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12:53 PM ET Taila Santos has more work to do before getting a rematch with champion Valentina Shevchenko. Santos will take on top prospect Erin Blanchfield on a UFC Fight Night card Feb. 18 in Las Vegas, multiple sources confirmed with ESPN, including Blanchfield’s rep Oren Hodak of KOReps. Blanchfield first mentioned the matchup on

Losing to Ilia Topuria at UFC 282 was a tough pill to swallow for Bryce Mitchell. Mitchell (16-0 MMA, 6-1 UFC) suffered his first-career setback when he was dropped and submitted by fellow unbeaten rising contender Topuria earlier this month. Although days after the fight Mitchell said he will come back stronger in a video posted

Renato Moicano is looking for a fight with Paddy Pimblett in London and is using his funny social media skills to get the matchup. In the UFC lightweight division, there seems to be one man who is quickly rising up the rankings and has all other lightweights calling for a fight. That man is Paddy

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Zabit Magomedsharipov is one of the greatest “what ifs” in recent memory. A dazzling mix of athletic kickboxing and smothering wrestling, it was easy to label the Dagestani talent as a future champion. Six months ago, the top-ranked Featherweight contender announced his retirement, but it had been close to three years

2:43 PM ET A highly anticipated middleweight bout between Robert Whittaker and Paulo Costa will not happen at UFC 284 as planned, sources told ESPN. The UFC still has the 185-pound contest officially listed on its website for the UFC 284 event, which is scheduled to take place on Feb. 11 in Perth, Australia, but

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

Former UFC featherweight contender Zabit Magomedsharipov may be keeping the door cracked open to an Octagon return. Magomedsharipov hasn’t fought since a win over Calvin Kattar in Nov. 2019. He was removed from the UFC rankings last year due to inactivity. Magomedsharipov further shut down a potential UFC return when he notified the UFC in

Power Slap: “Road to the Title” will debut on Weds., Jan. 11 at 10 p.m. ET on TBS directly following the AEW: “Dynamite” pro wrestling program. The eight-episode season will follow the journey of select slap fighting contestants on the road to a world title. Check out the newly-designed Power Slap belt here. “I’m very

LAS VEGAS – Laura Sanko hopes she finally makes her UFC commentary debut in 2023. Sanko got a taste of her goal when she commentated episodes of Dana White’s Contender Series’ fifth season alongside Paul Felder, Daniel Cormier and Michael Bisping, but she wants a spot as a color commentator for UFC Fight Night events. That

On Saturday night, the MMA leader returned for its final card of 2022, UFC Vegas 66. While the promotion closed out its pay-per-view calendar for this year with UFC 282 last weekend, the Octagon offerings weren’t quite finished. And although much of the attention this month was on the T-Mobile Arena-held event, which included a title fight

Anyone tuning in for the UFC Vegas 66 main card on Saturday night may have been left wondering what the hell happened during the prelims to leave the cage so saturated in blood. That would be on account of Rafa Garcia, who suffered a cut on the side of his head halfway through his fight

Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz are talking smack – about smacks. In a slew of tweets that started Saturday and flowed into Sunday, the two notorious UFC rivals engaged in a war of words on Twitter. The exchange stemmed from an initial string of tweets where McGregor expressed interest in Power Slap, the UFC’s upcoming

UFC lightweight Jared Gordon has a former interim champion in mind if the promotion doesn’t offer the Paddy Pimblett rematch. Gordon lost to Pimblett via a unanimous decision at UFC 282 last weekend. In the biggest fight of his career, he arguably won the fight in most eyes, although the three judges all scored it

Does Conor McGregor have middleweight aspirations? According to “The Notorious” himself, he will ‘100%’ be testing himself against 185 pound opponents at some point in his career. McGregor, who started his fight career out as a 145 pound featherweight, moved up to lightweight in 2016 and even contested some bouts at welterweight, although against other

10:35 PM ET Former UFC bantamweight champion Holly Holm will return to the Octagon against Yana Kunitskaya on March 25, sources told ESPN on Saturday. Holm (14-6) has not fought since May because of an undisclosed injury that required surgery earlier this year. The 41-year-old former professional boxing champion told ESPN in September she expected

Check out these photos highlighting Mamed Khalidov’s TKO win over Mariusz Pudzianowski at KSW 77 from Arena Gliwice in Gliwice, Poland. (Photos courtesy of KSW) ksw-77-mariusz-pudzianowski -6 ksw-77-mariusz-pudzianowski -5 ksw-77-mariusz-pudzianowski -7 ksw-77-mariusz-pudzianowski ksw-77-mamed-khalidov ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-6 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-7 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-1 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -1 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -2 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -11 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -12 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -3 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -4 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -13 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -5 ksw-77-mamed-khalidov-mariusz-pudzianowski -6

A former All-American wrestler who was born without legs made his MMA debut on Saturday night and emerged victorious. Zion Clark was born with a rare birth defect called caudal regression syndrome, a disorder that impairs the development of the lower half of the body. The condition occurs every one in 60,000 live births. But

Zion Clark made a successful mixed martial arts (MMA) debut last night (Sat., Dec. 17, 2022) at a Gladiator Challenge event in Valley Center, Calif., as the wrestler with no legs scored a unanimous decision win over Eugene Murray. Clark has a background in wrestling and that is exactly what he leaned on early into