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Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMay 16, 2023, 07:35 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun A bantamweight title fight between Aljamain Sterling and Sean O’Malley will headline UFC 292 on Aug. 19, UFC president Dana White announced on Tuesday. The pay-per-view event will take place

Dustin Poirier opened as the betting favorite ahead of his UFC 291 BMF title fight against Justin Gaethje. On Tuesday, UFC president Dana White announced that Poirier and Gaethje will headline UFC 291 in Salt Lake City, Utah for the BMF title. The fight will go down on July 29 in a fight that fans

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just one day away from the upcoming UFC Vegas 73 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which is set to go down tomorrow night (Sat., May 20, 2023) on ESPN+ from inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring a strawweight main event between Top 15 title hopefuls Mackenzie

UFC 292 shipping up to Boston with dual championship bouts The UFC 292 fight card is shipping up to Boston for the promotion’s first event at the TD Garden since 2018. UFC 292 takes place on Aug. 19 in Beantown, featuring two title bouts. UFC 292 main event: Aljamain Sterling vs. Sean O’Malley UFC 292

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMay 18, 2023, 03:29 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun If Sean O’Malley is to become the UFC’s bantamweight champion this summer, he’ll have to defeat the most dangerous bantamweight in the history of the sport — at least in

Henry Cejudo doesn’t believe Aljamain Sterling vs. Sean O’Malley will be close. ‘Triple C’ is fresh off his return earlier this month at UFC 288 against ‘The Funk Master’. The bout ended a three-year hiatus for the former champion, having last competed in May 2020. In that outing, Cejudo scored a second-round knockout win over

Tatiana Suarez is back. After a successful return at Flyweight off the heels of four years on the shelf, Suarez (10-0) is set to get back in the mix at her primary division of Strawweight. The Ultimate Fighter 23 (TUF) winner is set to take on the No. 6-ranked contender and former Invicta Fighting Championship

MMA Twitter reacts to new Netflix Conor McGregor documentary “McGregor Forever” began airing on Netflix on Wednesday, May 18 and within hours many MMA fans has already binged all four episodes. Those fans took their thought to Twitter, in the best way they know how. The documentary, which is about four hours long if watched

Jake Michaels, ESPN Senior WriterMay 17, 2023, 08:14 PM ET Close Jake Michaels is a Melbourne-based sports writer who covers everything from Aussie Rules to Formula One, basketball to boxing. He has been with ESPN for 10 years and works as a Senior Writer, covering sport in Australia and around the world. Sydney has struck

Conor McGregor had a tough time dealing with his UFC 229 loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov. On Wednesday, McGregor’s new documentary ‘McGregor Forever’ was released on Netflix and the first episode was showing the build-up to his return fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov. The documentary showed off his intense training camp and parts of the fight, which

Former UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira is done with his monstrous weight cut, at least for the foreseeable future, and will try his luck in the light heavyweight division. His first assignment comes in the form of ex-division titleholder Jan Blachowicz in the UFC 291 co-main event this July in Salt Lake City. “He is

Angela Hill UFC Vegas 73 Media Day Video Angela Hill spoke with the MMA media on Wednesday ahead of her UFC Vegas 73 main event showdown with Mackenzie Dern. Hill and Dern square off Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. UFC-WWE merged company gets a name, will go public in 2023 Angela Hill

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMay 17, 2023, 04:45 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun The Nevada State Athletic Commission has officially acknowledged nine PFL fighters tested positive for banned substances last month, during the promotion’s opening round of matchups for its 2023 season. Last

PFL’s Jake Paul has sent a challenge to the UFC after the promotion’s signing of Francis Ngannou. Earlier this week, ‘The Predator’ ended his lengthy free agency period. Ngannou famously left the UFC in January, making history as the first champion to leave the company since BJ Penn in 2004. For months, fighters and fans

Amanda Lemos is next in line for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Strawweight champion, Zhang Weili. The promotion revealed this week (Tues., May 16, 2023) that Lemos (13-2-1) will challenge for her first world title, taking on Zhang (23-3) in the UFC 292 co-main event on Aug. 19, 2023, in Boston, Massachusetts. The Brazilian finisher will

The theme so far in 2023 for Bradon Pagaoa has been a lack of activity. Having been nine months since the last time Pagaoa has stepped into the cage, he’s eager to get back to action and start the ball rolling on his year. “Had a little bit of a slow start to the year,”

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMay 16, 2023, 07:19 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Former UFC interim lightweight champions Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje will square off for the second time in a five-round main event at UFC 291, UFC president Dana White announced

Conor McGregor gives update on Michael Chandler fight In a recent interview with TMZ, McGregor teased that an announcement would be coming soon while celebrating his son’s birthday in Los Angeles. “Soon, very Soon,” McGregor said regarding his fight with Chandler. “An announcement soon” Despite being sidelined since 2021 and losing back-to-back fights to Poirier, McGregor