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11:15 AM ET After knocking out Tony Ferguson at UFC 274 last May, Michael Chandler thought it might take a lapse in judgment for the UFC to book a fight with him against Conor McGregor. Instead, a coaching opportunity with “The Ultimate Fighter” helped put the pieces in motion for a megafight later this year.

UFC Vegas 68 takes place tonight from the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, and MMA News has you covered with all the results and highlights! In the heavyweight main event, Derrick Lewis will look to get back in the win column when he takes on Serghei Spivac, who’ll be chasing his third consecutive victory. While

Conor McGregor is back, and he will be coaching the 31st season of The Ultimate Fighter against Michael Chandler. On Saturday, (Feb. 4, 2023), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White announced the pair of lightweights will coach the show, which starts May 30 and ends Aug. 4, and then they will fight at some

New UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill is open to fighting Magomed Ankalaev next. Hill (12-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) battered Glover Teixeira to capture the vacant title in the UFC 283 headliner in January in Brazil. After former champ Jiri Prochazka opted to relinquish his belt due to a severe shoulder injury, he’s projected to be

Boxing star Manny Pacquiao will make his fighting return against Kota Ibushi at an upcoming RIZIN event in Japan. According to a report from Tokyo Sports, the Pacquiao/Ibushi matchup is in the preliminary stages of negotiations but is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks. The report comes after Pacquiao appeared at the Bellator

Welcome to Midnight Mania! UFC 287, which is scheduled for April 8 at an unannounced location, is starting to shape up. Last week, Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya and Jorge Masvidal vs. Gilbert Burns were announced as the main and co-main event. Now, a pair of ranked Welterweights have been added to the card also,

Check out these photos from the fights at 2023 PFL Challenger Series 2, which took place at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla. (Photos courtesy of Cooper Neill, PFL) Michelle Montague def. Shaquita Amador Woods 2023 Challenger Series Week 2 at the Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023.… 2023 Challenger Series Week 2

Feb 2, 2023 NEW YORK — Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn didn’t rule out the possibility of a future fight between former boxing heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, he told ESPN on Thursday. Joshua has a fight against Jermaine Franklin on April 1, sources told ESPN’s Mike Coppinger, and

Los Angeles — Current Bellator MMA Heavyweight champion, Ryan Bader, and longtime vetera, Fedor Emelianenko, came face-to-face at the conclusion of the Bellator 290 weigh ins on Friday morning, just one day in front of their CBS main event, locked and loaded for this Sat. night (Feb. 4, 2023) inside the Kia Forum in Los

While he may have had gold wrapped around his waist, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jamahal Hill doesn’t believe he’s accomplished “the ultimate test” yet. After consecutive headline triumphs at the Apex in 2022, Hill had the opportunity to feature in the promotion’s first pay-per-view main event of the new year. With that, “Sweet Dreams” headed

Check out these photos of the UFC Fight Night 218 official weigh-ins and faceoffs at UFC Apex in Las Vegas. (Photos by Ken Hathaway, MMA Junkie) UFC Fight Night 218 – jesus aguilar weigh-in Highligh UFC Fight Night 218 – tatsuro taira weigh-in Highlight UFC Fight Night 218 – Taira vs. Aguilar UFC Fight Night

10:17 PM ET The UFC has shifted a highly anticipated bantamweight main event between Marlon Vera and Cory Sandhagen from Feb. 18 to March 25, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. The bout was originally scheduled to headline UFC Fight Night later this month at the Apex in Las Vegas, but will now serve

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Curtis Blaydes has been angling to fight Jon Jones for an awful long time. Unfortunately for “Razor,” he’s the odd man out in the recently booked Heavyweight title fight. Since Francis Ngannou has vacated the UFC throne, UFC opted to finally book Jones’ long-awaited Heavyweight debut against Ciryl Gane at UFC

UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev feels his upcoming showdown with Alexander Volkanovski hasn’t been promoted well. Makhachev will face Volkanovski in the UFC 284 headliner in Perth on February 11th. He’ll defend his lightweight title in a super fight against the featherweight champion Volkanovski. The Makhachev/Volkanovski clash is one of the biggest ‘champion vs. champion’

LOS ANGELES – A year into his comeback after a layoff of four and a half years, Brennan Ward has taken another big step. The Connecticut-based welterweight no longer will balance fighting with a day job. Ahead of a fight against his most accomplished opponent since 2017, Ward is a full-time fighter. “I made the

10:29 AM ET The PFL’s 2023 regular season will officially kick off in April, with a three-week series of events at Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas. The season encompasses six weight classes: heavyweight, light heavyweight, welterweight, lightweight, featherweight and women’s featherweight. The first round of season matchups will take place across three events scheduled on

UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski seems confident ahead of UFC 284. For the first time in his UFC career, ‘The Great’ will be moving out of the featherweight class. Standing in his way of two-division supremacy is current UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev. At UFC 280, Makhachev used his elite-level wrestling and grappling to get

There’s a nostalgic feeling in the combat sports air this week as the career of one of the most storied fighters to ever grace a ring or cage will come to an end this Sat. night (Feb. 4, 2023) as Fedor Emelianenko will make the competitive walk one final time. “The Last Emperor” is scheduled