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
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7:19 PM ET The PFL has shut down for the year, but breakout star Kayla Harrison, the 2019 lightweight champion, says she expects the league to honor its contract and offer her two fights in 2020. If not, she said Thursday, she will consider the PFL to be in breach of contract and will look
May 1, 2020 Empty arenas? A private island with a cage in the sand? No big deal, many MMA veterans say. We asked fighters about the strangest circumstances they’ve ever encountered at a fight, and most had a tale that tops anything we’re going to see in the strange new world of fights in coming
7:37 AM ET Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is sitting in front of the bar he recently built on his 10-acre BMF Ranch in Edgewood, New Mexico. Exactly 100 days have passed since he suffered a 40-second knockout loss to Conor McGregor at UFC 246, and he is about to address it publicly for the first time.
10:00 AM ET Robert Whittaker says he has regained the “spark” to train and fight after stepping away from the UFC following an 18-month period when his desire to throw down waned. Whittaker spoke of his time away from the sport for the first time late last week, but he delved much deeper into the
4:20 PM ET Kevin Lee likely won’t be back in the Octagon until the end of 2020 at the earliest. The UFC lightweight told ESPN that he has scheduled surgery to repair a torn left ACL on Thursday in Las Vegas. Lee said doctors told him he’d be out a minimum of six months, though
10:23 PM ET Bellator women’s flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, her sister Mahina Macfarlane Souza and an unnamed woman filed a civil lawsuit last Wednesday accusing a former coach at a Hawaii private school of sexual abuse, according to court documents. The lawsuit, filed in Hawaii circuit court, alleges that former assistant basketball coach Dwayne Yuen
8:06 AM ET There’s a restorative aspect to several of the fights on the UFC 249 card, from Dominick Cruz‘s return from a three-year layoff to Fabricio Werdum coming back from a two-year PED suspension. These former champions will try to restore careers that have lost much of their luster, if not hope for another
7:37 AM ET I’ll never forget Jan. 17, 2016. Not so much because of the great TJ Dillashaw vs. Dominick Cruz UFC bantamweight title fight that happened that night in Boston (it was a really great fight and worth watching, if you’ve never seen it before), but because of what Cruz said to me after
2:13 PM ET The UFC is moving forward with plans to hold three events in Florida within a seven-day period, beginning with UFC 249 on May 9, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Friday. White said there will also be UFC cards on Wednesday, May 13 and one on May 16. He would not