Sentences with phrase «ufc heavyweight»

I almost shit when I looked at this story and read «Breck Eisner» as «Brock Lesnar» — UFC Heavyweight Champion.

Those wins lead to a UFC heavyweight title eliminator against Fabricio Werdum in April 2014, the winner would face Mark Hunt for the Interim heavyweight title.

Former UFC Heavyweight Champion and Pride FC Legend, Kevin «The Monster» Randleman, passed away at the young age of 44 on February 11th.

A failed drug test for former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir more than likely means the end of his career.

Distinguishing himself from the average professional wrestlers with his staggeringly strong physique, he's on the top of his game, becoming the four - time World Heavyweight Champion, UFC Heavyweight Champion and Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.

Brock Lesnar is the reigning, defending WWE world champion and a former UFC heavyweight champion.

Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier remain the UFC Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Champions, respectively.

On SI Now, hosts Robin Lundberg and Ryan Asselta discuss the latest news surrounding Tom Brady and the Patriots, chat with the UFC heavyweight champion and review the Pelicans» victory over the Blazers.

Despite currently operating in different universes, UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic is keeping a watchful eye on WWE Universal champion Brock Lesnar.

Yet for all Lesnar's perceived faults as a fighter - i.e. advanced age, a below - average standup striking offense, and an inability to recover after taking one on the chin — the former NCAA champion and UFC heavyweight champ relishes a challenge.

The end of Lesnar's WWE run is coming, which appears to be this August at SummerSlam before his inevitable return to the UFC heavyweight division.

The former UFC heavyweight champion brings authenticity to his work unlike any other man in the business.

I certainly don't like being hit, by anyone, much less a UFC heavyweight trained to punch my head off of my neck.

Since winning the UFC Heavyweight title at UFC 198, Stipe Miocic has successfully defended it twice.

Not exact matches

Former UFC light - heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida earned $ 200,000 for a Feb. 23 fight.

The UFC put on an exclusive Fight Pass card from the O2 Arena in London, England on Saturday, featuring a main event bout between heavyweights Fabricio Werdum and Alexander Volkov.

Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather announced on Saturday that he has come out of retirement to fight UFC light heavyweight champion Conor McGregor.

In the co-main event, Daniel Cormier will defend the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Volkan Oezdemir.

Unlike Miocic, who just set the record this past January at UFC 220 for consecutive heavyweight title defenses at three, Lesnar last fought in July of 2016 after nearly five years away from the Octagon.

Nate's fight against Henderson after 7 years of UFC on FOX is still the 3rd highest rated show of UFC on FOX (only bested by a couple of heavyweight fights) and Henderson's title fights on FOX against others did not do as nearly as good.

In the UFC, Matt is just another heavyweight - exchange him with Derek Lewis and you'll probably get more eyeballs.

Right after Jon Jones defeated Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 to regain the light heavyweight title, he specifically called out Brock Lesnar:

10 Top highest paid UFC / MMA Fighters in 2015 Name: Michael Bisping Country: Cyprus Category: Light Heavyweight Style: Kickboxing, Boxing Earning More...

The Senate approved the bill in May as new UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, an upstate New York native, visited the chamber.

Ferguson made his MMA debut in 2007 and won his UFC debut against Houston Alexander in 2009 after a rousing appearance on UFC's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights.

At the time this fight was made Couture was already a legend of mixed martial arts which meant the draw for this card was huge, in fact, it was the first UFC card headlined by heavyweights to get over 1 million PPV buys.

Now the UFC had a marketable star who not only had the image but the skills to make momentous heavyweight title fights.

After becoming the most successful heavyweight champion in UFC history by defending his belt for an unprecedented third time the stage is set for Miocic to cement his name unquestionably as the greatest heavyweight of all time.

The question of whether or not Cormier could beat the current heavyweight champion has been raised on many occasions, Cormier will try to provide an answer to the question whilst also attempting to make history by becoming only the fifth man to hold a UFC Championship in two separate divisions.

Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier Heavyweight super bout set for UFC 226 The timing of this recently confirmed fight is perfect, both champions coming off impressive wins on the same card at UFC 220 with their stock on the rise.

Daniel Cormier & Cain Velasquez both train out of the American Kickboxing Academy which provided Cormier with a dilemma once he moved over to the UFC from Strikeforce as the heavyweight champion, the eventual outcome was a drop down to 205 lbs where Cormier has remained since 2014.

Former light heavyweight champion Lyoto «The Dragon» Machida is headlining a UFC event once again after serving an 18 - month suspension for violating USADA's drug testing policy.

I won The Ultimate Fighter tournament to get my UFC contract, had two stints as the UFC Light Heavyweight champ, and I mastered a variety of locks: inverted triangles, armbars, Kimuras, and more.

With an alternating yearly schedule separating EA's MMA and Fight Night franchises, a heavyweight showdown between THQ's UFC and EA's MMA could be in the cards for 2012.

UFC 3 contains an incredibly strong fighter roster from the past and present throughout 10 weight divisions comprising of women's strawweight including Joanna Jędrzejczyk; women's bantamweight including Ronda Rousey; men's flyweight including Demetrious Johnson; men's bantamweight including Dominick Cruz; men's featherweight including Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar; men's lightweight including Conor McGregor and Tony Ferguson; men's welterweight including BJ Penn, Donald Cerrone, Matt Hughes and Robbie Lawler; men's middleweight including Anderson Silva, Georges St - Pierre, Michael Bisping and Robert Whittaker; men's light heavyweight including Chuck Liddell, Daniel Cormier, Forrest Griffin and Rampage Jackson; and men's heavyweight including Stipe Miocic; and many more fighters besides.

Jon Jones also gets a quick look, and he hasn't been in UFC since last year either after facing current Light Heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier.

Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones gets the honor of being the first fighter on EA Sports UFC cover.