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Jon Jones was arrested in Las Vegas after attending a UFC Hall of Fame event. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) Content warning: This story contains graphic depictions of domestic violence. More details have emerged in the arrest of UFC fighter Jon Jones, and they paint a disturbing picture. Jones was arrested in

2:02 AM ET Why can’t all nights of fighting be like this? Why do we get swept up in trashy melodramas when we instead could stimulate our minds and endorphins with a night of fighting such as what we just witnessed at UFC 266? Saturday night had everything. Alexander Volkanovski stood up to another challenge

Getty Images With no shortage of storylines and talking points coming in, Saturday’s UFC 266 card from Las Vegas somehow succeeded in supplying even more to chat about on the way out following an exciting pay-per-view event.  Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski outlasted a determined Brian Ortega in their thriller of a five-round main event to

LAS VEGAS — This was to be Nick Diaz’s night. The veteran returned to mixed martial arts after a mind-boggling nearly seven years on the sidelines. Imagine a quarterback who retired in 2015 to come back and start in the NFL in 2021, or a pitcher to do the same. It’s unheard of, something that

Jon Jones was reportedly arrested Friday morning. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) MMA star Jon Jones was reportedly arrested Friday and charged with battery domestic violence and injuring and tampering with a vehicle, according to ESPN’s Marc Raimondi. Jones was arrested by Las Vegas police early Friday morning. He is currently being held on bail

LAS VEGAS — Ronda Rousey was a star from the first moment she competed in the UFC, but her star really went to the next level after she knocked out Bethe Correira at UFC 190. She defeated Correia with strikes on Aug. 1, 2015, in 34 seconds. It made her 12-0 as a pro and

Bellator MMA After suffering a loss in the opening round of the Bellator Light Heavyweight World Grand Prix, former champion Phil Davis needed a win at Bellator 266 to remain a player in the division. Davis got the job done at Bellator 266, picking up a big win over Yoel Romero in the night’s main

7:46 AM ET HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Brian Ortega was feeling good, like his career and his life had been elevated to the next level. It was December 2018, and Ortega was invited to a holiday party at the Los Angeles home of actor Robert Downey Jr. Sure, a few weeks earlier Ortega had lost

LAS VEGAS — Alexander Volkanovski laughs easily and has a self-effacing way about him. He’s just one of the guys, someone who is a blast to swap stories with while drinking a few beers and grilling up some steaks. The UFC featherweight champion is as unpretentious and normal as can be, though he’s moving into

LAS VEGAS — Men have been talking trash before they fought since the first time two of them squared off and threw punches in anger at each other. UFC light heavyweight Anthony Smith is not only bright and articulate, but he’s easygoing and lets most things slide off his back. But when his opponent Saturday,

Bellator MMA The Bellator World Light Heavyweight Grand Prix has lost another fighter. Anthony “Rumble” Johnson has been forced out of his semifinal bout with Vadim Nemkov due to an undisclosed illness. The fight, which was also for the light heavyweight championship held by Nemkov, was set to be the main event of Bellator 268

8:07 AM ET Just one year ago, UFC light heavyweight Anthony Smith‘s career was in jeopardy. At least that’s surely how it felt. At this time in 2020, Smith (35-16) was coming off back-to-back losses to Glover Teixeira and Aleksandar Rakic. The losses came just three months apart, which was remarkable considering the amount of

LAS VEGAS — Ryan Spann doesn’t much care if he’s recognized while walking down the street, or if he doubles his social media following in the next month. The UFC light heavyweight isn’t fighting for fame or glory or anything other than cold, hard cash. He and his wife live in a two-bedroom apartment with

LAS VEGAS — Lightweight champion Charles Oliveira has 39 professional fights, which is three more than light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz. And Blachowicz’s 36 bouts are 10 more than the next UFC champion on the list, flyweight Brandon Moreno, who has 26. None of the No. 1 contenders in any of the UFC’s divisions has

Getty Images UFC is set to return to PPV on Sept. 25 with a trio of big fights topping the marquee. UFC 266 will go down inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as the culmination of this year’s International Fight Week and see featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski put his title on the line against

1:00 PM ET UFC star Conor McGregor and singer Machine Gun Kelly got into an altercation Sunday night that nearly turned physical. McGregor and Kelly were both on the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet at Barclays Center in Brooklyn when things turned heated. McGregor could be seen in videos lunging at Kelly, who was

Conor McGregor is up to his old antics once again. The recently defeated MMA star got into a physical altercation with musician and rapper Machine Gun Kelly on the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, which nearly culminated in a full blown fight.  The reasons behind the incident are still unclear,

Anderson Silva needed less than 90 seconds to knock out Tito Ortiz on Saturday night. (Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images) Anderson Silva wasted no time on Saturday night in Florida. He ended Tito Ortiz’s boxing debut almost before it even got going. Silva — in the co-main event of Triller Fight Club’s card led by Evander