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A month after suffering a gruesome leg break, Chris Weidman is starting to walk again. The former UFC champion is taking the proverbial baby steps as he undergoes physical therapy for the surgery that had to be done on his right leg after it was broken in a fight against Uriah Hall at UFC 261

When Arjan Bhullar decided to sign with ONE Championship after leaving the UFC in free agency, he had one requirement in mind regarding his new contract. The clause he wanted to add involved an eventual opening to cross over into the world of professional wrestling, which is a passion project that Bhullar has been cultivating

Watch the Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Junior dos Santos full fight video to see Rozenstruik put away the former UFC heavyweight champion in emphatic fashion at UFC 252 on Aug. 15, 2020, in Las Vegas. Jairzinho was coming off of the first loss of his MMA career, a 20-second knockout at the hands of future heavyweight

A featherweight fight with fireworks written all over it has been booked as former champion Max Holloway is expected to face Yair Rodriguez in the five-round main event at the upcoming UFC card on July 17. Multiple sources confirmed the matchup is in the works when speaking to MMA Fighting on Wednesday following UFC President

Jimmy Smith is headed to Monday Night Raw. The former UFC and Bellator color commentator has snagged one of the most coveted jobs in the professional wrestling industry as he joins the WWE’s flagship series Raw as the new play-by-play man alongside color analysts Corey Graves and Byron Saxton. WWE made the announcement on Wednesday

Puna Soriano has a new opponent, and a new date for his second fight of 2021. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Anthony Hernandez is still dealing with a hand injury from his most recent victory over Rodolfo Vieira at UFC 258 that has forced him out of

Rory MacDonald will be the first to admit he was conflicted about his career in recent years. Just moments after a majority draw against Jon Fitch while he was competing in the Bellator Welterweight Grand Prix, MacDonald sounded more like a fighter on his way out of the sport rather than someone motivated to continue

Ryan Hall will return to the octagon after a two-year layoff. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that a featherweight matchup between Hall and Ilia Topuria is set fo UFC 264. The event takes place July 10 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Adjara Sport was the first

Niko Samsonidse fell short of taking home a championship on Sunday, but the result of his fight is the least of his concerns. In a bout for a vacant featherweight interim title at National Fighting Championship 3 in Krefeld, Germany, Samsonidse (9-2) suffered a gruesome injury early in the second round while landing a leg

ONE Championship has to postpone the start of its upcoming eight-woman atomweight grand prix. The tournament was originally scheduled to begin on May 28 at the ONE: Empower event at Singapore Indoor Stadium. However, the promotion announced Friday that the event “has been postponed due to the current COVID-19 situation.” A new date for the

The trilogy fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will take place this summer in Las Vegas. According to an initial report by ESPN, along with subsequent reports, the matchup between Fury and Wilder will take place July 24. The specific venue has not been announced, but the ESPN report stated it would take place

Former strawweight champion Carla Esparza earned her first finish since 2014 as she bludgeoned Yan Xiaonan with punches and elbows to get a second-round TKO stoppage and she was rewarded with a Performance of the Night bonus as a result. Esparza was dominant from start to finish as she sought to make a statement with

Edmen Shahbazyan has always understood the fickle nature of the fight business. After starting out his career with a perfect 11-0 record including four straight wins in the UFC, the now 23-year-old Contender Series veteran was touted as the future of the middleweight division division. Then he stumbled in his first main event as Shahbazyan

Cris Cyborg used nearly every second of her second title defense to put away a super tough Leslie Smith to cap off Bellator 259. The featherweight championship main event served as a rematch almost five years to the day from their first meeting in Cyborg’s UFC debut, where she stopped Smith via strikes in just

UFC Vegas 27 has lost another fighter after flyweight Raulian Paiva was forced to go to the hospital after suffering through a brutal weight cut for his Saturday bout against David Dvorak. Paiva confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Friday. “I was cutting weight yesterday and I was fine, I was really fine, and

MMA Fighting has Bellator 259 results for the Cyborg vs. Smith 2 fight card Friday night from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. In the main event, Cris Cyborg will attempt the second defense of her Bellator featherweight title in a rematch against Smith. The two first met five years ago in the UFC

Bellator featherweight title challenger Leslie Smith has applied lessons from studying labor movements in college to her approach to fighting. One of her main takeaways has been that organizing people requires more finesse than power – and conviction to see through the mission. When Smith looks at Georges St-Pierre’s inability to take a boxing match

Just three fights into his career, Jake Paul is already one of the most coveted assets in combat sports, and he now has a new fighting home. Paul has inked a deal for Showtime Sports to serve as the promoter for his next fight after he previously competed under the Triller Fight Club banner. Showtime