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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is back inside its Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, this weekend (Sat., Feb. 25, 2023) for UFC Vegas 70. And while it is a much better card than last week, let’s not pretend that we aren’t all impatiently waiting for next week’s blockbuster UFC 285 pay-per-view show. But, until then,

8:44 AM ET The UFC schedule is about to enter a monster stretch, with marquee pay-per-view events in Las Vegas and London within the next three weeks. UFC 285, March 4: Jon Jones at heavyweight, finally. UFC 286, March 18: Leon Edwards–Kamaru Usman trilogy bout — in London! There are other fantastic fights on those

DUBLIN – Ciaran Clarke might be starting to get used to opponents changing on him – not that it’s a good thing. Clarke (6-0 MMA, 6-0 BMMA) on Saturday takes on Leonardo Sinis (11-5-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) in a featherweight bout to open up the Bellator 291 main card at 3Arena in Dublin. Clarke will

Ahead of UFC Vegas 70, light heavyweight contender Ryan Spann is solely focused on what he’s bringing to the Octagon, not his opponent Nikita Krylov. With a newly crowned champion, a top contender whose health status remains uncertain, and a couple of recent title challengers seemingly in the UFC doghouse, it appears to be all

Welcome to Midnight Mania! UFC President Dana White thought he had a home run on his hands, pulling strings to get slap fighting legalized in Las Vegas, Nevada and putting together a company fairly quickly. From the beginning, however, the community reaction to Power Slap has never been great. It’s been criticized on grounds of

DUBLIN – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Friday’s official Bellator 291 fighter weigh-ins, which kick off at 4 a.m. ET (1 a.m. PT). The weigh-ins take place at the Bellator host hotel in Dublin. The nearby 3Arena hosts Saturday’s event, which has a main card on Showtime following prelims on MMA Junkie. Among those weighing

UFC star Khamzat Chimaev’s head coach, Andreas Michael, has given an update on his highly anticipated return to the Octagon. Chimaev last fought against Kevin Holland in the UFC 279 co-main event, earning a first-round submission. He was supposed to face Nate Diaz before missing weight hours before the event. Chimaev is focused on a

Jake Paul and Tommy Fury were both in attendance for a special fight week press conference on Thursday, just a few days ahead of their cruiserweight boxing match atop the “The Truth” pay-per-view (PPV) card on ESPN+ and FITE+ this Sunday (Feb. 26, 2023) from Diriyah Arena in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. LIVE! Watch ‘Paul Vs.

11:53 AM ET Politicians in California are hoping to give back to retired fighters. A proposal in the California Legislature would set up a pension fund for former MMA fighters who have a certain number of fights in the state, bill sponsor Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) told ESPN. The legislation was introduced in state

Now that he’s finally in Las Vegas and work has gotten underway on “The Ultimate Fighter,” Conor McGregor can start thinking about his own development. Former UFC two-division champion McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) and former Bellator lightweight champ Michael Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) are set to coach the upcoming Season 31 of the

Ahead of her long-awaited return this weekend, Tatiana Suarez has been labeled “one-dimensional” by her opponent Montana De La Rosa. Suarez hasn’t been in action since 2019, when she extended her unblemished professional mixed martial arts record to 8-0. After emerging victorious from season 23 of The Ultimate Fighter, where she won the strawweight tournament

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Jake Paul and Francis Ngannou have more in common than one might first think. Currently, Ngannou is very arguably the biggest free agent in combat sports, a status he achieved by fighting out his UFC contract in the hopes of a high-profile boxing match. Just before Ngannou officially scored his own

11:30 AM ET Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira will face top contender Beneil Dariush in May. The UFC has not officially announced the 155-pound bout, but Oliveira referred to it as official on social media, and sources told ESPN Dariush’s side has agreed. The lightweight fight will take place May 6 at an event

Daniel Cormier believes Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski will hold up their divisions if they run things back, and the UFC Hall of Famer isn’t a big fan of that. Featherweight champion Volkanovski (25-2 MMA, 12-1 UFC) proposed a rematch to lightweight champ Makhachev (24-1 MMA, 13-1 UFC) after taking him to the brink in their title

Chael Sonnen believes there’s a common misconception surrounding the recent woes of former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt. At the start of 2017, Garbrandt was riding high off the back of a memorable victory over Dominick Cruz, which left him 11-0 as a professional mixed martial artist and sat on the MMA leader’s 135-pound throne.

Current Bellator MMA Welterweight champion, Yaroslav Amosov, didn’t hesitate to put his mixed marital arts (MMA) career on hold at the height of his career to take on an entirely different battle in early 2022. Scheduled to face Michael Page in his first-ever title defense in May of 2022, Amosov withdrew from the fight to

1:27 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a heavyweight matchup between Sergei Pavlovich and Curtis Blaydes to headline an event on April 22, multiple sources told ESPN. The promotion has not announced the heavyweight fight or a location for the UFC Fight Night event, however both sides have agreed to a five-round main event per

LAS VEGAS – Several high-profile boxers have been linked to former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, but Eric Nicksick says one stands out more than the others. Ngannou parted ways with the UFC in January and appears to be gearing up for his long-desired boxing debut as his next move. Tyson Fury expressed interest in