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Arjan Bhullar and Anatoly Malykhin will battle in a ONE heavyweight title unification bout at an event on July 15. ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong confirmed the news when speaking to MMA Fighting on Monday. “It’s going to happen officially now July 15,” Sityodtong said. “That’s the word that I got just literally a few hours

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya wouldn’t mention Dricus Du Plessis by name, but it was very clear whom he was speaking about at the post-UFC 287 press conference. Adesanya was apparently none too pleased at recent comments by South Africa native and UFC middleweight Du Plessis, who indicated he was a more authentic African than

The main card for the UFC’s next pay-per-view offering is set with the bantamweight championship taking center stage. The promotion revealed the pay-per-view slate for UFC 288, which takes place May 6 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. In the main event, Aljamain Sterling is set to defend his 135-pound title against former two-division

Robbie Lawler and Rory MacDonald left everything in the cage at UFC 189 and for that they will soon be in the UFC Hall of Fame. It was announced on Saturday’s UFC 287 broadcast that Lawler vs. McDonald 2, a classic welterweight title fight that took place on July 11, 2015, will be inducted into

MMA Fighting will have UFC 287 results for the Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 event, live blogs for all the main card fights, and more from the Miami-Dade Arena in Miami, Fla., on Saturday night. In the main event, UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira will square off against former UFC champion Israel Adesanya in a rematch.

Gilbert Burns was one of only a handful of fighters who gave Leon Edwards a legitimate chance to upset Kamaru Usman in their rematch this past August. Obviously, Edwards got the job done with a stunning comeback knockout to end Usman’s title reign but he still had something to prove in their trilogy at UFC

UFC President Dana White may have shut down Jorge Masvidal and Kevin Holland at the UFC 287 press conference, but that didn’t keep the two from another skirmish, according to a new report. TMZ on Friday posted video that appeared to show Masvidal restrained by unknown individuals. Holland’s manager, Oren Hodak, told the site that

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MMA Fighting has PFL 2 results for the Pacheco vs. Budd fight card at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas, Nev., on Friday night. In the main event, former PFL tournament winner Larissa Pacheco will square off against Julia Budd in a featherweight contest. Pacheco has won six straight fights, while Budd has

Gilbert Burns is always looking to add new wrinkles to his preparation ahead of fights, and his decision to hire a scout to watch tape and scrutinize opponents is paying dividends. Burns, who faces Jorge Masvidal in the co-main event of UFC 287 this Saturday in Miami, said on this week’s episode of MMA Fighting

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Alexander Volkanovski and Robert Whittaker may be getting ready to make the jump to professional wrestling. On Monday, the UFC’s parent company Endeavor closed a deal to buy a majority share in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), with plans to combine the two promotions into one publicly traded sports and entertainment entity. The two companies are

George Sotiropoulos is returning to the cage. The 45-year-old Sotiropoulos is scheduled for his first fight in nearly nine years as he’ll face Josh Togo in a lightweight contest at Hex Fight Series 26 — which takes place May 26 at the Melbourne Pavilion in Australia — the promotion announced on Tuesday. Sotiropoulos had 11-fights

Robert Whittaker is setting the record straight when it comes to claims that he was offered a fight with rising star Khamzat Chimaev. On a recent edition of The MMA Hour, Chimaev told Ariel Helwani that one of the fights he was offered following his UFC 279 victory over Kevin Holland was with the former

Mamed Khalidov and Scott Askham are set to meet again on a massive KSW stage. The Polish promotion announced Monday that Khalidov vs. Askham 3 headlines the upcoming Colosseum 2 event that takes place at PGE Narodowy in Warsaw on June 3. Watch video of the announcement below. The series is split so far between

Could UFC 287 be the last we see of Jorge Masvidal inside the cage? “Gamebred” hinted as much on the UFC 287 edition of “Countdown,” previewing his upcoming bout with Gilbert Burns by saying that he might retire should he lose to Burns on Saturday. “This could be the last one,” Masvidal said. “If I

It’s not very often that Brock Lesnar is the smaller man in any of his WWE matches, but that’s exactly what the ex-UFC champion faced Sunday at WrestleMania 39. During the second night of the annual event, Lesnar took on an opponent named Omos (real name Tolulope “Jordan” Omogbehin) — an athlete billed at 7-foot-3

Luke Rockhold is the first to admit that he had initial doubts when Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) approached him with a free agent offer. Then he dove deeper into the deal and realized what BKFC was truly proposing: Freedom. The former UFC middleweight champ is set to make his bare-knuckle boxing debut on April