As announced during UFC 249, former middleweight and welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre (26-2) will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame this summer. He is widely regarded by many as the best MMA fighter of all-time and after retiring last year, it was only a matter of time before his name featured in the HoF. Continue reading
UFC 249 will go ahead tonight, despite middleweight Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza and two of his cornermen testing positive for COVID-19 after yesterday’s weigh-ins. His scheduled prelims bout against Uriah Hall has consequently been scrapped. Continue reading
It’s been 15 months since George Groves retired aged 30 and while boxers aplenty worldwide wait patiently for sport to return in an unprecedented time of suspension, they would learn something from watching a memorable encounter I return to during his career: a 2018 WBSS semi-final bout vs. Chris Eubank Jr.
Israel Adesanya retained his middleweight belt after a bizarre 25-minute showing against Yoel Romero in the UFC 248 main event, though it was the card’s other championship bout which stole the show: Weili Zhang’s first title defence was one for the history books against former strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Continue reading
Just eighteen months after his first UFC fight, Israel Adesanya (18-0) has silenced critics to reach the summit, beating Robert Whittaker with a second-round KO to become the new undisputed Middleweight Champion infront of a record-breaking crowd at Marvel Stadium in Australia. Continue reading
Many critics and boxing fans alike have said Amir Khan, 32, needs to hang up the gloves for good after his comprehensive defeat by Terence Crawford on Saturday night in New York.
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