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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

8:00 AM ET IAN GARRY WAS a student at Dublin Institute of Technology in early 2017, studying retail and service management. He was just 19 years old, but after one year in college, he knew university was not for him. The Ireland native, inspired by the exploits of Conor McGregor, knew his real vocation in

Life is good these days for Alexander Volkanovski, the UFC featherweight champion. He’s rich, drives a luxury car, has a family he adores and that adores him, had a pub named after him near his home in Australia and has risen to third in the UFC’s most recent pound-for-pound rankings behind only Kamaru Usman and

Associated Press White House nuptials: Biden granddaughter to wed this fall There’s going to be a rare wedding reception at the White House this fall when Naomi Biden, President Joe Biden’s granddaughter, celebrates her marriage to Peter Neal. Naomi Biden, 28, is a lawyer, and her fiance, Neal, 24, is in law school. “Peter and