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UFC fights come together fast these days, and if you blink, you can easily miss them. In Fight Roundup, we bring you the latest reported matchups to keep you up to date with what’s on the horizon. All bouts featured have been confirmed with MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz, Mike Heck, and Damon Martin via sources

Junior Dos Santos will make his Eagle FC debut on Friday, but it turns out the promotion already has big plans for his future. If the former UFC heavyweight champion is able to get through Yorgan De Castro in the Eagle FC 47 main event, Khabib Nurmagomedov announced plans to pursue a fight that would

Dana White might have a new favorite fighter, even if they didn’t win on The Ultimate Fighter 30. This week’s episode of saw Mohammed Usman fight rival Mitchell Sipe in the second heavyweight bout of the season. While it was Usman who won a unanimous decision, the brash attitude of Sipe definitely caught the UFC

According to boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, his scheduled exhibition boxing match is back on. The undefeated professional boxer took to Instagram on Tuesday to post that The Showcase in the Skies event — as well as his bout with former sparring partner Don Moore — that was originally slated to take place this past weekend

Aleksandar Rakic suffered a torn ACL in his right knee as a result of a freak injury that occurred in his main event fight with Jan Blachowicz at UFC Vegas 54. Rakic underwent an MRI on Monday that revealed the damage done to his knee, which will require surgery. Typical recovery time from an torn

Gregor Gillespie is still very much part of the UFC roster, but he’s no longer eligible for the promotion’s rankings with his last fight coming more than 12 months ago. The confusion over his status came on Sunday after the automated UFC Roster Watch account on Twitter noted that Gillespie had been removed, which led

Few things spark more heated debates in the MMA sphere than MMA Math. Take Alex Pereira’s case as an example. Sure, Pereira was a decorated two-division champion in GLORY, and his definitive move to MMA was inevitably going to draw eyeballs. But the fact he held two wins over UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya in

Joe Lauzon believes that Charles Oliveira’s struggles with the scale should serve as a warning to all fighters. At UFC 274, an unprecedented event occurred when lightweight champion Charles Oliveira failed to make the 155-pound limit for his title defense against Justin Gaethje. Oliveira initially weighed in at 155.5 pounds and was given an additional

Tony Kelley doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong. The UFC bantamweight caused a stir on social media Saturday due to comments made while cornering Andrea Lee at UFC Vegas 54. Between rounds, Kelley said of Lee’s opponent Viviane Araujo, “That’s what they’re gonna do. They’re dirty f******* Brazilians. They’re going to f***ing cheat like that.”

Angela Hill had her fair share of controversial decisions in the UFC, so Virna Jandiroba wants to give her no reason to ”cry” after Saturday night’s UFC Vegas 54. Jandiroba also had her own close decisions inside the octagon, being on the wrong end of decisions against Mackenzie Dern and Carla Esparza, and agrees Hill

MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 54 results for the Blachowicz vs. Rakic fight card, a live blog of the main event, and live UFC Vegas 54 Twitter updates. In the main event, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz takes on Aleksandar Rakic in a battle of top 205-pound contenders. Blachowicz hasn’t competed since his

Oliver Enkamp made Bellator history on Friday with one of the slickest submission finishes the MMA world will see all year. A former UFC welterweight fighting out of Sweden, Enkamp was caught in a back-and-forth contest with Mark Lemminger on the undercard of Bellator 281 before pulling off the first buggy choke even seen under

MMA Fighting has Bellator 281 results for the MVP vs. Storley event Friday night at the SSE Arena in London. In the main event, Michael Page will square off against Logan Storley for the interim welterweight title. Lyoto Machida, who will be a free agent after the fight, could fight for the last time for

Lightweights are set to battle during the UFC’s July visit to the Lone Star State. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that a matchup between Diego Ferreira and Drakkar Klose will take place at UFC 277. Ariel Helwani was first to report the booking. While the UFC has yet

Former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson is suspended for 60 days following his brutal knockout loss to Michael Chandler at UFC 274. That’s according to medical suspensions released by the Arizona Boxing and MMA commission, which oversaw this past Saturday’s pay-per-view event at Footprint Center in Phoenix. A total of 17 fighters received medical

Charles Oliveira delivered another stunning performance to cap off UFC 274 this past weekend following a first-round submission over Justin Gaethje but his victory was marred after he missed weight prior to the fight. Just over 24 hours ahead of the event, Oliveira hit the scale at 155.5 pounds — a half-pound over the limit

Kaytlin Neil beat Julianna Peña’s top pick and advanced in The Ultimate Fighter 30 flyweight tournament, and she did so with the heaviest of hearts. On this week’s episode of TUF 30, Neil (5-4) beat BKFC veteran Helen Peralta (5-2)* by split decision in a fight that required a Sudden Victory third round to decide

Joanna Jedrzejczyk definitely had different expectations for the rematch between Rose Namajunas and Carla Esparza ahead of UFC 274. In a prediction made when speaking to MMA Fighting, the ex-UFC strawweight champion picked Namajunas to earn a “first-round finish” but there was no knockout, no submission and, truth be told, very little action over five