Juan “The Baby Bull” Diaz announced his retirement today via a open letter to fans. The former unified light weight champion had a great career and gave fans thrilling bouts, most notably his 2009 fight of the year with current lightweight king Juan Manuel Marquez. Below is the letter Diaz sent out officially announcing his [...]
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Michael Guymon “Once Werdum Takes It To The Ground, It Is Submission Time!”
You’re sitting at the Poker table with all your cash being pushed forward to the center of the table. Yeah that’s right it’s all in time. Every dollar you own is now in the middle of the table, you lay down your cards only to realize that yes you just lost everything attached to your [...]
Brandon Vera Predicts Strikeforce Grand Prix “My Money is on Overeem, he is on fire!”
This Saturday, Strikeforce will be descending upon Dallas, Texas to drop the second round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix. In the first round we saw the man who at one point was seen as invincible, Fedor Emelianenko lose to Antonio “Big Foot” Silva in one of the biggest upsets of the year. Silva will [...]
Sergio Pettis, Brother Of UFC Star Anthony Pettis To Make MMA Debut
Sergio Pettis, the brother of the last WEC Lightweight Champion and current UFC lightweight Anthony “Showtime” Pettis is only 17 years old but has been training at the prestigious Roufusport camp preparing to walk in his brothers footsteps. Now, he will take the next step of his career as he competes for the Canadian Fighting [...]
Khan: “I know how to beat Judah and I’m already way ahead of schedule.”
The highly anticipated welterweight unification bout between WBA welterweight champion Amir Khan and IBF welterweight champion Zab Judah is set to take place on July 23rd in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay but yesterday in Los Angeles, some pre fight fireworks were displayed by fighters, camps and fans. With a big contingent of Khan [...]
Eric Prindle “I don’t make predictions; I make preparations.”
Bellator’s Eric Prindle is one of those rare and special athletes. Combining both height, mass and speed like current crops of UFC heavyweights such as Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin, It is rare to see a man combine both. “The American Soldier” Eric Prindle (7-1, six T/KO finishes) is a rarity certainly exists. At 6’5”, [...]
De La Hoya, Shaw, Arum, Bernstein Speak on UFC’s Buyout of Strikeforce
It is funny to see how really something can change in a matter of months. The world is ever changing and this runs true for the fight game. You have promoters buying out other fighters contracts, promotions snatching up other peoples fighters and promoters buying out other promoters. When the UFC bought Strikeforce earlier in [...]
Chavez Jr. vs. Zbik Post Fight Press Conference Highlights
Last night at Staples Center in Los Angeles, the son of the legend, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. won a controversial decision over Sebastian Zbik to win the WBC middleweight title. In doing so, Chavez Jr. became a world champion for the first time and the first Mexican to win a title at that weight. Here [...]
Zbik Speaks On Chavez Loss “I Brought The Fight. I Don’t Know How This Happened”
Our Fight Hub TV fight correspondent Marcos Villegas caught up with Sebastian Zbik to speak on his controversial loss to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at the Staples Center last night in Los Angeles. Stay tuned in as we will have more video up from last night’s event!
Froch Routes Johnson For Super Six Final Showdown With Andre Ward
WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl “The Cobra” Froch (28-1, 20 KOs) successfully defended his title and advanced to the Final of the inaugural Super Six World Boxing Classic against Andre Ward with a majority 12-round decision over Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson (51-15-2, 35 KOs) at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. In the co-feature, Mikkel [...]
Chavez-Zbik live results
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Def. Sebastian Zbik via md (114-114, 115-113,116-112) Mikey Garcia def. Rafael Guzman via KO in R4 (1:55) Vanes Martirosyan def. Saul Roman via TKO in R7 Dakota Stone def. Christy Martin via TKO in R6 (1:09) Jessie Roman def. James Grant via KO in R2 (1:00) Oscar Andrade def. Kai Zama [...]
UFC-The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale Weigh In Results
Main Event: Tony Ferguson (169) vs. Ramsey Nijem (170) Clay Guida (155) vs. Anthony Pettis (155) Tim Credeur (185) vs. Ed Herman (186) Kyle Kingsbury (206) vs. Fabio Maldonado (203) Chris Cope (170) vs. Chuck O’Neil (170) Prelims: Danny Downes (155) vs. Jeremy Stephens (156) Josh Grispi (145) vs. George Roop (146) Shamar Bailey (171) [...]
Zbik and Chavez Make Weight In LA
The son of legendary Mexican boxer Juli Cesar Chavez Jr. will attempt to win his first championship tomorrow night at The Staples Center when he faces fellow undefeated challenger and reigning undefeated WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik. Both fighters hit the scales today in Los Angeles as their bout will be televised tomorrow on HBO’s [...]
Froch and Johnson Make Weight in Atlantic City
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch and boxing’s ageless wonder Glen Johnson hit the scales today in Atlantic City ahead of their Showtime Super Middleweight semi-final bout. The winner will head onto the final to face WBA Super middleweight champion Andre Ward to conclude the Showtime Super Middleweight Boxing classic. Weights are below: Carl Froch: [...]
Kessler And Bouadla Make Weight
The Pride of Denamrk, Mikkel Kessler and his opponent Mehdi Bouadla weighed in for their bout this Saturday in Copenhagen as part of the televised Showtime Super Six Semi Finals between Carl Froch and Glen Johnson. Weights are shown below Mikkel Kessler: 75.5 kg Mehdi Bouadla: 75.3 kg Middleweight: Patrick Nielsen: 72.5 kg Joe Rea: [...]
Think You Can Fight For Bellator? Tryout Then!
Bellator Fighting Championships announced today that it will host an open tryout from Hollywood, Florida on June 18th that will provide a once-in-a-lifetime chance for an undiscovered professional fighter to earn a spot in one of the organization’s upcoming area events. The tryout will take place at The Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard [...]
Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz Is Set Homies
This is where MMA has learned from boxing. When fans demand a fight in MMA they are listened too and not ignored or pushed to the side by promotional politics or fighter ego. Yea, I’m referring to the inability for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao to fight each other, but that is a different [...]
Hopkins Honored In Philadelphia In Front Of Rocky Statue
Boxing’s timeless wonder Bernard Hopkins was honored today by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter for his championship win over Jean Pascal for the WBC light heavyweight title belt. Hopkins had a full ceremony, proclamation and was presented a liberty bell replica all in front of the now famous Rocky statue. Though I dont knw how I [...]
Even A Fight With Fedor Wont Bring Back Randy Couture
Our Fight Hub cameras caught up with living legend Randy Couture recently in Las Vegas. Couture who we most recently saw against Lyoto Machida officially retired from MMA competition after receiving a Ralph Macchio inspired kick from the Karate master. Couture happened to be throwing a event for his GI Foundation when we met up [...]
So Manny Pacquiao is no longer suing Golden Boy, but what about Mayweather?
In a just released statement sent to our inbox, it seems the war between Manny Pacquiao, the eight division world champion and current pound-4-pound best boxer in the world right now and Golden Boy Promotions has reached a end. Pacquiao thru his publicist announced that he is no longer suing Oscar De La Hoya and [...]