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Bellator MMA If there’s any problem with being one of the most dominant fighters in the world, it may be the difficulty in the quest for new mountains to conquer. That’s the case for Cris Cyborg, who will defend her women’s featherweight championship in a rematch with Arlene Blencowe in the main event of Bellator

7:41 AM ET Cris Cyborg couldn’t help but smile as she heard her many accomplishments in MMA listed back to her. The Brazilian knockout artist has been a UFC champion, a Strikeforce champion and an Invicta FC champion. In 2020, she won the Bellator women’s featherweight title, making her the first fighter in mixed martial

LAS VEGAS — Clay Guida stretched out on the couch in his hotel room Thursday, killing time until he had to begin his weight cut for his bout on Saturday at Apex against Claudio Puelles. He looked out the window and could see the Mandalay Bay Events Center where, on the October night in 2006

One year ago, Jessica Andrade was stopped in the second round by current flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 261 in Jacksonville, Florida. The former women’s strawweight champ fell short in her quest to secure gold in a second division. On Saturday night, she returns to the strawweight division to face No. 10 Amanda Lemos

Warning, the following article contains graphic language, though Nate Diaz being in the headline should have been your first clue. Nate Diaz is not a fan of the UFC’s latest NFT drop, but not for the usual reasons why people despise NFTs. The welterweight aired his grievances with the promotion on Wednesday after seeing its

Getty Images UFC 274 marks the promotion’s second consecutive pay-per-view title doubleheader featuring lightweight champion Charles Oliveira vs. Justin Gaethje and women’s strawweight queen Rose Namajunas vs. Carla Esparza. Oliveira and Gaethje are shots of adrenaline in combat sports. They have finished a combined 88% of their 26 UFC fights. Oliveira is the record holder

7:29 AM ET A big victory resulted in a small (but significant) move for Alexander Volkanovski. The UFC men’s bantamweight champion had his way with Chan Sung Jung on Saturday in their UFC 273 title fight, outstriking the South Korean by 152-51 on his way to a one-sided fourth-round TKO. The win, Volkanovski’s 21st in

Several boxers, MMA fighters, promotion companies and other figures in the combat sports industry are suddenly doing everything they can to distance themselves from Daniel Kinahan after the U.S. government announced heavy sanctions against the Irish alleged mob boss. Mounir Lazzez opted to go with a different route. Following a decision win over Ange Loosa

LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 34 event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, which kicks off at 5:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. PT). You can discuss the event here. Be sure to follow along with the latest card updates in our UFC on

Bellator MMA It’s nearly time for a rematch of the biggest matchup in Bellator MMA history. After AJ McKee took less than two minutes to rock and then submit then-champion Patricio Pitbull at Bellator 263, the two seemed as though a rematch was a sure thing. That rematch will go down in the main event

LAS VEGAS — Belal Muhammad and Vicente Luque were good prospects when fate threw them together at UFC 205 on Nov. 12, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lyman Good failed an anti-doping test and was yanked from the card, replaced by Luque in late October of 2016. Entering the fight, Muhammad was

3:29 PM ET Marlon Moraes, long one of the best bantamweight fighters in MMA, is retiring from the sport, his manager, Ali Abdelaziz, told ESPN on Wednesday. Moraes, 33, held the World Series of Fighting (WSOF) bantamweight title from 2014 to 2016 before signing with the UFC, racking up five title defenses in WSOF. “Magic”

Cain Velasquez issued his first public statement on Tuesday since his March 1 arrest on a charge of attempted murder. Police in San Jose, California, say that Velasquez engaged in a car chase, then shot at a man accused of molesting one of his young relatives. Velasquez is also facing charges of shooting at an

Bellator MMA After a few weeks off, Bellator MMA is back in business. Friday night in San Jose, California, kicks off a massive stretch of fights for the promotion where many of its top stars will be in action. Bellator 277 on Friday from the SAP Center is no different as the top of the

2:46 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The screeching sound you may have heard late Saturday night if you were anywhere near Jacksonville, Florida, was the Khamzat Chimaev hype train slowing its roll. Gilbert Burns was the one applying the brakes. Burns had been bloodied and beaten down in a brutal opening round, but he had survived.

UFC 273 is Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida, and figures to be a wild card. It’s headlined by a pair of title fights, with featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski defending his belt in the main event against “The Korean Zombie,” Chan Sung Jung. At BetMGM, Volkanovski is a massive -750 favorite over Jung who is +500. In

News flash: Chan Sung Jung, aka “The Korean Zombie,” is not really a zombie. Not even close, actually. The one thing zombies don’t have is emotions, and the Zombie admitted to a whole host of them in an interview with Yahoo Sports which impacted the way he performed in the two biggest fights of his

Getty Images UFC 273 packs a punch with two title fights, a launching pad for a potential breakthrough superstar and plenty of meaningful development among contenders. Alexander Volkanovski vs. “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung headlines the pay-per-view card as the UFC returns to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Volkanovski is no stranger