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The commentary team of Brendan Fitzgerald, Dominick Cruz and Daniel Cormier will make its 2024 debut at UFC Fight Night 236 on Saturday.
The UFC continues its February schedule Saturday with UFC Fight Night 236, which goes down at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there in “Sin City” to help guide viewers through the experience.
Details of who will work as commentators and analysts for each event have been acquired by MMA Junkie through a person with knowledge of the situation, and you can see the scheduled broadcast team below.
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Joe Rogan will not be part of UFC 297, with Dominick Cruz replacing him alongside Daniel Cormier and Jon Anik at in Toronto.
The first numbered UFC event of 2024 is rapidly approaching with UFC 297 on Saturday at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there to help guide viewers through the experience.
Details of who will be working as commentators and analysts for the show have been acquired by MMA Junkie through a person with knowledge of the plans – and you can see the scheduled broadcast team below.
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Cody Garbrandt is not interested in rematching Dominick Cruz.
If you were hoping to see a rematch between [autotag]Cody Garbrandt[/autotag] and [autotag]Dominick Cruz[/autotag], keep your expectations low.
Although the sentiment within the fan base might be different, there’s little to zero interest on Garbrandt’s part to fight Cruz a second time, he said. Garbrandt defeated Cruz to win the UFC bantamweight title in 2016, which stands as arguably his biggest career win. Now, seven years later, though situationally the fight makes some sense, Garbrandt is in no way considering a rematch with Cruz.
“Honestly, that fight doesn’t interest me,” Garbrandt told ESPN. “What else am I supposed to do with the guy? I mean, go in and knock him out this time? That’s the only thing that would go put a statement or top that. It’s so hard to top that performance.”
After defeating Cruz in 2016, many expected Garbrandt to go on a tear at 135 pounds. However, Garbrandt lost the title and went on a 1-5 skid.
But in 2023, in much-needed performances, Garbrandt bounced back and went 2-0 with wins over Trevin Jones and, most recently, Brian Kelleher at UFC 296. The 32-year-old is determined to make another run at the title, and that plan includes Deiveson Figueiredo and not Cruz.
“At the end of the day, Deiveson Figueiredo coming to the bantamweight division and having a win over Rob Font, I go knock Deiveson out, and it puts me right back in title contention,” Garbrandt said. “That’s what I’m here to do. I don’t want to be a runnerup in this sport. I always want to be at the top. I think that fight stylistically and everything it mounts to puts me back in the top.”
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Check out the broadcast details for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 232, which has an early start for the final Apex event of the year.
The UFC wraps up its November schedule Saturday with UFC Fight Night 232, which goes down at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there in “Sin City” to help guide viewers through the experience.
Details of who will work as commentators and analysts for each event have been acquired by MMA Junkie through a person with knowledge of the situation, and you can see the scheduled broadcast team below.
To commemorate the UFC’s 30th anniversary, this is our definitive list of the promotion’s 30 greatest fighters of all time.
To commemorate the UFC’s 30th anniversary, MMA Junkie has compiled its definitive list of the 30 greatest UFC fighters of all time. We revealed one every day until the anniversary of UFC 1, which took place Nov. 12, 1993.
Our complete rankings, along with videos for each fighter, can be viewed below.
About the list: All 12 members of our staff submitted their own individual 30 greatest UFC fighters list. Each fighter was assigned a corresponding numerical value based on where they were ranked on an individual’s list, i.e. No. 1 = 30, No. 2 = 29, etc. We took those numbers and added them up to get a total number for each fighter to determine the composite ranking of MMA Junkie’s 30 greatest UFC fighters of all time.
Check out broadcast lineup for UFC Fight Night 231 on Saturday, the promotion’s first trip to Sao Paulo in nearly four years.
The UFC kicks off its November schedule Saturday with UFC Fight Night 231, which goes down at Ginasio Do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo.
As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there in Brazil to help guide viewers through the experience.
