5:18 PM ET With the indefinite loss of its middleweight champion, Bellator has moved to a veritable superfight for the vacated belt. Gegard Mousasi will face welterweight champion Douglas Lima for the vacant Bellator middleweight title on May 9 in San Jose, California, Bellator president Scott Coker announced Tuesday on Twitter. The title was relinquished
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6:00 PM ET In an evolving sport in which gripes against officiating are commonplace, the Kansas Athletic Commission will experiment with a major change. Beginning March 1, the KAC will offer MMA promoters the option for “real-time” scoring, Kansas boxing commissioner Adam Roorbach told ESPN on Monday. After every round, the score of the fight
4:12 PM ET UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko believes a third fight against Amanda Nunes will happen at some point, but she’s enjoying her reign in the 125-pound division and sees Joanne Calderwood as her likely next opponent. “[Calderwood] makes sense,” Shevchenko said Monday on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “She’s closer for the next
8:00 AM ET RIVER OAKS, Texas — Montana De La Rosa does the standard after-school parenting drill. Piloting her Ford Explorer with her husband, Mark De La Rosa, seated in the passenger seat and her daughter, Zaylyn Woods, in the back, Montana tries to pry the day’s details out of her third-grader. The math test?
3:19 PM ET Dominick Reyes got a chance to talk very briefly with Jon Jones inside the Octagon after their hard-fought UFC light heavyweight title fight last Saturday night. Reyes pushed Jones to the brink, but Jones, the longtime champion, held on for an extremely close unanimous decision win (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) in the main
10:37 AM ET Dominick Reyes took Jon Jones to the limit during the UFC 247 main event. And while Jones made history with his 14th career win in UFC title fights, some experts disagreed with the judges awarding him the unanimous decision victory. What did Reyes think about the result? He’ll discuss that on Ariel
10:37 AM ET Dominick Reyes thought he won the first three rounds of the UFC 247 main event Saturday against Jon Jones, but all three judges disagreed. Not knowing that he needed to win the fifth to win the fight, was Reyes as aggressive as he otherwise would have been? Reyes might have been too
2:20 PM ET HOUSTON — Valentina Shevchenko was doing a video interview with UFC Español after her victory at UFC 247 when a friend interrupted her. It wasn’t just any friend, though. The invader was Academy Award winner Halle Berry. The two embraced and Berry congratulated Shevchenko on her third-round TKO win over Katlyn Chookagian
10:32 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi HOUSTON — The key moment for Jon Jones on Saturday night was the fifth round. It might not have been a surprise that Jones won the fifth round against Dominick
1:59 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim It wasn’t dominant and it wasn’t so pretty, but Jon Jones once again proved himself to be the greatest light heavyweight in the world. After 12 years in the sport, he’s done all he needs to do in order to be remembered as history’s gold standard among 205-pound fighters. It’s