WWE and the owners of mixed martial arts franchise UFC are to form a new £17.3bn sports entertainment brand. The publicly traded company will see UFC owners Endeavor Group Holdings taking a 51% controlling interest, and existing WWE shareholders 49%.…
UFC: Jon Jones to fight Ciryl Gane for heavyweight title as Francis Ngannou leaves UFC
Former champion Jon Jones will make his UFC comeback after three years out when he fights Ciryl Gane for the heavyweight title in March. Jones, who has not competed since beating Dominick Reyes in February 2020, gave up his light-heavyweight…
Jake Paul accused of ducking ex-UFC star as fight contract leaked before big announcement
Former UFC welterweight Mike Perry has accused Jake Paul of ducking him after leaking a signed contract for a fight with the YouTube star. Paul has teased a big announcement today on social media which many believes will be his…
Dana White, wife Anne, slap each other in New Year’s Eve bar fight in Mexico
Dana White and his wife, Anne, had a brief physical fight at a New Year’s Eve party in Mexico. The longtime UFC boss and his wife were partying in the VIP section of El Squid Roe in Cabo San Lucas.…
Metal knuckles: Adesanya released after arrest in US
Former UFC middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, who was reportedly arrested for taking brass knuckles through security at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York has been released. The PUNCH had reported how the 33-year-old, who lost his title by TKO…
UFC champion Kamaru Usman furious after being woken at 5am for drug test
Kamaru Usman has expressed his frustration after being woken up in the early hours of the morning for a drug test just over a week out from his UFC title fight. Usman is scheduled to make the sixth defence of…
Dana White reacts as fighters are disqualified for being too boring
The boss of a Russian mixed martial arts tournament shocked Dana White after stopping a contest and disqualifying both fighters for being too boring. UFC boss White tuned in to a Russian MMA tournament this week and likely wanted to…
UFC 275: Adesanya beats Cannonier to retain middleweight title
Nigeria’s Israel Adesanya cruised to the fourth title defence of his middleweight UFC belt against Jared Cannonier early on Sunday morning (Nigerian time) in a fight that sometimes looked one-sided. The fight ended in a unanimous decision with the judges…
Another UFC win for ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’, Usman Kamarudeen
Usman Kamarudeen, whose only loss in his UFC career goes as far back as 2013, is the man dubbed ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’, a name which he inherited from a former Nigerian-American NFL star, Christian Okoye. Usman Kamaru, as he goes…
*Police nab father over alleged defilement of four daughters in Lagos (Punch)*Lagos police command gets new PRO (Vanguard)
Police nab father over alleged defilement of four daughters in Lagos (Punch) A father of six, Sunday Julius, is currently in police custody in Lagos over alleged defilement of four of his daughters aged seven, 10, 11 and 15. Julius,…