Details of who will work as commentators and analysts for each event have been acquired by MMA Junkie through a person with knowledge of the situation, and you can see the scheduled broadcast team below.
Dominick Cruz might be one of the more underappreciated names to be included on our list of the 30 greatest UFC fighters, but he belongs.
The UFC is celebrating its 30th year and to commemorate the milestone, MMA Junkie has compiled its 30 greatest UFC fighters of all time. Every day until the anniversary of UFC 1 on Nov. 12 (1993), we will reveal one fighter on our list.
Today, MMA Junkie analyst Dan Tom brings you No. 23: [autotag]Dominick Cruz[/autotag].
You can watch Tom’s career retrospective on Cruz above; video produced by Ken Hathaway.
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About the list: All 12 members of our staff submitted their own individual 30 greatest UFC fighters list. Each fighter was assigned a corresponding numerical value based on where they were ranked on an individual’s list, i.e. No. 1 = 30, No. 2 = 29, etc. We took those numbers and added them up to get a total number for each fighter to determine the composite ranking of MMA Junkie’s 30 greatest UFC fighters of all time.
UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping and Dominick Cruz will be part of the UFC Fight Night 230 commentary team.
The UFC continues its October schedule on Saturday with UFC Fight Night 230, which goes down at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there to help guide viewers through the experience.
Details of who will work as commentators and analysts for each event have been acquired by MMA Junkie through a person with knowledge of the situation, and you can see the scheduled broadcast team below.
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Jon Anik will be joined by a pair of former UFC champs on the Noche UFC commentary team on Saturday.
The UFC continues its busy September schedule on Saturday with Noche UFC, which goes down at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
As always, some marquee on-air talent will be there to help guide viewers through the experience.
Details of who will work as commentators and analysts for each event have been acquired by MMA Junkie through a person with knowledge of the situation, and you can see the scheduled broadcast team below.
Dominick Cruz isn’t a fan of Henry Cejudo seeking higher-ranked opposition after pulling out of a fight.
[autotag]Dominick Cruz[/autotag] isn’t a fan of [autotag]Henry Cejudo[/autotag] seeking higher-ranked opposition after pulling out of a fight.
Cejudo (16-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC) was set to take on Marlon Vera at UFC 292 on Aug. 19 in Boston, but withdrew from the bout due to a shoulder injury. Vera will now face Pedro Munhoz instead.
The former UFC dual champion doesn’t appear keen on rebooking a matchup with Vera. Instead, Cejudo wants top-ranked contender Merab Dvalishvili, which Cruz finds laughable.
“I would say everything made sense about that except that Henry said, ‘Yeah, but I’d like Petr Yan or so and so after,'” Cruz said on The Schaub Show. “He had that whole statement about this and that, but then you give us two opponents that are ranked higher than Vera, which tells me that you didn’t want somebody ranked where Vera was at.
“That’s where he tells his truth, is the thing. It’s like, ‘My shoulder hurts too much for Vera, but if we can get Aljamain Sterling or Petr Yan, my shoulder doesn’t hurt as bad. We can make this work. I can make this work.'”
Two-time UFC bantamweight champion Cruz has fought down the ladder on multiple occasions, defeating Casey Kenney and Munhoz back-to-back, before getting knocked out by Vera last August.
So Cruz says if he can fight lower-ranked opposition, then Cejudo should be able to, as well.
“The way I see Henry is, some fights are worth it for his shoulder and some aren’t,” Cruz said. “So how do you decide that? How do you decide who’s good enough for you and who isn’t? Well, it’s up to the UFC to make those choices. I got the same fight offer he did, and I took the Casey Kenney fight earlier than that, and then I took the Pedro Munhoz fight earlier than that – both on the undercards, by the way, not on a main card that they’re trying to put him on.
“Then I take the fight with Vera. Look, we can’t even get this guy to take one. He’s been out this whole time, he gets a title shot. And now then after that, after the title shot, they didn’t drop him to the bottom of the line.”
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