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Yahoo Sports Patriots’ next head coach, owners meetings takeaways | Inside Coverage Jason Fitz is joined by senior NFL reporter Charles Robinson to go behind the scenes and get the inside scoop on the latest stories around the NFL, and later, Charles talks to senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein to get the latest from the

Getty Images The final UFC PPV event of the year is upon. The promotion is back home in Las Vegas with a pair of title fights atop the marquee on Saturday night when UFC 296 lands inside the T-Mobile Arena. The main event sees welterweight champion Leon Edwards look to turn away former two-time title

Jeff Wagenheim Dec 11, 2023, 09:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The most impactful storyline at UFC 296 will shine a spotlight on what’s right in front of our eyes, sparkling with the promise of ascendance. Behold those golden championship belts — two of them! — that will be up for grabs on Saturday at

It might not have come the way Song Yadong envisioned, but he scored a lopsided win over Chris Gutierrez nonetheless. Song showed versatility to his overall game as he defeated Gutierrez by unanimous decision in the UFC Fight Night 233 bantamweight headliner. After 25 minutes, the judges awarded Song the victory with scores of 50-44,

Getty Images Bantamweight is one of the deepest and most exciting divisions in mixed martial arts. On Saturday, two top 15 fighters in the UFC bantamweight rankings will look to end 2023 with a burst of momentum when Song Yadong and Chris Gutierrez clash in a UFC Fight Night headliner. The event was originally set

Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterDec 6, 2023, 02:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Brandon Moreno will fight Amir Albazi in a flyweight contender bout Feb. 24 in Mexico City, the former UFC flyweight champion confirmed in an interview published Wednesday by ESPN. The bout being discussed, a five-round co-main event on the UFC Fight Night

Jon Jones has hit out at Tom Aspinall, after the Briton called for the UFC to strip the American of the heavyweight title. Aspinall won the interim heavyweight belt by knocking out Sergei Pavlovich in November, after Jones’s title defence against Stipe Miocic fell through when Jones suffered an injury. The interim champion would typically

Getty Images The year is coming to an end and UFC has one pay-per-view left on its 2023 calendar. Welterweight champion Leon Edwards vs. Colby Covington headlines the Dec. 16 card in Las Vegas with support from Alexandre Pantoja vs. Brandon Royval for the flyweight crown. It’s been a long, long time since Edwards has

Dec 3, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mixed martial arts is an unpredictable act. Look no further than UFC Fight Night last weekend in Austin. A slam knockout is one of the most rare ways for a bout to end, and yet it happened in back-to-back contests on Saturday, in nearly mirror images

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

Two fighters tried to get an armbar from the ground at UFC Austin. Neither attempt went well. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) UFC Austin fans saw one of the rarer ways to end a fight in all of mixed martial artists. Then they saw it again a half-hour later. A pair of

Arman Tsarukyan committed some violence against Beneil Dariush. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) Arman Tsarukyan only needed a minute to make a statement at UFC Austin. The No. 8 lightweight in the UFC’s rankings made short work of Beneil Dariush in the main event, knocking the veteran flat with a devastating combination

On Saturday, UFC Austin is headlined by a lightweight clash between top-10 contenders Beneil Dariush and Arman Tsarukyan. A UFC Fight Night will take its best form in recent memory Saturday at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, as the UFC offers a stacked card for a strong finish to the year. The highly anticipated

Dec 1, 2023, 08:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There are champions in MMA and there are contenders closing in on claiming belts. There are marginal contenders, gatekeepers and former greats hanging on in hope of one last moment of glory. And then there are prospects, the young fighters who serve a vital function: They

Newly crowned UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira has claimed Israel Adesanya’s spot in the Yahoo Sports MMA pound-for-pound rankings. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) (Chris Unger via Getty Images) There are so many good fighters in mixed martial arts right now that it’s hard to stop at 10 when making a

Olivier Aubin-Mercier faced Clay Collard (not pictured) in the main event of Friday’s PFL Championships at The Anthem in Washington, DC. (Cooper Neill via Getty Images) There are people who still ask for a Kleenex when what they really want is a tissue. And there are people who tell coworkers they’re heading to the Xerox

Nov 27, 2023, 09:11 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PFL will start the new year with the most talented and deepest roster outside the UFC, perhaps ever. After acquiring Bellator MMA officially last week, there is an exponential amount of potential matchups PFL can now make with all of its champions and contenders and their

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterNov 20, 2023, 11:58 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions The PFL has acquired Bellator MMA in a landmark deal for combat sports, PFL chairman Donn Davis announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but