Miesha Tate is taking her defeat to Lauren Murphy at UFC on ABC 3 in stride. Tate (19-9 MMA, 6-6 UFC), a former UFC women’s bantamweight champion, made an unsuccessful first drop down to flyweight Saturday when she came out on the wrong end of a unanimous decision against Murphy (16-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) at … Read more
Lauren Murphy played spoiler on Saturday when she derailed Miesha Tate’s drop to a new division at UFC on ABC 3. Tate (19-9 MMA, 6-6 UFC), a former UFC women’s bantamweight champion, made the cut down to flyweight for the first time for bout at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y. Murphy (16-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) … Read more
Rafael Fiziev took a major step forward in his career Saturday when he defeated Rafael dos Anjos in his first main event opportunity at UFC on ESPN 39. Fiziev’s (12-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) sixth consecutive win was his most significant to date, because he beat former UFC champ dos Anjos (32-14 MMA, 20-12 UFC) by … Read more
As has been the case any time he’s fallen short in a fight, Max Holloway is handling his trilogy-fight loss to Alexander Volkanovski with the utmost class. Holloway suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Volkanovski in Saturday’s co-headliner at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and as a result he fell to 0-3 in the trilogy. … Read more
Alexander Volkanovski is now 3-0 over Max Holloway in head-to-head competition after emerging from UFC 276 as still the featherweight champion Volkanovski (25-1 MMA, 12-0 UFC) took a big risk by fighting Holloway (23-7 MMA, 19-7 UFC) again after winning the first pair of bouts, but it paid off with a lopsided unanimous decision victory … Read more