Ryan Harkness

Canada

The artist formerly known as Fightlinker, now reppin MMA Mania. Co-host of the Let It Roll TechnoRoll series. Really more of a tumblr kinda guy

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Articles

Topuria reflects on wine-drinking weight cuts: ‘What the f- are we doing?’

6 days ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

YouTube - The Schmo With his move to lightweight, former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria is looking forward to a safer, less horrific weight cut. The UFC’s new star is growing in popularity and size, which was why he decided to stop torturing himself to make 145 pounds and dropped the belt (or was stripped). In a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Topuria described just how bad things got.
Lawsuit? GFL used pictures of $20 million bank balance to sign fighters

6 days ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC The Global Fight League saga continues to get stranger and stranger as the fledgling promotion attempts to regain its footing after cancelling its May doubleheader weekend. News came out last week that the GFL was pulling the plug on its two debut events on May 24th and 25th and would try to reschedule everything for sometime in June, somewhere outside of California.
Cormier on Makhachev vs. Topuria: ‘Dude ain’t doing what he doesn’t want to do’

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Once considered the obvious choice for Islam Makhachev’s next title defense, a fight with Ilia Topuria is now looking less and less likely. Topuria has quickly become the hottest star in the UFC and has the potential to become another transcendent legend of the sport. He vacated his featherweight title after knocking out two of the greatest champs to ever fight in the division with ease.
Jones shares tweet-and-delete update on potential Aspinall superfight

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC The will he / won’t he surrounding Jon Jones fighting Tom Aspinall continues, and once again we are here to tell you things are not looking great. Aspinall has been circling Jones for years since “Bones” won the vacant heavyweight title back in March 2023. Two years later, and Jon’s only title defense was against a washed Stipe Miocic five months ago. Since then we’ve heard a lot of reassurances from UFC CEO Dana White that he’d get Jones vs.
Evloev calls for Rodriguez title eliminator: ‘You have to beat me first’

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images Movsar Evloev isn’t the hottest contender at 145 pounds right now as far as many fans are concerned, but there’s no denying his resume is the best. Evloev is 19-0 in MMA with a 9-0 record in the UFC. The only issue? The 31-year-old Russian fighter hasn’t finished an opponent since entering the UFC in 2019. His grinding wrestling style and lack of violent offense hasn’t made him a favorite with the public or matchmakers.
Garry shares video of Prates quitting fight: ‘His true fighting spirit’

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images UFC Kansas City goes down Saturday April 26th with an intriguing welterweight showdown between Ian Machado Garry and Carlos Prates. And with less than two weeks to go before they scrap, Garry is kicking off the trash talk. “The Future” is well known for his borderline inappropriate mental warfare before bouts. He made a shirt with Geoff Neal’s DUI mugshot on it, and accused Neil Magny of child abuse.
KSI manager on Conor McGregor fight: ‘We were told it was a done deal’

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Leonardo Fernandez/Getty Images Misfits Boxing head and KSI manager Mams Taylor is opening up on how close a boxing match between Conor McGregor and KSI was to coming together ... and he says it was very close. KSI (real name Olajide Olatunji) hasn’t stepped into the ring since a 2023 loss to Tommy Fury. Since then he’s pulled out of four fights in a row, most recently against Dillon Danis in March due to a dubious illness.
GFL offering fighters ‘revenue sharing’ instead of guaranteed purses

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

GFL Fallout from the Global Fight League canceling their big debut weekend double-header continues to reverberate through the MMA scene as around 60 aging fighters come to terms with the reality that the big money contracts they signed aren’t going to cash out. The GFL arrived on the scene in dubious fashion after multiple years of delay and scant details on where the money was coming from to pay reportedly huge fighter contracts.
Volkanovski coach reveals champ may have broken his hand early against Lopes

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Alexander Volkanovski not only beat Diego Lopes on Saturday night at UFC 314, he did it with a potentially broken hand. Volkanovski proved he was still the best featherweight not named Ilia Topuria by handling Lopes for five rounds, earning a 49-46, 49-46, and 48-47 unanimous decision to take back the 145 pound belt (video highlights here). He managed to do that despite his age and despite bunging up his hand early in the fight.
Colby Covington to Paddy Pimblett: ‘Stop using my name to stay relevant!’

1 week ago | mmamania.com | Ryan Harkness

Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC Paddy Pimblett and Colby Covington ended up having a run-in at UFC 314 on Saturday night in Miami, and now Covington is giving his version of what went down on his YouTube channel. Video came out soon after Pimblett’s impressive second round TKO of Michael Chandler of “The Baddy” and “Chaos” jawing at each other backstage. That footage showed Paddy doing an interview when Colby starts yelling at him. Of course, Colby claims it was Paddy who kicked things off.