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Getty Images Miesha Tate entered the Octagon in the main event of Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night looking to pick up her second win since ending a near five-year retirement this past July. Unfortunately for Tate, her opponent, Ketlen Vieira, did not arrive in Las Vegas to play opponent. Vieira picked up a hard-fought unanimous

9:30 PM ET Ketlen Vieira defeated Miesha Tate via unanimous decision in a five-round main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. It was Tate’s second appearance since returning from a nearly five-year layoff, as she was retired from 2016 to 2021. Two takeaways from this one for me. First off, Tate

One MMA pioneer’s attempted comeback was a younger fighter’s opportunity on Saturday. Ketlen Vieira took full advantage in her matchup with Miesha Tate, defeating the former champion by unanimous decision in Las Vegas. The fight had been Tate’s second since returning to the UFC after a four-and-a-half year layoff from the sport following her loss

LAS VEGAS — It’s hardly a secret that a happy worker is a better, more productive and more successful worker. It’s why so many top companies go out of their ways to make their company more attractive to employees. Miesha Tate is no longer miserable, or confused, or doing things that she believes are correct

Former UFC flyweight champion Nicco Montano said on a podcast appearance Wednesday that she feels exploited by a documentary film that showed her nude body.  Montano issued the charge while speaking with host Damon Martin on MMA Fighting’s “The Fighter vs. The Writer” podcast while discussing a film titled “Warrior Spirit.” Per MMA Fighting, the

8:00 AM ET Miesha Tate reached out to UFC president Dana White in the summer of 2020. Tate and her husband, Johnny Nunez, had just had their second child, Daxton, and Tate was contemplating a comeback to the Octagon. At the time, Tate and Nunez were living in Singapore. Tate was working in an office

Getty Images Max Holloway has taken a lot of pride in his claims of being the best boxer in the UFC. This past Saturday night, Holloway had to rely on more than his boxing to survive a five-round war with Yair Rodriguez in the main event of UFC Fight Night. Holloway, the former featherweight champion,

LAS VEGAS — Sean Brady is one of the most impressive fighters to come into the UFC in the last four years. He’s 4-0 since debuting in 2019 and has finished his last two fights. On Saturday, he’s a slight favorite to defeat Michael Chiesa when they meet at Apex in the co-main event of

Getty Images If Max Holloway wanted to earn another shot at the UFC featherweight championship, he had to first handle business in the Octagon against Yair Rodriguez in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night. After five brutal rounds, Holloway managed to walk out bloodied and bruised, but as a winner. The fight opened

LAS VEGAS — A week after Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler left jaws agape with their fierce battle at Madison Square Garden that seemingly locked up the 2021 Fight of the Year, Max Holloway and Yair Rodriguez delivered another classic that was every bit as thrilling and entertaining as the fight some called the best

1:00 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Fresh off back-to-back numbered events the past two weeks, the UFC will roll right into a massive featherweight main event on Saturday inside the Apex. Former 145-pound champion Max Holloway (22-6) will take on Yair Rodriguez (13-2) at UFC Fight Night. For Holloway, 2021 will mark the first calendar

LAS VEGAS — Yair Rodriguez has shown everything required to be a star of the highest magnitude in the UFC, with the exception of one thing. And that one thing is pretty significant. Rodriguez hasn’t been able to make it to the post consistently, and as the old adage goes, out of sight, out of

USATSI UFC 269 has lost a big fight with news that an injury has knocked Jorge Masvidal out of his planned welterweight clash with Leon Edwards. UFC’s chief business officer Hunter Campbell told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto of the news. The fight has been more than two years in the making after a March 2019 backstage

LAS VEGAS — The UFC in particular and mixed martial arts in general is filled with men and women who share the ethos of Max Holloway: Anyone, anywhere, any time. It’s one of the reasons the sport is so great. The best frequently seek out the most difficult challenges, and the rankings mean something. Holloway,

9:30 AM ET Going into his UFC 268 main event against Colby Covington, welterweight champion Kamaru Usman already was No. 1 in the ESPN men’s pound-for-pound rankings. There was no room for upward movement. However, Usman’s strong performance at Madison Square Garden did earn him the backing of the last holdout on our voting panel.

Rivalries are what make sports so great, and while there can never really be a true rivalry between Kamaru Usman and Georges St-Pierre, their case is one for a lot of talk over a cold one. St-Pierre is the greatest welterweight of all time, or at least that’s what we heard over and over for

Throughout the build-up to their rematch for the welterweight title Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York, Colby Covington disdainfully referred to champion Kamaru Usman as “Marty Fakenewsman.” Well, this isn’t fake news: Usman is the best fighter in the world, and it’s not particularly close at this point. He survived a spirited upset

Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman attempted to keep the mood respectful with Colby Covington in the final news conference ahead of their meeting on Saturday in the main event of UFC 268. However, as most observers anticipated, the challenger was having none of it and instead worked the assembled crowd into a frenzy by unleashing a