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Flyweights Casey O’Neill and Antonina Shevchenko are expected to clash at the upcoming UFC Fight Night card scheduled on Oct. 2. Multiple sources confirmed the matchup to MMA Fighting on Thursday following an initial report from MMA DNA. Undefeated in her first seven professional fights, O’Neill has been a welcome addition to the UFC’s 125-pound

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Bellator featherweight champion Cris Cyborg isn’t sure she’ll ever get the chance to face off with Kayla Harrison, but she definitely welcomes the opportunity. This past week during the PFL playoff card from Florida, Harrison dispatched Genah Fabian in lopsided fashion with a first-round TKO, and her opponent didn’t

Miesha Tate wants to make it clear that she wasn’t looking for sympathy with her recent comments about fighter pay. She wasn’t attacking anyone and she certainly wasn’t trying to throw a pity party for herself. Rather, her comments last week on her SiriusXM podcast revealing that she spent “about 98 percent” of her $200,000

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Dustin Poirier is too busy living his best life to be worried about the ongoing antics of Conor McGregor. Last month, Poirier won his second straight fight over McGregor, scoring a first-round TKO when McGregor’s leg broke. Immediately afterwards, McGregor unleashed a bitter rant aimed at Poirier and his family and since then, “Notorious” hasn’t

Kayla Harrison is just one win away from becoming one of the most sought-after free agents in the fight game — and already oddsmakers are starting to looking ahead. Harrison opened as a sizable betting underdog this week in potential fights against her two biggest competitors in the women’s featherweight division: Two-division UFC champion Amanda

At only 21 years old and fresh off an Olympic gold medal win at 125 kg in the Tokyo games, Gable Steveson has the combat sports world at his finger tips. Since winning gold last month, Steveson has hinted at a possible move to MMA, courting UFC President Dana White and saying “who wouldn’t want

Mara Romero Borella will have to wait a little longer before she makes her return to the Invicta FC. The UFC veteran, as well as Brazilian atomweight Monique Ariane, have been forced out of Saturday night’s Invicta FC 44 card due to travel restrictions and visa issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced

Conor McGregor is not going to let his feud with Dustin Poirier go quietly into that good night. Last month, McGregor lost to Dustin Poirier for the second time this year, breaking his leg in the main event of UFC 264 resulting in a doctor stoppage TKO win for Poirier. Immediately following the bout, McGregor

The UFC Vegas 35 main card is locked in. Six fights were made official for next week’s card during Saturday’s UFC Vegas 34 broadcast, with several fighters from The Ultimate Fighter 29 confirmed for the Aug. 28 UFC APEX show. Featherweight contenders Edson Barboza and Giga Chikadze headline the show, while TUF 29 middleweight finalists

With the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 34 heavy on finishes, all but one of the performance bonuses went to the competitors that battled it out before the main card. Ignacio Bahamondes was a no-brainer for a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus with his wheel kick knockout of Roosevelt Roberts in the final seconds

Ignacio Bahamondes was well on his way to a decision over Roosevelt Roberts – five seconds, to be exact. Then Bahamondes unleashed a wheel kick, and Roosevelt fell hard on the canvas after taking the shot direct to the chin in the UFC Vegas 34 preliminary bout. The official time of stoppage was 4:55 of

MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 34 results for the Cannonier vs. Gastelum event, a live blog of the main event, and live UFC Vegas 34 Twitter updates from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. In the main event, Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum will square off in a middleweight contest. Cannonier has

Brad Katona has found his way to title contention. He just had to travel to the other side of the world to get there. It wasn’t long ago that the Canadian was a fresh face coming off of winning The Ultimate Fighter 27 featherweight tournament in 2018. During the season, Katona took out a pair

Conor McGregor is on the mend. Six weeks ago at UFC 264, McGregor suffered a grievous injury when he snapped his lower leg during his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier. As a result of the injury, McGregor had to have a titanium rod inserted into his leg to aid with recovery of the fractures and

When Alan Belcher announced his retirement from MMA back in 2015, he declared that he would “never, ever fight again.” At the time, he was already more than two years removed from his last fight in the UFC when he suffered an accidental eye poke in a middleweight bout against Michael Bisping before losing a

MMA Fighting has PFL 8 results for the Harrison vs. Fabian event Thursday night at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. The PFL 8 card will feature semifinals in the women’s lightweight and heavyweight divisions in the Season 3 playoffs. Check out PFL 8 results below. PFL Playoffs continue this Thursday! The

Francis Ngannou isn’t exactly sure where he stands with the UFC right now. Despite claiming the heavyweight title with a stunning second-round knockout over Stipe Miocic back in March, Ngannou saw an interim champion crowned barely five months later after Ciryl Gane finished Derrick Lewis at UFC 265. It was a bizarre sequence of events