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(Paul Rosales/Yahoo Sports) Below are my 10 choices for the best pound-for-pound mixed martial artist (including women) in the world. To understand this, it helps to understand what pound-for-pound means. To me, and the way I’ll be voting, it’s who would win a fight if everyone weighed the same and all of their skills and

Don’t expect Conor McGregor back in the Octagon anytime soon. The former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion left UFC 264 with a fractured tibia and fibula after a bizarre loss to Dustin Poirier. The fight was called as a first-round TKO win for Poirier after McGregor’s lower leg appeared to fold under him as he

8:17 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card proved a few things — most notably, that Islam Makhachev is dangerously effective, as advertised, and that Miesha Tate seems ready to step right back into the thick of it in the women’s bantamweight division despite five years out of the Octagon. But is Makhachev, fresh off

1:01 AM ET All eyes were on Islam Makhachev on Saturday night. Heading into his first UFC main event, those surrounding the fight game talked up the Dagestani star and pupil of Khabib Nurmagomedov. He answered all questions and thoroughly dominated Thiago Moises before ultimately submitting him in the fourth round. The top of the

LAS VEGAS — Islam Makhachev did nothing on Saturday to make the job of UFC matchmakers Sean Shelby and Mick Maynard any easier. Thiago Moises, who entered his fight Saturday at Apex against Makhachev ranked 14th in the crowded lightweight division, was the highest-ranked fighter Makhachev faced in 10 UFC fights. It wasn’t because anyone

Getty Images With former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in his corner, Islam Makhachev dominated Thiago Moises for a fourth-round submission in the lightweight main event of UFC Fight Night from the Apex facility in Las Vegas. Makhachev was never in danger throughout the fight, dominating both on the feet and on the ground to score

Getty Images The co-main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday was one of the most unusual crossroads fights in UFC history, with 34-year-old Miesha Tate ending a nearly five-year retirement as she faced 44-year-old Marion Reneau, who announced prior to the fight that it would be the final bout of her career. It was

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – When the main event’s official decision was read inside the cage at Bellator 262, it wasn’t the first time Juliana Velasquez was booed in her career. Unfazed by the opinions of those in the seats, Velasquez (12-0 MMA, 7-0 BMMA) is confident the judges got it right when she won a split

Combate Global The first man to win the Copa Combate returns to the Combate Global cage on Friday night when Levy Saul Marroquin battles Carlos Calvo Calvo in the main event. The action will stream on Paramount+ live from Miami. Marroquin (14-3) won the one-night, eight-man tournament in 2017. That tournament victory kicked off an

6:43 AM ET The women’s bantamweight division in the UFC has been in need of new blood for some time now — but no one would have guessed Miesha Tate would be the one to fill the void. But that’s what it feels like going into Saturday’s UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, where Tate

Former President Donald Trump made his first appearance at a sporting event since leaving office on Saturday, but you would have hardly known it while watching UFC 264. Trump was one of many celebrities in attendance at T-Mobile Arena last weekend, but unlike names such as Baker Mayfield, Dave Chappelle and Justin Bieber, he wasn’t

The year 2016 was both a magnificent and depressing year for Miesha Tate. She won the UFC women’s bantamweight championship with an improbable come-from-behind victory over Holly Holm. She lost it to Amanda Nunes at UFC 200 and then retired following a horrible, listless, lifeless performance in a loss to Raquel Pennington at Madison Square

Conor McGregor wants his fans to know he’s not done fighting yet. McGregor — who had surgery to repair a broken leg — told fans, “I’m going to come back.” McGregor released a six-minute video on Instagram telling his fans what happened during the fight, and letting them know he plans to return to the

Getty Images Never one to miss out on a good opportunity, it’s a wonder whether Israel Adesanya will one day look back at his March loss to Jan Blachowicz for the UFC’s light heavyweight title as a turning point in his evolution.   Adesanya (21-1) rebounded from his first pro defeat in impressive fashion at

7:47 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Jake Paul had a custom gold chain made with the likeness of Conor McGregor after he was knocked out by Dustin Poirier at UFC 257 in January. The chain, which Paul dubbed “Sleepy McGregor,” will now be changing owners — to Poirier, who plans to auction it off for

More than 17 years after they met for the first time, Nick Diaz and Robbie Lawler will fight again in a five-round bout at UFC 266 on Sept. 25, UFC president Dana White told Yahoo Sports. Diaz will be ending a more than six-year retirement to fight Lawler, whom he knocked out in the second

LAS VEGAS — In 2018, Conor McGregor unleashed attacks on Khabib Nurmagomedov’s father and wife, so the undefeated former lightweight champion wasn’t at all surprised when McGregor went after Dustin Poirier’s wife, Jolie, both before and after their fight Saturday at UFC 264 at T-Mobile Arena. Nurmagomedov, sadly, expected such behavior. “Conor has a lot

LAS VEGAS — The last time we saw Miesha Tate in the Octagon, it was, to be honest, an ugly site. She dropped a unanimous decision to Raquel Pennington on Nov. 12, 2016, at Madison Square Garden and announced her retirement in the ring. Losing to Pennington wasn’t such a bad deal; Pennington, after all,