Mookie Alexander Archives: 01/2021

Veteran lightweight and welterweight Anthony Rocco Martin is now a free agent after parting ways with the UFC. Martin’s contract expired after his UFC 250…

Manny Pacquiao and Ryan Garcia? If you thought that was a crazy, out there idea, it’s nearly reality. A week after it was reported by…

Let’s go way way way back for Sunday Punch for the first time in this series. I believe every fight I’ve featured is from the…

Canelo Alvarez vs. Billy Joe Saunders is back on for May, only this time the hope is that the coronavirus won’t cancel the bout again.…

Senegalese wrestling champion Oumar Kane, better known as ‘Reug Reug,’ maintained his undefeated MMA record in his ONE Championship debut on Friday. Reug Reug took…

The UFC has five title fights spread out through the month of March alone, and three of them are atop UFC 259 on March 6th.…

It’s been three years since Mario Yamasaki’s widely criticized decision to let Valentina Shevchenko vs. Priscila Cachoeira continue much longer than necessary. After a hiatus…

The next UFC pay-per-view is back at the Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. On February 13th, welterweight champion Kamaru Usman puts his title on the…

Another important fight at the top-end of the UFC’s middleweight division is now set. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto says verbal agreements are in place for former…

As UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya prepares for his March 6th light heavyweight title fight vs. Jan Blachowicz, two of the top contenders in the…

It’s fair to say that Dana White’s push to have Khabib Nurmagomedov defend his UFC lightweight title one last time was almost exclusively to do…

So much for Conor McGregor vs. Manny Pacquiao. With McGregor getting stopped by strikes vs. Dustin Poirier at UFC 257, the extremely profitable but competitively…

Conor McGregor and Manny Pacquiao have the same management, so unsurprisingly there were serious talks that the two could box each other later on in…

How about that?! UFC 257 is in the books and Dustin Poirier evened the score by becoming the first man to knock Conor McGregor out…

If you ordered UFC 257 in the United States, your only option for legal viewership was the ESPN+ streaming service. So when the network was…

Are you ready for UFC 257?! The first pay-per-view of 2021 sees former two-division champion Conor McGregor engaged in a highly anticipated rematch with lightweight…

It’s UFC 257 fight day! Former two-division champion Conor McGregor rematches former interim lightweight champ Dustin Poirier in a rematch of their 2014 bout. McGregor…

For anyone eager to see Floyd Mayweather Jr box Logan Paul in an exhibition, I have some devastating news to report. The proposed Fanmio pay-per-view…

The Bloody Elbow team has made its predictions for UFC 257, and we are really split on the main event between Conor McGregor and Dustin…

Canelo Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KOs) has a new promoter (or rather, a new promoting partner). Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn announced on Thursday that he has…