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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

Jared Cannonier did just enough to get a close win over Sean Strickland. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) For 25 minutes in the final UFC fight of 2022 between Jared Cannonier and Sean Strickland at Apex in Las Vegas, there was this sense of impending doom. It seemed that either Cannonier or Strickland would at

Dec 17, 2022 LAS VEGAS — The UFC’s final fight of 2022 came down to the scorecards on Saturday, as former middleweight title challenger Jared Cannonier defeated Sean Strickland via split decision. Cannonier (16-6) out-pointed Strickland (25-5) over the course of a five-round main event that took place almost exclusively on the feet. Judges Derek

USATSI The last UFC Fight Night of 2022 features a matchup of feared strikers as Saturday when No. 3-ranked Jared Cannonier meets No. 7-ranked Sean Strickland in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickalnd. The five-round showdown with title implications anchors the main UFC fight card (7 p.m. ET) from the Apex

9:15 AM ET The UFC will end its year with a main event highlighting one of the promotion’s most interesting divisions. Sean Strickland will take on Jared Cannonier in the main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in a critical middleweight battle. Both men are coming off losses against elite fighters, and the winner

LAS VEGAS — Jared Cannonier has the stoic look that so many fighters do when they’re doing interviews before their bouts. The vast majority of fighters would rather do anything but answer the same questions repeatedly in the days and weeks before they compete, but it’s a part of the job in 2022. But his

LAS VEGAS – The biggest stars and luminaries of mixed martial arts gathered last Thursday for the 14th annual World MMA Awards at SAHARA, where MMA Junkie was nominated for Media Source of the Year. Prior to the festivities, MMA Junkie senior reporter and Journalist of the Year nominee Mike Bohn caught up with a

Getty Images The opportunity of a lifetime fell into the lap of Jamahal Hill in the immediate aftermath of UFC 282. The vacant UFC light heavyweight championship was supposed to go home with Jan Blachowciz or Magomed Ankalaev on Saturday, but a split draw cleared the way for Hill’s first pay-per-view main event and title

Dec 11, 2022 Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi Chuck Liddell. Randy Couture. Tito Ortiz. “Rampage” Jackson. Daniel Cormier. Jon Jones. The UFC light heavyweight division has been home to some of the biggest stars and best fighters in

LAS VEGAS — Even a casual MMA fan has heard UFC president Dana White exhort his fighters dozens of times over the years, “Don’t leave it in the hands of the judges.” White has never been fond of fighters who try to protect a lead late in a fight, and he’s urged them to go

LAS VEGAS — There will be no light heavyweight champion for at least several months after Magomed Ankalaev and Jan Blachowicz, inexplicably, fought to a split draw Saturday in the main event of UFC 282 at T-Mobile Arena in their bout for the vacant title. Judges scored it 48-46 Ankalaev, 48-47 Blachowicz and 47-47. The

Saturday’s main event at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas featured a title fight that wasn’t even supposed to happen. In mid-November, light heavyweight champion Jiri Prochazka suffered a significant shoulder injury and was forced to pull out of his UFC 282 headliner versus Glover Teixeira. Then, facing a long recovery, Prochazka vacated his belt

Jared Gordon’s climb up the MMA ladder has been a slow one. And even when he has been successful, sometimes things haven’t gone his way. Prior to his bout at UFC 278 on Aug. 20 in Salt Lake City, Gordon, a native New Yorker, was desperate to get onto the UFC 282 card at Madison

LAS VEGAS — The UFC’s final pay-per-view of the year is filled with fascinating matches. One of those getting overlooked in the discussion is the featherweight bout between Bryce “Thug Nasty” Mitchell and Ilia Topuria that will open the main card for UFC 282 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena. Both are elite finishers, and in

Getty Images Things change quickly in the sport of mixed martial arts. That remains true as UFC closes out 2022 with what was planned to be an epic rematch for the light heavyweight title. Instead, that title is now vacant and looking to crown a new champion at UFC 282 in Las Vegas on Saturday

LAS VEGAS — Khabib Nurmagomedov finished his MMA career undefeated, going 29-0 overall and 13-0 in the UFC, retiring as the only undefeated UFC champion. Jon Jones would be undefeated were it not for a referee’s mistake, when he was disqualified for an illegal blow in a bout he was about to win. No one

8:51 AM ET Paddy Pimblett made his UFC debut in September 2021. Two months later, the MMA prospect out of England traveled to the United States. Pimblett was accosted for photos in places like Times Square in New York and Yard House restaurant in San Diego. Fast-forward a little more than a year, and “The

2:09 AM ET Stephen Thompson proved he still has championship aspirations after a dominating performance over Kevin Holland in the main event of UFC Fight Night, but others in Orlando, Florida, found their way to shine as well. Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim look at the biggest moments from an action-packed event in