Max Holloway will wait on a Conor McGregor trilogy. If it doesn't come, he's got a title in mind instead. Holloway evened the score with McGregor in the UFC 329 main event, beating the returning Irishman 13 years after dropping their first meeting. The rematch was over almost before it started, with McGregor blowing out […]
Sean O'Malley doesn't mind waiting, as long as the payoff is Petr Yan. O'Malley picked up his second straight win at UFC White House, stopping Aiemann Zahabi in the second round and planting himself right back in the bantamweight title mix. He already holds a win over reigning champion Yan, but Yan has unfinished business […]
Dana White thought no production team could botch celebrity shots worse than the UFC's. The World Cup proved him wrong. White has ripped his own crew before for misidentifying famous faces at the cage, most infamously mixing up boxing star Terence Crawford with Kendrick Lamar, and more recently tagging Shakur Stevenson as the Thunder's Jalen […]
Conor McGregor has put a name to the damage, and he's already talking about coming back. A day after Dana White confirmed McGregor tore his ACL at UFC 329, the former two-division champion filled in the rest on social media. He said the injury is an ACL and meniscus tear, and that it's the same […]
Fans want Kamaru Usman to retire. Dana White isn't hearing it. Usman returned from more than a year out to face Dricus du Plessis in Saturday's UFC Oklahoma City main event, moving up to middleweight and dropping a unanimous decision. At 39 and now 1-4 in his last five, the former welterweight king drew a […]
The RAF 11 press conference turned into a real fight after the wrestling was over. Belal Muhammad and Colby Covington had spent the buildup trading barbs, and it boiled over Saturday night in Milwaukee once both men had their hands raised. In the main event, Covington handed Arman Tsarukyan his first loss in any discipline […]
It's official: Conor McGregor tore his ACL at UFC 329, and Dana White is done entertaining what comes next until it heals. McGregor's comeback ended in 69 seconds when he went for a flying kick, landed awkwardly on his right leg, and blew out the knee against Max Holloway. He'd assumed a torn ACL from […]
Dustin Poirier thinks Conor McGregor has burned his last fan. McGregor's UFC 329 return lasted 69 seconds before his knee gave out against Max Holloway, and the fallout has been ugly. The card drew the largest gate in UFC history at $26.4 million at T-Mobile Arena. Two years earlier, UFC 303 pulled a gate near […]
Jon Jones likes what he's seeing from Conor McGregor, and it has nothing to do with fighting. McGregor's five-year wait ended in 69 seconds at UFC 329, his right knee giving out on the first strike he threw at Max Holloway. He walked out of the octagon looking broken. In the days since, he's flooded […]
Jan Blachowicz has a new problem to solve in Belgrade, and it's an undefeated one. The former UFC light heavyweight champion was set to rematch Bogdan Guskov on August 1 at Belgrade Arena, but Guskov got pulled to replace Khalil Rountree against Magomed Ankalaev in the UFC Fight Night 282 headliner on July 25 in […]
Volkan Oezdemir got caught, and he isn't hiding from it. The former UFC light heavyweight title challenger revealed Friday in an Instagram statement that Combat Sports Anti-Doping, the UFC's anti-doping program, has suspended him 16 months after he tested positive for EPO. The UFC confirmed the suspension shortly after. The positive test came in February, […]
Jon Jones still isn't saying he's done. The former two-division champion hasn't fought since beating Stipe Miocic in November 2024, choosing retirement over a unification bout with Tom Aspinall, who was then promoted to undisputed heavyweight champion. Jones re-entered the drug-testing pool when the UFC announced its White House card, only for Dana White to […]
Paddy Pimblett may want another crack at Justin Gaethje. Gaethje isn't thinking about him at all. Pimblett looked sharp at UFC 329, submitting Benoit Saint Denis in a hurry in Saturday's co-main event, bouncing back from the interim lightweight title loss he suffered against Gaethje in January. Gaethje went on to shock Ilia Topuria at […]
Chael Sonnen isn't just picking Kamaru Usman to beat Dricus du Plessis. He thinks Usman beats the whole division. Du Plessis welcomes the former welterweight champion back to 185 pounds in Saturday's UFC Oklahoma City main event at Paycom Center. Sonnen sees a bad stylistic night for the South African, and he can't look past […]
Dricus du Plessis has heard the Khamzat Chimaev rematch talk, and he isn't having it. The middleweight picture is a mess. Sean Strickland took a hard-fought decision over Chimaev at UFC 328 to become a two-time champion, and Chimaev immediately demanded a do-over. Du Plessis, who holds two wins over Strickland but lost his own […]
UFC Oklahoma City just added two unbeaten prospects to the mix. The promotion lands at Paycom Center on Saturday behind a middleweight main event between former champion Dricus du Plessis and former welterweight king Kamaru Usman. On Tuesday, MMA Fighting confirmed a late undercard addition: Damien Anderson meets Ezra Elliott at featherweight, with both men […]
Watching Ilia Topuria get broken apart changed how Anthony Joshua looks at his own career. Justin Gaethje's demolition of Topuria at UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn ranks among the biggest upsets in UFC history. Topuria lost his undefeated record and a whole lot of aura. Joshua was watching, and he told Combat […]
A year ago, Ben Askren was comatose, fighting for his life. On Saturday, he wrestles Belal Muhammad. The former Olympian and UFC welterweight nearly died in June 2025, hospitalized and unconscious for days before doctors saved him with a double-lung transplant. He was barely recognizable when he woke up. Now he's days from the RAF […]
Israel Adesanya already has Conor McGregor's next fight picked out, and he says McGregor owes it. McGregor wants one more UFC bout after his UFC 329 injury. Adesanya says it can only be Michael Chandler. He made the case on the Precision podcast with Demetrious Johnson. "I say, if he does decide to come back […]
Ben Askren is fighting again, and Chael Sonnen isn't sure how to feel about it. A year after a double lung transplant nearly killed him, Askren returns Saturday to wrestle former UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad in the co-main event of RAF 11 in Milwaukee. While speaking with MMA Fighting, Sonnen, calling the action for […]
