11:00 PM ET “The Highlight” keeps adding to his reel. Justin Gaethje finished Donald Cerrone by TKO at 4 minutes, 18 seconds of the first round Saturday night in the main event of UFC Vancouver. Gaethje landed a counter right hand that dropped Cerrone, then followed with three uppercuts and another right hand that put
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6:09 PM ET ESPN.com staff Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez surprised many with his decision to start down the path of professional wrestling. He quickly quieted critics after hitting a hurricanrana just moments into his first match and ultimately signed on for two additional appearances for Lucha Libre AAA this fall, including one on
2:53 PM ET The co-main event for the UFC’s first trip to Denmark is in flux. Thiago Alves is out of his scheduled welterweight co-headliner against Gunnar Nelson at UFC Copenhagen because of an “unexpected illness,” Alves announced Thursday on Instagram. The UFC is seeking a replacement to fight Nelson, sources said. “I tried everything
1:05 PM ET The UFC’s all-action main event for UFC Vancouver is official. Donald Cerrone and Justin Gaethje both made weight for their headlining lightweight bout Friday. Cerrone hit the scale at 155.5 pounds and Gaethje weighed in at the same, 155.5 pounds. The UFC Vancouver main card airs Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on
Sep 8, 2019 There are two ways of looking at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event between Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Justin “The Highlight” Gaethje in Vancouver, British Columbia. On one hand, the outcome can be viewed as borderline irrelevant. This 155-pound matchup almost mirrors the recently announced “BMF championship” fight between Nate Diaz and
8:25 PM ET After coming up short in his UFC welterweight debut in May, Kevin Lee has his sights back on lightweight. Lee (17-5) boarded a one-way flight from his home in Las Vegas to Montreal on Thursday, and intends to stay there and train at Tristar MMA until his next fight. He currently doesn’t
9:05 AM ET Rafael Cordeiro and his coaches at Kings MMA had a game plan laid out for Kelvin Gastelum ahead of his fight with Israel Adesanya at UFC 236. It was heavy on sticking and moving, counterpunching and wrestling. Cordeiro felt that was the best path for Gastelum to defeat Adesanya and win the
1:25 AM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov was as dominant as usual in defeating Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 on Saturday. The lightweight champion ran his record to 28-0 overall, 12-0 in the UFC. No one has done it better. That must make him the clear pound-for-pound No. 1 fighter in MMA, right? Not so fast. There’s
8:34 PM ET Richard Mann The lightweight division will be in the spotlight once again this weekend. In Saturday’s main event in Vancouver, British Columbia, lightweight contenders Donald Cerrone and Justin Gaethje will face off in one of the most highly anticipated fights of the year. Gaethje brings some of the most absurd striking stats
Sep 8, 2019 There’s a bit of a video game fancifulness in Saturday’s matchup between Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Justin Gaethje. If you were sitting around with friends, each with a game controller in hand, playing each other in a fight game, it wouldn’t take long before one of you would want to be “Cowboy,”