11:54 PM ET “The Bullet” is No. 1. And no one seems close to catching up anytime soon. Valentina Shevchenko retained her UFC women’s flyweight title via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45) over Liz Carmouche in the main event of UFC Montevideo on Saturday in Uruguay. The result was never in doubt. Shevchenko dominated from
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7:07 PM ET Aspen Ladd will need to do some work before fighting at bantamweight in her next bout. The California State Athletic Commission has suspended Ladd’s license to compete at bantamweight, pending documentation from physicians, CSAC executive officer Andy Foster confirmed Friday with ESPN. Ladd looked ill weighing in the day before UFC Sacramento
Aug 7, 2019 When the UFC announced it would open a female flyweight division in 2017, the first question many people had wasn’t whether or not Valentina Shevchenko would hold the title. It was: Who in the world will challenge her? From 2015 to late 2017, Shevchenko (17-3) was a two-time title challenger at bantamweight,
8:42 AM ET UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko and challenger Liz Carmouche both made weight on Friday morning for their title fight headlining Saturday’s UFC Fight Night in Montevideo, Uruguay. Shevchenko (17-3) hit the scale at 124.5 pounds for her second defense of the belt she won in December. Carmouche (13-6) came in right
1:18 AM ET The final night of the PFL’s regular season saw the return of the heavyweights and light heavyweights — and they didn’t disappoint in terms of fireworks. After only a handful of finishes at PFL 3 earlier in the season Atlantic City, more than half (six) of the 11 tournament fights were closed
5:03 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing two high-profile women’s bouts for UFC Fight Night on Dec. 7 in Washington. Bantamweight prospect Aspen Ladd (8-1) will face former title challenger Yana Kunitskaya (12-4), and former strawweight title challenger Claudia Gadelha (17-4) will meet the surging Cynthia Calvillo (8-1). Both fights have been verbally
11:20 PM ET One would think that a relationship between a fighter once considered the greatest women’s mixed martial artist of all time and the biggest MMA promotion in the world would be an ideal match. Well, it wasn’t. Not even close. Cris Cyborg and the UFC never seemed to get along, and her three-year
4:56 PM ET SAN DIEGO — LIZ Carmouche sat in her truck for 30 minutes, frustrated. She was physically and emotionally drained. Carmouche’s MMA teammate Ilima-Lei Macfarlane had invited her to do underwater training, a program called Deep End Fitness, last November. Carmouche, while an exceptional athlete and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, had
12:15 PM ET Former UFC lightweight champion and three-time featherweight title challenger Frankie Edgar is moving down in weight. Edgar’s longtime manager, Ali Abdelaziz, told ESPN he has informed the UFC that Edgar’s next bout will be at bantamweight, ideally before the end of the year. “We have already started discussing Frankie’s bantamweight debut,” Abdelaziz
8:13 AM ET Kelvin Tiller was one of the breakout stars of the first season of the PFL. After a first-round KO and a second-round submission finish, he was locked into the No. 2 playoff seed in the heavyweight division, lined up well for a deep run — especially considering he’d already defeated his first-round