This is the UFC Vegas 97 live blog for Gilbert Burns vs. Sean Brady, the welterweight main event this Saturday in Las Vegas. Burns, a former Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion, joined the UFC in 2014 and spent the first part of his career as a good but not great lightweight. Then “Durinho” moved back up […]
Alex Pereira has had a wild journey to the top of the UFC, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots. As a teenager, he left school at 12 to work in a tire repair shop in Brazil. He spent years of his life doing backbreaking car work and slipped into alcoholism. Kickboxing took him away from […]
Contender Series is back! Season 8 kicks off TONIGHT (Tuesday, August 13, 2024) at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is packed with top talent in mixed martial arts (MMA). Freak athlete, Mansur Abdul-Malikmeets his fellow finisher, Wesley Schultzin the main event. Meanwhile, in the first fight of the evening, viral knockout artist, […]
