10:46 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Tyron Woodley was planning on making a big splash during his walkout to Saturday’s welterweight title defense. Instead, he ended up making a bold statement, drawing inspiration from an athlete outside of MMA. Tyron Woodley refers to himself as the “worst-treated champion” in UFC history. Will Saturday’s sensational win over
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Sep 11, 2018 UFC lightweight Michael Chiesa has filed a civil lawsuit against Conor McGregor, seeking damages he allegedly suffered during McGregor’s infamous bus attack in April. Chiesa, 30, was scheduled to fight at UFC 223 on April 7 in Brooklyn but was forced to withdraw when he suffered minor injuries during McGregor’s attack, days
4:14 PM ET Chamatkar SandhuESPN Valentina Shevchenko has her eyes firmly set on fighting for the vacant women’s flyweight title after it was stripped from Nicco Montaño last Friday. Shevchenko (15-3) and Montaño (4-2) were set to clash at UFC 228 this past weekend in Dallas, Texas, for the 125-pound title. However, Montaño was taken
6:18 AM ET Ghana’s Abdul Razak Alhassan made light work of Niko Price at UFC 228 in Texas this weekend, winning his welterweight bout inside 45 seconds. “Judo Thunder” talks to KweséESPN about his knockout victory over the American, walking out to ‘The circle of life,’ and fighting in the Welterweight division. KweséESPN: Thoughts after
11:31 AM ET There’s a good chance Darren Till will have multiple shots at a UFC title before his career is over, but his first crack at one could not have gone worse on Saturday against Tyron Woodley. Woodley submitted Till in the second round of their welterweight title fight in Dallas, and he didn’t
2:27 PM ET Back in July 2016, there was an interesting media day prior to UFC 201 in Atlanta. Tyron Woodley was set to challenge Robbie Lawler for the welterweight title, and the UFC arranged an opportunity for reporters to speak to both. Rather than really answer any questions, however, Woodley responded to nearly every
12:57 AM ET DALLAS —Tyron Woodley took every negative critique against him — boring, old, slowing down — and delivered a brutal right hand to each one, scoring a second-round submission victory over Darren Till in the main event of UFC 228. Before UFC 228’s main event between Tyron Woodley and Darren Till, a multitude
12:23 AM ET DALLAS — The co-main for UFC 228 was supposed to be a UFC women’s flyweight championship bout between champion Nicco Montano and No. 1 contender Valentina Shevchenko, but things haven’t gone exactly as planned for the UFC in 2018, as at least eight main events have been affected by injury, weight cuts