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The highly anticipated fight between Leon Edwards and Nate Diaz will no longer take place at UFC 262 in May. Instead, it has been pushed back a few weeks to UFC 263. Multiple sources confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Monday following an initial report from Yahoo! Sports. The change happened after Diaz suffered

Welterweight veteran Alex Morono will step in on short notice to fight Donald Cerrone at UFC Vegas 26 after Diego Sanchez was released from the promotion. Cerrone and Morono have verbally agreed to fight after Cerrone drove to Las Vegas this past week for the ESPN+ event on Saturday at UFC APEX, according to multiple

Kai Kamaka was certain he’d be leaving UFC Vegas 25 as a winner after battling it out with T.J. Brown on Saturday night. Instead, the 26-year-old Hawaiian fighter lost a highly controversial split decision, which is why his manager is planning to file an appeal with the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Monday. Brian Butler,

Four title fights will highlight BKFC 18 in June including the return of heavyweight champion Joey Beltran as well as several ex-UFC fighters in action including Thiago Alves, Hector Lombard and Joe Riggs. The event will take place in Miami with a date and location for the card to be announced in the coming days.

With UFC Vegas 25 in the books, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Jose Youngs, Alexander K. Lee and E. Casey Leydon break down the top storylines following Saturday night’s event at the APEX, including Jiri Prochazka’s “Knockout of the Year” candidate in his victory over Dominick Reyes in the main event.

Norma Dumont is done with the bantamweight division — for now. The Brazilian fighter, who missed weight twice in a row for 135-pound fights in the UFC, spent a few days consulting with specialists over at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas after the cancellation of her fight with Erin Blanchfield in April, and

MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 25 results for the Reyes vs. Prochazka fight card in Las Vegas, live blog of the top two fights, and live UFC Vegas 25 Twitter updates. The scheduled main event features a light heavyweight showdown between Dominick Reyes and Jiri Prochazka. Also on tap for the ESPN+ event is a

At the UFC Vegas 25 weigh-ins, all 24 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Las Vegas are set to step on the scale Friday, and MMA Fighting will have the live video. In the main event, one-time light heavyweight title challenger Dominick Reyes faces off with red-hot contender Jiri Prochazka. The two must weigh no

The highly anticipated Bellator Light Heavyweight World Grand Prix opening round matchup between Yoel Romero and Anthony Johnson is off. MMA Fighting confirmed with Bellator officials and Romero’s management that Romero has been forced to withdraw not just from his co-main event bout with Johnson at Bellator 258 on May 7, but from the light

Endeavor, the UFC’s parent company, raised $511 million during its initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday with its stock up five percent from the opening price. When the stock market closed on Thursday, Endeavor Group Holdings (EDR on the New York Stock Exchange) was trading at $25.20 per share, up from $24 at the market’s

Reinier de Ridder is coming for all of the titles in ONE Championship. After accepting a rematch against Aung La N Sang on just five days’ notice, de Ridder put on a suffocating grappling display over five rounds to win a lopsided unanimous decision in the ONE on TNT 4 main event. It was the

MMA Fighting has ONE on TNT 4 results for the N Sang vs. De Ridder event Wednesday night from the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. In the main event, ONE light heavyweight champion Aung La N Sang will attempt to defend his title against Reinier de Ridder. De Ridder recently defeated N Sang for the

Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul is back on. Mayweather on Tuesday announced the rebooking of his exhibition boxing match with Paul for June 6 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. The event will air on Showtime, reuniting the boxing legend with the broadcast partner that carried his “Money Fight” with Conor McGregor. A

The UFC’s July slate has added a welterweight matchup between two fighters looking to get back in the win column. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that a fight between Mickey Gall and Jordan Williams is set for the UFC’s event on July 24 at a venue and location

Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor made good on his promise to donate $500,000 to charity except he didn’t go through Dustin Poirier’s foundation. Instead, the Irish superstar donated directly to the Boys and Girls Club of Acadiana in Lafayette, La., which is an organization Poirier’s Good Fight Foundation has worked with previously. TMZ first

With three title fights at the top of the card, there’s little doubt that UFC 261 was promoted as one of the biggest events of the year but hype doesn’t always intersect with reality when the fights actually happen. Except in the case of this past Saturday night, which delivered in every way possible from

JACKSONVILLE — Middleweight Uriah Hall spoke with reporters backstage following his first-round TKO win over Chris Weidman on the main card of Saturday’s UFC 261 event. “Prime Time” reacted to Weidman snapping his leg on the former champion’s first thrown strike of the bout, how he felt about the result, wanting to give Weidman another

Chris Weidman is already on the mend. The former middleweight champion suffered a gruesome broken leg after throwing the first kick of his fight against Uriah Hall on the UFC 261 main card on Saturday night. As soon as the kick landed, Weidman’s leg was immediately injured and he fell down to the canvas in