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Gilbert Burns is having a stellar start to 2023. A UFC welterweight contender, Burns (20-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) is gearing up for one of the biggest fights of his career, days before he steps in the octagon against Jorge Masvidal in the co-main event of UFC 287 in Miami on April 8. Burns enters the

Welcome to Midnight Mania! For as long as the checks keep clearing, the Floyd Mayweather Heist exhibition tour will continue. The premise is simple: Mayweather steps into the ring with big gloves on for a short sparring match against the biggest name who’ll take him up on his offer. Usually, it’s playful, but if his

4:27 PM ET The UFC is heading back to Canada for the first time in nearly four years. Vancouver will be the host to the UFC 289 pay-per-view event on June 10, the promotion announced Friday afternoon. No main event has been officially announced yet. The UFC has not visited Canada since before the COVID-19

Check out these photos from Maurice Greene’s victory over Marcelo Nunes at 2023 PFL 2 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas (Photos courtesy of Cooper Neill/PFL) Maurice Greene def. Marcelo Nunes 2023 PFL 2 Las Vegas at the The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada,… 2023 PFL 2 Las Vegas

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Former UFC welterweight turned-middleweight bruiser Darren Till recently parted ways with the promotion after a run of bad luck (and debilitating injuries). “The Gorilla” now plans to try his hand at the sport of boxing against an opponent to be named. Gamebred Boxing promoter Jorge Masvidal is ready

7:49 AM ET MIAMI — IT’S A BALMY Monday evening at the newly renamed Kaseya Center downtown, and Jorge Masvidal is looking for a legal parking spot for his classic dark blue Lincoln Continental convertible. He takes a right off Biscayne Boulevard and stops on a relatively quiet side road. Masvidal thinks the car should

MIAMI – The UFC 287 fight card is now official following Friday’s weigh-in session, where 25 of 26 athletes scheduled to compete successfully hit their marks on the scale. UFC 287 takes place Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+. In

Welcome to Midnight Mania! It’s been a relatively quiet few months for Khamzat Chimaev. Most of the recent headlines about “Borz” have been just that, about the Chechen talent rather than from him. For example, UFC President Dana White confirms he’s heading up to Middleweight, or Robert Whittaker explaining that he was never offered the

7:53 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN One after another, the shiny brass-and-leather belts and oversized $1 million checks had been handed out. The 2022 PFL’s season-ending night of glory last November in New York had seen five fighters earn championships in as many weight classes. All that was left of this jamboree was the evening’s sixth

MIAMI – UFC middleweight Chris Curtis isn’t necessarily worried about what his UFC 287 opponent will do inside the cage, unless he starts pulling off some supernatural physical acts. In the feature prelim on ESPN and ESPN+ before the pay-per-view main card at Kaseya Center, Curtis (30-9 MMA, 4-1 UFC) takes on former title challenger

Money talks, Anthony Pettis walks … all the way to the bank to cash his $650,000 check. “Showtime” scored beaucoup bucks by defeating aging pugilist Roy Jones Jr. atop the Gamebred Boxing 4 pay-per-view (PPV) event last weekend in Milwaukee, more than triple his payout for his last UFC win as lightweight champion (see those

9:59 AM ET A heavyweight matchup between Jairzinho Rozenstruik and surging prospect Jailton Almeida will headline a UFC Fight Night on May 13, officials announced this week. The event is scheduled to take place at Spectrum Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. It will mark the UFC’s fourth trip to Charlotte and its first since January

LAS VEGAS – Julia Budd was pleased to get a matchup with Larissa Pacheco to open the 2023 PFL women’s featherweight season. Budd (16-5) faces Pacheco (19-4) in Friday’s 2023 PFL 2 main event, which takes place at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. The main card airs on ESPN2 following prelims on ESPN+. The former

Welcome to Midnight Mania! This weekend (Sat., April 8, 2023), Israel Adesanya will attempt to finally score his revenge on knockout artist Alex Pereira in the main event of UFC 287. Pereira has defeated Adesanya three times now, twice in kickboxing and once at UFC 281. Two of those defeats came via knockout. One of

7:50 PM ET MIAMI — Jorge Masvidal said he is not sure how his rival Colby Covington is set for the next UFC welterweight title shot given legal claims Covington has made in a criminal case against Masvidal. Masvidal is facing felony charges of aggravated battery and criminal mischief stemming from an alleged attack on

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best fights from March 2023: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Fight of the Month award for March. At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by

Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and one-time interim 155-pound titleholder Dustin Poirier are two of the biggest names in mixed martial arts (MMA), thanks to their massive pay-per-view (PPV) success atop multiple UFC fight cards. Conor McGregor deserves most of the credit. That’s according to former UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, who now serves

8:43 AM ET Alex Pereira stood with his back to the fence inside the UFC’s Octagon at Madison Square Garden. It was right before the start of the fifth and final round of a title fight in front of a sellout crowd. Pereira looked across the cage at his opponent, then-UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya,