LAS VEGAS – Bassil Hafez thinks he’s going to surprise a lot of people in his short-notice debut against Jack Della Maddalena at UFC on ESPN 49. Hafez (8-3-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) accepted a fight with surging welterweight contender Della Maddalena (14-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC)…

Amanda Nunes’ vacated the UFC women’s featherweight and bantamweight titles and walked away from the sport, leaving a huge void in women’s MMA. And though that may be perceived as a bad thing, given the absence of a historical figure, to others it’s a positive.…

Tyson Fury needs to be mindful of where his fortune comes from, says the promoter of unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. Alexander Krassyuk was not shy about criticizing Fury earlier this week at a press conference to announce Usyk’s title defense against Daniel Dubois on…

Even Errol Spence Jr. would admit that he was once young, dumb, and made a few bad decisions. In September of 2019, Spence was practically on top of the boxing world. He successfully ended the title reigns of Kell Brook and Shawn Porter and pranced…

Former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua was shaking his head at the recent news that his domestic rival, WBC world champion Tyson Fury, signed an agreement to face former UFC heavyweight king Francis Ngannou. The fight will take place on October 28th in Saudi Arabia.…

It got to the point that even Terence Crawford’s children consistently asked him when he would fight Errol Spence Jr. Crawford joked during a virtual press conference Wednesday that’s when he knew it was time to finally fight the undefeated, unified welterweight champion. The 35-year-old…

Ciryl Gane was disappointed in his performance against Jon Jones. For the first time in his career, Gane (11-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) was stopped when he was submitted in just over two minutes by Jones (27-1 MMA, 21-1 UFC) in their vacant heavyweight title fight…

LAS VEGAS – Junyong Park will search for his fourth consecutive octagon win on Saturday at UFC on ESPN 49, but he knows it won’t come easy against Albert Duraev. “It is going to be a long three rounds,” Park told MMA Junkie and other…

LAS VEGAS – Holly Holm wanted to avenge her loss to Amanda Nunes, but she’s also happy to see an all-time great walk away from the sport on her own terms. Holm and Nunes fought each other in July 2019 for the UFC women’s bantamweight…