Chuck Mindenhall

3 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Chuck Mindenhall

On the one hand, the musical champions thing that the UFC has going on in the wake of UFC 315 is kind of fun, so long as newly crowned welterweight champ Jack Della Maddalena doesn’t get any bright ideas of going up to challenge Dricus du Plessis. For as good as Islam Makhachev has been for the past decade, he’s still trying to distinguish himself from his coach and mentor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, his sauna soulmate who has been attached at his hip for as long as there’s been MMA coverage.

5 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Chuck Mindenhall

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6 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Chuck Mindenhall

The language barrier might be steep, but Manon Fiorot speaks the universal language fluently whenever she steps in the cage to fight. Hailing from Nice, on the French Riviera, she was shipped over to face the 25-year-old Erin Blanchfield in Atlantic City last June, in a fight — let’s just be honest — she was being set up to lose. The devil was in the details. Blanchfield was a decade younger, undefeated and from New Jersey. Nobody wanted to fight her, especially on the Jersey Shore.

6 days ago | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Chuck Mindenhall

It’s been a decade since the Octagon was dropped into the Bell Centre in Montreal, and this time — with the welterweight title fight between Belal Muhammad and Jack Della Maddalena — we’ll find out the fate of two divisions. It’s also the return of the queen herself, Valentina Shevchenko, who makes her first title defense in her second reign against Manon Fiorot, and legend Jose Aldo makes the walk for the 23rd time in his storied UFC career. Here are the burning questions ahead of UFC 315. 1.

1 week ago | ca.sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall

Bo Nickal got run over by a Reinier, which is par for the UFC course in 2025Back in January, the blue-chip prospect Payton Talbott made the walk as a 10-to-1 favorite against Raoni Barcelos at UFC 311 and then got dominated for three rounds. That hurt, but not nearly as bad as the kicks he received on social media after the loss. Playing along, he posted afterward that he was sentencing himself to Dagestan to learn to wrestle. Last week, Carlos Prates suffered something similar.