UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad knows what it’s like to go through a training camp during Ramadan. Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) most recently trained through Ramadan for a fight when he took on Gilbert Burns at UFC 288 in May 2023. He won the five-round fight by unanimous decision to become No. 1 contender.
MMA Junkie analyst Dan Tom goes in-depth to break down the biggest fights in the UFC. Today, he takes a closer look at the UFC 312 co-main event title fight between women’s strawweight champion Zhang Weili and Tatiana Suarez. Zhang Weili UFC 312 preview Zhang Weili Staple info: Record: 25-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC Height: 5’4″ Age:
Coach Sayif Saud doesn’t expect Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland to hold anything back when their UFC 312 rematch begins. Less than 13 months after Du Plessis (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) took the middleweight title off Strickland (29-6 MMA, 16-6 UFC) by debated split decision at UFC 297, the pair will run it back
Share this article share tweet text email link on Facebook on Twitter via text message on LinkedIn via email https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2025/02/ufc-312-video-zhang-weili-vs-tatiana-suarez-faceoff-press-conference February 6, 2025 2:52 am ET Zhang Weili and Tatiana Suarez sized each other up for the first time at the UFC 312 pre-fight press conference. After answering questions from the media, Weili (25-3 MMA,
Share this article share tweet text email link on Facebook on Twitter via text message on LinkedIn via email https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2025/02/ufc-312-video-dricus-du-plessis-sean-strickland-faceoff-press-conference February 6, 2025 2:47 am ET After exchanging words at the UFC 312 pre-fight press conference, Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland came face-to-face for the first time on fight week. Du Plessis (22-2 MMA,
The UFC 312 pre-fight press conference takes place Thursday, and you can watch a live stream of the event in the video above. The press conference takes place at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, which also hosts Saturday’s fight card. UFC 312 is built around two championship fights. Dricus Du Plessis (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC)
Pakistan’s representation isn’t typically prominent at combat sports outings, but at recent Karate Combat events the country’s flags have waved proudly. That’s because of Shahzaib Rind. He’s perhaps not a household name internationally quite yet, but his accomplishments are well known among those back home. The Karate Combat lightweight champion, Rind said the attention from
Ten years ago, Jake Matthews was in his early 20s and considered one of the best prospects in the UFC. Well, Francisco Prado believes that label belongs to him now, and wants to show that he’s the future and Matthews a thing of the past. The 22-year-old welterweight Argentine brawler takes on Matthews (20-7 MMA,
Aleksandre Topuria might be Ilia Topuria’s brother but that doesn’t mean he can fight like him, says Colby Thicknesse. Thicknesse (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) takes on the UFC featherweight champion’s older brother, Aleksandre (5-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), this Saturday on the preliminary card of UFC 312 (pay-per-view, ESPN2/Disney+, ESPN+), which takes place at Qudos Bank Arena
Dricus Du Plessis thinks Israel Adesanya’s best days are behind him. After Adesanya (24-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) suffered a third consecutive loss for the first time in his combat sports career and fell to 1-4 in his past five fights with a second-round knockout defeat to Nassourdine Imavov this past Saturday at UFC Fight Night
Zhang Weili is ready for the challenge that the unbeaten Tatiana Suarez will bring to the table at UFC 312. Weili (25-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) will attempt to make the third defense of her second strawweight title reign when she meets Suarez (10-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) in the co-headliner of Saturday’s co-headliner at Qudos Bank
Share this article share tweet text email link on Facebook on Twitter via text message on LinkedIn via email https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2025/02/ufc-saudi-arabia-israel-adesanya-retire-loss February 4, 2025 1:25 pm ET Israel Adesanya is in a tricky spot. For the first time in his MMA career, Adesanya has suffered three defeats in a row, with his latest being this past
