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We are less than one month from one of the most anticipated pay-per-view lineups of the year. At UFC 280, Charles Oliveira faces Islam Makhachev for the lightweight championship on a stacked card featuring Aljamain Sterling vs. T.J. Dillashaw, Petr Yan vs.Sean O’Malley, and rising welterweight Sean Brady. Until then, we have a couple of

7:58 AM ET As UFC nears the end of its calendar year, there are still so many unanswered questions, especially among two weight classes that some of the promotion’s top fighters call home. Leon Edwards‘ fifth-round KO vs. Kamaru Usman at UFC 278 in August was a major shake-up for the welterweight division. What direction

Bellator MMA Benson Henderson and Peter Queally could find themselves on the shortlist of lightweight title challengers with a win at Bellator 285. Henderson enters enemy territory against the Irishman at Bellator 285 inside 3Arena in Dublin on Friday. The Henderson (29-11) experience has been a mixed bag under the Bellator MMA banner. The former

[embedded content] Former UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg has no plans to return to the promotion unless it changes how it does business. Cyborg, the current Bellator women’s featherweight champ, is on the verge of making her professional boxing debut against Simone Silva in Brazil at Fight Music Show 2 on Sept. 25. The

9:06 AM ET Conor McGregor has not stepped into the Octagon in 14 months, yet hardly a day goes by without his name being brought up in an MMA conversation. As the starry Irishman’s return from a broken leg draws nearer, there is speculation about who might be next to step under the brightest of

Getty Images Jose Aldo is done with MMA. The 36-year-old was granted his release from his UFC contract with his coach, Andres Pederneiras, expecting it to mark the end of his legendary career. UFC seemed to confirm that Aldo was retiring from MMA with a tweet on Sunday afternoon. ESPN and Brazilian outlet Combate were

Jose Aldo ends his MMA career with a 31-8 record and having faced nearly every elite featherweight and bantamweight of his era. (AP Photo/John Locher) The athletes in mixed martial arts have evolved exponentially in the past 15 years, bringing the sport to near-peak performance. What they’ve really been doing in that time was catching

10:51 PM ET What were the biggest moments from this UFC Fight Night? What’s next for one of the bantamweight division’s top contenders? Jeff Wagenheim, Marc Raimondi and Brett Okamoto offer their takeaways from UFC’s return Saturday night’s fight card. Cory Sandhagen made 14 takedown attempts and was unsuccessful on every one of them until

Cory Sandhagen was in desperate need of a win, and he got one thanks to a perfectly placed elbow. Sandhagen (15-4 MMA, 8-3 UFC) had a few issues with a tough and gritty Song Yadong (19-7-1 MMA, 8-2-1 UFC). But a cut over Yadong’s left eye that Sandhagen created with an elbow was too deep

Getty Images Cory Sandhagen and Song Yadong are set to do their part in tidying up the bantamweight pecking order when they meet this weekend in Las Vegas. The division continues to prove itself as the deepest and most competitive in the sport with showcase fights scattered across the second half of 2022. Nestled underneath

LAS VEGAS — Cory Sandhagen has proven that he’s good enough to be the UFC featherweight champion. But his is one of those cases where good enough is not enough. Sandhagen will meet Song Yadong on Saturday at Apex in the main event of UFC Vegas 60 in what best could be described as Phase

7:50 AM ET FOR MAJDI SHAMMAS, the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 9 in Las Vegas were a manager’s worst nightmare. At approximately 4 a.m. local time, Shammas knew his fighter, Khamzat Chimaev, would not make weight for a UFC 279 main event against Nate Diaz. Chimaev and his team had done all they

Getty Images UFC 279 may have just opened the door for Nate Diaz vs. Jake Paul in a boxing ring. The lead-up to Saturday’s card was chaos, but the aftermath provided us clarity. Diaz emerged victorious in what was his final UFC fight for the time being. Diaz defeated Tony Ferguson via fourth-round submission and

LAS VEGAS — This was peak Nate Diaz on Saturday, both inside and outside the Octagon. Inside of it, Diaz did what he’s done so often: He used his boxing, his incredible cardio, a massive will to win and outstanding Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to submit Tony Ferguson in the reconstituted main event of UFC 279 at

LAS VEGAS — Nate Diaz put on a vintage performance Saturday in the main event of UFC 279 at T-Mobile Arena, submitting Tony Ferguson with a guillotine choke at 2:52 of the fourth round in the new main event. Diaz left the door open for a return to the UFC, but said he planned to

LAS VEGAS — Khamzat Chimaev was the villain of UFC 279 from start to finish, but he did his job Saturday in amazing fashion. He took Kevin Holland down almost immediately after the fight began and eventually, was able to force a tap with a D’arce choke at 2:13 of the first round Saturday in

Nate Diaz‘s exit interview from the UFC went about as expected after an incredible turn of events during fight week meant he’d be facing Tony Ferguson on short notice in the main event of UFC 279 instead of Khamzat Chimaev. Diaz locked in what may end up being the final submission of his UFC career

Sep 9, 2022 Editor’s note: Khamzat Chimaev missed weight and Nate Diaz will now fight Tony Ferguson in the main event of UFC 279. STOCKTON, Calif. — GILBERT MELENDEZ, NATE Diaz‘s longtime teammate, was in Stockton with some of his students from El Niño Training Center in South San Francisco for a night training session