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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) held a special pre-fight media day for select fighters competing at the upcoming UFC 267 event this Saturday afternoon (Oct. 30) from Fight Island in Abu Dhabi, including light heavyweight headliners Jan Blachowicz and Glover Teixeira as well as bantamweight co-headliners Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen. Watch them field questions from

7:40 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Six championship fights. Six life-changing $1 million paydays. The PFL closes out its 2021 season Wednesday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Hollywood, Florida (4:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2/ESPN+), with the PFL World Championships hosting the high-stakes finals in a half-dozen weight

Paige VanZant will be returning for a bare knuckle contest at the beginning of the year, says BKFC President Dave Feldman. PVZ has had a tough go of it recently, including her first two bouts in her bare knuckle career. She lost her debut to Britain Hart, before falling short on the scorecards in a

According to UFC president Dana White, bigotry is an acceptable form of trash talk amongst fighters. At least that was his response to a situation that unfolded during Monday’s Contender Series weigh-ins. After Israel’s Oron Kahlon and Afghanistan’s Javid Basharat stepped on the scale for Tuesday night’s fight – Kahlon missed by three pounds –

One of the sport’s most unexpected champions meets one of its most timeless veterans this Saturday when Jan Blachowicz defends his UFC Light Heavyweight title against the immortal Glover Teixeira atop UFC 267. Also on tap are a Bantamweight title fight between Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen and the return of Khamzat Chimaev against Welterweight

5:51 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a middleweight bout between “The Ultimate Fighter” winner Bryan Battle and Tresean Gore, sources confirmed to ESPN on Monday. The 185-pound bout will take place at a UFC Fight Night on Feb. 5. The UFC has not announced an official venue for that event. MMAJunkie.com first reported the

UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jan Blachowicz is well aware of the threat veteran Brazilian Glover Teixeira will pose in the UFC 267 main event. The pair will collide this Saturday in what will be Blachowicz’s first title defense against a member of the 205-pound roster. After his championship crowning at UFC 253 last September, which

By MMA Junkie Staff | October 26, 2021 4:40 pm ET Follow @MMAjunkie It was an intriguing week in the UFC, with Paulo Costa admitting a bicep injury was the culprit behind his inability to make middleweight against Marvin Vettori, leading to the fight ultimately taking place at light heavyweight. Vettori would go on to

Former UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier recently suggested that former PRIDE FC titleholder Fedor Emelianenko would have been “average at best” and perhaps “struggled” against mid-tier talent like Cheick Kongo if the promotion had been able to sign “The Last Emperor” after the fall of PRIDE. Read those feather-ruffling comments right here. “DC is making

8:00 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim “And new!” might be the most thrilling two words in mixed martial arts. They alert everyone within reach of a very loud voice that there has been a change in the power structure. There’s a fresh coat of paint. There’s ascension accompanied by the potential for memorable greatness. Even if

Chuck Liddell and wife Heidi Northcott have filed restraining orders against one another and have both shared details of their quarrelsome marriage. Two weeks ago, UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell was hit with domestic violence charges after allegedly assaulting his wife, Heidi Northcott. Liddell claimed his innocence from the beginning, further stating that it

By Mike Bohn, The Blue Corner | October 25, 2021 10:00 pm ET Follow @MikeBohnMMA Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived and survived through various websites, forums and, perhaps most importantly, social-media platforms. Fighters interact with fans, each other and many more through

Only the ESPN+ subscription fee stands between you and the brutally-stacked UFC 267, which will take place this weekend (Sat., Oct. 30, 2021) inside Etihad Arena on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, featuring two title fights and some of the best up-and-comers in the game. UFC 267’s main event will witness Jan

7:53 AM ET The past 18 months have been life-altering for Kayla Harrison, one of the most promising fighters in women’s MMA. Harrison took her niece and nephew, Kyla and Emery, into her home when her stepfather, Bob Nichols, died in May 2020. At that time, the biggest breakout fighter in the Professional Fighters League

The missteps of Conor McGregor have landed him a special kind of shout out on Saturday Night Live. It is no secret that, while he is the biggest star MMA has ever known, McGregor has also been a figure of controversy in recent months. This has ranged from a variety of different bizarre incidents, with

By Danny Segura | October 25, 2021 4:38 pm ET Follow @dannyseguratv HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Kayla Harrison is determined to reach the pinnacle of MMA regardless of what anyone has to say, and that includes UFC president Dana White. Harrison, the 2019 PFL women’s lightweight champion, responded to White’s recent comments to TSN suggesting she

Former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson has not seen action since losing a lopsided decision to No. 3-ranked title contender Beneil Dariush at UFC 262 last May, a three-round drubbing that sent “El Cucuy” to his third straight loss. That might land some fighters on the “Prelims” portion of an upcoming fight card (or

7:54 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Khamzat Chimaev will compete in his fourth UFC fight on Saturday at UFC 267 (10:30 a.m. ET on ESPN+). He is 3-0 inside the Octagon, 9-0 overall in his MMA career. He has finished every opponent, six of them in the first round. He has never seen a Round 3.