9:02 PM ET UFC fighter Brian Ortega offered a more robust apology Wednesday for an incident that occurred last Saturday night in the crowd at UFC 248. On Instagram, Ortega wrote he now understands “what I did was truly wrong.” The featherweight fighter was referring to his slapping of popular Korean-American rapper Jay Park during
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8:42 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Standing in the corner between the fourth and fifth rounds of the Invicta FC Phoenix Series 3 main event on March 6, Abel Briceno thought his fighter, Lisa Verzosa, was in good shape to win the vacant bantamweight title. Then he saw the score. Julija Stoliarenko was up
8:13 AM ET IT WAS LATE November, a few weeks after Johnny Walker‘s first UFC loss. Tara Campbell, a teacher with a law degree who is also Walker’s girlfriend, couldn’t reconcile his lack of sponsors with his substantial fan following. It was time for a change. With Walker’s blessing, Campbell began researching representation firms in
8:04 AM ET With two title fights out of the way this weekend, I thought this would be a good time to do another state of the UFC champions address. Let’s hit it: Heavyweight: Stipe Miocic Next fight: TBD According to his manager, Jim Walter, Miocic still isn’t cleared to return to action after having
1:09 PM ET The PFL announced a new class of signees, including several UFC and Bellator MMA veterans, for its 2020 regular season on Tuesday. Some of the more established names amongst the announcement included former UFC lightweight Johnny Case (27-7-1), former Bellator lightweight title challenger Marcin Held (26-7) and NCAA Division I national champion
7:58 PM ET The two largest mixed martial arts promotions in the United States, UFC and Bellator, are moving ahead with planned events for now, representatives told ESPN, even as Combate Americas on Monday became the first U.S.-based MMA promotion to cancel an event because of the coronavirus outbreak. UFC vice president of communications Lenee
8:24 AM ET Just in case the chatter about Justin Gaethje being considered the front-runner to fight Conor McGregor next wasn’t sinking in, Ali Abdelaziz — the manager of Gaethje and Khabib Nurmagomedov — emphasized over the weekend that there would be no McGregor-Nurmagomedov rematch unless McGregor fights someone like Gaethje first. UFC president Dana
Mar 8, 2020 LAS VEGAS — The crowd knew exactly what it was witnessing: one of the greatest fights in UFC history. Before the start of the fifth round between Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk on Saturday night, the fans at T-Mobile Arena gave the two women a standing ovation. Even fighters in the crowd
5:19 PM ET Watch a replay of today’s show here. Israel Adesanya heard the boobirds for the first time in his UFC career on Saturday night as his middleweight title defense versus Yoel Romero fell short of expectations. “One hundred percent, the weirdest fight I’ve ever been a part of,” Adesanya said Monday on Ariel
4:20 AM ET On a night when the UFC announced a fight was being inducted into the Hall of Fame Class of 2020, fans at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas were treated to an epic bout that probably will have its own HOF induction announcement some day. Zhang Weili defended her strawweight crown with