Legendary Manny Paqiao, who is currently 44 years old, decided to surprise the boxing community once again. Manny plans to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games, which will be held in Paris. The Filipino wants to win a gold medal and retire at the age of 45.
Today, the MMAfighting portal, citing open sources, published the net fees (excluding bonuses for "Performance of the Night" and "Fight of the Night") of the participants of the UFC 292 tournament. The champion of the promotion received the largest fee Weili Jean — 520,000 dollars.
UFC President Dana White answered a question if he plans to organize a fourth fight between the reigning featherweight champion of the promotion Alex Volkanovski and former champion of this division Max Holloway. During today's press conference, the functionary said that he did not like this idea.
On September 9, Sydney will host the 293rd UFC tournament, which will be headlined by the promotion's middleweight champion. Israel Adesanya with the applicant Sean Strickland. In anticipation of this fight, the promotion released the official trailer for this fight:
Sean Porter, former world champion, spoke about Daniel Dubois' punch, which he delivered in the fifth round of the fight with Oleksandr Usyk. According to Porter, Usyk was pretending in this episode.
Cyril Gun, a former contender for the UFC heavyweight championship belt, recalled his defeat to Jon Jones.
The well-known British promoter Eddie Hearn spoke about the desire of Daniel Dubois and his team to protest the outcome of the fight with Oleksandr Usyk and declare it void.
Popular blogger and more recently a boxer Logan Paul again turned to the former UFC champion in two divisions Conor McGregorby offering a new bet. This time, Logan offered Conor a $2 million bet. Paul is confident he can beat Dillon Danis, a friend of McGregor's who Conor ...
On September 2, the UFC Fight Night 226 tournament will be held in Paris, which will lead the confrontation between two heavyweights: Cyril Gun against Sergei Spivak. On the eve of the fight, the bookmakers named the favorite and the underdog of this fight.
Oscar de la Hoya, a former world champion, spoke out about a possible fight between the undisputed world super middleweight champion Saul Alvarez and absolute world welterweight champion Terence Crawford.