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3 weeks ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
As he was being introduced for his fight with Neil Magny in August, Michael Morales stood with his arms dangling, shaking those long limbs out as if trying to wake them up. Not quite five minutes later, when Magny had him tied up on the fence and was bleeding the clock out in the first round, Morales spun a sudden elbow into Magny’s temple. Magny hit the deck, and Morales coolly followed him down. From there it was an onslaught.
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3 weeks ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
Della Maddalena may have taken one title fight off the table with his UFC 315 win, but it's not his fault he was better than we thoughtOn 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
Outside of Pennsylvania or maybe Romania, the UFC couldn’t have placed Bo Nickal onto a better card than its UFC Fight Night in Des Moines. When you think of Iowa, you think of things like corn, fullbacks and corn-fed wrestlers built like fullbacks. Nickal has the ears to fit in. Maybe it’s because of the Miletich Fighting Systems back in the day, which was a Midwestern grindhouse in Bettendorf that produced so many of the UFC’s early champions.
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1 month ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
In a roundabout way, Jack Della Maddalena has the fate of one man, two divisions and three champions in his hands right now. That’s a lot of power to be toting up to Montreal for his welterweight title bout against Belal Muhammad next month. Muhammad is of course the one man — as in the one man who stands between Della Maddalena and the top of the mountain.
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2 months ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
If you were around in the 1990s, the George Foreman you knew was a gentle giant. You could see the dimples in his cheeks when he smiled, which was often. He would talk about his faith in such a warm way that even if you didn’t believe, you wanted to believe. The old boxing heads would tell you about his transformation from what he was in the 1970s, back when he was boxing’s heavyweight champion. The words they used made no sense. Brooding. Mean. Terrifying.
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2 months ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
In retrospect, if UFC 304 was geared toward being a kind of hero’s homecoming for Birmingham’s own Leon Edwards, Saturday’s return to England feels like it could be a sendoff. A fight with Sean Brady is such a thankless task after losing his title that it borders on cruelty. It’s like a meeting with the taxman as a dedicated 1099; all the fun of the 13-fight unbeaten spree and that two-year run as the welterweight champion comes with a heavy toll.
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2 months ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
Carlos Ulberg has had a couple of different nicknames in his day. The first, “Ladies Night,” because there was a stretch about a decade ago — just before he discovered the joy of fighting — that he worked as a male stripper all over greater New Zealand and Australia. The other, “Black Jag,” because, well, that’s his alter ego. The thinking is that, whenever Ulberg goes into Black Jag mode, he abruptly darkens from his usual nice-guy self to become a legitimate danger.
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2 months ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
NEW YORK — They don’t turn the rivers green in New York for St. Patrick’s Day, but the gutters are known to overflow with the afternoon’s intake of Guinness. And on the eve of that special day in the Big Apple, a good many were in their best and proudest greens as the Irishman himself, Callum Walsh, took center stage at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. It was an old-school affair.
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2 months ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall
There’s a fellow from Batumi, the second largest city in the country of Georgia, who has a master’s degree in management and economy. He owns several properties, including a quaint little grocery store called the Green Wood Market, just down from the Holy Christ the Savior Church on the Black Sea. He is a gentle soul by all accounts, friendly to the passersby and a proud member of his Georgian community.
