Sherdog.com MMA Blog: Sunday, September 22, 2024

This Day in MMA History: April 27 Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen had their long-delayed meeting seven years ago at UFC 159 and came perilously close to one of the strangest title fight...

Ben Duffy

Apr 27, 2020

This Day in MMA History: April 26 Jon Jones at UFC 172 six years ago blanked Glover Teixeira to defend his light heavyweight title for a seventh time and reassert his place as the...

Ben Duffy

Apr 26, 2020

This Day in MMA History: April 25 Matt Hughes at UFC 42 on April 25, 2003 successfully defended his Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight belt for the fourth time, making his...

Ben Duffy

Apr 25, 2020

This Day in MMA History: April 24 World Extreme Cagefighting put on its first and only pay-per-view 10 years ago, with a card featuring four future UFC champions.

Ben Duffy

Apr 24, 2020

This Day in MMA History: April 23 Fifteen years ago, 16 of the world’s best fighters met in Osaka, Japan, to kick off the 2005 Pride Fighting Championships Middleweight Grand Prix.

Ben Duffy

Apr 23, 2020

Closed-off Events Are Right up Karate Combat’s Alley Karate Combat’s unique approach to holding events seems like the go-to method of putting something together during a pandemic.

Edward Carbajal

Apr 22, 2020

This Day in MMA History: April 22 At UFC Fight Night 108 three years ago, Ovince St. Preux racked up the second of his ridiculous four Von Flue chokes in the Ultimate Fighting...

Ben Duffy

Apr 22, 2020

This Day in MMA History: April 21 Gabriel Gonzaga landed “the head kick heard ’round the world” 13 years ago, stunning Mirko Filipovic and punching his own ticket to an