José Youngs

1 week ago | mmafighting.com | Mike Heck |José Youngs

NEW YORK—Fans clamoring for Alex Pereira to move to heavyweight are going to have to wait a bit longer. Pereira dropped the UFC light heavyweight title to Magomed Ankalaev in the main event of UFC 313 in March. With the heavyweight division up in the air, Jon Jones saying multiple times he’s not interested in fighting right now, and interim champ Tom Aspinall looking for an opponent, “Poatan” would be a popular choice to flip one of the UFC’s thinner divisions upside down.

2 weeks ago | mmafighting.com | Guilherme Cruz |José Youngs

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Diego Lopes and Yair Rodriguez had some heated altercations during the final press conference prior to UFC 314 in April, and it appears the promotion was aiming to book them up for a featherweight clash at this year’s Noche UFC event. UFC 320, also known as Noche UFC 3, was expected to take place in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sept. 13. However, due to constructions delays with the Guadalajara venue, UFC 320 was moved to Oct. 4 in Las Vegas and the Sept.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Guilherme Cruz |José Youngs

Diego Lopes and Yair Rodriguez had some heated altercations during the final press conference prior to UFC 314 in April, and it appears the promotion was aiming to book them up for a featherweight clash at this year’s Noche UFC event. UFC 320, also known as Noche UFC 3, was expected to take place in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sept. 13. However, due to constructions delays with the Guadalajara venue, UFC 320 was moved to Oct. 4 in Las Vegas and the Sept. 13 Noche UFC event is now set for San Antonio.

2 weeks ago | mmafighting.com | José Youngs

NEWARK, N.J. — Former Bellator champion Patchy Mix covers a number of topics at UFC 316 media day, including how it feels finally making his octagon debut, why he’s confident a win over Mario Bautista puts him in the thick of the bantamweight title picture, how his relationship with UFC strawweight contender Tatiana Suarez has helped his career, and more. Watch video of Mix’s media day scrum above.

1 month ago | mmafighting.com | José Youngs

UFC lightweight Chase Hooper joins MMA Fighting’s José Youngs to discuss everything from his new Kei Truck to his favorite soups, breads, Star Wars, coffee, horror movies, books, and more. Hooper most recently defeated UFC veteran Jim Miller on the main card of UFC 314 in Aprl. This extended Hooper’s win streak to five straight, which includes submissions over Clay Guida, Viacheslav Borshchev, and Jordan Leavitt.