The 2024 season of the Extreme Fighting Championship will start on Thursday, March 7 with 12 bouts in the EFC 111 fight card. The 2023 season came to an end on December 11 with Igeu Kabesa successfully defending his featherweight title against Reinaldo Ekson. All eyes will be on the African MMA scene this year after former EFC champion Dricus du Plessis claimed the UFC middleweight...
Cameroon fighter Francis Ngannou will make his long-awaited debut in the Professional Fighters League against the winner of the heavyweight clash between Renan Ferreira and Ryan Bader. PFL heavyweight champion Ferreira will face Bellator champions Bader in a blockbuster fightcard that will take place Saudi Arabian city of Riyadh on Saturday, February 24. While the world awaits the winner of Ferreira and Bader fight, Ngannou's debut...
Zambia's Humphrey Mulenga continued his first-round dominance against opponents with a quick knockout victory against heavy-handed Cole Henning in the main event of Thursday's EFC 109. It took 21-year-old Mulenga 4 minutes and 56 seconds to cement his position as one of the biggest lightweight fighters in Africa after his knee-kick pushed Henning to the canvas who was later saved by the referee to prevent follow-up...
Former UFC middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, faces a potential three-month jail term after pleading guilty to drunk driving in a New Zealand court. According to ESPN, Adesanya was driving back home after a dinner with friends in Auckland on August 19 and underwent a Random Breath Test which revealed he had had 87 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his body which is...
Canadian rapper Drake is backing Nigeria-born UFC champion Israel Adesanya to retain his middleweight title when he challenges Sean Strickland in tonight's UFC 293. Drake placed a bet worth $500,000 on Adesanya to come out victorious which a potential winning of $920,000. Drake has not hidden his admiration for Adesanya's fighting skills and it won't be first time the music star is banking on the MMA...
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