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MMA Fighting Share this story Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC On Saturday night, UFC 258 goes down with a main event that features one of the rarest things in MMA: a-friends-turned-foes title fight! Kamaru Usman looks to break Georges St-Pierre’s record for most consecutive welterweight wins when he defends his title against his former teammate and training partner Gilbert Burns. It’s actually a really interesting matchup so let’s talk about that, Kelvin Gastelum’s return, and the end of the road for a pair of MMA legends. (Also, thanks everyone for not asking about Gi...

MMA Fighting Share this story ESTHER LIN/SHOWTIME Welp, we’re back in full UFC swing. Tonight kicks off an eight-week run of events for the UFC, and it’s doing it in style. UFC Vegas 18 is a legitimately better card than the pay-per-view event next weekend, headlined by possibly the final fight of Alistair Overeem’s career (at this point, every next fight might be his last). So let’s talk about The Reem, the lightweights, and end of the year. One Final Run Does Overeem have a legitimate chance at becoming HW champion?— DonJon (@theradaman) February 3, 2021 For the la...

Bellator 216: MVP vs. Daley Preview and Predictions Bellator 216 is the second part of Bellator MMA’s weekend doubleheader taking place at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The card’s headliner is a quarterfinal bout of the Bellator Welterweight Grand Prix. Knockout veteran Paul Daley goes toe-to-toe with human highlight reel Michael “Venom” Page. Daley dropped a unanimous decision to Jon Fitch at Bellator 199. Page retained his undefeated record one event later at Bellator 200, where he beat David Rickels by verbal submission. The co-main event is a heavyweight affair betwee...

Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic (Facebook) On the occasion of the official establishment of the Croatian MMA Union, Dražen Forgač and Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipović addressed the media.  Motivated by the status of MMA in the Croatian sports community, prominent people from the Croatian MMA scene decided to establish the Croatian MMA Union, a freestyle federation through which they will try to improve the state of sport in the country, but get MMA recognised by the Croatian Olympic Committee. The idea of the Croatian MMA Union came from Dražen Forgač, who was named president of the Union a...