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Lightweight veterans Diego Ferreira and Michael Johnson will meet in May. Ferreira (17-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) takes on Johnson (21-18 MMA, 13-14 UFC) at UFC Fight Night on May 20. A venue and location have yet to be announced. Multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the booking to MMA Junkie following an initial report from MMA

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Jorge Masvidal doesn’t understand how Colby Covington can fight for the belt. Unlike Belal Muhammad, Masvidal isn’t attacking Covington’s title shot on the argument of merit. Instead, Masvidal is confused by Covington’s actions after his alleged March 2022 street attack. Following the supposed Masvidal sucker, Covington departed to the sidelines as

4:09 PM ET Marc Raimondi Mike Coppinger The combat sports landscape is about to undergo a seismic shift. Two of the biggest live event and broadcast promoters in the combat space, the UFC and WWE, will be merged into one company, an unprecedented and stunning business move. Endeavor, the UFC’s parent company, announced Monday it

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

Will the real Alex Pereira please stand up? “Poatan” set Twitter ablaze earlier this week by delivering a soft-spoken promo for UFC 287, which stood in stark contrast to the mystique of an ice-cold middleweight killer who snacks on the souls of fallen foes. “Hi guys, the time has come,” Pereira said. “I have my

If Sean O’Malley was betting $10,000, he’d put it on Israel Adesanya to beat Alex Pereira at UFC 287. Adesanya (23-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC) will seek revenge in Saturday’s headliner when he looks to reclaim the middleweight title from Pereira (7-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Former Middleweight champion Robert Whittaker can certainly be considered an interested party in UFC 287’s main event this weekend (Sat. April 8, 2023) between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira. Twice previously, Whittaker has battled with “Stylebender.” In the first fight, Adesanya dethroned Whittaker in a master class performance, stopping him via

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz 7:31 AM ET Associated Press WWE and the company that runs Ultimate Fighting Championship will combine to create a $21.4 billion sports entertainment company. A new publicly traded company will be formed that houses the UFC and WWE brands. Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. will hold a 51% controlling interest

In a UFC off-week that featured PFL and Bellator, perhaps the most eye-catching event of the weekend for MMA fans wasn’t an MMA event at all. Gamebred Boxing 4 took place Saturday at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisc., as a rare UFC Fight Pass pay-per-view event. In the main event, former UFC lightweight champion Anthony

UFC has been ON FIRE over the last seven years, according to promotion president Dana White, which checks out since the recurring pay-per-view (PPV) price increases are burning a hole in our collective pockets. UFC and WWE will now exist as siblings in the Endeavor Group portfolio following today’s announcement that Ari Emanuel and his

9:24 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim There is no such thing as being down to your last chance in mixed martial arts. Just about everyone in the sport loses at some point, and even a multifight skid doesn’t necessarily deposit you at the end of the road. Unlike in boxing, where the zero in the “L”

The PFL’s 2023 regular season continues this week with PFL 2023, Week 2, which features women’s featherweights and heavyweights in action for the first time this year. Here’s how to watch PFL 2023, Week 2, with a complete lineup and breakdown by division. For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for PFL

WrestleMania 39 night two went down on Sunday from the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California in front of a packed crowd of over 81,000 fans. While the MMA-related story of the night goes to the potential sale of WWE to UFC parent company Endeavor, there were also some former UFC champions competing inside the squared

LAS VEGAS – Bubba Jenkins beat Chris Wade with a unanimous decision Friday on the main card at 2023 PFL 1 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. Take a look inside the fight with Jenkins, the 2022 featherweight season runner-up who got his 2023 campaign started with 3 points. Bubba Jenkins vs.

WrestleMania 39 heads into it’s second night at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California and the event is so big, Brock Lesnar is featured halfway down the card. Facing the former UFC heavyweight champion is relative newcomer Omos, who is an absolute giant of a man. The Nigerian is a whopping 7 foot 4 inches

TEMECULA, Calif. – Daniel James appears to be realistic about his chances to get a Bellator heavyweight title shot in the next few months. Still, that he’s already in the conversation just two fights into his return to the promotion at what in theory should be the tail end of his career is reason to

Jorge Masvidal’s Gamebred Boxing returns to pay-per-view (PPV) tonight with a profoundly eclectic lineup, at the top of which sits a clash between the legendary Roy Jones Jr. and former WEC/UFC champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis. MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE coverage of tonight’s main card below. The UFC Fight Pass/PPV.com Prelims kick off at 7 p.m.

12:06 AM ET LAS VEGAS — The first event of PFL’s 2023 regular season sure looked a lot similar to 2022, as far as Brendan Loughnane and Rob Wilkinson are concerned. Loughnane (27-4) and Wilkinson (18-2) each won PFL titles in 2022, at featherweight and light heavyweight, respectively. On Saturday, they kicked off their quests