#heavyweight

#heavyweight

"I'm ready to go. I want to get this one done like I got the last one done. I heard the UFC is going to Serbia, and I would love to fight in Serbia."

The RIZIN JAPAN Grand Prix Heavyweight Tournament will take place starting at RIZIN 54 on August 11, 2026, at the Toyota Arena. The grand prix final will take place at an event held in November.

Boser competed for the UFC from 2019 to 2023, posting a 5-5 record inside the octagon. It's worth noting that among those losses was a fight against future interim heavyweight champ Ciryl Gane, in Boser's second bout with the UFC, and one against former heavyweight champ Andrei Arlovski, the current BKFC heavyweight champion.

Anna talks to Jonathan Goldstein, host of the Pushkin podcast Heavyweight, about the show getting a second chance after a long period of uncertainty, and how that time helped some of the stories they had been working on find a proper conclusion. Then we share one of our favorite episodes of Heavyweight, their recent season finale titled " Deborah." At 101 years old, Deborah discovered a box she'd stashed away a lifetime ago.

The first real action came early, with Bujło opening the fight by chopping at Freeman's lead leg. Both spent the opening minutes trading low kicks in a cautious feeling-out process. Freeman did time one of Bujło's kicks with a clean straight and followed it by going high with his signature head kick. He mixed in rear-leg body kicks as well, giving Bujło different looks, but overall both men stayed patient and threw single strikes at a time.

One of a planned three heavyweight fights at UFC Rio (though Usman vs. Walker wound up cancelled) saw Vitor Petrino take on Thomas Petersen. Petrino had started his UFC run at 205 pounds, but after back-to-back losses, moved to heavyweight in his last outing, defeating Austen Lane in his debut in the weight class. Petersen was 2-2 under the UFC banner, and coming off a win over Don'Tale Mayes.

My wife's pregnant and she's at a really high-risk. So we have to go hospital. We've been going hospital every week basically or twice a week. Sometimes you just got to step back and remember fighting's just a part-time thing,

On Friday, promotion officials confirmed a previous report by Club De Las MMA that #6-ranked Waldo Cortes-Acosta (14-2) will face the #10-ranked Ante Delija (26-6) at a UFC Fight Night event on November 1, 2025. The bout is expected to serve as the card's five-round main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Delija has just one fight

As the host and creator of the podcast Heavyweight, he acts as a kind of time-traveling therapist, helping people shoulder regrets that never quite went away: a pain, a mystery, a grievance, a memory. Goldstein and his team chase answers the old-fashioned way, by making phone calls and getting on planes in a bid to literally confront the past. The stories run wide.