Showing posts with label UFC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UFC. Show all posts

Sunday, March 05, 2023

Jon Jones defeats Ciryl Gane at UFC 285 for heavyweight title

Jon Jones is the new undisputed UFC heavyweight champion of the world, and it didn’t take long for him to get there.

“Bones” took Ciryl Gane down just over a minute into the contest, and the French heavyweight was never able to get back to his feet. Jones climbed into a mounted position and started fishing for a guillotine choke, and after “Bon Gamin” fended off the first attack, he locked in the second attempt, drawing out a quick tap from Gane.

After three years away, Jones needed less than a round to claim the heavyweight throne. In the process, he pushes his record to 27-1 with one No Contest, extending his winning streak to five. This was an absolutely dominant effort from the 35-year-old, who continues to be one of the most incredible talents to ever step into the Octagon.

[SOURCE: UFC]

Friday, September 11, 2020

Angela Hill, first African-American woman to headline UFC event

Angela Hill will make history Saturday night.

The UFC strawweight contender will become the first African-American woman to headline a UFC event the moment she sets foot in the octagon when she takes on Michelle Waterson in the main event of UFC on ESPN+ 35 in Las Vegas.

It’s a big moment for Hill (12-8 MMA, 6-8 UFC). The 35-year-old competitor feels honored to be making history for African-American women in the world’s premier MMA promotion.

“It’s big, and I didn’t even realize how big it was until (my manager) mentioned it to me,” Hill told reporters during her UFC on ESPN+ 35 virtual media scrum. “I think in a time like this, people need heroes people need someone to look up to, someone to root for. And just the fact that this hasn’t happened yet is indicative of the fact that it is important.

“A lot of people would say, ‘Why does it matter?’ But if it doesn’t matter to you, that’s OK, but it does matter to the fans who see that and they’re like, ‘Finally, finally, we have some representation. Finally we have a face in this sport that we love, and we’ve been waiting for so long.'”

Hill is happy to be making history during these times and bring representation to Black people.

“Its really cool to be a part of the Black Lives Matter movement,” Hill explained. “It’s really important, and I think people try to pretend that it’s not and call it things that it isn’t because it’s hard to look at the violence. It’s hard to say there’s something wrong when you haven’t experienced it yourself.

“I think the reason it’s so important to Black people is because they’ve all had moments where they felt in danger or they felt they weren’t considered as human as their white counterparts, and it’s not something that disappeared when (former President Barack) Obama got elected. It’s not something that disappeared once cops got body cams. It’s something that’s still hurting the community right now. I think with the pandemic that’s going on right now, with just everything just being so divisive, it’s really brought it to light and made people pay attention to how hard the struggles are and the fact there needs to be some change.”

“When people do reach out and say, ‘Hey, my daughter looks up to you. My girlfriend loves you. I hope my daughters can be as strong as you,’ when people reach out and say things like that, it’s always surprising, but it just makes me feel so happy that I didn’t give up,” Hill said. “It gives me that extra push when I just want to be like, ‘F-ck it, this isn’t worth it. It’s too hard,’ because fighting is hard, it’s really hard.

“It’s even harder when every time I’ve lost is on the UFC stage. I’ve never lost outside of the UFC, so having that magnifying glass on every win but also on every failure, people reaching out to me and saying stuff like that, it’s so special and it’s something that you can’t really explain. Representation is such an important thing to so many people.

[SOURCE: MMA JUNKIE]

Monday, August 17, 2020

Jon Jones vacates UFC light heavyweight title

Jon Jones announced Monday on Twitter that he has vacated the UFC light heavyweight title and believes that there will be negotiations for a heavyweight bout.

Read his Tweets below:

Sunday, July 08, 2018

Daniel Cormier is now UFC Heavyweight Champion!

By George L. Cook III African American Reports.

Although he could never beat Jon Jones, it looks like UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier will finally be getting some big boy respect. Cormier took the challenge and "stepped up in weight" to fight heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, he entered the cage as the challenger and left it as the new heavyweight champion!

Despite being the shorter guy, having a shorter reach, and Miocic's supposed superior punching power Cormier knocked the champ out in the first round of their heavyweight fight at UFC 226.

With the victory DC becomes just the second UFC fighter to simultaneously hold two belts (light heavyweight, heavyweight), with Conner McGregor being the first.

"I am 39 years old, and I've been second a lot of times, but today I finally accomplished everything from crying in this very same octagon last year -- almost a year to the day -- to becoming the UFC heavyweight champion. This is the most amazing thing I've ever experienced," Cormier said after the fight.

After the fight UFC President Dana White called Cormier one of the greatest of all time.

Some may want to debate Whit's statement but, one thing that you can't argue is that Daniel Cormier is the new UFC Heavyweight Champion.

Congrats to the champ, DANIEL CORMIER!