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Patchy Mix, lapping Bellator competition, aspires to larger challenges
Patchy Mix has lapped the competition in the Bellator bantamweight division. Now, he’s on to giving a second chance to an opponent he choked unconscious not even two full years...
Conor McGregor's next UFC opponent expects to send him into retirement
Michael Chandler twisted in the wind for roughly a year awaiting a date for his matchup with Conor McGregor now has June 29 circled on his calendar for their UFC...
UFC 301 could be last flyweight title headliner for awhile
Littlest guys like champion Alexandre Pantoja got to stand tall Saturday in the UFC 301 headliner.
Hall of Famer Jose Aldo wasn't planning to return; he's back at UFC 301
Not even one year after what Jose Aldo said was the end of his MMA career, the he was fighting an uphill battle to hold back tears on his way...
Flyweight champ not sleeping on unlikely challenger ahead of UFC 301
While a bevy of stars from Brazil have had the intimidating local fans at their backs, this will be the first time in the UFC career of Alexandre Pantoja that...
Islam Makhachev dreams of second title with Dustin Poirier looming at UFC 302
Better late than never for Islam Makhachev.
Former PFL champion takes KO lesson to heart in pursuit of second title
Fair to say that the majority of the human population has never been knocked out.
Max Holloway was always a BMF, even before winning the belt at UFC 300
That is how you win the BMF belt. The timekeeper smacking the clacker, signifying 10 seconds left in the round, in the fight. Max Holloway, having battered Justin Gaethje for...
UFC iron man Jim Miller endured the worst fight of his life to get back to the simple pleasures that keep him swinging
Miller will become the only fighter to have competed at each of the promotion’s hundred-milestone events when he returns to the octagon for UFC 300.
UFC 300 headliner had not yet tried martial arts at time of UFC 100
Everyone knows what Alex Pereira will be up to for UFC 300: closing out the milestone night in Las Vegas in the main event.
NJ native set to soak in Atlantic City love in pivotal UFC headliner
Even though Erin Blanchfield lives barely half an hour from Madison Square Garden, her 2022 debut at the dream venue left the Elmwood Park, N.J., native treated like the outsider...
MMA champion relieved to avoid fighting slain friend's son after trying year
Rarely, if ever, has the road through mixed martial arts been easy for Patricio “Pitbull” Freire, but the last year sticks out as especially trying.
Sean O'Malley passes critical test at UFC 299 with first title defense
Through 15 minutes, Sean O’Malley was on cruise control. And by cruise control, I mean the type the UFC bantamweight champion might have turned on in his pink Lamborghini in...
Sean O'Malley eager for 'rewrite' in first title defense at UFC 299
O’Malley (17-1, 13 finishes) will make his first title defense in the pay-per-view headliner of UFC 299, and it’s none other than Vera (23-8-1, 18 finishes).
Ryan Bader rings in new era as PFL vs. Bellator headliner
Ryan Bader was wondering the same thing a lot of fans were.
Don't forget Alexander Volkanovski despite end of reign at UFC 298
Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif., belonged to Ilia Topuria. Republic of Georgia, the homeland of his parents where he grew up as a boy, revels in one of their own...
UFC 298 title challenger weighs in on Conor McGregor parallels
It doesn’t take long to find a clip or read a story about the confidence Ilia Topuria oozes as he approaches the biggest fight of his life. But what may...
Featherweight champ primed to break 'curse,' defend title at UFC 298
UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is looking to end “the over-35 curse.”
Kayla Harrison primed to drop elbows on UFC competition, at last
If there’s one factor of the equation that added up to her arrival in the UFC on which she’s all-in, it can be summed up in one word: elbows.
Two unpopular MMA rules move closer to desired updates
The organization’s MMA rules committee passed language that would clarify the definition of what makes a fighter grounded, thus making it illegal for the grounded fighter to absorb a knee...