3:59 PM ET A scheduled upcoming UFC Fight Night main event will be repurposed on the promotion’s next pay-per-view card. Former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos will now take on Rafael Fiziev in the lightweight co-main event of UFC 272 on March 5 in Las Vegas, sources confirmed Friday with ESPN. Dos Anjos vs.
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Jan Blachowicz hopes medicine and weeks of rehab will be enough to avoid surgery for cervical disc complications. The Polish fighter was on a three-fight win streak before becoming the light heavyweight champion in 2020. He then successfully defended the title for the first time against middleweight champion Israel Adesanya. He was then scheduled to
By John Morgan | February 11, 2022 4:00 pm ET HOUSTON – Matt Schnell says declining to compete against Alex Perez at UFC 271 wasn’t an easy decision to make, but he feels comfortable it was the right call. “The first thing I want to say is I’ve got all the respect in the world
7:50 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi Anderson Silva stands alone among middleweights in the history of mixed martial arts. You can carve that into granite. If one were to mimic the sculptural design of Mount Rushmore,
Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker says he doesn’t like rival Israel Adesanya‘s “character” and the “way he conducts himself.” As far as active rivalries go in the 185-pound weight class, not many have as much history and intrigue as the one shared by reigning middleweight king Adesanya and top contender Whittaker. The pair first
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will stage its early (and official) weigh ins from the promotion’s host hotel on Friday morning to put the finishing touches on the upcoming UFC 271 pay-per-view (PPV) event, scheduled for this Sat. night (Feb. 12, 2022) inside Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The first fighter is expected to tip the
By Nolan King | February 10, 2022 10:00 pm ET HOUSTON – Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker don’t seem to like each other all that much, but at the UFC 271 news conference Thursday, respect drove them to shake hands. They’ve been in this situation before in October 2019 at UFC 243. The positions were
10:37 AM ET Yoel Romero will look to pick up his first Bellator win when he takes on MMA veteran Melvin Manhoef in the co-main event on May 6 in Paris, the promotion announced Thursday. The bout will be contested at light heavyweight. Romero is a former UFC title challenger. The main event will feature
UFC 271 is now two sleeps away, and our staff is ready to get you even more amped up for the second pay-per-view event of 2022! UFC 271 will be available exclusively on ESPN+ pay-per-view on Saturday, February 12. The main card begins at 10:00 PM ET, and the ESPN2 preliminary card kicks off at
Elite striker, Israel Adesanya, will attempt to defend his Middleweight crown opposite the man he first took the crown from, Robert Whittaker, this Saturday (Feb. 12, 2022) at UFC 271 inside Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Adesanya isn’t quite yet in Anderson Silva territory, but “Stylebender” is pretty undeniably great. Sure, his attempt to make
By Dan Tom | February 10, 2022 3:30 pm ET MMA Junkie analyst Dan Tom breaks down the UFC’s top bouts. Today, we look at the main event for UFC 271. UFC 271 takes place Saturday at Toyota Center in Houston. The main card streams on ESPN+ pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims
3:15 PM ET HOUSTON — Israel Adesanya, one of the UFC’s top stars, has signed a new “lucrative” contract with the promotion, his Paradigm Sports Management team announced Wednesday. At the UFC 271 media day Wednesday, Adesanya described the contract as a “f—ing big deal,” and he said he believes he’s now the second-highest-paid active
Not so fast: Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison may not be shooting for a three-peat as the PFL‘s women’s lightweight champion after all. Last month, MMA journalist Ariel Helwani reported that the PFL is the strong front-runner to re-sign Harrison. In a follow-up tweet to the report, he stated that the deal was as good
Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) recently handed down its list of injuries and medical suspension for those athletes competing at the UFC Vegas 47 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which took place last Sat. night (Feb. 5, 2022) inside the promotion’s APEX facility in “Sin City.” Eight fighters were slapped with six-month medical suspensions, including
By Farah Hannoun | February 9, 2022 9:00 pm ET Anthony Smith thinks Jon Jones facing Stipe Miocic in his heavyweight debut wouldn’t be his toughest test. Jones (26-1 MMA, 20-1 UFC), who hasn’t competed since retaining his 205-pound title against Dominick Reyes in February 2020, <a href=” “Jon Jones has got the worst timing
8:36 PM ET Just over two months out from his rematch with Israel Adesanya, Robert Whittaker is pounding away on the pads during a striking session at his sprawling new gym in Sydney’s south western suburbs. With the mercury already nudging 30 degrees Celsius outside, a gigantic ceiling fan is doing its best to disperse
UFC women’s flyweight Casey O’Neill doesn’t expect upcoming opponent Roxanne Modafferi to follow through on her promise to try new things at UFC 271. In the pay-per-view’s one and only women’s fight, veteran campaigner Modafferi will enter the Octagon for one last hurrah. “The Happy Warrior” has fought 44 times since entering the sport as
Event: Bellator London: “Amosov vs. MVP”Date: Fri., May 13, 2022Location: OVO Arena Wembley in London, EnglandHow To Watch: Showtime (watch it here) Bellator London Main Event: 170 lbs.: Champion Yaroslav Amosov (26-0) vs. Michael Page (20-1) Bellator London Main Card (4 p.m. ET): 170 lbs.: Douglas Lima (32-10) vs. Jason Jackson (15-4)125 lbs.: Denise Kielholtz