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
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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
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterSep 19, 2023, 07:48 PM ET Any potential for an Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko trilogy might have to wait a bit. Shevchenko, the former UFC women’s flyweight champion, will need surgery on a fractured right thumb, she wrote Tuesday on Instagram. She suffered the injury in the Noche UFC main
Dana White did not agree with the judging in Noche UFC’s main event. The UFC CEO was on vacation this past weekend but still tuned into Saturday’s main event, which featured a dazzling rematch between UFC flyweight champion Alexa Grasso and former titleholder Valentina Shevchenko. While the matchup played out as one of the best
Ciryl Gane has opened up on his house being robbed during his UFC Paris fight against Serghei Spivac. As Gane was headlining the event earlier this month, a robber broke into Ciryl’s house and stole items totaling over $150,000 Euros. Some of the items the robber took included jewelry and a Rolex watch. It was
Stipe Miocic is ready to do the unthinkable at UFC 295 in Madison Square Garden on Nov. 11, 2023. The proud Ohioan was often counted out during his first reign as UFC Heavyweight champion from May 2016 to July 2018 and the same can be said for his upcoming return. Miocic, 41, will look to
All-action featherweights open the main card as Brazil’s Ricardo Ramos squares off with Canada’s Charles Jourdain. The 28-year-old Ramos has been hit-and-miss throughout his UFC career, showing moments of brilliance like his two spinning back elbow victories alongside frustrating efforts like his loss to Zubaira Tukhugov at UFC 267. Compounding things is the fact that
On fight weeks, Charlie Campbell and his teammate watch the Attitude Era pay-per-views of the WWF. Before his Noche UFC debut, he was watching The Rock and got an idea. Daniel Cormier was on the call for Saturday’s event, and Campbell figured the UFC Hall of Famer, a huge pro-wrestling mark, would appreciate one of
The 140th episode of Just Scrap Radio on BJPENN.com with host Cole Shelton is live ahead of UFC Vegas 79 this Saturday. We’re first joined by the 12th-ranked UFC featherweight and one-half of the co-main event, Dan Ige (2:01). Next, 13th-ranked UFC strawweight Michelle Waterson-Gomez (22:55) joins the show. Closing out the program is UFC
Tyson Fury is just 35 years old and at the top of his game, but his promoter Bob Arum suspects we may be getting close to the end of the line for “The Gypsy King.” In a new interview with Sky Sports, Arum gave fans hope for a heavyweight title unification bout between Fury and
Saint Preux, 40, tested positive for 3α-hydroxy-5α-androst-1-en-17-one (a long-term metabolite of 1-Androstenedione and/or 1-Testosterone) as the result of urine samples collected out-of-competition on June 17, 2023, and July 11, 2023. Because Saint Preux was not yet notified of his first positive test when his second test was collected, the two positive tests are combined into
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