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With a middleweight bout removed and a lightweight bout added, the UFC 291 main card looks a bit different than it did a week ago. During Saturday’s UFC London broadcast, the updated main card was revealed for the event, which takes place July 29 at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City. The pay-per-view is headlined

Survivor Tag boxing has a lot of kinks to work out. Saturday evening, Misfits Boxing debuted Survivor Tag boxing in the main event of Misfits 8, pitting influencers NichLMAO, Swarmz, B Dave, and Ryan Johnston against each other in a curious new form of influencer combat. Survivor tag is sort of a combination between tag

MMA Fighting has UFC London results for the Aspinall vs. Tybura fight card, a live blog of the main event, and more from The O2 Arena in London on Saturday night. In the main event, Tom Aspinall returns from a year-long injury layoff to face Marcin Tybura. Aspinall was 5-0 in the UFC before suffering

MMA Fighting has Misfits Boxing 8 results for the Belcher vs. DeMoor fight card Saturday night from Municipal Auditorium in Nashville Tenn. On the main card, BKFC heavyweight champion Alan Belcher will square off against reality TV star Chase DeMoor. DeMoor replaces Hasim Rahman Jr., who dropped out of the fight with an injured left

Paddy Pimblett hopes to return at the backend of 2023, or the first quarter of 2024, and he has a couple of ideas for his future when he recovers from an ankle injury. Pimblett was featured during the UFC’s 30th Anniversary Q&A on Friday ahead of UFC London and was asked about his plans for

At the UFC London weigh-ins, all 30 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in London will step on the scale Friday. Watch video of the ceremonial weigh-ins above. In the main event, Tom Aspinall and Marcin Tybura can weigh no more than 266 pounds, the maximum allowed for their heavyweight non-title bout. The UFC London official

Wednesday’s news day in the MMA world was a busy one, which included UFC President Dana White announcing the first three bouts for the promotion’s return to Abu Dhabi, featuring Islam Makhachev vs. Charles Oliveira 2 for the lightweight title, and the return of Khamzat Chimaev against Paulo Costa. On an all-new edition of Heck

Islam Makhachev’s next title defense is set. The reigning UFC lightweight champion is slated to face ex-champ Charles Oliveira in a rematch on Oct. 21 in the main event of UFC 294. The bout was one of three matchups UFC president Dana White announced for UFC 294 on Wednesday night, joining a pair of middleweight

Mayra Bueno Silva wants a shot at the vacant UFC bantamweight championship after scoring the biggest win of her MMA career this past Saturday in Las Vegas. “Sheetara” tapped former champion Holly Holm with a ninja choke in the main event of UFC Vegas 77 to improve to 4-0 at bantamweight and put her name

Conor McGregor was able to avoid a historic sweep, thanks to Rico DiSciullo’s devastating finish of Hunter Azure. DiSciullo (11-2, 1 NC) became the only member of Team McGregor to reach the semi-final round on The Ultimate Fighter 31 with a vicious second-round come-from-behind knockout of Azure (10-3) in a bantamweight matchup that served as

Michael “Venom” Page surprised a lot of people on Monday when he announced he was a free agent on The MMA Hour after his previous deal with Bellator had run out. While Bellator has the option to match outside offers, the options for Page are likely aplenty. Will “MVP” return to Bellator, head to the

Paddy Pimblett hopes to better control his weight between fights moving forward. The 28-year-old Liverpudlian is currently recovering from ankle surgery and is still targeting a UFC return before the end of 2023. But Pimblett is also well aware of his reputation for ballooning up in weight between fight camps, and as the veteran lightweight

Francis Ngannou wasn’t blind to the UFC’s attempts to steal away the Tyson Fury superfight that ultimately landed in the lap of MMA’s lineal heavyweight champion. Ngannou is set to face undefeated WBC champion Tyson Fury in a blockbuster boxing match on Oct. 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The chance to box Fury is one

Jens Pulver’s Hall of Fame induction exceeded even his wildest expectations. The UFC’s first ever lightweight champion, Pulver is a pioneer of the sub-170 pound weight divisions in MMA, and last week, he finally put a capstone on his legendary career when he was inducted into the UFC’s Hall of Fame. Speaking with Ariel Helwani

Banma Duoji thought he scored a vicious ground and pound finish at ONE Fight Night 12, but instead he nearly demolished opponent Walter Goncalves with a horrific groin shot. The bizarre sequence unfolded on Friday night with Duoji standing over top of Goncalves when he threw a punch that perhaps he was aiming as a

Francisco Prado added to his highlight reel with a spinning back elbow that blasted Ottman Azaitar and led to a ground and pound finish in the first round at UFC Vegas 77. The 21-year-old fighter from Argentina looked strong throughout the fight but once he had his opponent backed up against the cage, he uncorked

Bo Nickal undoubtedly will have a lot of options waiting as one of the most talked-about fighters on the entire UFC roster. But a future showdown against Khamzat Chimaev might just sit at the top of the wish list. Despite only having five professional fights on his resume — and only two in the UFC

Garry Tonon relied to his grappling skills to get the job done in his return to ONE Championship cage on Friday. The ADCC veteran met undefeated Shamil Gasanov in the final MMA bout of the night at the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, the co-main event of ONE Fight Night 12, and had to