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UFC 287 Countdown Video: Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya 2 UFC 287 Countdown previews the promotion’s return to Miami as middleweight champion Alex Pereira puts his title on the line in a rematch with former king Israel Adesanya. UFC 287 main card action kicks off on Saturday, April 8 Pereira defeated Adesanya late in the

Bellator President Scott Coker has given an update on Cris Cyborg’s future with the promotion. Cris Cyborg is the reigning Bellator Women’s Featherweight Champion, but she hasn’t been seen in pro MMA action since April 2022. While she’s recognized as a Bellator titleholder, Cyborg is a free agent. She has been inside the boxing ring

On the eve of the Wrestlemania 39 finale, reports are coming out that the WWE may be sold to the UFC’s parent company Endeavor. Endeavor bought the UFC for $4 billion in 2016 and spent an addition $1.6 billion in 2021 to buy out investment firms Silver Lake and KKR and hold complete control of

Anthony Pettis, a former UFC lightweight champion, went big for his professional boxing debut, challenging former four-division boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. The two squared off in the Gamebred Boxing 4 main event on Saturday at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. The Anthony Pettis vs. Roy Jones Jr. match-up Jones’s credentials would leave most people scratching

12:06 AM ET LAS VEGAS — The first event of PFL’s 2023 regular season sure looked a lot similar to 2022, as far as Brendan Loughnane and Rob Wilkinson are concerned. Loughnane (27-4) and Wilkinson (18-2) each won PFL titles in 2022, at featherweight and light heavyweight, respectively. On Saturday, they kicked off their quests

MMA legend Jose Aldo believes former heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou “shot himself in the foot” by leaving the UFC. Aldo (31-8 MMA) is set to return to action this evening on the main card of Gamebred Boxing 4. The former UFC featherweight champion will be squaring off with Jeremy Stephens (29-21 MMA) in a rematch

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Marlon Moraes suffered his sixth stoppage loss in a row. 2022 PFL Featherweight champion Brendan Loughnane continued to roll tonight (Sat., Apr. 1, 2023) during the 2023 PFL regular season debut as he stopped former UFC Bantamweight title challenger Moraes with leg kicks in the second round inside The Theater at

Watch Israel Adesanya defeat Kelvin Gastelum to win the interim UFC middleweight title Israel Adesanya won the interim middleweight title by defeating Kelvin Gastelum in a war at UFC 236 in April 2019 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. He went on to unify the belts in his next outing with a second-round finish

Daniel Pineda expected his fight at UFC San Antonio against Tucker Lutz to be his last. Pineda was fighting out his UFC contract last weekend and at 37 years old, he thought retirement was the likely move after the bout. Yet, in the fight, Pineda says it was the best he has felt in quite some

After two tough losses to Oleksandr Usyk, former unified Heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, looks to prove he still belongs among the elite when he battles Jermaine Franklin this afternoon (Sat., April 1, 2023) in London, England. MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE coverage of today’s main event below. The DAZN broadcast kicks off at 2 p.m.

UFC commentator Joe Rogan, Eddie Bravo and former fighter Tait Fletcher were staying at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas back in the day and Fletcher got into a scuffle in the hall over a room dispute. Rogan recounted the incident that had deescalated until Eddie Bravo poured gasoline on the fire. “We’re we’re

Brendan Loughnane was excited when he found out he would be fighting Marlon Moraes in the 2023 PFL season opener. Loughnane is the reigning PFL featherweight champion and is back for season 2023 as he looks to repeat as champion. When Loughnane won the title last year, he said it was surreal as years of

Bellator 293 goes down later TONIGHT (Fri., March 31, 2023) inside Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, Calif., featuring a Heavyweight bout between Marcelo Golm and Daniel James. Co-headlining the event will be a women’s Featherweight bout between Leah McCourt and Cat Zingano. Many readers check in before, during, and after the fights to share

Bellator MMA hosted a fight card from Pechanga Casino in Temecula, CA on Friday night. The main event was a heavyweight scrap between Brazil’s Marcelo Golm and Daniel Jones, both hoping to use a main event slot to propel them closer to title contention. The co-main was a fight, fit for a title when MMA

UFC commentator Daniel Cormier has confirmed his rivalry with Jon Jones is officially over. ‘Bones’ made his return to the octagon earlier this month at UFC 285. The bout was Jones’ first in over three years and was also his heavyweight debut as he faced Ciryl Gane. The two battled over the heavyweight championship left

Former UFC heavyweight champion-turned MMA analyst Daniel Cormier previously had a problem with Jorge Masvidal getting “unlimited title fights” after coming up short in two separate attempts to dethrone then-welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. Those comments led to some ugly name calling from Team Masvidal but “DC” made no apologies for his position. Read those comments

Donald Trump Indictment Draws Fighter Ire UFC fighters and other mixed martial artists took to Twitter after the news broke about the Donald Trump indictment. The reactions ranged from supportive of Trump to skeptical of a political machine that appears to target him at all costs to the belief that news outlets are driving America’s

2:11 PM ET Former Bellator MMA champion Phil Davis and Corey Anderson will meet for the first time in June, promotion officials told ESPN on Thursday. The two will square off on the Bellator 297 main card on June 16 inside Wintrust Arena in Chicago. The event, which airs on Showtime, will feature a light