11:27 AM ET The Amanda Nunes vs. Felicia Spencer UFC women’s featherweight title fight is moving to June 6. The title fight, which was originally slated for Saturday, is now signed for the promotion’s next pay-per-view event next month, according to sources. The card, UFC 250, was originally scheduled for Perth, Australia; however, it will
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7:38 AM ET Tony Ferguson waded in with a left knee to the body. Josh Thomson saw it the whole way. He wrapped his arms fully around Ferguson and dumped him to the mat for an easy takedown in the first round of their 2015 fight. Thomson was in control, or so he thought. Ferguson
8:32 PM ET UFC 251, originally scheduled for June 7th at Perth’s RAC Arena, has been postponed due to ongoing government restrictions on mass public gatherings. While Australia has managed to dramatically reduce the number of COVID-19 infections, laws still prohibit gatherings of more than 10 people in Western Australia, and thus the event would
6:54 AM ET JUSTIN GAETHJE WAS 18 years old when he spent a summer working at the Morenci copper mine, located about an hour’s drive from his hometown of Safford, Arizona. Safford is a small town of approximately 10,000, in the southeast portion of the state. One of its largest employers is FreePort-McMoRan, a Phoenix-based
7:04 AM ET DR. DONALD MUZZI sat in his Sarasota, Florida, home April 25 on a phone call with Dr. Jeffrey Davidson, the UFC’s chief physician. Over the course of more than 90 minutes, Davidson went over the health and safety precautions the promotion planned for UFC 249, the pay-per-view card Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida.
2:17 PM ET Less than a month after advising that all combat sports should be postponed due to COVID-19, the Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP) is relaxing its stance. On Saturday, the ARP released a statement that is more agreeable with combat sports resuming — as long as added precautions are taken. The ARP is
UFC lightweight star Tony Ferguson isn’t someone who’s confined by conventional norms. He has been known to wear dress clothes, sunglasses and fighting gloves while carrying a baseball to an indoor news conference. He zigs while others zag. Perhaps his most famous creative outlet is his workouts. From tossing around huge tractor tires to swinging
8:47 PM ET The next few UFC cards have fallen into place. A schedule and some sense of normalcy has been restored. The big questions now revolve around who can gain a foothold in his or her respective division. The UFC’s main event on May 13 pits top light heavyweights Anthony Smith against Glover Teixeira.
5:05 PM ET UFC president Dana White announced on Friday the official lineups for UFC Fight Night events on May 13 and May 16 in Jacksonville, Florida. The two cards are part of the UFC’s effort to resume normal operations in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic shutting down much of the sports world. The
May 1, 2020 Jeff Wagenheim FALL RIVER, Mass. — The heavy bag was taking a beating. Thump. Thump. The assault of low kicks from the tree-trunk legs of Yorgan De Castro was unrelenting, as ominous as an approaching thunderstorm. Thump. Thump. He looked like he could continue like this for days. But seconds later De