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Jiri Prochazka versus Glover Teixeira 2 has been canceled after Prochazka pulled out and vacated the UFC light heavyweight title due to injury. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC) UFC light heavyweight champion Jiri Prochazka has suffered a significant injury to his right shoulder, forcing him to not only pull out of his UFC 282 title

Bellator MMA Yaroslav Amosov is back. The Bellator welterweight champion is set for his first title defense when he takes on interim titleholder Logan Storley on Feb. 25 from the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, the promotion announced on Tuesday. Amosov has not fought since winning the title in June 2021 with a decision over Douglas

9:17 AM ET Kamaru Usman was winning the whole way, cruising to a unanimous decision victory until Leon Edwards caught him with a head kick that left him unconscious on impact. The fifth-round knockout earned Edwards the UFC welterweight title and snapped Usman’s incredible 15-fight winning streak. The second-longest such streak in promotion history. Nine

James Krause was suspended by the Nevada commission ahead of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 65 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Athletic Commission would not allow veteran MMA coach James Krause to work the corner of Miles Johns on Saturday on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 65 against

Heavyweights Derrick Lewis and Sergey Spivak were set to battle at UFC Vegas 65 on Saturday at the Apex in Las Vegas. Instead, cageside announcer Brendan Fitzgerald interrupted the prelims to announce that the main event was canceled due to a “non-COVID, non-weight cutting illness on the Derrick Lewis side.” After Saturday’s card ended, UFC

Heavyweights Derrick Lewis and Sergey Spivak were set to battle at UFC Vegas 65 on Saturday at the Apex in Las Vegas. Instead, cageside announcer Brendan Fitzgerald interrupted the prelims to announce that the main event was canceled due to a “non-COVID, non-weight cutting illness on the Derrick Lewis side.” After Saturday’s card ended, UFC

USATSI Ranked heavyweight contenders take the spotlight Saturday at UFC Fight: Lewis vs. Spivac when former title challenger Derrick Lewis takes on rising prospect Serghei Spivac in the main event. The main UFC fight card is set for 4 p.m. ET from the promotion’s Apex facility in Las Vegas. The No. 7-ranked Lewis is a

11:12 AM ET Corey Anderson got an unexpected text message last month. The sender was his friend and fellow Bellator MMA fighter Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. Anderson and Johnson had not spoken for a few months, but Rumble was known for checking in on his buddies when they were getting close to a fight. This particular

Heading into his grudge match title defense against Alex Pereira in the main event of UFC 281 on Nov. 12 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Israel Adesanya was an outlier among current UFC champions. His five successful title defenses heading into the bout with Pereira were the most among UFC men and were

Daniel Cormier is one of the few champ-champs in UFC history, so his perspective is certainly worth something. In 2018, then-light heavyweight champion Cormier moved to heavyweight and captured a second title by knocking out Stipe Miocic. This February, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (25-1 MMA, 12-0 UFC) looks to do something similar when he

Getty Images Drake’s pockets are $2 million lighter after Saturday’s UFC middleweight title fight between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira in UFC 281. The Grammy Award-winning rapper placed a $2 million bet on Adesanya to win the bout, but Pereira came out victorious. Adesanya had the upper hand for a large amount of the fight.

1:36 AM ET Alex Pereira defeated Israel Adesanya by fifth-round TKO in the main event of UFC 281 to become the new middleweight champion Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Adesanya hurt Pereira at the end of Round 1 and then dominated the ground game in the third before Pereira took over in

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 12: (L-R) Alex Pereira of Brazil punches Israel Adesanya of Nigeria in the UFC middleweight championship bout during the UFC 281 event at Madison Square Garden on November 12, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Israel Adesanya was knocked out in his second kickboxing fight

Getty Images It’s Fight Week in New York City once again. UFC is set to head back to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night with a loaded fight card sure to delight fans in the city that never sleeps. A pair of title fights tip the bill, but that’s not all fans have to look

Strawweight champion Carla Esparza (L) defends her belt on Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 281 in New York against former champion Zhang Weili. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) Carla Esparza can recall just about everything from her first reign as UFC strawweight champion. It’s not because it was so memorable but because it

Nov 8, 2022 Frankie Edgar (Editor’s note: This story was written with the assistance of ESPN’s Jeff Wagenheim) I remember the first time I ever saw a prizefight. It was sometime in the 1980s, and I was a young kid. I went to my next-door neighbor’s house with my old man to watch Mike Tyson.

The video went viral, and is now up to 14 million views on the Glory of Heroes’ YouTube channel. Israel Adesanya is flat on his back, knocked out on March 4, 2017, by a massive left hook from Alex Pereira. Less than a year later, Adesanya was in the UFC, a full-time mixed martial artist,

Darrick Minner was stopped in the first round by Shayilan Nuerdanbieke on Saturday at UFC Vegas 64. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) About a month after a change in policy that banned UFC fighters and their close associates from betting on UFC fights, an investigation into irregular betting patterns involving a featherweight fight between Darrick