Page 33 - Din Thomas News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

MMA Fighting Share this story Esther Lin, MMA Fighting A matchup between up and coming flyweight contenders has been rebooked for the UFC’s second pay-per-view event in March. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that the fight between Gillian Robertson and Miranda Maverick has been rebooked for UFC 260. The event takes place March 27 at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. FighterPath was first to report the new date. Robertson and Maverick were set to compete at UFC 258, but the bout was cancelled the day of the event after Robertson fell i...

MMA Fighting Share this story Photo by Susumu Nagao/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images It wasn’t supposed to be Jens Pulver. When the UFC lightweight division — known as the bantamweight division at the time — was established in 2001, the new owners of the promotion had initially targeted their trainer as the most likely candidate to compete in the first championship fight for the weight class. Three months before Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta along with their friend Dana White purchased the UFC for $2 million from the struggling promoters at SEG, the trio were really jus...

MMA Fighting Share this story Esther Lin, MMA Fighting UFC 258 is down to 10 bouts after a flyweight matchup between Gillian Robertson and Miranda Maverick was scratched from the card when Robertson fell ill. Robertson came down with a non-COVID related illness, the UFC announced just hours before the start of Saturday’s card, and was forced to withdraw from the event. Her coach Din Thomas told MMA Fighting her withdrawal was not related to weight-cutting, but she “got really sick” and was unable to fight. Robertson subsequently posted on Instagram she woke up and vomi...

You can find tape of Alistair Overeem's professional MMA debut online if you want to see it -- although don't expect to watch it in high definition. It was Oct. 24, 1999. Overeem was 19 years old, and he fought a very muscular older opponent by the name of Ricardo Fyeet, aka "The Animal," in Haarlem, Netherlands. When the opening bell sounded, Overeem's first action as a teenage professional fighter was a dead sprint across the ring into a flying knee. The knee missed by about 5 feet, but looking back, what a fitting way to start what has become a storied career in MMA. More than two decades ...

Matt Serra and Din Thomas tour the desert outside Abu Dhabi on camelback, ATVs and sand surfboards. They join Dana White and Khabib Nurmagomedov at a local MMA event, where they discover multiple athletes… plus announcer and chef talent to boot. Take a look at the latest episode of Dana White: Lookin’ For a Fight, from the UFC’s third trip to Fight Island. (Video courtesy of UFC)