
Mixed martial artist Tito Ortiz, who was a former Light Heavyweight Champion with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), attended presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s rally in Anaheim, California on Wednesday afternoon.
The owners of the UFC may be on the verge of selling their business.
Conor McGregor says that did not retire from fighting, just promotion—even though his temporary retirement from PR continues to generate massive publicity.
UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor announced his retirement from mixed-martial arts on Twitter Tuesday.
The UFC pulled this Saturday’s Lyoto Machida-Dan Henderson rematch after the Dragon admitted usage of a banned substance during an out-of-competition test administered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) last week.
Thursday on Fox Sports 1’s “The Herd,” boxing promoter Bob Arum hammered GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, calling him “a bad, bad person.” Arum, who has previously called Trump a “clown” and a “disgrace,” told show host Colin Cowherd that his sport’s
Albuquerque police gave Jon Jones five tickets for what they called drag racing. The former UFC light heavyweight champion gave the cops a piece of his mind in return.
A bill to legalize professional mixed-martial arts (MMA) passed the New York assembly overwhelmingly on Tuesday, paving the way for the Empire State to become the fiftieth and final state to sanction cage fighting.
Michael Bisping scored a signature win in front of his fellow countrymen by defeating Anderson Silva at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday.
UFC women’s champion Ronda Rousey appeared on NBC’s “Ellen DeGeneres Show” Tuesday and spoke on her 2015 loss to Holly Holm, which put an end to her undefeated record. Rousey told host Ellen DeGeneres that she took the loss to Holm
UFC on Fox 18 opened with an upset that sends one of the UFC’s most hyped fighters back to the drawing board.
Ed Herman displays his short fuse when it comes to cheaters.
UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler says “no frustration here” in fans flocking to fighters whose bark beats their bite.
Dominick Cruz refused to say if T.J. Dillashaw earned the right to a rematch after their bantamweight championship bout at TD Garden that ended early this morning.
The UFC returns to Boston for Dillashaw-Cruz. Breitbart Sports brings you the action live from the front row at the TD Garden.
Two mixed-martial artists boasting spinning-backfist knockouts historically square off tonight despite the UFC’s octagon witnessing just three such fantastic finishes in its history.
Dominick Cruz accuses T.J. Dillashaw of keeping it fake atop calling the champ disloyal, stupid, and a plagiarist of his footwork.
Call Travis Browne and Matt Mitrione late bloomers. The former wandered into MMA at 26 after playing basketball in college; Mitrione debuted in the sport in his thirties after washing out of the NFL.
T.J. Dillashaw endures the names thrown his way by Dominick Cruz stoically or with a smile. He points to wrestling as supplying him with the discipline and respect that makes him a mute at trash talking.
NFL-defensive-lineman-turned-UFC-heavyweight Matt Mitrione tells Breitbart Sports that the smashmouth football displayed last weekend between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals kept his attention.
Dominick Cruz does not believe T.J. Dillashaw represents his stiffest competition.
For Anthony Pettis, fighting serves as a metaphor for life. You get knocked down, you get back up.
“We just like a fight,” Ross Pearson tells Breitbart Sports. “I’m not in the first generation of British fighters to feel this way. It’s just history. It’s just the way we are. We like to fight.”
UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione has a message for ISIS: “Try. C’mom. I don’t live my life in fear of anybody, especially ISIS, or anybody that has a different set of ideologies than I do.”
Dominick Cruz calls T.J. Dillashaw “stupid” and a “meathead.” T.J. Dillashaw deems Dominick Cruz “one of those guys that talks s—.”
Ronda Rousey’s sister says she saw her sister die in defeat against Holly Holm—and then painfully watched as so many celebrities took joy in her younger sibling’s fall.
Michael Bisping calls his February 27 bout with Anderson Silva a “bucket-list fight.” Anderson Silva says, “I feel like this fight probably should have happened sometime before.”
Michael Bisping vows to give Anderson Silva “zero respect once that cage door shuts.” Two months before that door shuts the mouthy Mancunian gave Silva very little respect on the conference call promoting their February 27 London bout.
Nate Diaz did the Marquess of Queensberry proud on Fox Saturday night. Then he infuriated Miss Manners.
In an interview with ESPN the Magazine Ronda Rousey reveals that Holly Holm put her out on her feet in the first round of their UFC 193 fight, that she wants a rematch, and that she won’t switch trainers despite criticism of Edmond Tarverdyan from her mom.
Former YouTube brawler Jorge Masvidal faces his biggest test as a professional mixed-martial artist when he takes on onetime UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson in South Korea early Saturday morning. Seoul’s a long way from the backyards of Miami.
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, the first man to submit Josh Barnett in mixed-martial arts and knock out Bob Sapp in kickboxing, became the first man suspended by the UFC under its new drug-testing regime administered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey says her vote belongs to Bernie Sanders in the upcoming presidential election.
A reporter asked Rousey about her relationship with heavyweight fighter Travis Browne in the first the question posed to the 12-0 mixed-martial artist on the UFC 193 conference call. Rousey’s answer, such as it was, spoke loudly in its silence. Listen to the crickets.
“I’m glad the drug testing is more stringent,” UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier tells Breitbart Sports. “Maybe we’ll stop seeing so many guys look like Superman and they’ll start looking like me.”
Jon Jones, the most accomplished fighter in UFC history, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident on Tuesday in connection to a hit-and-run smash-up in Albuquerque earlier this year.