After 16 weeks of nonstop action, the UFC’s midyear marathon finally comes to an end on Saturday as the promotion returns to the APEX for a lightweight main event between Rafael Fiziev and Mateusz Gamrot. Buoyed by a co-main event between Bryce Mitchell and Dan Ige, the rest of UFC Vegas 79 features nine other
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Bryan Battle is ready to prove to everyone just how good he is. Battle won TUF 30 at middleweight and is 5-1 in the UFC, but is 3-1 since dropping down to welterweight. Last time out, he returned to the win column with a 14-second knockout win over Gabe Green. After the win, he was
Tyron Woodley isn’t a fan of the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion. The one-time UFC Welterweight titleholder, Woodley, hasn’t competed in mixed martial arts (MMA) since his final Octagon appearance at UFC 260 when he suffered a first round brabo choke loss to Vicente Luque in March 2021. Woodley, 41, has tried his
“I know it’s been just five fights, but it’s an eight-year process. I’ve worked so hard to actually be here. I understand that there’s challenges, that there’s more ahead of us. But we’ve worked so hard to actually be here, and I’m going to do everything to stay here.” MORE FIGHT NIGHT: Michelle Waterson-Gomez
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 20, 2023, 10:48 PM ET Two title fights have been set up for the UFC’s end-of-the-year pay-per-view. Leon Edwards will defend his welterweight title against Colby Covington in the main event of UFC 296 on Dec. 16 in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White announced Wednesday on social media. In
Jason “Mayhem” Miller knows he needs to do better and he’s seeking out help to make necessary changes in his life. Over the past several years, the UFC veteran has faced numerous arrests as well as a recent stint in prison after he was convicted on a litany of charges including domestic violence, vandalism, violating
Fury’s doubts “He’s not going to last. His body is too good,” Fury said. “I told you about these ripped bodies. … He’s got too many muscles, and he looks too good. When I felt him like this, and he was all hard as I was feeling him. He was hard, and I knew he’s
Is Bryce Mitchell on his way to becoming a UFC superstar? “Thug Nasty” certainly believes that’s the way things will trend after he defeats Dan Ige in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot this weekend. The No. 10 ranked Mitchell is 15-1 and coming off his first career loss to Ilia
A member of the Dana White’s Contender Series (DWCS) Class of ’21, Fletcher carried an 9-0 record with eight finishes into the UFC, but tough matchups with Matthew Semelsberger and Ange Loosa saddled him with consecutive losses out of the chute. He rebounded with a grueling second-round submission win over Themba Gorimbo last time out,
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 20, 2023, 09:14 PM ET Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) executive director Jeff Mullen said on a judges training call Wednesday that he did not agree with a controversial score in last Saturday night’s UFC women’s featherweight title fight between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko. Grasso and Shevchenko fought to
Leon Edwards is set to defend his welterweight title against Colby Covington in main event of UFC 296 on Dec. 11. In the co-headliner, Alexandre Pantoja puts his flyweight belt up for grabs in a rematch with Brandon Royval. UFC CEO Dana White announced the matchups on Wednesday. The final UFC pay-per-view of 2023 seex
UFC CEO Dana White has announced some major fights for the last two pay-per-views of the year. White announced on the UFC’s social media the co-main event for UFC 295 on Nov. 11 at Madison Square Garden while also announcing the main and co-main event for UFC 296 in December. 🚨 HUGE FIGHT NEWS 🚨
Israel Adesanya isn’t broken up about his recent title defeat. The former two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight kingpin, Adesanya, has remained silent since he suffered a unanimous decision loss (watch highlights) against Sean Strickland at UFC 293 earlier this month (Sept. 9, 2023). Strickland handed Adesanya just his second loss as a Middleweight after
In Season 6, Week 7 saw four athletes graduate to the UFC roster — Karl Williams, Vitor Petrino, and the Bonfim Brothers, Gabriel and Ismael — and so far, that quartet has gone 7-1 inside the Octagon, with the only loss coming in Ismael Bonfim’s bout against surging French lightweight Benoit Saint-Denis. This week at the
Dillon Danis no-showed a Tuesday hearing into a restraining order filed against him by Logan Paul fiance Nina Agdal, prompting a judge to enforce its conditions. Because Danis didn’t show up and didn’t oppose the restraining order in court, he “and all persons in active concert or participation with him” are forbidden from posting “sexually
Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz are going back and forth in a heated exchange on social media. The Irishman has not fought in the Octagon in over two years, but he’s been very active on social media during that same timeframe. With all the controversy surrounding the 10-8 scorecard this past weekend at Noche UFC,
Noche UFC is here to stay. The first Mexican Independence Day event from the UFC was a bit of a shotgun affair, thrown together after UFC president Dana White was hammered endlessly by fans and press for a Mexico event. While the show ended up going down in Las Vegas rather than Mexico, the theme
Lightweights lock horns in the second fight of the night, as well, as Brazilian Kaynan Kruschewsky faces off with Serra-Longo representative Dylan Mantello. In his last two outings, the 32-year-old Kruschewsky won and successfully defended the Jungle Fights lightweight title, going deep into each contest to get the job done. He’s 14-1 overall, including a
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