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9:45 AM ET Carlos Contreras Legaspi Max Holloway has suffered an undisclosed injury and has pulled out of his July 17 bout against Yair Rodriguez, sources told ESPN, postponing one of this summer’s most anticipated fights. The fight between the former UFC 145-pound champion Holloway (22-6) and Rodríguez (13-2) was likely to determine the next

8:00 AM ET Israel Adesanya is back on track. Three months after suffering his first loss in a bid to add the UFC light heavyweight championship to the middleweight title he already owned, Adesanya successfully defended his 185-pound belt against Marvin Vettori over the weekend. It was a dominant performance. The champ won all five

LAS VEGAS — Dan Ige is the UFC’s eighth-ranked featherweight, and he’s won seven of his last eight fights heading into Saturday’s main event at Apex against Chan Sung Jung, aka the Korean Zombie. Jung is 3-3 in his last six and was finished by Brian Ortega in his last outing, on Oct. 20. At

Bellator MMA New Bellator welterweight champion Yaroslav Amosov is now officially a pound-for-pound top five fighter. Amosov jumped to the No. 5 spot with his title-winning victory over Douglas Lima at Bellator 260 this past Friday night. Amosov’s victory ran his career record to a perfect 26-0 as he used his grappling to dominate Lima

Deiveson Figueiredo credits Brandon Moreno for the performance he put on at UFC 263, but the ex-champion says he wasn’t feeling himself when he lost the title. As he left the hotel Saturday to travel to the venue, Figueiredo (20-2-1 MMA, 9-2-1 UFC) knew something was up. He didn’t feel well, but he put his

Getty Images Bellator MMA is back in a big way. The promotion returned with its debut card for 2021 on April 2 and saw two-division champion Patricio Pitbull defend his featherweight crown with a first-round submission of Emmanuel Sanchez. The win sets up a massive fight later this year against top contender AJ McKee in

8:11 AM ET UFC 263 was a night of clear answers to a lot of questions. Israel Adesanya had a much easier time in his rematch against Marvin Vettori, and added to his legacy as middleweight champion. So has he done everything he has to do to prove his greatness in the division, or does

Just three years ago, the UFC’s newest champion was unceremoniously cut from the roster after losing back-to-back fights. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Analytics is such a big part of sports these days and we try to crunch numbers to not only predict the outcome of games, but to determine which players are the best.

GLENDALE, ARIZONA – JUNE 12: (R-L) Brandon Moreno of Mexico grapples with Deiveson Figueiredo of Brazil in their UFC flyweight championship fight during the UFC 263 event at Gila River Arena on June 12, 2021 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Brandon Moreno was seeded 16th on “The Ultimate Fighter.” He was cut

A brief recap Nate Diaz’s UFC 263 experience: Smokes weed (his own personal brand) at the prefight press conference. Enters the Octagon as a +365 underdog at BetMGM, an aging working man’s hero against a far more skilled welterweight from England named Leon Edwards. Gets beaten and bloodied for 24-plus minutes — with literally three

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports NFL suspends Chase Harrell for the entire 2021 regular season The NFL has suspended free agent tight end Chase Harrell for the entire 2021 regular season, Field Yates of ESPN reports. The 49ers waived Harrell in April, and he has remained a free agent since. The league initially suspended Harrell

Yahoo Entertainment ‘SNL’ stars recall fight between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase: ‘Very sad and painful and awful’ Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, stars of Saturday Night Live when the show was in its infancy, appeared on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Thursday, where they spoke about the fight between Bill Murray and

Getty Images If Brandon Moreno learned anything about himself from last December’s thrilling draw against Deiveson Figueiredo, it’s that he belongs in the conversation among the top flyweight fighters in the world.  Seven months later, Moreno cemented himself as the very best on Saturday in a dismantling of Figueiredo in their rematch, which served as

8:30 AM ET For the past three years, Marvin Vettori has lived with the belief that he beat Israel Adesanya in a non-title fight back in 2018. This weekend, Adesanya intends to shatter that belief. Adesanya (20-1) will seek his third middleweight title defense at UFC 263 on Saturday, when he meets Vettori (17-3-1) for

Leon Edwards is, in a way, the polar opposite of the man he’ll stand across from in the cage on Saturday at Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Nate Diaz, Edwards’ opponent at UFC 263, has become a larger than life figure despite an up-and-down record and lengthy periods away from the game. Edwards has

Getty Images Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya faces perhaps the toughest defense of his title reign on Saturday when takes on surging contender Marvin Vettori in the main event of UFC 263. Their rematch tops the MMA showcase from Gila River Arena in Glendale, Ariz. The main UFC 263 fight card is scheduled to start at

7:23 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim The main event will transform one of the most decorated champions in sports into a fresh-faced neophyte. Claressa Shields, the undefeated two-division boxing champion, will make her mixed martial arts debut in the PFL main event on Thursday in Atlantic City, New Jersey. But Shields’ lightweight bout against Brittney Elkin

In the last nine years, Nate Diaz has won just four of nine bouts and was stopped twice. Yet, it’s been during that time that he has become one of the UFC’s biggest attractions, which shows that winning isn’t the only ingredient necessary for stardom. But because of his prominent position, when Diaz fights, it’s