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LONDON – Rafael Fiziev intends to show Justin Gaethje a “real highlight” with a spectacular performance at UFC 286. Fiziev (12-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) brings a six-fight winning streak in the lightweight division to Saturday’s co-main event with Gaethje (23-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC), which takes place at The O2 in London with a main card that

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight veterans Marvin Vettori and Roman Dolidze will go to war this weekend (Sat., March 18, 2023) at UFC 286 inside The O2 in London, England. It’s going to be very interesting to see how Vettori responds to his most recent performance, a one-sided loss to Robert Whittaker. “The Italian Dream”

Merab Dvalishvili has done all the work to climb the bantamweight rankings, but will have a tough time getting any further without a change in circumstance. After extending his winning streak to nine fights with a unanimous decision over Petr Yan at UFC Fight Night 221, Dvalishvili is stuck at the No. 2 spot at

Conor McGregor doesn’t plan on retiring anytime soon. During his rise to mixed martial arts (MMA) megastardom after his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) debut, McGregor was as active as any fighter on the roster, competing two to three times a year. Since achieving his status as Lightweight titleholder in Nov. 2016, however, there’s been a

SAN JOSE, Calif. – One of the biggest reasons Sara McMann jumped ship from the UFC to Bellator was for a potential matchup with the champion. Cris Cyborg currently holds sway over Bellator’s women’s featherweight division and has been dominant since coming to the promotion from the UFC not long after a loss to UFC

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s Flyweight talents Jennifer Maia and Casey O’Neill will duel this weekend (Sat., March 18, 2023) at UFC 286 inside The 02 in London, England. Immediately after Maia’s title shot against Valentina Shevchenko, there was actually some interest in a rematch because the Brazilian was able to challenge “Bullet” more than

1:50 PM ET Leon Edwards started his MMA career by fighting his first nine bouts in his adopted home country of England. And in the time since Edwards, who was born in Jamaica and moved with his family to Birmingham when he was 9, joined the UFC in 2014, he has competed four more times

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 the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, which helps outsiders get a deeper look

It was fun while it lasted for Power Slap League on network television. Earlier today (Mon., March 13, 2023), MMA Fighting confirmed with TBS that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President, Dana White’s, Power Slap experiment will no longer air on the channel after just one season. White later announced the news on his social media

9:25 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The UFC first visited London in 2002 for an event dubbed “The Brawl at the Hall.” The hall was hallowed old Royal Albert Hall, which prior to Matt Hughes defending his welterweight title against Carlos Newton that night had been best known for appearances by tenacious fighter Sir Winston Churchill

The UFC is back with its fourth pay-per-view of the year and second of March, which means the popular “Embedded” fight-week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes. UFC 286 takes place Saturday at The O2 in London. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPNews and early prelims

The past few years of Petr Yan’s career have been quite the rollercoaster. Indeed, the powerful Russian fighter beat Jose Aldo for the vacant Bantamweight belt back in July 2020, only to lose it via disqualification to Aljamain Sterling in his first title defense. Yan would then win the interim Bantamweight title in Oct. 2021,

Mar 10, 2023 Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou says he has “made amends” with his split from the promotion earlier this year and is focused on booking his professional boxing debut in 2023. Ngannou, 36, was essentially stripped of the UFC heavyweight title in January, when the company said it had failed to come

LAS VEGAS – Karl Williams defeated Lukasz Brzeski by unanimous decision in his debut Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC Fight Night 221 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels. Take a look inside the fight with Williams, who won his UFC debut after competing on Dana White’s Contender Series in September. Lukasz Brzeski vs.

Think you need to see Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou? Think again! UFC President, Dana White, isn’t interested in putting that fight together because the outcome is a foregone conclusion to him. Ngannou is one of the few major UFC fighters to walk away from the promotion in years, and White has decided to no-sell

9:32 PM ET LAS VEGAS — They truly do not call Merab Dvalishvili “The Machine” for nothing. Dvalishvili (16-4) earned the biggest win of his career on Saturday, as he dominated former champion Petr Yan (16-5) in a five-round unanimous decision at UFC Fight Night inside The Theater at Virgin Hotels. All three judges scored

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Now that he’s through to the semifinals, Alexander Shabliy is going to have to play the waiting game. Shabliy (23-3 MMA, 4-0 BMMA) took Tofiq Musayev (20-5 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) out of the lightweight grand prix this past Friday with a unanimous decision in the Bellator 292 co-main event at SAP

Some years ago, I wrote an article titled, “Colby Covington makes a coward of Robbie Lawler.” An incendiary headline that’s based on the classic quote of unknown origin, written in wrestling rooms and gymnasiums across the world: “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” The headline was no shot at Robbie Lawler — one of the