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UFC on ESPN 28‘s lineup has taken a big hit. The scheduled co-main event between heavyweights Chris Daukaus and Shamil Abdurakhimov has been removed from the event due to undisclosed reasons, MMA Junkie has confirmed following an initial report from TSN. This bout was originally scheduled to take place at UFC on ESPN 27, however,

Getty Images Colby Covington will finally get another crack at welterweight champion Kamaru Usman when the two meet in the main event of UFC 268 in November. UFC president Dana White confirmed the news to ESPN, though stated the exact date and location are not confirmed. The hope is for the event to take place

7:44 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main card featured close calls throughout, with a pair of split decisions and a majority decision in the last five fights of the night. The judges had a tough job, but did they get the biggest fight of the night — the high-stakes bantamweight clash between TJ Dillashaw

The UFC’s busy July continued Saturday with UFC on ESPN 27, which took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and aired on ESPN and streamed on ESPN+. The highly anticipated main event of the card saw former UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw (17-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC) make his long-awaited return to the octagon

3:38 PM ET Marc Raimondi Mike Coppinger Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw has had several huge moments throughout his career, but Saturday’s Fight Night main event against Cory Sandhagen might be the biggest fight of his career — at least in terms of perception. Dillashaw (16-4) returns to competition for the first time in

Getty Images When highly ranked bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen faces off with two-time former champion TJ Dillashaw on Saturday at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, the five-round main event won’t be the first time the two 135-pound fighters have squared off.   Dillashaw (16-4), who returns for the first time since 2019 following a

Getty Images UFC is back in action on Saturday night with a fight card a little bit bigger than your run of the mill in between Fight Night event. The main attraction sees the return of former bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw when he faces off with red-hot contender Cory Sandhagen from the UFC Apex facility

LAS VEGAS — In many ways, despite a stellar record and two stints as the UFC’s bantamweight champion, Jan. 19, 2019, stood to be the pinnacle of T.J. Dillashaw’s mixed martial arts career. It was on that night in the Barclay’s Center that Dillashaw would attempt to complete a rare double: He was trying to

2:44 AM ET An important women’s bantamweight fight is off this weekend’s UFC card. The scheduled co-main event bout between Aspen Ladd and Macy Chiasson has been canceled because of an undisclosed Chiasson injury, UFC officials told ESPN on Thursday. The Saturday event in Las Vegas will go on with 11 fights. 1 Related ESPN

Justin Gaethje is not pleased with Michael Chandler – that much is clear. Chandler (22-6 MMA, 1-1 UFC) conducted an Instagram Live on Tuesday where he talked about his desire to get back in the octagon in December, with Gaethje (22-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) being the prominent name in mind. The former three-time Bellator champion

LAS VEGAS — It seems a long time when you’re in the midst of it, as Miranda Maverick is now, but a career as a professional athlete is actually just a small sliver of life. Maverick is one of the many promising prospects the UFC signed in 2020 and has hopes for developing into a

Getty Images After being sidelined for 20 months following surgery on a pair of torn knee ligaments, Aspen Ladd isn’t hoping for an easy night at the office in Saturday night’s return at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. The rising bantamweight contender, like most of the fans watching at home, would somewhat surprisingly prefer

7:34 AM ET TJ Dillashaw began 2019 as UFC men’s bantamweight champion and one of the highest-ranked pound-for-pound fighters in the world. The year quickly took an unforeseen turn. Dillashaw challenged flyweight champion Henry Cejudo that January, in an effort to become the first UFC champion to go down in weight to capture a second

LAS VEGAS — T.J. Dillashaw has been out of the Octagon for more than two years. He was suspended for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency when he was caught using EPO during a 2019 fight in Brooklyn with Henry Cejudo. Dillashaw’s time off isn’t what concerns me from a betting perspective heading

(Paul Rosales/Yahoo Sports) Below are my 10 choices for the best pound-for-pound mixed martial artist (including women) in the world. To understand this, it helps to understand what pound-for-pound means. To me, and the way I’ll be voting, it’s who would win a fight if everyone weighed the same and all of their skills and

Don’t expect Conor McGregor back in the Octagon anytime soon. The former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion left UFC 264 with a fractured tibia and fibula after a bizarre loss to Dustin Poirier. The fight was called as a first-round TKO win for Poirier after McGregor’s lower leg appeared to fold under him as he

8:17 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card proved a few things — most notably, that Islam Makhachev is dangerously effective, as advertised, and that Miesha Tate seems ready to step right back into the thick of it in the women’s bantamweight division despite five years out of the Octagon. But is Makhachev, fresh off

1:01 AM ET All eyes were on Islam Makhachev on Saturday night. Heading into his first UFC main event, those surrounding the fight game talked up the Dagestani star and pupil of Khabib Nurmagomedov. He answered all questions and thoroughly dominated Thiago Moises before ultimately submitting him in the fourth round. The top of the