Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight champion Zhang Weili will defend her 115-pound title against surging division contender Amanda Lemos in the UFC 292 five-round co-main event TONIGHT (Sat., Aug. 19, 2023) at TD Garden in Boston, Mass., streaming exclusively on ESPN+ pay-per-view (sign up here). Check out their “Become a Legend” video preview embedded
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Jeff Wagenheim, ESPNAug 18, 2023, 11:52 PM ET Larissa Pacheco is one step — or maybe one punch? — away from becoming the first two-division PFL champion after a lightning-fast brutalization of Olena Kolesnyk in a women’s featherweight playoff semifinal Friday in New York. Pacheco (22-4), who won the 2022 championship when the PFL women’s
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Aljamain Sterling is at the crossroads. By Sterling’s own admission, Saturday should mark the end of his two-year championship reign as he defends his bantamweight title against Sean O’Malley in the UFC 292 main event. His expectation is that he defeats O’Malley and then moves up a division to immediately challenge featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski,
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Heading into this weekend’s bout with Silva, the 34-year-old Louisiana resident is 5-5 under the UFC banner, with each of her setbacks coming on the scorecards, and three of them being split decisions. If one judge saw one round differently in any of those contests, Lee is in a totally different position, both in terms
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LAS VEGAS — ALJAMAIN STERLING, arguably the best bantamweight in UFC history, casually walks into a downtown apartment complex in phenomenal spirits. He’s about to engage in one of his favorite pastimes — an activity that challenges his mind and resolve unlike anything else. It can play tricks on him, give him a sense of
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The process is clearly paying dividends on fight night, but Silva has maintained through all four of her UFC fight weeks so far that despite her successful run, she’s not going to rush greatness. “Even if I have a plan, that’s mainly up to the UFC. I’m here to fight. I’ve said that since I
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Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterAug 17, 2023, 10:25 PM ET Daniel Rodriguez has withdrawn from a scheduled bout with Santiago Ponzinibbio at Noche UFC on Sept. 16 in Las Vegas due to an atypical finding in a USADA drug test, he announced Thursday night on Instagram. Rodriguez wrote that he tested positive in an out-of-competition
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Colby Covington doesn’t see himself competing in Madison Square Garden at UFC 295 in November. It’s been over a year and a half since “Chaos” stepped foot inside the octagon. In March 2022, Covington defeated his former best friend turned bitter rival Jorge Masvidal at UFC 272 via a unanimous decision and has rarely been
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This weekend (Sat., Aug. 19, 2023) at UFC 292, the sport’s arguably best division has its title on the line in a return to Boston, Massachusetts. Headlining the event will be the reigning Bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, who seeks his fourth consecutive successful defense against top challenger, Sean O’Malley. The co-main event will see another
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