6:27 PM ET Former light heavyweight title challengers Anthony Smith and Glover Teixeira will headline UFC Fight Night on April 25, it was announced Friday. The event will take place in Smith’s home state of Nebraska, inside Lincoln’s Pinnacle Bank Arena. The 31-year-old Smith (32-14) hasn’t fought since he submitted Alexander Gustafsson in the fourth
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5:51 PM ET The agent for Stipe Miocic said Friday there is still no firm time frame for the UFC heavyweight champion’s return to competition and that he could need additional surgery on his eye. “Mr. Miocic’s health is his top priority,” agent Jim Walter told ESPN. “Until we are 100 percent confident — or
1:41 PM ET What would have been the last fight on Paige VanZant‘s UFC contract has been pushed back. VanZant confirmed Friday on Instagram that she is out of her scheduled women’s strawweight bout against Amanda Ribas at UFC Brasilia on March 14 in Brazil. Randa Markos will fill in for VanZant and fight Ribas
10:44 AM ET The supersized UFC main event this weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina, is now official. Curtis Blaydes and Junior dos Santos weighed in successfully Friday morning for their heavyweight main event Saturday at PNC Arena. Blaydes weighed 248, and dos Santos, the former UFC heavyweight champion, hit the scale at 247. Blaydes vs.
8:32 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Cris Cyborg has a difficult task this weekend. Then, with a win, options could open up for her in a big way — across multiple sports. Cyborg, one of the best fighters in women’s mixed martial arts history, will challenge Julia Budd for the Bellator women’s featherweight title Saturday
Jan 21, 2020 CRIS “CYBORG” JUSTINO walked into The Forum in Inglewood, California, through the VIP entrance on Sept. 28. It was the first Bellator event she’d attended since signing with the promotion three weeks earlier. But even though she was new to the company, she felt a comfort in knowing she would see many
7:47 AM ET The top of the UFC heavyweight division might be on hold as champion Stipe Miocic recovers from an eye injury, but the contenders for his title will be active early this year with Saturday’s main event in Raleigh, North Carolina first up. ESPN’s No. 4 ranked heavyweight Curtis Blaydes faces the most
3:46 PM ET UFC superstar Conor McGregor has made it no secret that he has interest in trying his hand at boxing again, be it in a rematch of his 2017 knockout loss to Floyd Mayweather in the second-highest grossing pay-per-view in history or perhaps a showdown with another legend, Manny Pacquiao, both of whom
2:38 PM ET One of MMA’s hottest prospects will be back soon. Edmen Shahbazyan will fight Derek Brunson in a pivotal middleweight bout at UFC 248 on March 7 in Las Vegas, the UFC announced Wednesday. Shahbazyan is one of the top young fighters in all of MMA. ESPN ranked the 22-year-old at No. 3
7:30 AM ET Remember last week when I told you it was conceivable that if all went well against Donald Cerrone, Conor McGregor could fight anyone from featherweight to welterweight next? Well, I guess I was wrong. I should have included bantamweight, too. On Monday’s Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, McGregor’s manager, Audie Attar, said this