Ultimate fighting star Conor McGregor says he attended the 2018 World Cup final as a guest of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Posted: July 15, 2018, 7:01 pm
One man in Las Vegas had a very bad idea when he drunkenly confronted Matt Serra, who entered the UFC Hall of Fame on Thursday.
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Posted: July 6, 2018, 9:28 pm
Featherweight champion Max Holloway withdrew Wednesday from his title defense against Brian Ortega that was scheduled for UFC 226 on Saturday with concussion-like symptoms. LAS VEGAS — Featherweight champion Max Holloway was forced Wednesday to pull out of his planned title defense against unbeaten challenger Brian Ortega on Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 226 at T-Mobile Arena with concussion-like symptoms. ESPN’s Ariel Helwani broke the news, only hours after Holloway participated in a public workout at the MGM Grand.
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Posted: July 5, 2018, 3:43 am
UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway won't defend his belt at Saturday's UFC 226 after withdrawing with medical concerns.
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Posted: July 5, 2018, 3:27 am
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Wanderlei Silva will rematch at a Bellator show on Sept. 29 in San Jose, Calif., that will be the first show streamed as part of the company’s deal with DAZN. Bellator has come under intense scrutiny from its most passionate fans because many of its fights are shown tape-delayed on the Paramount Network. DAZN is a property of the Perform Group, who recently named ex-ESPN president John Skipper as its executive chairman.
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Posted: June 26, 2018, 7:00 pm
UFC fighter and domestic violence victim Jessica-Rose Clark sounded off on Dana White's decision to award Greg Hardy a UFC contract.
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Posted: June 15, 2018, 3:06 am
The embattled athlete made his successful pro debut on Dana White’s "Tuesday Night Contender Series" when he demolished fellow former NFL player Austen Lane in just 57 seconds.
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Posted: June 13, 2018, 4:10 am
Unlike their UFC 213 fight that was more of a high-powered chess match, the rematch was packed with fireworks and saw both fighters have their moments.
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Posted: June 10, 2018, 5:56 am
Covington’s strategy was a simple, but deliberate one. He refused to give dos Anjos space to operate and sought to utilize his wrestling to smother his opponent.
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Posted: June 10, 2018, 4:58 am
CM Punk’s second try in the UFC went better than his first, but was a reminder that the former pro wrestler has a long way to go before he can be considered worthy of competing in the Octagon.
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Posted: June 10, 2018, 2:56 am
UFC's Andrea Lee has issued a second, more thoughtful apology about her husband's Nazi tattoos.
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Posted: June 4, 2018, 4:32 pm
MMA fighter Nate Diaz has been arrested after an alleged domestic violence incident.
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Posted: May 25, 2018, 9:15 pm
All signs point to a very high profile stint with the UFC, but Hardy's troubled past raises several red flags for a promotion that has previously cut fighters for domestic violence incidents.
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Posted: May 23, 2018, 11:40 pm
Just like their record-breaking showdown, Floyd Mayweather has once again come out on top vs. Conor McGregor.
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Posted: May 22, 2018, 11:26 pm
Kamaru Usman may just have put together the most unnoticed eight-fight winning streak in UFC history.
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Posted: May 20, 2018, 5:28 am
Raquel Pennington fully supported her corner's decision to compel her to keep fighting at UFC 224 despite the bloody beating she suffered.
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Posted: May 15, 2018, 12:08 am
Amanda Nunes left Raquel Pennington bloodied and battered Saturday for a TKO win to defend her bantamweight title at UFC 224.
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Posted: May 13, 2018, 5:01 am
Vitor Belfort announced his retirement on Saturday after taking a vicious knockout blow from fellow Brazilian Lyoto Machida in Rio de Janiero.
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Posted: May 13, 2018, 3:25 am
Don't scroll down on this post if the thought of a swollen, bloodied gruesome eye injury suffered during a UFC fight doesn't appeal to you.
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Posted: May 13, 2018, 12:46 am
Conor McGregor reportedly tried to apologize for his UFC 223 rampage to champion fighter Rose Namajunas, who was having none of it.
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Posted: May 9, 2018, 2:57 am
UFC president Dana White made the announcement on the "UFC Unfiltered" podcast that the promotion was hard at work looking to lock in St-Pierre vs. Diaz for UFC 227 on Aug. 4 in Los Angeles.
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Posted: May 8, 2018, 9:24 pm
The UFC reached a landmark deal Monday with ESPN, agreeing to stream up to 15 fight cards a year on the network’s new ESPN+ subscription service.
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Posted: May 8, 2018, 2:15 pm
It’s no secret that it has been increasingly difficult to find credible opponents for UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg.
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Posted: May 7, 2018, 9:50 pm
Conor McGregor is currently awaiting his court date while Dana White is already thinking about the former champion's next fight.
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Posted: April 30, 2018, 10:56 pm
The FBI questioned MMA fighter Fedor Emelianenko in connection with a probe of President Trump.
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Posted: April 29, 2018, 3:58 pm
USADA announced in a news release that dos Santos, as well as Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Marcos Rogerio de Lima, had taken tainted supplements from two compounding pharmacies in their native Brazil.
