3:51 AM ET Liz Carmouche did not spend too long on the free-agent market. The women’s mixed martial arts pioneer has signed a multi-year, multi-fight contract with Bellator MMA, the promotion announced Saturday. Carmouche was informed of her release from the UFC on Dec. 6 after more than six years with the promotion. Carmouche competed
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2:53 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Josh Barnett was scheduled to make his Bellator debut in Friday’s main event in Honolulu, but the former UFC heavyweight champion fell ill and the athletic commission in Hawai’i would not clear the 42-year-old to compete. His bout with Ronny Markes was canceled. “Today was a travesty, and you won’t
4:33 PM ET A highly significant middleweight bout has been booked for the first quarter of 2020. Former champion Robert Whittaker will meet contender Jared Cannonier at UFC 248 on March 8 in Las Vegas, the promotion announced Friday. In his last fight, Whittaker lost the title to Israel Adesanya. ESPN has him ranked No.
2:42 PM ET Dillon Danis has his second fight set since his infamous outside-the-cage brawl with Khabib Nurmagomedov. Danis, the teammate of Conor McGregor, will meet Kegan Gennrich at Bellator 238 on Jan. 25 in Inglewood, California, Bellator president Scott Coker announced Friday on Twitter. Danis is a well-known Brazilian jiu-jitsu standout attempting to crossover
1:57 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Aleksandar Rakic‘s march is over. It’s hard to march — or even walk or stand — on a grotesquely swollen leg. The Austrian light heavyweight had won 12 fights in a row going into Saturday’s co-main event of UFC Fight Night in Busan, South Korea. But Volkan Oezdemir put a
3:59 PM ET New Year’s Eve is drawing near and the second PFL finals will take center stage at the Hulu Theater in New York City where 12 fighters will vie for six $1 million prizes. Jeff Wagenheim, Brett Okamoto and Marc Raimondi break down each of the six matchups, including a major last-minute change.
10:48 PM ET Henry Cejudo will again be down to just one belt. Cejudo told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto on Thursday that he will relinquish his flyweight title in order to focus on defending his bantamweight belt. He specifically called out Jose Aldo as a potential next opponent but said he will fight “anybody and everybody
8:00 PM ET The UFC’s late-replacement headliner in South Korea is now official. Frankie Edgar and Chan Sung Jung both made weight ahead of their UFC Busan main event Saturday. Edgar and Jung — best known as “The Korean Zombie” — each weighed 146 pounds, right at the featherweight limit. Edgar is a fill-in for
12:01 PM ET PFL’s 2019 final card has been set with six championship fights for $1 million each. Two-time Olympic judo champion Kayla Harrison will headline the event against Larissa Pacheco for the women’s lightweight championship, officials told ESPN. The event will take place Dec. 31 at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theatre in New York.
2:44 PM ET PFL will have to go to Plan B for its featherweight final on New Year’s Eve. Daniel Pineda’s disciplinary hearing in front of the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has been pushed to January. The extension was brokered between the commission and Pineda’s representatives at an NSAC meeting Wednesday. Pineda was scheduled