Leave it to MMA fans to introduce Dewey Cooper to a new and entirely unpleasant experience in combat sports. Cooper, a 30-year combat sports veteran in kickboxing and MMA, had barely stepped away from the octagon after Francis Ngannou’s failed bid for Stipe Miocic’s heavyweight title this past January...
UFC 220 featured two huge title fights in the main and co-main events, and their significance was reflected in the salary disbursements. Heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, and challengers Francis Ngannou and Volkan Oezdemir combined for $1,950,000, which accounted for more than 76 percent of...
Don’t expect to see Francis Ngannou back in the octagon anytime soon after falling short of claiming the heavyweight title at UFC 220. After making a rapid ascent up the UFC heavyweight ranks, Ngannou (11-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) was handily outclassed by Stipe Miocic (18-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC) in...
Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic took care of business in dominant fashion at this past weekend’s UFC 220, and that is reflected in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA pound-for-pound rankings. Cormier (20-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC) retained the light heavyweight title with what proved to be a dominant win over...
Daniel Cormier’s days in MMA are numbered. The UFC light heavyweight champion began to vocalize his retirement plans more loudly than ever prior to his fight this past weekend at UFC 220. Cormier (20-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC) defeated Volkan Oezdemir (15-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) by second-round TKO in the pay-per-view...
BOSTON – A successful UFC debut is certainly an accomplishment for any fighter. But for Julio Arce, it meant the crowning achievement of what started as an unlikely journey. “I was 5-(foot)-5, weighing 200 pounds at the age of 14,” a giddy Arce told reporters backstage at TD Garden in...
With his win at UFC 220, Daniel Cormier said he feels like the UFC light-heavyweight champion again. But will fans ever really see him that way after two failed attempts to dethrone Jon Jones, and if not, what then? Retired UFC and WEC fighter Danny Downes and MMAjunkie columnist...
Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived and survived through various websites, forums and, perhaps most importantly, social-media platforms. Fighters interact with fans, each other and many more through the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, which helps...
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