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Posted: April 23, 2018, 8:03 pm
Greg Hardy, whose NFL career ended after a domestic violence case, will reportedly fight in an MMA series for UFC contenders endorsed by Dana White.
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Posted: April 21, 2018, 10:23 pm
MMA announcer accidentally announces the wrong winner ... twice.
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Posted: April 19, 2018, 8:55 pm
With McGregor, you never really know what’s coming next.
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Posted: April 10, 2018, 7:48 pm
The WWE announced that Lesnar re-signed with the company and has him scheduled to compete in the WWE’s upcoming "Greatest Royal Rumble" event that will take place at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 27.
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Posted: April 9, 2018, 11:30 pm
One of the craziest weeks in UFC history took another wild turn on Friday morning
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Posted: April 6, 2018, 2:40 pm
One UFC exec feared for his life during Conor McGregor's attack Thursday.
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Posted: April 6, 2018, 1:47 am
Conor McGregor (shown here in August 2017) crashed the UFC’s media day on Thursday to assert himself after being stripped of the lightweight heavyweight title. Conor McGregor didn’t take too kindly to UFC president Dana White stating that he will no longer be the lightweight champion when the Octagon door closes for the fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Max Holloway at UFC 223. The winner of that fight, White said, will be the undisputed lightweight champion.
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Posted: April 5, 2018, 6:54 pm
Once reality set in that the highly anticipated fight was off the table, Nurmagomedov turned his attention to the one and only Conor McGregor.
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Posted: April 3, 2018, 11:57 pm
Featherweight champ Max Holloway fully intends on defending both belts if he beats Khabib Nurmagomedov on Saturday at UFC 223 for the lightweight title.
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Posted: April 2, 2018, 10:29 pm
Tony Ferguson suffered a knee injury that will keep him from fighting in UFC 223.
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Posted: April 2, 2018, 12:17 am
There are really no winners in this bout between Drew Chatman and Irvins Ayala.
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Posted: March 25, 2018, 5:41 pm
"The [expletive] is afraid," Abdelaziz said of McGregor. "He's afraid of one man. He's afraid of Khabib Nurmagomedov."
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Posted: March 22, 2018, 11:06 pm
Ever since her devastating knockout loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in 2016, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has remained silent on the subject. Now, with Rousey preparing to make her WWE in-ring debut April 8 at “WrestleMania” — and perhaps putting her MMA career in her rearview mirror for good — Rousey has decided to break her silence and address her emotions after that loss.
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Posted: March 20, 2018, 9:02 pm
His first UFC fight didn't go so well, but CM Punk says he's ready for another one at UFC 225.
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Posted: March 12, 2018, 9:27 pm
After Dana White tweeted a photo of him and Brock Lesnar on Sunday speculation grew as to whether Lesnar's return to the Octagon is imminent.
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Posted: February 27, 2018, 12:09 am
Featherweight Jeremy Stephens gestures to the crowd in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday that he wants a title shot after knocking out Josh Emmett in the second round. A renewed Jeremy Stephens emphatically stated his case for a featherweight title shot with a devastating second-round knockout of Josh Emmett, stopping him at 1:35 after dropping him with a left hook at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. After dropping Emmett with a left hook during an exchange, Stephens threw a knee at Emmett while Emmett was still grounded, a violation of UFC rules.
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Posted: February 25, 2018, 3:41 am
Miesha Tate momentarily put aside her vow to keep more of her personal life off of social media on Friday afternoon when the retired UFC champion posted her first baby bump photo.
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Posted: February 24, 2018, 2:10 am
Staring with UFC on Fox 28 on Saturday from the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., I’m going to start a series we’ll calling “Picking Against the Pros,” in which I go head-to-head with a top MMA fighter or expert making picks for an upcoming show.
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Posted: February 22, 2018, 11:29 pm
In a post on Instagram, UFC star Conor McGregor said he plans to fight again.
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Posted: February 22, 2018, 8:36 pm
Sports injuries don't really get worse than what Devin Powell had to endure.
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Posted: February 15, 2018, 4:53 am
Valentina Shevchenko celebrates her submission of Priscilla Cachoeira Saturday in Belem, Brazil, as referee Mario Yamasaki waves it off. Yamasaki let the one-sided bout go dangerously long. On Saturday in a bout televised nationally in the U.S. on Fox Sports 1, Mario Yamasaki failed miserably at that task.
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Posted: February 4, 2018, 6:18 am
Wrestling fandom doesn't necessarily translate into wrestling talent. And there's little indication yet that Rousey can, you know, act. So what does that mean for her WWE future?
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Posted: January 30, 2018, 9:41 pm
Earmuffs!
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Posted: January 30, 2018, 9:21 pm
There have been many great knockouts in the history of mixed martial arts, and it’s often a matter of personal preference as to which one was the best. Edward “The Ferocious” Kelly caught Meas Meu with a knee to the face in their featherweight bout in Manila on Friday on a ONE Championship card and finished the fight dramatically.
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Posted: January 27, 2018, 4:41 pm

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