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Getty Images UFC veteran Karl Roberson is facing multiple charges pertaining to a jewelry robbery in New Jersey. Roberson was arrested in connection to the thefts of valuables valued over $200,000. Roberson’s alleged involvement in the heist was announced by the Howell Township Police Department in a press release. Roberson was the second person arrested

9:24 AM ET It’s already April and much has gone on in the world of mixed martial arts in 2023. The sport saw, likely, the truest version of a pound-for-pound championship fight in February, between UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev and featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski. Makhachev prevailed, but the fight was so good, we might

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

Zak Cummings stopped Ed Herman in the final minute of their light heavyweight bout on Saturday at UFC Kansas City. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) There have been plenty of double knockouts in mixed martial arts over the years, but Saturday at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, may have delivered

Combate Global Welterweights take center stage when Combate Global returns on Saturday night. Aggressive strikers Georgie Medina vs. Ovidio Bojorquez are atop the marquee in Miami. Bojorquez produced a pair of highlight-reel finishes in his first two Combate Global fights. Medina went 9-0 as an amateur before making his professional debut with Combate Global last

7:57 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN “This is going to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” That’s a sentiment one might expect from a fighter who has worked his way up from lower-tier MMA promotions and is about to debut among the sport’s elite in the UFC. But the career journey of Shane Burgos is

Max Holloway has been one of the UFC’s most consistently successful fighters for more than a decade. Even though he’s lost three of his last five, he still considers himself a legitimate contender in the featherweight division. And though all of those losses were to the champion and pound-for-pound No. 2 Alex Volkanovski, Holloway remains

Israel Adesanya knocked Alex Pereira out cold to regain the UFC middleweight championship. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) There were no additions nor subtractions from the Yahoo Sports MMA pound-for-pound rankings, though the men’s order was shuffled a bit. Israel Adesanya, who once was as high as No. 2 in the Yahoo Sports rankings, moved

Getty Images A good sports rivalry needs quality foes producing dramatic moments. For years, Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira have build exactly that type of rivalry and in the main event of UFC 287 on Saturday night, Adesanya authored their most thrilling chapter yet. After more than seven years of attempting to defeat Pereira inside

12:54 AM ET MIAMI — Israel Adesanya didn’t just exorcise his demons. He put them to sleep. Alex Pereira beat Adesanya three times, twice in kickboxing and twice by knockout. On Saturday night, Adesanya returned the favor and got the albatross off from around his neck for good. Adesanya knocked out Pereira with several brutal

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

On Saturday, in the main event of UFC 287 in Miami, former middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will give it another go against his nemesis Alex Pereira. The problem for Adesanya is that he’s 0-3 against Pereira, having been knocked out in the last two. The most recent finish came on Nov. 12 in New York

It isn’t going out on much of a limb to say that Israel Adesanya is a more skilled MMA fighter than UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira. And nor is it a stretch to say that Adesanya knows how to defeat Pereira. The problem for Adesanya’s perspective is that he’s 0-3 against Pereira, having been knocked

Getty Images Israel Adesanya looks to reclaim his UFC middleweight championship and score an elusive win over Alex Pereira at UFC 287. Pereira defends his newly won middleweight title against Adesanya, someone he beat three times in combat sports, in Miami on Saturday. Pereira and Adesanya fight for the second time in mixed martial arts

8:43 AM ET Alex Pereira stood with his back to the fence inside the UFC’s Octagon at Madison Square Garden. It was right before the start of the fifth and final round of a title fight in front of a sellout crowd. Pereira looked across the cage at his opponent, then-UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya,

Israel Adesanya has lost three times to Alex Pereira in three fights, but he’s going to face him again Saturday in the main event of UFC 287 in Miami for the middleweight title. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Each of the three times that Israel Adesanya fought Alex Pereira, twice as a kickboxer and once

Mixed Martial Arts – UFC – O2 Arena, London, Britain – March 19, 2022 UFC President Dana White Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra The UFC and WWE, companies that had humble beginnings only to develop into global powerhouses, have formally merged into one company in a deal that values the new entity at a staggering

Bellator MMA Heavyweight is a notoriously shallow division in mixed martial arts, meaning the Bellator 293 main event between Marcelo Golm and Daniel James was a battle that could earn the winner a shot at the Bellator heavyweight championship. In the clash of big men riding four-fight winning streaks, James was able to land a