11:51 PM ET A highly ranked featherweight bout between Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige will headline UFC Fight Night on July 15 at Fight Island, multiple sources told ESPN. Both sides have agreed to the 145-pound main event, per sources. The UFC Fight Night event will take place at the UFC’s Fight Island, at Yas
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7:54 AM ET UFC president Dana White began touting a welterweight title bout between champion Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal as far back as January, when a heated exchange between the fighters during Super Bowl week lit a marketing fuse that was expected to detonate a blockbuster main event on July 11. But a lot
12:37 AM ET New Zealand’s Dan Hooker says the camp for his fight with Dustin Poirier has tested him like no other, but that he will head into their lightweight showdown full of confidence and ready to emerge from another five-round slugfest if necessary. Hooker (20-8) will face the American at UFC Fight Night Las
4:54 PM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi LAS VEGAS — After months of frustrating setbacks and cancellations, UFC middleweight Marvin Vettori finally got to fight — and he looked pretty good doing so. Vettori (15-3-1) submitted Karl
1:22 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card started with three first-minute flash knockouts and ended with Cynthia Calvillo making an emphatic statement in her UFC women’s flyweight debut. Calvillo soundly defeated Jessica Eye and instantly put herself in the conversation among the best in the division. Merab Dvalishvili made an impression of his own,
12:31 AM ET Cynthia Calvillo is a UFC women’s flyweight contender after just one fight in the division. Calvillo rolled in a unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 48-47) win over Jessica Eye on Saturday night in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. Calvillo took Eye down in four out of five rounds
3:10 PM ET UFC president Dana White officially announced the company’s next two events to ESPN on Friday. Both will take place at the UFC’s Apex facility in Las Vegas. A heavyweight bout between Curtis Blaydes and Alexander Volkov will headline UFC Fight Night on June 20, and a highly anticipated lightweight fight between Dustin
4:54 PM ET UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko has looked unbeatable during her four-fight title reign, but the division is still full of challengers working toward their shot at the belt. That list includes former title challenger Jessica Eye (15-7) and Cynthia Calvillo (8-1-1), who will meet in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight
8:00 AM ET On Dec. 6, 2019, UFC strawweight Cynthia Calvillo barricaded herself in her Washington, D.C., hotel room and wept, alone, for hours — one day before she was to face an undefeated, surging prospect in Marina Rodriguez. Calvillo, who faces Jessica Eye (15-7) at UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas, was
5:13 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos will return to action later this summer. JDS vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik has been verbally agreed to for UFC 252 on Aug. 15, sources told ESPN. Combate first reported the fight. Dos Santos (21-7) will look to snap a two-fight losing streak. He most recently lost