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USATSI Combate Global is the premier Hispanic MMA sports franchise and on Friday it will take center stage at 11 p.m. ET in Miami on Paramount+. The seven-fight Combate Global fight card is headlined by Terry Bartholomew vs. Ricky Bandejas in a bantamweight bout between American fighters that will serve as the main event. This

7:30 AM ET Mike Coppinger Marc Raimondi If Derrick Lewis beats Ciryl Gane in the UFC 265 main event Saturday night in Houston to capture the interim heavyweight title, it wouldn’t be surprising to see him scan the crowd for a familiar face. And he wouldn’t necessarily be searching for heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou, who

When Francis Ngannou knocked out Stipe Miocic in March to win the UFC heavyweight title, it seemed all but certain that Ngannou would make his first defense against ex-light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. But Jones and the UFC got into a dispute over pay, and then Jones said he wanted to wait until 2022 to

Getty Images After a stunning first-round submission of two-division champion Patricio “Pitbull” Freire on Saturday in the finals of the Bellator MMA Featherweight World Grand Prix, AJ McKee appeared to seize the mantle as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the promotion.  McKee (18-0), who took home a win bonus of $1 million following his fourth

Sean Strickland oozed confidence prior to his middleweight fight with Uriah Hall on Saturday at Apex in Las Vegas. When the bell rang, the world saw why he believed in himself so heavily. Strickland dominated Hall, his one-time training partner, pummeling him with a jab and hurting him at several points in the fight, in

8:01 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Uriah Hall has won four fights in a row. Sean Strickland has won four fights in a row. On Saturday night, they meet to determine whose momentum will be supercharged. Hall (17-9) has been at center stage under the bright lights before. This weekend’s middleweight fight at the Apex in

LAS VEGAS — There is a side of Sean Strickland that he knows is there, but prefers to keep locked away and hidden. He shudders to imagine what might happen to him if that side of himself appeared more often during his everyday life. It’s that lust for blood, the love of the fight, that

Associated Press Hillsborough victim dies 32 years after UK stadium disaster A British man who died 32 years after being caught in a crush of soccer fans at an overcrowded Hillsborough Stadium has been recorded as the 97th victim of the 1989 tragedy. After an inquest on Wednesday, Liverpool Coroner Andre Rebello said Devine died

Bellator MMA One of the biggest fights in Bellator MMA history goes down on Saturday when Patricio Pitbull defends his featherweight championship against AJ McKee in the finals of the Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix. The fight headlines Bellator 263 from The Forum in Inglewood, California. Pitbull, who also holds the lightweight title, battled his

6:59 PM ET The UFC has had to make several changes to its Fight Night card for Saturday in Las Vegas. The scheduled co-main event pitting rising heavyweights Shamil Abdurakhimov and Chris Daukaus was removed from the card due to COVID-19 protocols involving Daukaus’ camp, UFC officials told ESPN on Tuesday. In addition, a welterweight

Conor McGregor is despicable. There’s no other way to say it. Well, maybe there is: He’s vile. He’s heartless, soulless and his ego knows no bounds. What you are seeing now from the former two-division UFC champion is the real man, the guy he effectively hid for several years as he was making a remarkable

UFC on ESPN 28‘s lineup has taken a big hit. The scheduled co-main event between heavyweights Chris Daukaus and Shamil Abdurakhimov has been removed from the event due to undisclosed reasons, MMA Junkie has confirmed following an initial report from TSN. This bout was originally scheduled to take place at UFC on ESPN 27, however,

Getty Images Colby Covington will finally get another crack at welterweight champion Kamaru Usman when the two meet in the main event of UFC 268 in November. UFC president Dana White confirmed the news to ESPN, though stated the exact date and location are not confirmed. The hope is for the event to take place

7:44 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main card featured close calls throughout, with a pair of split decisions and a majority decision in the last five fights of the night. The judges had a tough job, but did they get the biggest fight of the night — the high-stakes bantamweight clash between TJ Dillashaw

The UFC’s busy July continued Saturday with UFC on ESPN 27, which took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and aired on ESPN and streamed on ESPN+. The highly anticipated main event of the card saw former UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw (17-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC) make his long-awaited return to the octagon

3:38 PM ET Marc Raimondi Mike Coppinger Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw has had several huge moments throughout his career, but Saturday’s Fight Night main event against Cory Sandhagen might be the biggest fight of his career — at least in terms of perception. Dillashaw (16-4) returns to competition for the first time in

Getty Images When highly ranked bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen faces off with two-time former champion TJ Dillashaw on Saturday at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, the five-round main event won’t be the first time the two 135-pound fighters have squared off.   Dillashaw (16-4), who returns for the first time since 2019 following a

Getty Images UFC is back in action on Saturday night with a fight card a little bit bigger than your run of the mill in between Fight Night event. The main attraction sees the return of former bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw when he faces off with red-hot contender Cory Sandhagen from the UFC Apex facility