Alexander Volkanovski defended his featherweight title with a bloody, tumultuous unanimous decision over Brian Ortega, and Valentina Shevchenko defended her flyweight belt with a fourth-round stoppage of Lauren Murphy at UFC 266 on Saturday night.
Legendary Canadian MMA fighter Georges St-Pierre reflects on his career after being enshrined into the UFC Hall of Fame and his feelings on former rival Nick Diaz returning to the cage at UFC 266.
UFC star Jon Jones was arrested Friday morning by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, just hours after a past UFC fight of his was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.
The UFC is finalizing a featherweight matchup between former champion Max Holloway and Yair Rodriguez to headline an event on Nov. 13, multiple sources told ESPN.
Georges St-Pierre is the greatest UFC welterweight champion of all time, one of the best fighters in MMA history, a two-division titleholder and avenged the only two losses of his storied career.
UFC President Dana White joined TSN's Aaron Bronsteter to discuss the impact Canadian Georges St-Pierre had on increasing the organization's popularity in Canada, ahead of St-PIerre's UFC Hall of Fame induction. White also provided some updates on some of the biggest storylines in MMA right now.
Jon Jones has not yet fought at heavyweight. But he surely is a heavyweight currently walking around in regular life.
The popular former UFC women's bantamweight champion has tested positive for COVID-19, and her main event bout with Ketlen Vieira is off the UFC Fight Night card Oct. 16 in Las Vegas, Tate's manager Josh Jones told ESPN on Wednesday.
At UFC 47, on a stormy April night in Las Vegas in 2004, Diaz took on power-punching Robbie Lawler in just his second appearance inside the Octagon.
Nick Diaz will walk to the Octagon Saturday for his first fight since 2015 to face Robbie Lawler in a rematch 17 years in the making. What can we expect when he returns?
Joaquin Buckley lands a powerful combo on Antonio Arroyo that leads to a TKO finish in the third round.
Nate Maness gets knocked down by Tony Gravely at the end of round 1, but comes back in the second for a fantastic TKO finish.
UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno's first title defense will come against a very familiar foe -- former champion Deiveson Figueiredo. Moreno (19-5-2) will defend his 125-pound championship against Figueiredo (20-2-1) at UFC 269 on Dec. 11. Both sides have agreed to the matchup, and contracts should be finalized shortly. It will mark the third meeting between the two flyweights.
Anthony Smith joins TSN MMA reporter Aaron Bronsteter and shares why he feels the UFC trusts him to headline so many cards, and why he prefers a more difficult puzzle to solve than Ryan Spann.
Laura Sanko tells the story of how she found out 24 hours before the Dana White Contender Series that she would become the UFC's first female commentator.
With five straight wins on his resume, Derek Brunson is trying to fight his way to a title shot in the UFC’s middleweight division and a rematch with champion Israel Adesanya.
Calgary underdog Chad Anheliger becomes just the second Canadian to earn a contract on the Contender Series after T.J. Laramie became the first to accomplish the feat in the previous season.
TSN MMA reporter Aaron Bronsteter tees up an exciting September in the UFC that will showcase many up-and-coming Canadian fighters.
Charles Jourdain discusses his opponent change and why his happiness outside of the cage is so important to his improvement inside the cage.
Tom Aspinall discusses his great UFC run thus far and why he feels his new opponent Sergei Spivak is tougher than his original opponent Sergey Pavlovich.
Derek Brunson smiles and looks off into the distance. He's thinking about all of the world-class opponents he has competed against during his nine-year career.
CM Punk might have opened a new chapter of his wrestling career, but he's closing the book on his mixed-martial arts career. The All Elite Wrestling performer tells ESPN's Marc Raimondi that he is officially out of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) testing pool, effectively ending his MMA career.
Giga Chikadze has declared himself the No. 1 striker in the UFC. The man might have a case. Chikadze (14-2) improved his UFC record to 7-0 on Saturday, as he knocked out Edson Barboza with strikes at 1 minutes, 44 seconds of the third round. The featherweight contest headlined UFC Fight Night inside the Apex.
