We are just over one month away from UFC 250, and with Brazil far and away the hardest hit South American country in terms of overall coronavirus cases, it’s more than reasonable to think that this card won’t happen as originally planned. With that in mind, the card’s co-headliners have an idea to salvage their title fight.
Dana White is convinced that the show will go on.
UFC 249: Khabib vs. Ferguson was originally scheduled to take place in New York at the Barclays Center. It got relocated because, as everyone knows (well, presumably), there’s a pandemic going on. This all prompted White to get angry and emotional.
Outside the main event, UFC 248 was an action-packed card. No fight more so than the co-main strawweight title fight between champion Weili Zhang and challenger Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The two women threw almost 800 strikes combined over 5 rounds, with both landing at a significant clip. By the time the final bell rang, their faces were swollen and bruised. Jedrzejczyk especially looked like she could be on the shelf for a while.
Daniel Cormier’s long awaited trilogy bout with Stipe Miocic is close to being finalized, per a recent Instagram Live session with UFC welterweight champ Kamaru Usman.
Cormier lost the heavyweight title to Miocic at UFC 241 after succumbing to a barrage of body shots in the fourth round.
Colby Covington fought the biggest fight of his career at UFC 245 when he challenged Kamaru Usman’s welterweight title. But apparently, he was battling other serious problems leading up to the event.
In a recent guesting on the It’s All About Who You Know podcast, “Chaos” revealed he had food poisoning caused by one of the meals prepared by the UFC staff. The incident, he says, almost forced him to pull out.
Amanda Nunes made short work of Cris Cyborg at UFC 232, KO’ing the feared Brazilian knockout artist to capture the featherweight title and become the first female two-division champ in UFC history.
Nunes made Cyborg look like an amateur on that night, but retired UFC veteran Josh Thomson believes people shouldn’t be so quick to write the former champ off.
The top of the UFC Rio Rancho billing just concluded with the promotion’s #6 ranked light heavyweight, Jan Blachowicz, knocking out the #5 ranked, Corey Anderson, cold! Anderson was the aggressor, but it only took one from Blachowicz to get the knockdown, and then one ground strike to get the finish. Was that enough to get the next title shot at the champ?
After stubbornly trying to keep its event schedule intact even through the coronavirus pandemic, the UFC has decided to indefinitely postpone three upcoming fight night events: The March 21 card previously slated for London, the event headlined by Francis Ngannou vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik on March 28, and the card topped by Alistair Overeem vs. Walt Harris on April 11.
UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has been targeting fellow champion Jon Jones for the last couple of months now. Quite expectedly, “The Last Stylebender” had a lot to say after UFC 247, where “Bones” won a controversial decision against Dominick Reyes.
