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With the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 34 heavy on finishes, all but one of the performance bonuses went to the competitors that battled it out before the main card. Ignacio Bahamondes was a no-brainer for a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus with his wheel kick knockout of Roosevelt Roberts in the final seconds

Ignacio Bahamondes was well on his way to a decision over Roosevelt Roberts – five seconds, to be exact. Then Bahamondes unleashed a wheel kick, and Roosevelt fell hard on the canvas after taking the shot direct to the chin in the UFC Vegas 34 preliminary bout. The official time of stoppage was 4:55 of

MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 34 results for the Cannonier vs. Gastelum event, a live blog of the main event, and live UFC Vegas 34 Twitter updates from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. In the main event, Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum will square off in a middleweight contest. Cannonier has

Brad Katona has found his way to title contention. He just had to travel to the other side of the world to get there. It wasn’t long ago that the Canadian was a fresh face coming off of winning The Ultimate Fighter 27 featherweight tournament in 2018. During the season, Katona took out a pair

Conor McGregor is on the mend. Six weeks ago at UFC 264, McGregor suffered a grievous injury when he snapped his lower leg during his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier. As a result of the injury, McGregor had to have a titanium rod inserted into his leg to aid with recovery of the fractures and

When Alan Belcher announced his retirement from MMA back in 2015, he declared that he would “never, ever fight again.” At the time, he was already more than two years removed from his last fight in the UFC when he suffered an accidental eye poke in a middleweight bout against Michael Bisping before losing a

MMA Fighting has PFL 8 results for the Harrison vs. Fabian event Thursday night at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. The PFL 8 card will feature semifinals in the women’s lightweight and heavyweight divisions in the Season 3 playoffs. Check out PFL 8 results below. PFL Playoffs continue this Thursday! The

Francis Ngannou isn’t exactly sure where he stands with the UFC right now. Despite claiming the heavyweight title with a stunning second-round knockout over Stipe Miocic back in March, Ngannou saw an interim champion crowned barely five months later after Ciryl Gane finished Derrick Lewis at UFC 265. It was a bizarre sequence of events

Brian Ortega’s team will have representation in The Ultimate Fighter 29 finals. Tresean Gore (3-0)*, the sole remaining member of Team Ortega, advanced to the finals of the season’s middleweight tournament with an impressive second-round knockout of Alexander Volkanovski representative Gilbert Urbina (6-1). Team Volkanovksi’s Bryan Battle (5-1) will fight Gore for the TUF 29

One-time UFC title challenger Sara McMann on Tuesday announced her withdrawal from UFC Vegas 35 due to injury, leaving her scheduled opponent Ketlen Vieira without an opponent. McMann declined to name her injury, but wrote on Instagram that it was a “reinjury” from the past. “I’m hoping like hell it’s a quick healing process, but

If the UFC is planning to rebook a fight between Dustin Poirier and Nate Diaz, Poirier has yet to hear about it. After appearing to agree to a fight with his rival on social media, Poirier on Monday called “wolf tickets” — or B.S. for those unfamiliar with Diaz-speak — on recent tweets from Diaz

This past Saturday, UFC middleweight Darren Till was having a bad day when the little voice in back of his head told him to stop moping and get to the gym. No one was there, so he worked out alone, in darkness, shouting at himself in the mirror. A broken collarbone has been the sole

Watch Jared Cannonier vs. Jack Hermansson full fight video to see Cannonier’s highlight-reel finish of Hermansson at UFC Copenhagen on Sept. 28, 2019. Cannonier entered his fight with Hermansson after back-to-back wins over Anderson Silva and David Branch, making him 2-0 since dropping down to 185 pounds after beginning his UFC career as a heavyweight.

Iasmin Lucindo started training martial arts at age 13 to protect her loved ones, and it quickly became a career. Now, with more than a dozen MMA bouts under her belt, the 19-year-old Brazilian flyweight prospect aims to shine overseas. Lucindo lived with her parents in Genibau, a favela in Fortaleza, when she saw her

It may be time to start calling him “Mr. Consistent,” because all Ray Cooper III does is win fights and bulldoze his way into PFL championship bouts. Cooper (23-7-1) utterly had his way with former Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald (22-8-1) en route to a surprisingly one-sided decision win in Friday’s PFL playoffs main event,

If you told Davion Franklin in 2015 he would be a professional mixed martial artist, he wouldn’t have believed you. Franklin (3-0) will make his fourth professional appearance, all of which have been inside the Bellator cage, this Friday night when he takes on the 15-0 Everett Cummings at Bellator 264. The fight will take

MMA Fighting has Bellator 264 results for the Mousasi vs. Salter fight card and live Bellator 263 Twitter updates. In the main event, Bellator middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi defends his title against John Salter. In the co-headliner, former welterweight champ Andrey Koreshkov meets Sabah Homasi. Check out the Bellator 264 results below. Main Card (Showtime,

Between the Links returns with a historic matchup. Host Mike Heck is joined by MMA Fighting’s Jed Meshew and Alexander K. Lee as they battle each other and journalist E. Spencer Kyte in a special triple threat rules matchup on the program. This week, the panelists react to Ciryl Gane’s impressive third-round TKO stoppage win