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Getty Images Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko are running it back. The top flyweights are reportedly set for a sequel in Las Vegas on Sept. 16, according to multiple reports. Grasso shocked Shevchenko, considered among the greatest fighters in women’s MMA history, to capture the UFC women’s flyweight title in March. Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2

Jeff Wagenheim Jun 22, 2023, 09:21 AM ET Shane Burgos does not want to be the next Rory MacDonald or Anthony Pettis. He doesn’t want to be like Thiago Santos or Krysztof Jotko. Like Burgos, all of those fighters arrived in the PFL with notable résumés built on stints in the UFC. It didn’t go

Ilia Topuria (13-0, 4 KOs) puts his undefeated record on the line Saturday against Josh Emmett (not pictured) at UFC Jacksonville. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) 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

Julianna Peña (11-5, 3 KOs) is 3-3 in her last six fights and doesn’t have a win over anyone currently on the UFC roster. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) Amanda Nunes’ retirement following her dominant victory over Irene Aldana on June 10 in the main event of UFC 289 left a massive

Jun 17, 2023, 12:45 AM ET There’s plenty of action across MMA over the weekend with PFL Regular Season: Heavyweights and Women’s Featherweights and Bellator 297 in Chicago on Friday night and UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas on Saturday. In Friday’s action, defending champions Ante Delija and Larissa Pacheco got wins, but only one

Getty Images After coming up short against titleholder Israel Adesanya last year, Jared Cannonier viewed his UFC Fight Night main event against fellow former title challenger Marvin Vettori as an opportunity to get back to a shot at the title. After an impressive showing, Cannonier scored a clear unanimous decision over Vettori to put himself

Marvin Vettori and Jared Cannonier will step into the Octagon this Saturday for UFC Fight Night 225. (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) It’s time for UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier (AKA UFC Vegas 75 or UFC on ESPN 46). UFC returns home to Vegas tonight to see Marvin Vettori step into

Getty Images The UFC is globetrotting with a trio of new Fight Night main events. UFC president Dana White announced Max Holloway vs. “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung for Singapore this summer, plus headliners for Nashville and Paris cards on Thursday night. White took to social media to confirm three new fights. Cory Sandhagen

Patricio “Pitbull” Freire is a two-belt Bellator champion. (Lucas Noonan/Bellator MMA) Patricio “Pitbull” Freire stands on the precipice of MMA history as he enters his fight Saturday at Bellator 297 against bantamweight champion Sergio Pettis at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois. Freire is bidding to become the first fighter from a major MMA promotion

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJun 14, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun UFC president Dana White has become extremely committed to being non-committal on future matchups the night of an event. These days, when White gets asked about a division’s landscape, the

UFC’s No. 3-ranked middleweight Marvin Vettori headlines Saturday’s UFC Vegas 75 against No. 4 Jared Cannonier (not pictured). (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty 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

Getty Images UFC superstar Conor McGregor took a bit during halftime of Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat a little too seriously. The former UFC Featherweight and Lightweight champion blasted Heat mascot Burnie with a pair of punches during a skit in which McGregor was promoting his line

Jun 11, 2023, 02:19 AM ET What were the biggest moments from the first UFC pay-per-view in Canada in nearly four years? Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi, Jeff Wagenheim and Andres Waters offer up their final thoughts after an 11-fight card in Vancouver, British Columbia. Wagenheim: Nunes is the gold standard Amanda Nunes went out like

Amanda Nunes retired Saturday after another dominant performance. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Amanda Nunes stepped off a plane in New Jersey as a young 20-something, a dream of one day winning championships and becoming recognized as the greatest mixed martial arts fighter of all time. It was a long, and often arduous, journey to

The lightweight bout between Charles Oliveira and Beneil Dariush is easily the most fascinating and potentially most exciting pairing on the UFC 289 card Saturday. Oliveira lost his championship to Islam Makhachev in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in October and is fighting for the first time since. He’s a world-class grappler with elite striking.

In the movie Air, about Nike’s courtship of Michael Jordan, Sonny Vaccaro tells the Jordan family in one memorable scene how, after a superstar reaches the top, there is this desire to then tear them down. And that’s kind of where it seems that UFC double champion Amanda Nunes finds herself. On Saturday at Rogers

Getty Images Beneil Dariush seems to be on the verge of achieving the ultimate goal in combat sports. Dariush is set to face former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira in the co-main event of UFC 289 on Saturday in what’s expected to produce the No. 1 contender in the division. It’s a far cry from where

Andres Waters Jun 6, 2023, 11:15 PM ET “The Ultimate Fighter” returned last Tuesday with two of the biggest strikers in the sport, Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler, splitting up this year’s roster of fighters and beginning training. Last week’s fight went by quickly, with a Chandler-coached Roosevelt Roberts getting one step closer to returning