Watch the second episode of the UFC Embedded series of video blogs dedicated to the UFC 236 tournament: Holloway vs Poirier 2.
On April 14 at the UFC 236 in Atlanta, in the main event the current featherweight champion Max Holloway will fight Dustin Poirier for an interim lightweight title. On the eve of the fight, bookmakers in their quotes give advantage to Holloway.
Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey was injured while performing at the wrestling show WrestleMania35. The athlete broke her arm. Rosie during the show met in the ring with Becky Lynch and Charlotte Fleur. The victory eventually went to Lynch, who won the belt WWE Raw and WWE Smack Down.
The top UFC bantamweight Peter Yan stated that he does not consider his star compatriot Khabib Nurmagomedov a spectacular fighter.
Russian mixed martial arts fighter Vartan Asatryan will be fined 20% of his purse for insulting judges after a fight with Ali Bagautin. This was stated by the head of the promotion Fight Nights Global.
UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier expressed confidence that former title holder and now WWE superstar Brock Lesnar deserves to fight again for the belt. “This is a fight that I want. I think everyone wants to fight Brock. We all want to fight Brock,” said Cormier.
Former UFC super bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw has been suspended for two years from performing by the USADA anti-doping agency.
Watch the traditional Countdown dedicated to the UFC 236 tournament on April 13 in Atlanta, USA. Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier will headline the event as they battle for an interim lightweight belt. In the second co main event, Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya will determine the interim middleweight champion.
Conor McGregor is reportedly under investigation in Ireland after allegedly punching a man on Saturday in a pub in Dublin. The UFC superstar was at the Marble Arch pub in Drimnagh (a suburb of Dublin) when he was approached by another patron who thought Conor was acting like a jerk, ...
Nationalist and MMA fighter Viacheslav Datsik will hold the first bout after being released from prison on April 15. "Datsik will hold a battle with Artem Tarasov on April 15," the TASS inrormed.