MMA News

Sean O’Malley offers a conspiracy theory as to why Louis Smolka decided to withdraw from the UFC 264 match

Sean O’Malley has an interesting explanation for why Louis Smolka withdrew from their UFC 264 fight.   O’Malley was forced out of the fight less than two weeks before it was scheduled to take place due to a staph infection. “Suga,” on the other hand, believes there is more to it.   Just days before Smolka pulled out, O’Malley’s manager, Jason House – who also manages O’Malley’s colleagues, Kyler Phillips and Casey

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‘Sh-thead,’ says Robert Whittaker. Prior to UFC 243, Israel Adesanya made an impression on me

  Whitaker was knocked out in the second round by Adesanya, and he confesses that the pre-fight trash talk influenced the outcome. The Australian believes Adesanya is still a “piece of sht,” but is determined to keep his emotions in check in the rematch.   “Lets not talk too much about Israel because I think he’s a piece of sh-t,” Whittaker said (h/t MMAMania). “He’s just

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Chael Sonnen defends Dana White and the UFC on the issue of fighter compensation

Fighter pay is a major topic in MMA right now, as many fighters are asking for a bigger piece of the pie as the sport grows, especially with YouTubers like Jake Paul demonstrating how much money there is out there. Paul has become a champion for fighter compensation, donating to UFC women’s flyweight Sarah Alpar’s GoFundMe, which once again brought attention to some of the issues.     Sonnen talked out on UFC fighter pay on his YouTube channel, defending the world’s largest MMA organization and White over how much they pay their athletes. Sonnen, for example, pointed out that a UFC rookie’s current minimum pay structure is $12,000 to show and $12,000 to win. Sonnen, on the other hand, claims that he first fought for the UFC in 2005 on a $2000 to

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