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The 46-year-old UFC legend shined in the ring on Saturday night in Guadalajara. (Photo by Manuel Velasquez/Getty Images) Anderson Silva knows how to fight, there’s no doubt about that. The UFC legend, however, hasn’t boxed in more than 15 years. That, though, didn’t seem to matter one bit on Saturday night. Silva beat Julio Cesar

‘The Korean Zombie’ Chan Sung Jung of South Korea punches Dan Ige in a featherweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at Apex on June 19, 2021 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) There are so many similarities between the fighting styles of Chan Sung Jung and Dan Ige that it was

Getty Images After stumbling in his most recent trip to the Octagon, “Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung returns to action on Saturday night in Las Vegas when he faces Dan Ige in the main event of UFC Fight Night. In a featherweight division thin on clearly established title challengers, the winner of the fight between

7:19 AM ET Dan Ige‘s son, Bam Alexander Ige, was born on April 4, 2021. Just two days before that arrival, Ige signed a contract to face Chan Sung Jung on June 19. Truth be told, that’s not how Ige would have drawn it up. The 29-year-old featherweight fought in March and wanted some time

LAS VEGAS — Early in his bout with Brian Ortega on Fight Island in October, Chan Sung Jung was hit with an elbow to the head. He wobbled through the fight like, well, a zombie for the rest of the bout. He wound up losing a unanimous decision that dropped him to 3-3 in his

Zuffa LLC An undisclosed injury to Max Holloway has forced the former featherweight champion to withdraw from his July 17 UFC Fight Night main event against Yair Rodriguez.  The heavily anticipated 145-pound fight will be moved to a later date, per ESPN’s report on Thursday. With both fighters ranked in the top three at featherweight

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.

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