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The UFC middleweight title rematch everyone was expecting is coming in April. New UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira will face Israel Adesanya, whom he beat for the belt by TKO in November, at UFC 287 on April 8, UFC president Dana White announced Friday. The venue for the event remains unannounced. Pereira captured the title

Getty Images Fighters entering bouts with undisclosed injuries is nothing new, but it isn’t always the case that their opponents stumble upon the injury so soon. Brandon Moreno fought at UFC 283 with a compromised knee — the same knee that Deiveson Figueiredo attacked in the opening round. Moreno emerged victorious in UFC’s first quadrilogy,

Jamahal Hill won the UFC light heavyweight title in dominant fashion Saturday in Brazil. (Photo by Leandro Bernardes/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Jamahal Hill was told that winning a UFC championship is a life-changing event. The new light heavyweight title holder hasn’t really seen his life changed too dramatically just yet, though his reign is

8:00 AM ET Two new champions were crowned at UFC 283 on Saturday. One of them earned a place in the ESPN pound-for-pound rankings. But it was a different winner from last weekend who made the biggest move. Jessica Andrade, who smashed fellow ranked flyweight Lauren Murphy on Saturday for her third straight victory, climbed

Getty Images Jamahal Hill is the undisputed UFC light heavyweight champion, but the shadow of Jiri Prochazka looms over him. There are many worthwhile fights to consider in the aftermath of UFC 283, including Hill vs. Prochazka. Hill was something of an unproven commodity when he was abruptly inserted into the title picture at 205

There probably was no one outside of his coaching staff, his immediate family, his best friends and a diehard fan or two who would have called Jamahal Hill a great fighter prior to Saturday night. Good? Undoubtedly. Outstanding prospect? No question. Potential champion? Of course. He was favored at BetMGM to defeat Glover Teixeira on

12:39 AM ET The first tetralogy in UFC history came to a close on Saturday, as Brandon Moreno finished Deiveson Figueiredo in their fourth meeting in a span of 25 months. A cageside physician waved off the flyweight title fight before the start of the fourth round, after Figueiredo’s right eye closed from swelling caused

Plan your fight nights ahead with our UFC fight schedule. Included below are all of the UFC’s upcoming Fight Night cards and pay-per-events with announced bouts. We’ll also include any odds that are posted at BetMGM. Check back often as this list will be updated as new fights are scheduled. Here are the major scheduled

Magomed Ankalaev was still in the Octagon following a light heavyweight title fight against Jan Blachowicz in the main event of UFC 282 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. He was shocked, angry and confused by the scoring of the bout that left the title vacant. The bout was a split draw, and Ankalaev thought

Darrick Minner’s first-round loss to Shayilan Nuerdanbieke in November is still under investigation. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) Ontario has reinstated betting on UFC events following the UFC’s partnership with U.S. Integrity, a company that uses technology to help protect against betting fraud and corruption. U.S. Integrity initially alerted sports books to potential wagering issues

Getty Images UFC 283 marks the promotion’s first visit to Brazil in two years and first pay-per-view in the country since UFC 237 in May 2019. Unusual circumstances at the end of 2022 led to a main event booked on six weeks’ notice, complimenting an extraordinary rivalry entering its fourth consecutive year of competition. Glover

9:22 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN If Brazil isn’t the birthplace of the UFC, it is at least the playground for the promotion’s formative years. The inaugural event in 1993 took place in Denver, and the company’s first 15 fight cards all happened in the United States. It took the UFC nearly five years before finally

Plan your fight nights ahead with our UFC fight schedule. Included below are all of the UFC’s upcoming Fight Night cards and pay-per-events with announced bouts. We’ll also include any odds that are posted at BetMGM. Check back often as this list will be updated as new fights are scheduled. Here are the major scheduled

UFC president Dana White faces significant challenges ahead in navigating the company through 2023. (Photo by Amy Kaplan/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) It would have been inconceivable at lunchtime on Sept. 8 to think there was even the tiniest bit of concern about the UFC’s position in the sports landscape. It was a juggernaut and

Getty Images Francis Ngannou is no longer UFC heavyweight champion and now free to sign with any other combat sports promotion. Ngannou’s split from the UFC comes after more than a year of contract disputes between the two parties. UFC president Dana White announced the news at a press conference on Saturday in the immediate

8:52 AM ET The 2023 MMA calendar gets underway this weekend, and it intensifies next week when UFC 283 is headlined by a pair of championship fights. But a truly game-changing moment for the sport arrives next month in a collision of ESPN’s No. 1 and No. 2 pound-for-pound fighters. When UFC men’s featherweight champion

MMA coach James Krause served as an agent for an online sportsbook, ESPN reported. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) The gambling controversy surrounding highly regarded MMA trainer James Krause, a former UFC fighter, reached another level Thursday when ESPN reported that Krause acted as an agent for an online sports book.

UFC president Dana White said Wednesday at media day for UFC Vegas 67 that he would not step down from his position or be punished after being caught on video slapping his wife, Anne, at a nightclub during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He asked people not to defend him