Fresh from completing a week of tough sparring,former UFC fighter Tyson Pedro reflects on what it takes mentally and physically to compete as a boxer.
The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.
Tourism Minister Rita Saffioti announced UFC 305 will be held at RAC Arena in Perth on August 18.
UFC’s extraordinary popularity is why the NRL has fostered a partnership with the Mixed Martial Arts brand to promote its double-header in March next year.
The UFC’s Lawrence Epstein believes next year’s season-opening NRL double-header in Sin City can “turbocharge” the sport’s entry into the US market.
If the NRL wants to make it big in Vegas,hitching its wagon to the star of the MMA juggernaut is a crucial step.
If this week’s pre-fight events and controversies are anything to go by,Sunday’s UFC 293 promises to be one big fat,obnoxious production.
Mexico’s Yair Rodriguez was the interim champion as the Australian temporarily moved up a weight division,but Alexander Volkanovski left no doubt who the real No.1 is.
Like many young sportswriters,I had been seduced by boxing. This was the world of Mailer and Plimpton,Ali and Foreman. But the closer I got to boxing,the more ghastly things got.
WWE is saying goodbye to existing as a family-run business as it joins with the company that runs Ultimate Fighting Championship
Michael Todaro claimed all he needed to enter the arena next to Alexander Volkanovski and sit cage-side was a fake lanyard,a UFC polo and a video camera.