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Getty Images UFC returns to PPV on Saturday — as well as a full arena of fans — with UFC 261 live from Jacksonville, Florida. Just over a year out from the last card promoted in front of a packed house because of the global pandemic, Dana White returns to the scene of his first

Getty Images On Saturday, the UFC will hold an event with full capacity since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when UFC 261 comes to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. It’s a big milestone for the promotion, and the UFC is delivering a big card to celebrate the occasion. The card is headlined

8:06 AM ET When Kamaru Usman defends his welterweight title in Saturday’s UFC 261 main event, he’ll be competing against more than just Jorge Masvidal. Usman will be competing against the legacies of the greatest welterweights in MMA history. Usman has put himself in that conversation by winning his first 13 UFC fights, something no

After losing two of her past three, Poliana Botelho underwent some changes. Botelho (8-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC), who meets Luana Carolina at UFC on ESPN 23 on May 1, has specifically been working on her ground game by participating in multiple grappling competitions. The Nova Uniao fighter’s two most recent losses have come on the

Three fighters out of the 20 who competed at UFC on ESPN 22 could be facing six-month suspensions. On Tuesday, MMA Junkie obtained the full list of medical suspensions from MixedMartialArts.com for UFC on ESPN 22, which took place this past Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Fighters can return to action sooner

A heavyweight banger will headline a UFC card in June. Jairzinho Rozenstruik (11-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) is set to take on Augusto Sakai (15-2-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) in the UFC’s June 5 main event. Venue, location and broadcast information have not been formally announced by the promotion. Rozenstruik confirmed the booking on his social media

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – Gilbert Burns expects the same result between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal but a different fight. Welterweight champion Usman (18-1 MMA, 13-0 UFC) rematches Masvidal (35-14 MMA, 12-7 UFC) in the main event of UFC 261 on Saturday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. In their first outing last

National Review Nvidia’s Acquisition of Arm in Jeopardy Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: the U.K. announces a national-security review of Arms Holdings acquisition, Taiwan’s exports balloon thanks to semiconductor shortage, a hedge-fund behemoth warns of a SPAC bubble, and Biden’s $50 billion semiconductor subsidy.

It’s hard to top what Kamaru Usman did the first time he faced Jorge Masvidal. Usman dominated the fight with his bitter rival on July 12 in Abu Dhabi, not only winning a unanimous decision but winning 14 of the cumulative 15 rounds scored by the judges. Only David Lethaby, who gave Masvidal the first,

USATSI UFC 261 takes place Saturday from VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida and will go down in front of a sold out crowd. With the event representing the first UFC card held in front of a live crowd since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, UFC president Dana White has informed fans who

Zhang Weili will face Rose Namajunas for the women’s strawweight title on Saturday (10 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV) in the co-main event of UFC 261 in Jacksonville, Florida, in the first UFC card with fans since the pandemic began. It will also be Zhang’s first appearance since her epic battle with Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC

Getty Images Fight fans have plenty to look forward to this Saturday night when UFC 261 goes down from VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Not only is the card headlined by a trio of title fights, but it will be the first UFC event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to feature

10:00 AM ET Khamzat Chimaev says he is finally on the mend from a very difficult bout with COVID-19 that threatened to end his promising career earlier this year. Chimaev (9-0) was scheduled to face Leon Edwards in a high-profile UFC bout in January and again in March, but he was forced to withdraw both

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 two months of

7:51 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Saturday’s UFC 261 pay-per-view will not be the first card in UFC history to have two women’s championships on the line. That distinction goes to a 2015 event in Melbourne, Australia, which is notable for two other reasons: first, for filling Etihad Stadium with 56,214 fans, the most ever to

BGR Feast your eyes on the most incredible video from Mars you’ll ever see NASA’s Mars helicopter took flight on the Red Planet early this morning in a first-of-its-kind demonstration of a manmade aircraft sustaining powered flight on another planet. It’s a major historic moment and while we knew about the flight and even had

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize. But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got you covered. Each week, we’ll compile all the new fight bookings right here – in one spot. Worried you missed a UFC or Bellator matchup, a playoff pairing for

A bantamweight bout is the latest addition to UFC Fight Night on July 17. At the UFC Fight Night event, LFA bantamweight champion Miles Johns will return to the cage to fight Anderson dos Santos. The card doesn’t currently have a publicly known location or venue. Two people with knowledge of the situation informed MMA