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UFC President Dana White thinks Francis Ngannou may be taking his eye off the ball in advance of a title unifier against Ciryl Gane at UFC 270, casting doubt on the heavyweight champ’s mindset amid a showdown over his contract. “You’re talking about, you don’t want to fight under your contract – he gets a

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz A huge part of the narrative surrounding the upcoming UFC 270 main event is the history shared between Francis Ngannou and Ciryl Gane. The only problem is, the reigning UFC heavyweight champion doesn’t understand where that story started. Because while he did count Gane as a training partner three

Ciryl Gane is laser focused on beating former teammate Francis Ngannou in the UFC 270 main event, but he can’t ignore the possibilities of what happens next if he becomes the undisputed heavyweight champion. At the top of that list is a potential showdown with former 205-pound king Jon Jones, who has been plotting his

Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington are separated by four years and 31 fights. At UFC 272, they will collide in an unusual non-title pay-per-view headliner that may settle a grudge – and permanently damage the career of Masvidal. That’s the way Chael Sonnen sees the upcoming fight between the former teammates and welterweight rivals, who

Not long after Kevin Holland stopped an alleged car thief last October, the UFC veteran apparently had an unexpected run-in with the law of his own. Holland revealed the story unprompted on a recent episode of The MMA Hour, explaining he was briefly arrested for unpaid traffic tickets shortly after his no-contest with Kyle Daukaus

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The Mixed Martial Arts Hour is back in your life! Below is a rundown of Monday’s show, which begins at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. GMT. 1 p.m. ET: I’ll discuss the UFC’s first event of the year and more around the combat sports world. 1:15 p.m. – Miesha Tate

One-time UFC flyweight title challenger Katyln Chookagian hopes she’ll still have a home in the UFC after revealing that the promotion declined to offer her a new contract before her UFC Vegas 46 win on Saturday night. The last bout on Chookagian’s current contract was a dominant showcase as she earned a unanimous decision over

Merab Dvalishvili received some good news after suffering an injury to start 2022. The surging UFC bantamweight revealed Saturday that he “badly injured” his clavicle bone, but will not require surgery. MMA Fighting’s Damon Martin confirmed the news with Dvalishvili’s management, who added that there is no timetable yet for the fighter’s recovery. “Badly injured

Calvin Kattar silenced all of the critics with a dominant performance in the UFC’s first main event of 2022. Kattar returned to the octagon after a year layoff to batter Giga Chikadze and hand the Georgian standout his first UFC loss in the headliner of UFC Vegas. Did the victory put the New England Cartel

Chad Mendes has an opponent for his bare-knuckle boxing debut. The three-time UFC featherweight title challenger will fight Joshuah Alvarez a.k.a. “Famez” at the BKFC’s upcoming KnuckleMania 2 event, which takes place on Feb. 19 at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. Mendes’ debut opponent was announced by the BKFC on Friday

MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 46 results for the Kattar vs. Chikadze event from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, a live blog of the main event, and live UFC Vegas 46 Twitter updates. In the main event, Calvin Kattar returns for the first time since January 2021 to take on red-hot featherweight contender Giga

Jack Della Maddalena will still make his octagon debut at the UFC’s first pay-per-view event of 2022. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Della Maddalena (10-2) will now face fellow newcomer Pete Rodriguez at UFC 270. The event takes place Jan. 22 at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is willing to sit out the rest of 2022 if he beats Ciryl Gane and can’t come to terms with his promoter on a new contract that will bump his pay and allow him to box. Ngannou on Thursday told ESPN.com he believes he has fulfilled his current contract with

A BKFC women’s flyweight champion will be crowned in February. On Thursday, the promotion announced that Britain Hart will face Christine Ferea for the inaugural flyweight title at BKFC KnuckleMania 2. The event takes place Feb, 19 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. The bout will serve as a rematch

Middleweights Kelvin Gastelum and Nassourdine Imavov have agreed to meet on April 9 at UFC 273, which is set to take place at a location still to be determined. Multiple sources confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Wednesday, with verbal agreements in place from the fighters. ESPN initially reported the matchup. A mainstay in

Jon Jones gave up his UFC light heavyweight title to make a run at the heavyweight championship. But former two-division champ Daniel Cormier believes his longtime rival will fail to capture gold. On the “DC & RC” podcast, Cormier gave his UFC predictions for 2022 and said Jones would return to action but fall short

Ilia Topuria is seeking a new opponent after a positive COVID-19 test scratched Movsar Evloev from UFC 270. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed Movsar’s status to MMA Fighting and the search for a new opponent. Topuria on Twitter called out featherweight veteran Dan Ige to replace Evloev on the Jan. 22