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What can we say about UFC fighter Conor McGregor, A young man from Crumlin who took the worlds biggest MMA organisation by storm just over 5 years ago? 5 years doesn’t seem like a long time when discussing McGregors meteoric success. He became one of the most famous athletes in …
2017 has been a hell of a ride for hardcore fight fans. We didn’t get the spectacle of a McGregor main event, or the shock of a Ronda Rousey defeat, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t a lot of entertaining scraps. From the overall feast of fights that UFC 217 …
Sport: some people love and some people can’t stand it. In one way, it’s easy to see how those us not interested in sport have developed such a distaste for it, given how it is almost impossible to escape its presence these days. If you’re not interested in 20-odd lads …
In February 2013 welterweight fighter Matthew Riddle was released from the UFC. He tested positive for marijuana twice within a year. As Riddle’s Twitter bio states he was and still is the only man in the history of the promotion to be fired on a four fight win streak. Nowadays, …
It is the fight that people have been anticipating with baited breath. The biggest draw in the UFC, lightweight champion Conor McGregor, vs 49-0 boxing legend, Floyd Mayweather. For the longest time, a fight between these two men was merely fantasy, spurred on by the constant trash talk between them …
UFC provided a new interim featherweight champion on Saturday night as Toronto played host to UFC 206. The PPV, which was hindered by controversy surrounding its main event, was headlined by Jordan Pettis vs Max Holloway with Holloway, and not Pettis, competing for the interim featherweight title. Elsewhere on the card was …
Conor McGregor became the first two weight world champion in UFC history two weeks ago after defeating then lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez with little to no real difficulty, but the question now is; who’s next? The chance to hold three belts at the same time could be too tempting for McGregor …
The UFC came rolling into the SSE Arena in Belfast last Saturday night for a sold out Fight Night 99. Gegard Mousasi and Uriah Hall’s rematch from UFC Fight Night 75 headlined the event with adopted Irish fighter Artem Lobov and SBG prospect Charlie Ward also on the card. Ward’s …
New York City. The Irish are coming. We are less than a week away from the biggest mixed martial arts event in history. For the first time ever a UFC pay per view will be broadcast from the world’s most famous arena; Madison Square Garden in the heart of New …
The McGregor/Aldo saga has been one heck of a ride, with more twists and turns than a bowl of pasta (the twisty kind). McGregor has received widespread media attention as a result of being so vocal about the upcoming fight, while Aldo has also received a fair bit of attention …