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Getty Images Rivalries never seem to die quickly. Especially not with bad blood involved, and the feud between former lightweight champions Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. In an interview with ESPN, Nurmagomedov took umbrage with how McGregor conducted himself in the lead up to UFC 264

7:41 AM ET The UFC 264 main event only lasted one round, but Dustin Poirier did plenty in his victory over Conor McGregor to prove he deserves the first title shot at Charles Oliveira. Is Poirier already the best lightweight in the world? As for McGregor, the misstep that caused a serious leg injury brought

Conor McGregor and his manager Audie Attar provided updates Sunday after the lightweight fighter underwent surgery to repair broken leg bones suffered in Saturday’s UFC 264 loss to Dustin Poirier.  They both put on brave faces.  Attar tweeted out details of the operation while expressing confidence that McGregor will “make a full recovery.” ‘We anticipate

Getty Images UFC has rolled right back into the action in 2021. After what can be called nothing short of a massive success in 2020 under incredibly difficult circumstances, UFC hasn’t missed a beat in the time since the pandemic started with big fight after big fight throughout the year. The first six months of

Backside on the canvas, back to the cage, leg bent in a way legs aren’t supposed to be bent and Conor McGregor still wouldn’t stop bleating and badgering. He was screaming for his latest loss to be officially declared a doctor’s stoppage, not a TKO at the hands of Dustin Poirier, a distinction without much

2:21 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Conor McGregor was sitting and leaning against the cage, chest heaving. His face was bruised, blood streaming from his left ear. He was a beaten man. “Doctor’s stoppage! Doctor’s stoppage!” he yelled toward the center of the cage, trying to make a face-saving insistence that the cageside doctor had ended

The day of reckoning for Conor McGregor has arrived.  The former two-division champion has gone 3-3 in his six fights since winning his first UFC title in 13 seconds over Jose Aldo in December 2015. If you count his 10th round TKO loss to the legendary Floyd Mayweather in his boxing debut on Aug. 26,

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With Saturday’s UFC 264 lightweight bout between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor fast approaching, bettors are looking to cash in on the many Poirier vs. McGregor prop bets available for the event. Among the more popular UFC 264 props is how McGregor vs. Poirier 3 will end. McGregor (22-5) is looking to avenge his January

6:59 AM ET On April 6, 2013, MMA coach Mark Henry was at Ericsson Global Arena in Stockholm to corner one of his fighters. It was the same card that featured the UFC debut of Conor McGregor. McGregor earned a KO-of-the-night bonus with a first-round stoppage of Marcus Brimage. Henry, watching from the locker room,

LAS VEGAS — He was wearing a suit, but that was the only thing about Conor McGregor on Thursday that was the same as it was in Abu Dhabi. In January before UFC 257, McGregor was low key — by his standards, anyway — and respectful toward his opponent, Dustin Poirier. On Thursday, after showing

LAS VEGAS — Greg Hardy is essentially Dana White’s science project. The UFC president decided to find out how quickly NFL athleticism, elite MMA coaching and a burning desire to succeed could turn Hardy from an All-Pro defensive lineman into the heavyweight champion of the world. Thirty months into the experiment, the only thing that

Dustin Poirier will look to hand Conor McGregor back-to-back losses for the first time in his career when they meet at UFC 264 on Saturday, July 10 at T-Mobile Arena. The main UFC 264 fight card is expected to begin at 10 p.m. ET. McGregor has never lost two bouts in a row and never

8:21 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The punch exploded on the chin of Jose Aldo and reverberated across the mountaintops of mixed martial arts. When Conor McGregor knocked out the previously shatterproof UFC featherweight champion with a straight left hand just seconds into their 2015 title fight, there suddenly was a brazen 27-year-old Irishman sitting on

LAS VEGAS — Away from competition, there are few more easier going men than Gilbert Burns, the second-ranked welterweight in the UFC. But when there is something on the line, few are more fierce competitors than Burns, who on Saturday in the co-main of UFC 264 at T-Mobile Arena will face fourth-ranked Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson

Getty Images We are in the homestretch to the epic trilogy bout finally commencing. A pair of top lightweights, Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor, will collide on Saturday, July 10, for a third time in what has become an epic series. The rivals third and likely final meeting will take place inside the T-Mobile Arena

LAS VEGAS — The peak of Conor McGregor’s UFC career — as a fighter, at least — came at UFC 205 on Nov. 12, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York. On that night, the Irish superstar dominated and then knocked out Eddie Alvarez to win the lightweight championship, becoming the first UFC fighter

10:43 AM ET The UFC 264 main event between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier won’t have a title on the line, but there will be plenty at stake on July 10 before a capacity crowd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. And the significance goes deeper than the winner likely landing a title shot against