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LAS VEGAS — Jiri Prochazka waited a long time to finally make the UFC roster. And when he did, he wasn’t too thrilled with his performance in his first five minutes as a UFC fighter. Prochazka went toe-to-toe with Volkan Oezdemir in the first round of a bout in July that drew praise from announcers

8:43 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Rory MacDonald‘s 2015 challenge of UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler was an absolute classic. A year and a half after Lawler had edged out MacDonald by split decision in a nontitle bout, they went at each other relentlessly for the belt for 21 bloody, bruising minutes. MacDonald wobbled Lawler with

The Telegraph Peter Sagan sprints to stage win as Rohan Dennis retains Tour de Romandie lead and Chris Froome makes further time losses Wednesday April 28 — Aigle to Martigny, 168.1km Peter Sagan claimed his first Tour de Romandie stage since his last appearance at the race in 2010 when the Bora-Hansgrohe rider won a

Getty Images It takes an incredible amount of confidence and guts to be a professional fighter, let alone a fighter who is able to compete at the world championship level. What fans rarely hear about are the moments where that confidence falters and self-doubt creeps in. On “Morning Kombat’s Storytime With Suga,” Rashad Evans told

Conor McGregor just got even richer. The UFC star and his business partners sold their majority stake in Proper No. Twelve Irish whiskey to Proximo Spirits in a deal that is worth up to $600 million. Proximo Spirits, which also owns Jose Cuervo and Bushmills, in addition to other brands, already had a 49 percent

8:30 AM ET Kamaru Usman has risen to the top of the game, taking over the No. 1 spot in the ESPN pound-for-pound men’s MMA rankings. Usman (19-1) retained his UFC welterweight championship with a dazzling knockout of Jorge Masvidal on Saturday, his 18th consecutive victory and fourth title defense. He takes over the top

4:54 PM ET Following an inactive year in 2020, UFC featherweight Yair Rodriguez says he is looking to return to competition as soon as possible — against the highest-ranked opponent he can get. Rodriguez (13-2) has not fought since he defeated Jeremy Stephens in October 2019. He was scheduled to fight Zabit Magomedsharipov last August,

Rodolfo Vieira will look to rebound from his first-career loss. Vieira meets Dustin Stoltzfus on July 17 at UFC Fight Night, which doesn’t currently have a publicly known location or venue. A person with knowledge of the situation confirmed the booking to MMA Junkie following an initial report from MMA Fighting. After submitting his first

Getty Images If there was a common thread in the title victories at UFC 261 that had an effect on the sport’s top 10 pound-for-pound rankings, it was the fact that both fighters benefitted from the same mastermind in the corner.  Heaping praise upon Trevor Wittman as quite possibly the best coach in mixed martial

7:55 PM ET UFC middleweight Chris Weidman posted X-rays of his broken leg — pre- and post-surgery — on Tuesday as he made his way home following a gruesome injury at UFC 261 on Saturday. Weidman posted the images to his social media accounts, along with a video of him and his family flying from

12:44 AM ET A highly anticipated bantamweight matchup between former champion TJ Dillashaw and Cory Sandhagen will have to wait after Dillashaw suffered an injury during training. Dillashaw (16-4) was set to return against Sandhagen (14-2) in the main event of UFC Fight Night on May 8 in Las Vegas. On Tuesday, however, Dillashaw announced

3:03 PM ET Conor McGregor is no longer the majority owner of the whiskey brand he founded, but the UFC star has added to his growing fortune. Proximo Spirits, the company that owns Jose Cuervo and other alcohol brands, has acquired a majority stake in Proper No. Twelve Irish whiskey in a deal worth up

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

The wait to see T.J. Dillashaw step back in the UFC octagon just got a little longer. Dillashaw, a former two-time UFC bantamweight champion, was scheduled to meet Cory Sandhagen in the UFC on ESPN 24 headliner on May 8 in what would be his first bout since January 2019 following a two-year doping suspension.

Getty Images TJ Dillashaw’s return to the Octagon will have to wait. After a report on Tuesday night that Dillashaw had been forced out of his planned UFC Fight Night headliner against Cory Sandhagen on May 8, Dillashaw confirmed the news on Twitter. He also shared of picture of the cut on his Instagram. “I’m

No. 6 ranked UFC lightweight and former simultaneous UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor is a rich man, but the “Notorious” one just got a whole lot richer. On Tuesday, Shanken News Daily reported that Proximo Spirits acquired a majority stake in Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey in a deal that is valued at

The Conversation The FBI is breaking into corporate computers to remove malicious code – smart cyber defense or government overreach? The FBI’s latest cybersecurity moves bring the government into new territory – inside privately owned computers. AP Photo/Cliff OwenThe FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or

4:42 PM ET Conor McGregor has donated $500,000 to a Boys & Girls Club in Louisiana as an apparent resolution to an issue he had with rival Dustin Poirier. The hefty donation from McGregor’s team came in to the Boys & Girls Club of Acadiana on Monday, club president and CEO Missy Andrade told ESPN