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Darren Till vs Stephen Thompson was announced earlier this week for the main event of UFC Liverpool which will take place on May 27 at the Echo Arena. Till had been chasing a fight with Thompson ever since his win over Donald Cerrone last October and after some initial...
Darren Till spoke to MMANytt.com earlier this year about a potential fight with Stephen Thompson.
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They say Easter is a time for new beginnings and after 29 fights, Vaughn Lee will be getting a new lease of life. Lee (14-14-1), hung up the 4-oz. gloves last weekend after suffering a unanimous decision loss to Welshman Jack Shore at Cage Warriors 92. This was the...
UFC veteran Vaughn Lee has retired from MMA after a 15 year long career.
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‘Know your history!’… Earlier in the week, I wrote a piece that sent a hat tip in the direction of Cage Warriors, and many of the fighters from Liverpool on their current roster, acknowledging their contributions for bringing the UFC to Liverpool for the first time on May 27...
With UFC Liverpool less than two months away, here's a quick look back in time at some of the MMA pioneers from the area.
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Univision Deportes and Combate Americas today jointly announced a historic, multi-year partnership to produce and distribute live Combate Americas fight programming on Univision and Univision Deportes Network (UDN). The agreement marks the first time ever that Univision Deportes will produce and distribute live MMA programming and, in 2018, will include...
Univision Deportes will produce and distribute live MMA programming for the first time ever.
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There are few athletes who have managed to transition between MMA and professional wrestling; fewer are those who have been successful in both facets. One of them is Alberto Del Rio, who has been a WWE champion and also left a 9-5 record as a mixed martial artist. With...
Former WWE champ Alberto Del Rio spoke about Ronda Rousey's new wrestling career.
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UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley still has no idea who he’s fighting next but he’s got plenty to watch unfold over the next few months in his division. One particularly interesting matchup is the fight that was just announced this week as Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson will travel across the...
UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley says that Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson will probably bring the hype train surrounding Darren Till to a crashing halt.
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Claudio “Hannibal” Silva will return to the UFC Octagon on May 27 when he faces Nordine Taleb at UFC Liverpool in the Echo Arena. Silva hasn’t fought since defeating Leon “Rocky” Edwards in November 2014 and the announcement yesterday that he would return to action came as a shock to...
Claudio Silva says he can't wait to return to the UFC Octagon at UFC Liverpool after three years on the sidelines.
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The main event of UFC Liverpool was announced yesterday with local man Darren Till facing the #1 ranked welterweight Stephen Thompson. With Till ranked only #7 in the division and Thompson previously saying he wasn’t willing to take the fight, many were surprised when the news broke last week...
Stephen Thompson explains why he's willing to go into enemy territory to fight Darren Till.
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The UFC will return to Hamburg, Germany on July 22 and the first fight contracts are making their way out. Sources close to MMANytt.com have told us that a light heavyweight bout between Aleksandar Rakic and Justin Ledet is in the works for the event set to take place...
Alesandar Rakic vs Justin Ledet is in the works for a UFC event in Hamburg, Germany.
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Ronda Rousey may have moved onto a new career in professional wrestling but as arguably one of the greatest women’s fighters of all time, she will always be associated in some way with mixed martial arts. Unfortunately, Rousey’s career in the UFC ended on the exact opposite end of...
Ronda Rousey's UFC career didn't end the way that she wanted but she still doesn't look back with any regrets