3:56 PM ET The next UFC women’s strawweight title challenger could be decided Saturday. Former champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk meets fellow top contender Michelle Waterson in the main event of UFC Tampa. Jedrzejczyk has said that she has been promised a title shot against new champion Zhang Weili with a victory. Meanwhile, Waterson has long expressed
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5:29 AM ET LAS VEGAS – Two prominent mixed martial arts managers were involved in a “brief physical altercation” Friday night during the PFL MMA event – and a battery was committed, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department confirmed with ESPN. Abe Kawa, vice president of First Round Management, told ESPN that Ali Abdelaziz, the
2:24 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim When eight welterweights and four women’s lightweights walked into the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas for Night 1 of the 2019 Professional Fighters League playoffs on Friday, there were at least a handful of plausible possibilities for how the night could play out. The result, once everything played
7:30 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Three nights of fights over the next four weeks at the Mandalay Bay Events Center will lock in the six finals matchups in the PFL playoffs. Friday night’s action kicks it off as eight welterweight quarterfinalists and four women’s semifinalists vie for one of those coveted spots, with $1 million
3:01 PM ET LAS VEGAS — WWE’s next big show is going to have some serious combat sports flavor. Boxing heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez have signed to perform in WWE Crown Jewel on Oct. 31 in Saudi Arabia, it was announced Friday at a news conference at T-Mobile
5:54 PM ET The leading mixed martial arts promoter is launching UFC Event Centre in partnership with IMG Arena, the first in-game wagering product from the UFC, UFC president Dana White announced Thursday night. “The UFC Event Centre and its official data feed will be a game changer for how UFC fans engage with our
4:40 PM ET UFC women’s strawweight contender Nina Ansaroff is hitting the pause button on her fighting career. Ansaroff will take one year off from the UFC in an attempt to have her first child with fiancée Amanda Nunes, she told ESPN. Nunes is the UFC women’s bantamweight and featherweight champion. “I’m not pregnant yet,
9:08 AM ET Sean O’Connell had just left the cage following an exhilarating, come-from-behind victory over Dan Spohn. He had a little bit over an hour until he had to fight — again — in the semifinals of the Professional Fighters League’s 2018 playoffs. The aim for O’Connell was to chill out and cool down.
6:37 PM ET Just over five years ago, Joanna Jedrzejczyk began a UFC journey that took her to the heights of fame and success, and to the depths of losing three title fights. She joined the promotion without fanfare, quickly won the women’s strawweight title and rounded into one of the most dominant champions in
9:54 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night Tampa main event — Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Michelle Waterson — is in jeopardy. According to multiple sources, Jedrzejczyk informed the UFC over a week ago that she would not be able to make the strawweight limit of 116 pounds. The UFC offered Waterson the opportunity to fight at