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Dec 14, 2024; Tampa, Florida, UNITED STATES; Colby Covington (red gloves) fights Joaquin Buckley (blue gloves) at Amalie Arena. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Welterweight champion Belal Muhammad reveled in watching Colby Covington take a beating at UFC on ESPN 63. Covington (17-5 MMA, 12-5 UFC) suffered a third-round doctor stoppage TKO loss to

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterDec 15, 2024, 01:51 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions There’s a new era of welterweights taking over the UFC, and Joaquin Buckley is undeniably one of them. Buckley (21-6) extended his winning streak to six Saturday

. Zhang Weili will look to hand Tatiana Suarez her first loss in the UFC 312 co-main event. Zhang Weili vs. Tatiana Suarez preview Since dominating Carla Esparza to recapture the strawweight title at UFC 281 in November 2022, Weili has defended her title two times with unanimous decision wins over Amanda Lemos and Yan

Andreas Hale, ESPNDec 13, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions By the time 2024 comes to a close, there will have been 716 events in the 31 years that the Ultimate Fighting Championship has existed. But only one fight card — unless UFC Fight Night in Tampa, Florida, this Saturday pulls off a miracle

You see this man? Pure in-cage entertainment. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) We’re baaaaaack! Join Ariel Helwani live on Uncrowned and YouTube at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT/6 p.m. UK time as “The Ariel Helwani Show” takes the champ out for a victory lap, answers your questions and even breaks some news on this wonderful Wednesday afternoon.

Andreas Hale, ESPNDec 8, 2024, 01:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAS VEGAS — Alexandre Pantoja successfully defended the flyweight champion by submitting promotional newcomer Kai Asakura in the second round of their UFC 310 main event showdown at T-Mobile Arena. Pantoja neutralized the former RIZIN bantamweight champion’s explosive striking by bringing the fight to

Jon Jones returned from a 20-month injury lay-off to stop Stipe Miocic [Getty Images] 2024 schedule The BBC is not responsible for any changes to dates and fixtures. 14 December Lyon, France Florida, USA 18 January 2025 California, USA 25 January Dubai, United Arab Emirates 1 February Riyadh, Saudi Arabia UFC Fight Night 9 February

Jeff Wagenheim Dec 6, 2024, 07:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The UFC 310 main event is a mystery story, one that will play out in a narrative genre that’s not so much whodunit as who-is-it. Saturday’s fight pits a low-profile champion from a lower-profile weight class, men’s flyweight Alexandre Pantoja, against a challenger many

. The UFC 310 pre-fight press conference takes place Thursday, and you can watch a live stream of the event in the video above. The press conference takes place at MGM Grant Garden Arena in Las Vegas, which is nearby the T-Mobile Arena, which hosts Saturday’s fight card (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+). UFC 310 is

Andreas Hale, ESPNDec 3, 2024, 09:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions UFC interim heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall has one thing on his mind: becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion. To do that he will likely have to face Jon Jones to unify the titles in a highly anticipated clash between arguably the greatest mixed martial artist

Michael Bisping has said Ian Machado Garry “will get finished” at UFC 310 if he can’t stop Shavkat Rakhmonov’s takedowns. Rakhmonov, one of the most fearsome contenders in the UFC, is 18-0 with 18 stoppage wins, and the Kazakh was due to challenge welterweight champion Belal Muhammad on Saturday (7 December). However, a bone infection

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterNov 29, 2024, 05:01 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Dakota Ditcheva had more than her fair share of haters over the course of the 2024 PFL season — and she left them all unsatisfied in the

Terrance McKinney Terrance McKinney will bring his action-packed style back to the octagon in February when he takes on Damir Hadzovic in a lightweight bout in Saudi Arabia. McKinney (15-7 MMA, 5-4 UFC) is set to clash with Hadzovic (14-7 MMA, 4-5 UFC) at UFC Fight Night: Riyadh on Feb. 1 at The Venue. Both

Nov 26, 2024, 05:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2024 PFL season concludes on Friday afternoon in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with playoff finals in each of the six weight classes. All of the PFL World Championship fights at King Saud University Stadium will be on ESPN+, starting at 1 p.m. ET. Among the 12

. 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 X, Facebook and Instagram, which helps outsiders get a deeper

Andreas Hale, ESPNNov 23, 2024, 09:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former light heavyweight champions Jiri Prochazka and Jamahal Hill are set to clash on Jan. 18 at UFC 311 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. The UFC announced the matchup during the UFC Macau postfight show. Prochazka and Hill are looking to get

. Xiao Long woke up the crowd at UFC Fight Night 248 with a brutal knockout of Quang Le. After a back-and-forth bantamweight bout over more than two rounds, Long (27-8 MMA, 1-1 UFC) closed the show in the final frame when he connected with a clean 1-2 punch combination that dropped Le (8-2 MMA,

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterNov 20, 2024, 09:19 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Bellator lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov will defend his title against Paul Hughes on Jan. 25 in Dubai. The fight marks the first event of a new, multiyear