After McGregor’s triumph in UFC 205, the organization’s new owners may as well give the Irishman a cut of the money. He’s doing whatever he wants now anywayFight report: McGregor puts on a show to become two-division championConor McGregor may act like an unrepentant lout at times. He may taunt, scorn and torment his opponents, the way he played with Eddie Alvarez before finishing him off early Sunday morning. He may drive you nuts. But he has turned the UFC into his own little game, in which he makes the rules and picks the prizes. At some point you have to shake your head and marvel.Well after midnight on Sunday morning, UFC president Dana White glowed as he sat at...
The nimble wit that helped launch the star of the Irishman was a distant memory when he faced off with Eddie Alvarez at Thursday’s UFC 205 press conferenceThere was a time not very long ago when a Conor McGregor press conference was still something engaging. Now, as his popularity has boomed and his face dominates the sides of buildings, he has become a caricature of his worst self: a man seeking attention, devoid of the substance that once made him fun.During Thursday’s press conference for UFC 205, perhaps the biggest fighting show ever, McGregor wore a white fur coat he said was mink, stomped around in red pajama pants and held a blue folding chair high above his head, threatening...
The welterweight champion and Ferguson native, who defends his title on Saturday at UFC 205, is keen to use his platform for meaningful activismUFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is an African American athlete in the modern age of sports activism. He does not take this responsibility lightly. He grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, and that fact alone gives him a voice on racial matters for it was his town, his neighborhood, his very street where Michael Brown was shot and his body lay for hours baking in the summer sun. As a young black man in Ferguson he was racially profiled, pulled over needlessly by police and once thrown in a paddy wagon with a group of friends because he...
The fighter was a huge draw at his peak but taking on Dana White and Co is an incredibly difficult struggle for anyoneIs Georges St-Pierre a UFC fighter?For the first time since January 2004 the answer could be something other than “yes.” Related: UFC may be ‘half panic and half lunacy’ but buzz and cash keep fighters hooked | Andy Bull Continue reading...
Michael Bisping was taken to hospital after retaining his middleweight title against Dan Henderson but says the pain is a price worth payingCut off Michael Bisping at the neck and you will likely find that he is still goading you to come back for more as his head goes rolling across the floor. He is a man who absolutely will not quit. Which is why, at the age of 37, he has become the first Briton to win a UFC world title, and, in defending it in the early hours of Sunday, the first person ever to win 20 fights in their UFC career. Two days before his latest victory, against Dan Henderson at the Manchester Arena, Bisping was asked...