Michael Page questions the reliability of UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira’s fighting style. Pereira (9-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) makes his first title defense against Jamahal Hill (12-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 300 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) headliner at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Page acknowledges Pereira’s power but thinks he takes too much … Read more
This is it, right? Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou was the No. 1 fight on MMA Junkie’s wish list for 2023, and it is again for 2024. However, now more than ever it seems this one won’t happen. Ngannou is signed to PFL for MMA and it etching his name into boxing’s heavyweight division with … Read more
A new year brings new fights, but some of the proposed matchups ahead for 2024 don’t exactly make the most sense. Perhaps the shining example, for better or worse, is the UFC’s plan to stick to having the heavyweight champ Jon Jones’ next fight be against Stipe Miocic. The fight scheduled for UFC 295 was … Read more
If your capacity for following mixed martial arts begins and ends with the UFC calendar, then you have reached the end of the year. But even if you’re itching for that New Year’s Eve combat sports extravaganza from Japan-based Rizin, it’s at this point that we can pretty comfortably look back on 2023 in MMA … Read more
