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Welcome to Midnight Mania! Since returning to action in 2021 following a two-fight losing streak, Dominick Cruz’s eyes have been set on the title. The former Bantamweight kingpin wants to regain his lost throne, and he’s worked his way back into the Top 10. He’s been consistent in his ideology: Cruz wants fighters ranked ahead

By Mike Bohn and MMA Junkie Staff | May 2, 2022 10:00 pm ET With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from April 2022: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month award for April. At

Cory Sandhagen believes the way Colby Covington acted towards Jorge Masvidal, he kind of asked for the alleged attack to happen. After Covington defeated Masvidal at UFC 272, he began to troll ‘Gamebred’ on social media which only added to the anger after bringing up Masvidal’s kids and ex-wife. With that, Sandhagen says ‘Chaos’ crossed

8:00 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Ranking the fights on a big UFC card can seem like an obvious exercise. The sport curates its fight nights to build and build throughout the evening, culminating in the main event that has been hyped on promo posters to draw fans into the arena or to watch on television.

Justin Gaethje believes the only way lightweight champion Charles Oliveira can defeat him in the UFC 274 pay-per-view (PPV) main event, which takes place this Sat. night (May 7, 2022) inside Footprint Center in Phoenix, Ariz., is if “Do Bronx” musters up the resolve to “walk through hell” like former 155-pound titleholder Khabib Nurmagomedov. Gaethje

By Matt Erickson | May 2, 2022 1:00 pm ET We want your predictions for Friday’s Bellator 280 event in Paris Our staff picks feature includes the consensus picks from MMA Junkie readers. Simply cast your vote for each bout below, and we’ll use the official tallies that are registered by Wednesday at noon ET

Pound-For-Pound king Kamaru Usman wants MMA fans to know that he’s “not that guy” when it comes to trash-talking opponents. In light of all the callouts and trash talk from multiple fighters, Usman wants to make it clear to those who dislike him for not being more verbally aggressive that it just isn’t like him

5:39 PM ET One of the most promising women’s MMA fighters in the world is going to be on the shelf for some time. Casey O’Neill, a top prospect in the UFC’s women’s flyweight division, has suffered a torn ACL, will need surgery and is out for an undetermined period of time, she announced Thursday

What do you buy when you’re one of the highest paid combat sports athletes in the world? A 63-foot Lamborghini Technomar super-yacht worth over $3 million dollars, apparently. Conor McGregor has had a pretty good weekend. He spent his Saturday night watching his friend Katie Taylor win a thrilling boxing match against Amanda Cerrano, and

By Mike Bohn and MMA Junkie Staff | May 1, 2022 7:00 pm ET With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best fights from April 2022: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Fight of the Month award for April. At

Bantamweight MMA prospect Shoji Saito landed a clean flying knee that knocked out Toshiomi Kazama immediately at a recent Pound Storm event. After a back-and-forth opening round between Saito and Kazama, it didn’t take long for Saito to deal the final blow in Round 2. Six seconds into the second round, he landed a perfectly-timed

10:39 AM ET For the first time in two years, Darren Till has booked a fight in his native UK. Till (18-4-1) will face Jack Hermansson (22-7) at UFC Fight Night on July 23. The three-round middleweight bout will take place at the O2 in London, where Till last fought in March 2019. Sources confirmed

Things weren’t looking too great for the tough and tenacious bantamweight Marlon Vera early into his main event debut against Rob Font at UFC Vegas 53. Font kicked off the fight with some impressive striking volume and never really let up on that metric. But by round three it became clear that Vera was the

By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | May 1, 2022 1:00 pm ET LAS VEGAS – Grant Dawson is off to a near flawless start in his UFC career, but his one bump in the road was still eating at him heading into UFC on ESPN 35. This past October, Dawson was up two rounds

Marlon Verla showed why he’s a future bantamweight title contender at UFC Vegas 53 tonight by defeating Rob Font in a contender for fight of the year. The unanimous decision victory was Vera’s third in succession, with the 29-year-old having previously defeated Davey Grant and Frankie Edgar last year. Font, meanwhile, is now on a

10:55 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Marlon Vera was feeling it on Saturday — and it might be time for the UFC’s bantamweight division to take notice. In his first UFC main event, Vera (21-7-1) put on a show against the ultra durable Rob Font (19-6). Ultimately, Vera wasn’t able to get the finish —

One of the greatest and most high-profile scraps in women’s boxing history concluded last night (Sat., Apr. 30, 2022) live on DAZN from inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. Undefeated Irish star Katie Taylor turned away Amanda Serrano in a highly competitive scrap to retain her WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO and The Ring

By Michael Rosenthal | May 1, 2022 12:15 am ET (This story first appeared at Boxing Junkie.) The legend of Katie Taylor grows. The Irish icon overcame harrowing adversity in the middle rounds to defeat Amanda Serrano by a split decision to retain her undisputed lightweight championship Saturday before a sell-out crowd at Madison Square