Check out the Bloody Elbow staff’s picks and predictions for Saturday’s UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos fight card in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In Vito Mielnicki Jr.’s seven-year-old mind, time stopped and looked at him. His face was different from everyone’s looking back at him. His skin color, too, was different from everyone else. This was Mielnicki’s first foray into something he’s always wanted to do—box.
“I ain’t this old guy, man. I’m not the old guy, I’m the Jedi.”
Diego Sanchez has gone full Diego Sanchez ahead of his welterweight bout with Michael Chiesa tomorrow night at UFC 239, delivering an epic, one of a kind interview with ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, which you can watch in full below.
Guevara is Stevenson’s third scheduled opponent for the date
Two-time bantamweight title challenger Alberto Guevara has stepped in for Franklin Manzanilla, who himself stepped in for Hairon Socarras, against Shakur Stevenson in Newark on July 13th.
The middleweight title unification bout between Robert Whittaker and Israel Adesanya is set for Octobe.
Check out a live stream of the UFC Summer press conference, which will include many of the promotion’s biggest stars. It kicks off around 5:30pm ET.