7:21 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi UFC president Dana White said Tuesday night that a fight against Brock Lesnar would be a good way to introduce Jon Jones to the heavyweight division. But would it be?
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The UFC plans on keeping Claudia Gadelha vs. Yan Xiaonan on despite Gadelha’s knee injury, moving the strawweight bout from Sept. 26 to Nov. 7, people with knowledge of the booking told MMA Fighting following a report from Combate. Gadelha suffered a left knee injury and left New Jersey to Las Vegas to rehab at
Image: UFC on Instagram Ahead of his training camp for UFC 256 in November, UFC flyweight title contender Cody Garbrandt has tested positive for COVID-19. AG Fight first reported that Garbrandt tested positive for the coronavirus. The former UFC bantamweight champion reportedly tested positive earlier in the week for COVID-19 and he is currently in
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to its APEX facility this Sat. night (Sept. 5, 2020) for UFC Vegas 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a heavyweight main event pitting longtime veteran Alistair Overeem opposite once-beaten bruiser Augusto Sakai. Before the action gets underway this weekend in “Sin City,” which also features a co-main event between
Daniel Cormier reveals million dollar bonus after first Jon Jones fight [embedded content] Former dual-division UFC champion Daniel Cormier recently announced his retirement following the loss to Stipe Miocic in their UFC 252 headlining trilogy bout. In recounting some of the highlights of his career in his ESPN podcast, Cormier revealed some of the bonus
USADA announced today that Oleksandr Doskalchuk, of Irpin, Ukraine, has accepted a 14-month sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Doskalchuk, 30, tested positive for the mesterolone metabolites 1α-methyl-5α-androstan-3α-ol-17-one, 1α-methyl-5α-androstan-3α,17β-diol and 1α-methyl-5α-androstan-3,6,16-triol-17-one as the result of a urine sample collected out-of-competition on June 6, 2020. Mesterolone is a non-Specified Substance in the class of
Dana White likes the idea of Brock Lesnar welcoming Jon Jones to the heavyweight division. It was recently announced that Lesnar is a free agent from WWE and many wondered if he would return to the UFC. For White, he has already said he would make Lesnar vs. Jones if both guys wanted it. Now,
12:45 AM ET Glover Teixeira and Thiago Santos will not be fighting next week in a key UFC light heavyweight bout after all. Teixeira has tested positive for COVID-19 and the UFC Fight Night main event bout scheduled for Sept. 12 has been rescheduled, UFC officials confirmed Wednesday to ESPN. Teixeira vs. Santos is now
Former UFC title contender Glover Teixeira has tested positive for COVID-19 and his upcoming fight against Thiago Santos will no longer take place on Sept. 12. The highly anticipated showdown is expected to be moved to the upcoming card on Oct. 3 instead where Teixeira and Santos will clash as part of the same event
Image via @ufc on Instagram Francis Ngannou and Jon Jones are still going at one another in the hopes they are the one to fight Stipe Miocic. Ever since Miocic beat Daniel Cormier at UFC 252 to defend his heavyweight title, many wondered what would be next for the champ. The rematch with Ngannou made
A fight between Thiago Santos and Glover Teixeira — which was set to headline UFC Vegas 10 on Sept. 12, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada — has been postponed after Teixeira tested positive for COVID-19. That’s according to a report from ESPN which revealed that the Light Heavyweight affair will now go down on Oct.
LAS VEGAS and SHANGHAI – UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and the Chinese Olympic Committee, on Wednesday announced a multi-year agreement that calls for UFC to play a key role in helping Chinese athletes train for the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Under the agreement, UFC
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Under the agreement, UFC will serve as the Official High Performance Advisor to the Chinese Olympic Committee, while the UFC Performance Institute in Shanghai will serve as the committee’s Official High Performance Training Center. UFC will provide a variety of high performance physical and rehabilitation services to Chinese athletes, with a focus on strength and conditioning, sports science,
The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC on ESPN+ 33 Check out all the changes below! Men’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes Strawweight: Mackenzie Dern re-enters the rankings at #15, and Virna Jandiroba is now ranked #14. Women’s Flyweight: Alexa Grasso enters the flyweight rankings at #14 following
5:43 PM ET If there was one fight from 2019 that stood out because of the electricity of its crowd, it was the Nov. 2 “BMF” battle in Madison Square Garden, where President Trump, The Rock and a packed house watched Jorge Masvidal bloody and stop Nate Diaz after three rounds. The UFC is negotiating
Vanessa Porto’s reign as the Invicta FC flyweight queen has come to an end as the Brazilian signed a deal with Bellator, the promotion announced following a report from ESPN. Porto (22-8) claimed the belt with a technical decision victory over former UFC talent Pearl Gonzalez in Feb. 2019, defending it once against Karina Rodriguez