9:52 PM ET NEW YORK — Darren Till arrived here Thursday afternoon — at least two days after every other fighter on the card was already checked in and ready to go. Till had issues with his visa and travel. He somehow made weight Friday morning and the logistical mess didn’t stop him from picking
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4:15 PM ET NEW YORK — The New York State Athletic Commission will take disciplinary action against UFC middleweight Kelvin Gastelum after it determined the fighter “made contact with another person while on the scale” during the UFC 244 official weigh-in Friday. Gastelum’s middleweight bout against Darren Till on Saturday is not in jeopardy. Gastelum
5:47 PM ET MIAMI — Jorge Masvidal is standing in the parking lot of an apartment complex, his eyes scanning the top of a five-story building for his old balcony. The exterior of this building used to be “flamingo pink,” he says, but the paint has peeled over time, giving way to the dull gray
9:23 AM ET UFC heavyweight Walt Harris will not compete against Alistair Overeem in the scheduled UFC Washington headliner Dec. 7, Harris’ manager Jason House told ESPN on Friday. Harris’ stepdaughter Aniah Blanchard, 19, has been missing since Oct. 24. Harris alerted the public last week of Blanchard’s status via social media, and the MMA
Nov 1, 2019 NEW YORK — The highly anticipated BMF title fight is now official. Both Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz made weight successfully Friday morning at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Masvidal was 169.6 pounds and Diaz was 170.4 for the welterweight (171-pound limit) bout. The two men will compete in the UFC
7:00 AM ET UFC 244 could easily go down as the biggest fight card of 2019 — even though the headline bout involves one fighter, Nate Diaz, who recently took three years away from the sport, and another, Jorge Masvidal, who has headlined exactly one event in his UFC career. There is also not a
1:00 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The night took a turn for the bizarre when Kelvin Tiller came trotting out to the PFL smart cage for the second time Thursday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. This encore was strange not simply because Tiller had lost his PFL heavyweight quarterfinal bout earlier in the
4:50 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Eight fighters have already punched their tickets to New York for a shot at a $1 million payoff in the Dec. 31 PFL finals. Now four more fighters — the biggest that the promotion has to offer — are set to earn their spots in the New Year’s Eve finale.
9:02 PM ET The UFC’s expansion into Asia, specifically China, will continue in 2020 with the launch of an Asian installment of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series. The promotion announced plans for the new show on Wednesday. Fights will take place at the UFC’s new Performance Institute in Shanghai. Distribution details are still to
8:52 PM ET NEW YORK — UFC 244’s co-main event should go on as planned Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. But there has been some trepidation in recent days. Darren Till is scheduled to fight Kelvin Gastelum in the penultimate fight of the major card, but he has been saddled with visa issues, sources