Those hoping for Jake Paul's boxing demise at the hands of a big puncher will be sorely disappointed. The YouTube sensation-turned-prizefighter outpointed Tyron Woodley via split decision (77-75, 75-77, 78-74) in the main event of a boxing card Sunday night at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.
Gerald Meerschaert uses his grappling skills to submit Makhmud Muradov via rear-naked choke in Round 2.
Jared Cannonier bested Kelvin Gastelum via unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 48-47) in a poised showing in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas.
Canadian welterweight Rory (The Red King) MacDonald's bid for a US$1-million payday ended prematurely Friday when he lost a unanimous decision to Hawaii's Ray Cooper III in the semifinals of the Professional Fighters League playoffs.
Ciryl Gane stopped Derrick Lewis with a flurry of ground-and-pound strikes in the third round at UFC 265 on Saturday night, winning an interim UFC heavyweight title and the next shot at champion Francis Ngannou.
A bout between former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold and Sean Strickland has been verbally agreed upon for UFC 268 on November 6, according to a report by TSN’s Aaron Bronsteter.
The UFC's first-ever women's flyweight champion is no longer with the promotion. Nicco Montano was released by the UFC this week, officials confirmed with ESPN on Wednesday.
Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt is officially headed to a new weight class in 2021. Garbrandt (12-4) will take on New Zealand's Kai Kara-France (22-9) in a non-title flyweight bout on Dec. 11, multiple sources told ESPN.
Amanda Nunes, the pound-for-pound best female fighter in the UFC, will have to wait a little longer for the next defense of her bantamweight championship. She tested positive for COVID, UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell told ESPN on Thursday, cancelling her fight with Julianna Peña that was scheduled for Aug. 7 in Houston in the co-main event of UFC 265.
The former UFC middleweight champion wrote Wednesday on Instagram that he will need another surgery on the right leg he fractured in a fight with Uriah Hall at UFC 261 on April 24.
Tatiana Suarez, who has been sidelined since UFC 238 in June 2019 because of a recurring bulging disk in her neck and various other minor setbacks, will again have to wait to make her return to the Octagon, this time because of a knee injury.
A rematch of one of the best title fights in UFC welterweight history is on deck. Kamaru Usman, ranked as ESPN's top pound-for-pound MMA fighter, will defend his UFC welterweight title in a second fight with Colby Covington in the main event of UFC 268 in November, UFC president Dana White told ESPN's Brett Okamoto on Monday.
The scheduled co-main event pitting rising heavyweights Shamil Abdurakhimov and Chris Daukaus was removed from the card due to COVID-19 protocols involving Abdurakhimov's camp, UFC officials told ESPN on Tuesday.
Saturday's UFC Fight Night main card featured close calls throughout, with a pair of split decisions and a majority decision in the last five fights of the night. The judges had a tough job, but did they get the biggest fight of the night -- the high-stakes bantamweight clash between TJ Dillashaw and Cory Sandhagen -- right?
TJ Dillashaw, the former two-time UFC bantamweight champion, defeated Cory Sandhagen via split decision (47-48, 48-47, 48-47) in a bloody, back-and-forth war Saturday in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas.
Miesha Tate is back -- and she just might actually be better than ever. Competing for the first time since 2016, Tate (19-7) dominated Marion Reneau in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. The former champion, and mother of two, finished Reneau (9-8-1) via TKO at 1:53 of the third round. It marks her first victory since she won the 135-pound title in March 2016.
Conor McGregor said he went into last weekend's trilogy against Dustin Poirier with "multiple stress fractures" in his left leg -- the same leg that broke in the final seconds of the opening round.
The UFC's September pay-per-view event -- UFC 266 on Sept. 25 in Las Vegas -- will officially feature two title fights, UFC president Dana White told ESPN. Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski will face Brian Ortega in the main event of UFC 266 inside T-Mobile Arena. In the co-main event, women's flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko will defend her title against Lauren Murphy.
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