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The UFC 295 card in November will be headlined by a long-awaited heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic but new fights have now been added to the lineup with tickets going on sale this week. UFC officials announced several fights on Wednesday including confirmation about a rumored middleweight clash between Derek Brunson

If you ask the majority of the MMA world, Dricus Du Plessis is next in line to challenge for the UFC middleweight title after Saturday’s UFC 293 pay-per-view. But two of the men most involved in the decision don’t entirely agree. When asked Tuesday whether Du Plessis is the obvious next challenger for the winner

Dana White never seems to sweat his competition, and he won’t be losing any sleep over reports that the PFL may be closing in on a deal to purchase Bellator MMA. Rumors have swirled for months that Paramount has been looking to unload Bellator from the company, with numerous potential buyers in the mix. Just

Alexander Volkanovski and Valentina Shevchenko are the official cover athletes for the upcoming EA Sports UFC 5 video game. EA Sports announced the news Tuesday. See images of the cover reveal below. Shevchenko and Volkanovski join Israel Adesanya, Jorge Masvidal, Jon Jones, Alexander Gustafsson, Conor McGregor, and Ronda Rousey as UFC fighters to appear on

One-time title challenger Jared Cannonier has been tapped to back up the Israel Adesanya vs. Sean Strickland headliner at UFC 293. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans, who requested anonymity because the news wasn’t publicly announced, confirmed an MMA Junkie report of Cannonier role for Saturday’s fight. The 39-year-old Texas native will weigh

Jason “Mayhem” Miller is once again in trouble with the law. According to online Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department records, the former UFC competitor was arrested and booked on a misdemeanor charge Aug. 30 in West Hollywood, Calif. He was booked at 5 a.m. local time and was released a little over six hours later.

Watch UFC 293 Countdown video for a deep dive into the UFC’s return to Sydney, this Saturday, headlined by a middleweight title fight between Israel Adesanya and Sean Strickland. This time last year, Adesanya was on top of the MMA world. With five successful title defenses to his name, “The Last Stylebender” was starting to

Ciryl Gane needed a big win at UFC Paris fresh off the worst defeat of his MMA career. Fortunately, he scored exactly that. The former UFC interim heavyweight champion ran roughshod over Serghei Spivac in Saturday’s main event to earn a second-round TKO and emerge victorious in a flawless performance at the Accor Arena in

Ciryl Gane and Rose Namajunas entered UFC Paris as the two biggest storylines in terms of whether or not they could bounce back from their recent championship bout losses, and in the end, only one reigned supreme, while the other went back to the drawing board. Following the UFC’s return to Paris, MMA Fighting’s Mike

Anderson Silva is living the dream. A former UFC middleweight champion, “The Spider” finally had the chance to compete in boxing. After years of voicing his desire to compete in the squared circle, he parted ways with the company to set up matches with legends and celebrities. Yet his life-long goal has always been to

Ciryl Gane and Rose Namajunas seek a fresh start in France. One half of the main and co-main events of UFC Paris, respectively, the two are coming off of arguably the most humbling setbacks of their careers. For Gane, it was a quick submission loss to Jon Jones in which Jones made him look completely

Francis Ngannou ended his MMA free agency by inking a lucrative multi-fight contract with the PFL, but now he stands to make an even bigger payday for his upcoming boxing match against Tyson Fury on Oct. 28. While Ngannou was already plotting his PFL debut in 2024, he first has the chance to pull off

Former UFC and current ONE Championship titleholder Demetrious Johnson picked up another accolade to add to his long list of them. Johnson won first place in the 2023 IBJJF Masters World jiu-jitsu competition, which kicked off Thursday in Las Vegas. Johnson competed in the featherweight (154.6 pounds) gi division at Las Vegas Convention Center in

For the second time in 2023, Mike Perry is preparing to serve as a backup just in case an opponent fails to show up to face one of the Paul brothers. Back in February, the UFC veteran and current BKFC star was a potential replacement for Tommy Fury in his matchup against Jake Paul. Now

The UFC’s summer run continues as does its international tour, as the world’s top MMA promotion follows up UFC Singapore with a trip to the City of Light. UFC Paris is headlined by a heavyweight tilt between former interim champion Ciryl Gane and rising contender Sergey Spivak, and the No Bets Barred boys are back

Don’t expect to see Ronda Rousey back for UFC 300 — or for any octagon comeback anytime soon. That’s according to UFC president Dana White, who poured cold water over a recent report from British tabloid The Daily Mail which insisted that the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion is planning a comeback for the promotion’s

Carlos Prates made a thunderous first impression in his big-stage debut. The 30-year-old welterweight headlined a night of three contract winners with his impressive second-round walkoff knockout of Mitch Ramirez at Tuesday’s Contender Series event, which took place at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. Prates (17-6) was an absolute sniper against Ramirez (7-1), taking

Sean O’Malley wants to eventually share the boxing ring with Gervonta Davis, and while Davis’ coach feels as if O’Malley would be easy work, it didn’t stop the UFC bantamweight champion from firing a quick and simple rebuttal. “Lolz [dude’s] 5’2,” O’Malley said on Twitter. The reaction stemmed from an interview with ES News done