The UFC has released the poster for a June 13 event at UFC APEX in Las Vegas, and the top two draws get the spotlight. Featured on the poster is a flyweight bout between one-time title challenger Jessica Eye and Cynthia Calvillo, which serves as the ESPN+ event’s headliner. A middleweight bout between Karl Roberson
1:39 AM ET Amanda Nunes, the most dominant woman in combat sports history, added another line to her résumé on Saturday, as she defended her featherweight title against Felicia Spencer. The two-weight champion has now won 11 bouts in a row, and defeated some of the most accomplished women of all time in Ronda Rousey,
Few sights are more welcome in 2020 than the return of Sean O’Malley. After injuries and suspensions kept “Sugar” out of action for two years, he’s come back exceeding the mythical hype that built in his absence. His first-round finish over Jose Quinonez quenched the thirst of mystery that accompanies a first fight back, but
Image Credit: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Justin Gaethje doesn’t believe that Conor McGregor is truly done with MMA competition. Following UFC 250, McGregor took to his Twitter account to claim that he is retiring from MMA. The “Notorious” one has made this claim several times before. When he did so back in
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) staged UFC 250 last night (Sat., June 6, 2020), which went down from inside the promotion’s Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the headlining act, Amanda Nunes defending her Featherweight title to remain UFC champ-champ by brutalizing Felicia Spencer for five rounds (video replay here). Cody Garbrandt, meanwhile, scored perhaps
Flashback Fight: Rashad Evans takes out Forrest Griffin at UFC 92 to win UFC gold [embedded content] The winners of the first two Ultimate Fighter seasons faced off at UFC 92 for the light heavyweight title. UFC 92 took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in December 2008. Forrest Griffin and
Image via @sugaseanmma on Instagram (photographer not listed) UFC bantamweight prospect Sean O’Malley shared his theory as to why former champion Henry Cejudo recently retired after UFC 249. Cejudo surprised the MMA community when he vacated the UFC bantamweight title following a TKO win over Dominick Cruz at UFC 249. Cejudo was arguably the top
Aljamain Sterling knows his title shot is next, but he still has to wait for a new bantamweight champion to be crowned when Petr Yan faces off with Jose Aldo in July. Sterling has actually pushed for a fight against Yan numerous times over the past several months, but the UFC never put them together.
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3:07 AM ET Three exciting bantamweights tried to outdo each other, and Amanda Nunes looked as good as ever at UFC 250 on Saturday night. Meanwhile, Conor McGregor went on social media to announce his retirement from MMA. Again. Indeed, Saturday will go down as a night MMA fans will remember for a while, mostly
Devin Clark came up big in his light heavyweight bout against Alonzo Menifield, scoring a hard-fought three-round unanimous decision win over his previously unbeaten foe. Scores were 30-27 and 29-28 twice for Clark, now 12-4. Menifield falls to 9-1. Clark shot for a takedown immediately, but didn’t get it, with the two ending up in
Fernando Quiles Jr., MMA News UFC president Dana White is aware of Conor McGregor claiming that he is retiring. Back in 2019, McGregor said he’d be walking away from mixed martial arts competition only to return in Jan. 2020. Many agree that McGregor certainly has enough money to retire but as they say, “the rich
Because of the shallow nature of the barely existing UFC women’s Featherweight division, Felicia Spencer did indeed earn her title shot based on the strength of defeating the other two women still in it. Few expected the fight to go well for the massive underdog, but it’s hard to imagine a worse beating (watch the
Jorge Masvidal explains his dispute with the UFC: ‘I don’t think it’s fair’ Welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal isn’t happy with his revenue share with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He’d like to negotiate for more and has been at odds with the fight promotion. Earlier this week, “Gamebred” followed Jon Jones in asking to be released
Image via Daily Express / Sportsnet Current UFC interim lightweight title holder Justin Gaethje took a shot at Conor McGregor after the Irishman announced his retirement this evening. Shortly following the conclusion of tonight’s UFC 250 broadcast, McGregor took to Twitter where he announced that he would be retiring from the fight game. Hey guys
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12:43 AM ET Amanda Nunes dominated Felicia Spencer from start to finish to defend her UFC women’s featherweight title by unanimous decision Saturday night in the main event of UFC 250 at the Apex facility in Las Vegas. The judges scored the bout 50-44, 50-44 and 50-45 for Nunes. Nunes (20-4), ranked as ESPN’s No.