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2:44 AM ET An important women’s bantamweight fight is off this weekend’s UFC card. The scheduled co-main event bout between Aspen Ladd and Macy Chiasson has been canceled because of an undisclosed Chiasson injury, UFC officials told ESPN on Thursday. The Saturday event in Las Vegas will go on with 11 fights. 1 Related ESPN

Justin Gaethje is not pleased with Michael Chandler – that much is clear. Chandler (22-6 MMA, 1-1 UFC) conducted an Instagram Live on Tuesday where he talked about his desire to get back in the octagon in December, with Gaethje (22-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) being the prominent name in mind. The former three-time Bellator champion

LAS VEGAS — It seems a long time when you’re in the midst of it, as Miranda Maverick is now, but a career as a professional athlete is actually just a small sliver of life. Maverick is one of the many promising prospects the UFC signed in 2020 and has hopes for developing into a

Getty Images After being sidelined for 20 months following surgery on a pair of torn knee ligaments, Aspen Ladd isn’t hoping for an easy night at the office in Saturday night’s return at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. The rising bantamweight contender, like most of the fans watching at home, would somewhat surprisingly prefer

7:34 AM ET TJ Dillashaw began 2019 as UFC men’s bantamweight champion and one of the highest-ranked pound-for-pound fighters in the world. The year quickly took an unforeseen turn. Dillashaw challenged flyweight champion Henry Cejudo that January, in an effort to become the first UFC champion to go down in weight to capture a second

LAS VEGAS — T.J. Dillashaw has been out of the Octagon for more than two years. He was suspended for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency when he was caught using EPO during a 2019 fight in Brooklyn with Henry Cejudo. Dillashaw’s time off isn’t what concerns me from a betting perspective heading

(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