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Gian Villante made the move back up to heavyweight this past weekend, but it could be a while before we see him return to action at all. The longtime light heavyweight was submitted in the third round of his main card bout with Maurice Greene on Saturday at UFC on ESPN 12. According to suspensions

Undefeated newcomer Tabatha Ricci is LFA bound after the promotion signed her to a multi-fight contract. Ricci, a longtime training partner of UFC standout Mackenzie Dern, stands at 2-0 as a professional and is targeted to make her debut in July at one of four events planned for South Dakota, a person from the promotion

LAS VEGAS – Before UFC on ESPN 12, featherweight veteran Julian Erosa had two stints with the industry-leading promotion, and both ended with a pink slip. But when Erosa was willing to step up on short notice for a fight against Sean Woodson, who lost his originally scheduled opponent, he managed to earn his way

“Fight of the Night” was locked up after the third round of UFC on ESPN 12’s headliner between lightweights Dustin Poirier and Dan Hooker, and the promotion only needed to make it official afterward. The 155-pound standouts each earned $50,000 bonuses for a five-round battle that left both bloodied and Poirier with a unanimous decision

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MMA Fighting has UFC on ESPN 12 results for the Poirier vs. Hooker event in Las Vegas, live blogs of the top two fights, and live UFC on ESPN 12 Twitter updates. In the main event, Dustin Poirier faces Dan Hooker in a key lightweight battle. Welterweights Mike Perry and Mickey Gall will settle their

Check out video of UFC on ESPN 12 fighters facing off before the event Saturday at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. In the main event, former interim lightweight champ Dustin Poirier returns to face off with standout Dan Hooker. In the co-headliner, welterweight standouts Mike Perry and Mickey Gall clash. Check out full video of

Ramiz Brahimaj has been removed from his fight against Takashi Sato at UFC on ESPN 12 after one of his cornermen tested positive for COVID-19. UFC officials announced the news late Thursday night. Brahimaj was expected to make his UFC debut this weekend after previously competing in LFA where he was 4-2 in his past

Jorge Masvidal knows his value. The UFC’s first and only “BMF” champion has been at odds with the promotion for several weeks now after negotiations for a fight against Kamaru Usman fell apart. Masvidal has complained that the UFC offered him less money for a welterweight title fight than he made against Nate Diaz this

After earning a developmental deal this past season on Dana White’s Contender Series, William Knight will look to officially punch his ticket to the UFC. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that a light heavyweight bout between Knight and Cody Brundage will take place on the Sept. 1 Contender

Chad Mendes and Michael Bisping are both retired, but they’ve exchanged a lot fighting words lately. The beef between the fighters initially started after Mendes commented on a post made by Tim Kennedy on Instagram where he talked about his 2014 win over Bisping. The former middleweight champion then fired back at Mendes in a

PFL Season 2 finalist Daniel Pineda has returned to the UFC six years after he was released by the promotion. Pineda, 34, recently completed a six-month suspension he received for adverse drug test that scratched him from the finals of PFL’s Season 2 featherweight tournament. The Nevada Athletic Commission found he had an elevated testosterone-to-epitestosterone

Following a “Fight of the Night” performance at UFC on ESPN 11, Josh Emmett will be headed for surgery to repair a severely damaged knee while also facing a mandatory medical suspension handed down from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Emmett suffered a complete ACL tear, an MCL sprain with partial tearing, Bakers cyst rupture,

The left knee injury that UFC featherweight Josh Emmett suffered in the first round of his “Fight of the Year” candidate opposite Shane Burgos is serious and could require extensive rehab time. The UFC on ESPN 11 co-headliner not only suffered a complete tear of his ACL, but also a partial MCL tear, “focal impact”

Bruno Silva will have to wait until at least 2021 before he can make his UFC debut. On Monday, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced that the Brazilian fighter would face a two-year suspension after he tested positive for “boldenone and its metabolite, 5β-androst-1-en-17β-hydroxy-3-one, at a level inconsistent with boldenone meat contamination as the result

Now that Bobby Green and Clay Guida were finally able to go three rounds in the octagon, it appears they’ve squashed their beef. But tensions were high just one day before fight night. Prior to their lightweight meeting at UFC on ESPN 11, Green and Guida had a tense faceoff following Friday’s weigh-ins. The bad

Nine. That’s how many times the broadcast caught Max Rohskopf telling his corner to “call it” and pull him out in-between the second and third rounds of his fight with Austin Hubbard at UFC on ESPN 11 on Saturday. That’s not counting all the other different ways that Rohskopf, 25, expressed his desire to be

MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Alex K. Lee and E. Casey Leydon break down the top storylines from Saturday night’s UFC on ESPN 11 event in Las Vegas, including Curtis Blaydes’ unanimous decision win over Alexander Volkov in the main event, along with the exciting featherweight co-main event that saw Josh Emmett defeat Shane Burgos.