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Getty Images The lightweight division has a new champion. Charles Oliveira scored a comeback second-round knockout of Michael Chandler to capture the vacant title in the main event of Saturday’s UFC 262 from Houston. Oliveira was badly hurt in the first round but won the first striking exchange of the second round, rocking Chandler with

7:49 AM ET Charles Oliveira sits atop the UFC’s lightweight division after a thrilling second-round TKO of Michael Chandler in the main event of UFC 262 on Saturday, but did the new champ do enough to surpass Dustin Poirier as the No. 1-ranked fighter in the division? Oliveira wasn’t the only one to make an

Conor McGregor has yet another reason to celebrate in 2021. Less than a week after being named the highest paid athlete in the world, McGregor celebrated the birth of his newborn son, Rían. McGregor made the announcement on Instagram. He said both his wife and Rían were “doing great.” Rían is McGregor’s third child with

Win or lose, Shane Burgos always goes out on his shield. In the UFC 262 pay-per-view opener on Saturday, Burgos (13-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) was knocked out by Edson Barboza (22-9 MMA, 16-9 UFC) in the third round, in what was a rather peculiar ending. Barboza landed a right hand, but it took Burgos a

2:04 AM ET Charles Oliveira‘s last defeat came in December 2017, a loss to Paul Felder via second-round TKO. That was his fourth loss in a six-fight stretch. He had missed weight four times in the previous five years and started his UFC career a pedestrian 10-8, with one no contest. I asked Felder on

Getty Images Charles Oliveira is leaving Toyota Center in Houston with a shiny new championship belt and a $75,000 bonus. Oliveira, who won the vacant lightweight championship with a second-round knockout of Michael Chandler in the UFC 262 main event, took home a Performance of the Night bonus for his career-changing victory. Joining Oliveira as

The Patriots once trailed 28-3 in the third quarter of the Super Bowl and came back to win. The Clippers were down 31 points to the Warriors in the third quarter of a 2019 NBA playoff game and came back to win by four. It’s been done before. But rarely in sports history has there

Charles Oliveira won the lightweight championship on Saturday in one of the wildest, most unlikely turnarounds in a title fight in the promotion’s history on Saturday in the main event of UFC 262 at the Toyota Center in Houston. Oliveira was dropped by a left hook with just under two minutes left in the first

The Telegraph French Open 2021: When is the draw, when does it start and how to watch on TV in the UK After being moving back a week due to coronavirus concerns, the French Open is on the horizon. Following disruption last year, Roland Garros is in its more traditional place in the tennis calendar

The Toyota Center in Houston hosts UFC 262 on Saturday headlined by Michael Chandler versus Charles Oliveira for the lightweight title Khabib Nurmagomedov vacated when he retired in October.  The vacant belt sat idle while UFC president Dana White tried his best to lure Nurmagomedov back to the cage, but after finally realizing the undefeated

Getty Images On Saturday, UFC 262 takes place at Toyota Center in Houston with a battle between Charles Oliveira and Michael Chandler for the vacant lightweight championship sitting atop the card. The event is stacked and there’s not a single fight that’s an expected blowout, with only two fighters on the card currently listed as

7:40 AM ET ON MAY 11, 2019, Michael Chandler was warming up in a locker room inside Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, when he suddenly had a vision of his wife, Brie, sitting by herself on the edge of the bed in their Chicago hotel room. And for reasons he couldn’t explain at the time,

The combat sports world is filled to the brink with unique characters and diverse personalities, so followers are used to opposites attracting. However, when videos surfaced of UFC fighter Nick Diaz giving heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury some MMA training pointers Friday, the video still had many fans doing a double take. Diaz, who is

Getty Images On Saturday, UFC 262 takes place at Toyota Center in Houston with a battle between Charles Oliveira and Michael Chandler for the vacant lightweight championship sitting atop the card. The event is stacked and there’s not a single fight that’s an expected blowout, with only two fighters on the card currently listed as

Chris Weidman has made significant progress after experiencing a gruesome leg injury in April. Weidman posted two videos on Instagram that show him rehabbing and putting weight on his leg following surgery. In the first video, which was posted Wednesday, Weidman is shown walking on an anti-gravity treadmill. Other videos and pictures on that post

8:07 PM ET HOUSTON — Tony Ferguson will have a mix of old and new in his corner this weekend. The popular UFC lightweight contender has added legendary boxing trainer Freddie Roach as one of his coaches, and Roach will be in his corner for his fight against Beneil Dariush at UFC 262 on Saturday

This is a story we’ve seen repeatedly in combat sports, going back not just years, not just decades, not just generations, but over centuries. A fighter can only take so many hits in a career before the body essentially has had enough. Fights that once would have been easy wins turn into bloodbaths. Losses begin

Getty Images A new lightweight champion will be crowned this week in Houston. UFC is set to welcome a new era to the 155-pound division on Saturday night when Charles Oliveira meets Michael Chandler in the main event of UFC 262. The two headline UFC’s latest PPV venture that will also be the second straight