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DAMN! They Were Good celebrates the careers of the most exciting and influential fighters in MMA history and on this episode it celebrates the seminal career of Joanna Jedrzejczyk, the woman who built the UFC’s strawweight division. After flirting with a comeback earlier this year, Jedrzejczyk ultimately decided against it, officially notifying the UFC of

Sean O’Malley is putting his champion credentials front and center for the world to see. Following his UFC 292 bantamweight title fight win over Aljamain Sterling, O’Malley said at the post-fight press conference that he would consider getting the word “champ” tattooed somewhere on his face. Sure enough, “Sugar” now has the word in all

Erin Blanchfield is one step closer to a UFC title shot — or, if you ask her, there are no more steps she needs to take. The 24-year-old flyweight improved to 6-0 in the UFC on Saturday with a unanimous decision win over one-time title challenger Taila Santos at UFC Singapore. It wasn’t a dominant

Josh Thomson can relate to Tony Ferguson. Thomson may never have suffered a losing streak quite like the six-fight skid Ferguson finds himself on now, but things still turned quickly for the former Strikeforce champion. Thomson was considered one of the best lightweights in the world and was inches away from vying for the UFC

Daniel Dubois is not happy with the refereeing in his Oleksandr Usyk title fight. After getting dropped in the closing seconds of Round 8, the 25-year-old Brit ultimately lost via ninth-round knockout in Saturday’s heavyweight title bout at the Tarczyński Arena Wrocław in Wroclaw, Poland. But the outcome was not without controversy, as Dubois dropped

Erin Blanchfield has gold on her mind after arguably the biggest and possibly toughest win of her career at UFC Singapore. One-time title challenger Taila Santos made nothing easy for Blanchfield, especially in the opening round with a barrage of strikes that were consistently landing with accuracy. Blanchfield survived the onslaught and then simply outworked

MMA Fighting has UFC Singapore results for the Holloway vs. Korean Zombie fight card, a live blog of the main event, and more from Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore on Saturday morning. In the main event, former UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway faces off against two-time UFC title challenger “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung

Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day. We’ve seen the worlds of MMA and professional wrestling cross over in a number of ways

Israel Adesanya is headlining once again. The middleweight champion is featured in the official UFC 293 poster, where he is positioned face-to-face with main event opponent Sean Strickland. This is the first title defense of Adesanya’s second reign after he reclaimed the title from rival Alex Pereira this past April. See the official poster for

By all accounts, Merab Dvalishvili should be next in line for a bantamweight title shot. Yet he’s still waiting to hear new UFC champion Sean O’Malley drop his name. Currently on a nine-fight winning streak, including a lopsided victory over Petr Yan in his previous outing, Dvalishvili sits near the top of the rankings at

Fights come together fast these days, and if you blink, you can easily miss them. In Fight Roundup, we bring you the latest reported matchups to keep you up to date with what’s on the horizon. All bouts featured have been officially announced or confirmed with MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz, Mike Heck, and Damon Martin

Welcome to the latest update to the MMA Fighting pound-for-pound rankings, where every month our esteemed panel sort through the noise to answer one question: Who are the best overall male and female MMA fighters in the world? With UFC 292 in the books, how have the past few weeks affected the global pound-for-pound landscape?

Julianna Pena wasted no time unloading on Mayra Bueno Silva after the Brazilian confessed to failing a drug test in relation to her recent submission win over Holly Holm. While the full details surrounding the positive drug test won’t be revealed until Thursday’s meeting of the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC), Silva has already been temporarily

Chris Weidman didn’t get the result he wanted at UFC 292, his long-awaited return to action after suffering a brutal broken leg more than two years ago. Just making it back for another fight was probably victory enough, but the 39-year-old former middleweight champion wanted to win – and Brad Tavares had other ideas. Over

The UFC will return to Sao Paulo for the first time in four years, and the company has made official eight match-ups for the upcoming event on Nov. 4. Headlined by Curtis Blaydes vs. Jailton Almeida in a five-round heavyweight tilt, the line-up will feature rising prospects like Rinat Fakhretdinov, Vitor Petrino and Denise Gomes.

Sean O’Malley now holds a UFC title. And he might just be getting started. There’s no question now that O’Malley has lived up to the hype after signing with the UFC off of Dana White’s Contender Series six years ago. On Saturday at UFC 292, he needed little more than a round to dispose of

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Sean O’Malley is a UFC champion after a memorable knockout at UFC 292. O’Malley became the new UFC bantamweight king with an incredible counter right that dropped Aljamain Sterling in the second round of their main event at UFC 292 at TD Garden in Boston on Saturday night. The UFC posted a clearer angle of