UFC CEO Dana White has announced two more fights for UFC 296 including the return of Paddy Pimblett. Earlier this week, White announced that UFC 296 would be headlined by a welterweight title fight between Leon Edwards and Colby Covington. The co-main event of UFC 296 sees Alexandre Pantoja defending his flyweight title against Brandon
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Colby Covington is riding high after securing the next welterweight title shot against current UFC champion Leon Edwards at UFC 296 this coming December. It’s a matchup that Covington has been holding out for and another opportunity for him to hoist UFC gold by year’s end. Fortunately for Covington, he feels ultra-confident with the matchup
MAIN CARD Main Event – Lightweight Bout: Rafael Fiziev (156) vs Mateusz Gamrot (156) Co-Main Event – Featherweight Bout: Bryce Mitchell (146) vs Dan Ige (146) Women’s Strawweight Bout: Marina Rodriguez (116) vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez (115.5) Saturday’s Full Fight Card Preview Welterweight Bout: Bryan Battle (171) vs AJ Fletcher (170.5) Featherweight Bout: Ricardo Ramos (146) vs Charles
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 22, 2023, 01:36 PM ET Chris Leben, a popular retired former pro MMA fighter, will make his Nevada debut as a judge Saturday on the UFC Fight Night card, sources told ESPN on Friday. Leben, who fought in the UFC from 2005 to 2013, has been a pro referee and
UFC 296 will feature a welterweight matchup between Stephen Thompson and Shavkat Rakhmonov – if the fighters have anything to say about it. Thompson on Friday announced he’d accepted a UFC offer to face the unbeaten Rakhmonov at the Dec. 16 pay-per-view event, which takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “UFC offered and
Colby Covington is expressing his interest in fighting ‘f**king punk’ Sean Strickland following UFC 293. It was on Saturday, September 10th at UFC 293 at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia that saw Sean Strickland (28-5 MMA) defeat Israel Adesanya (24-3 MMA) to become the newly crowned UFC middleweight champion. Just this past Wednesday,
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just one day away from the upcoming UFC Vegas 79 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which is set to go down tomorrow night (Sat., Sept. 23, 2023) on ESPN+ from inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring a lightweight main event between Top 10 title hopefuls Rafael
“I have many main events and five-round fights; this is my favorite distance,” continued Gamrot, who competed in six championship fights and was the main event in each of his final two KSW appearances. “I like accelerating every round and I think this is going to be my advantage — my stamina, my conditioning, my mental
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 20, 2023, 11:04 PM ET Two of the most exciting big men in the UFC will meet for gold at Madison Square Garden. Former light heavyweight champion Jirí Procházka and former middleweight champion Alex Pereira will fight for the vacant light heavyweight title in the co-main event of UFC 295
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
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,
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