12:07 AM ET UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan was disqualified after catching a grounded Aljamain Sterling with an illegal knee to the head in the fourth round Saturday night at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. With the disqualification due to an intentional foul, Sterling was crowned the new champion. The fight was stopped at 4
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Welcome to Midnight Mania! Aljamain Sterling is dealing with a lot of hate after UFC 259 for something that is hardly his fault. After all, he did not force Petr Yan to throw an illegal knee, nor was it his decision to name the blow intentional and disqualify the Russian boxer. All of this was
By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | March 8, 2021 11:00 pm LAS VEGAS – Kai Kara-France beat Rogerio Bontorin with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Kara-France, who got back in the win column after a submission loss this
Jake Paul and Ben Askren will take place in Atlanta. The fight which goes down on April 17 will take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. There will be no public ticket sales for the Paul vs. Askren card but a limited number of fans and guests will be invited to attend the event. In addition to
7:17 AM ET With four champions in action, UFC 259 was always going to have an outsized fallout compared to almost any other UFC card. And while Amanda Nunes continued to bolster her GOAT credentials with a thorough defeat of Megan Anderson, that’s as close as pre-show expectations for the three pay-per-view title fights came
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo, who retired from mixed martial arts (MMA) after smashing Dominick Cruz at UFC 249 back in May 2020, is planning to make his return to combat sports. Then again, Cejudo posts all sorts of wacky shit (like this), so maybe we should temper our expectations. “I
By Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway | March 8, 2021 3:30 pm LAS VEGAS – Uros Medic beat Aalon Cruz with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 259 in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Medic, who stayed unbeaten and kept his perfect string of stoppages intact, as
Megan Anderson has released her first statement following her lopsided loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 259. In the second of three title fights at UFC 259, Megan Anderson fell far short of her goal of becoming bantamweight champion when Amanda Nunes submitted her in the first round preceded by some devastating strikes that foreshadowed
3:35 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim There was no new inductee into the UFC’s exclusive champ-champ club on Saturday night. That’s what this UFC 259 main event was all about, right? Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya‘s quest to add the light heavyweight belt to become the fifth fighter to rule two weight divisions simultaneously and push toward
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By Mike Bohn | March 7, 2021 8:00 pm The UFC’s biggest event of 2021 so far went own Saturday with UFC 259, which took place at the UFC Apex at Las Vegas and aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+. Three championship fights were featured on the card, but the main event
Israel Adesanya has no regrets about moving up in weight and his loss to Jan Blachowicz at UFC 259. Over the weekend, Israel Adesanya attempted to become the fifth athlete in the UFC to capture two titles simultaneously. While his efforts were in vain, the middleweight champion gave an excellent account of himself against the
1:24 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Israel Adesanya‘s meteoric rise to UFC superstardom hit an obstacle Saturday night — a large, Polish obstacle. Jan Blachowicz beat the previously undefeated Adesanya by unanimous decision (49-46, 49-45, 49-45) to retain his light heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 259. Adesanya, the UFC middleweight champion, was
Longtime UFC analyst and commentator Dan Hardy has reportedly been let go by the UFC and BT Sport. That’s the word coming from the ever-reliable Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer, whose latest newsletter says the former UFC welterweight contender turned mic jockey was involved in some sort of altercation with a female employee on
By Mike Bohn | March 7, 2021 3:30 pm What mattered most at UFC 259 in the UFC Apex Las Vegas? Here are a few post-fight musings … 1. Give Jan Blachowicz his respect Is it finally time? Can we appreciate Jan Blachowicz in full now that he’s won and defended the UFC light heavyweight
11:32 PM ET ESPN’s panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi, Jeff Wagenheim and Phil Murphy breaks down the biggest stories coming out of UFC 259, including Jan Blachowicz‘s dominant win over Israel Adesanya, who was attempting to become just the fifth fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two divisions simultaneously; the
UFC 259 featured three title fights that would set the tone for their respective divisions in 2021. While one bantamweight title changed hands in an odd fashion, the women’s featherweight Queen made for a short night, and Israel Adesanya’s attempt at light-heavyweight would not go as planned. There was a lot to take away from
When Jan Blachowicz captured the UFC light heavyweight title with a victory over Dominick Reyes, fighters were coming out of the woodwork to challenge the Polish power puncher, partly because he wasn’t Jon Jones, but mostly because Blachowicz has been an underdog in 13 of his UFC fights and never seems to get the respect