9:53 PM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — A heavyweight bout once set to open UFC 240 on Saturday is off. Giacomo Lemos is out of a fight with Tanner Boser on the preliminary card at Rogers Place, UFC officials confirmed Thursday night to ESPN. The UFC said it was due to a “health-related issue.” Both men
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1:36 PM ET Umar Nurmagomedov, the younger cousin of undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, will make an appearance at PFL 6 on Aug. 8, according to the promotion. Umar Nurmagomedov, who is also undefeated at 10-0, will face Sidemar Honorio (13-6) in a non-tournament bantamweight bout. The one-off fight is not part of PFL’s
10:14 PM ET Max Holloway faces Frankie Edgar in a defense of the UFC’s featherweight championship at UFC 240. But this isn’t an ordinary main event where a reigning champion comes in to defend his title. Holloway is coming off a loss to Dustin Poirier in an interim lightweight title bout at UFC 236. What
8:24 AM ET Richard Mann Max Holloway will put his featherweight belt on the line against former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar in the main event of UFC 240 on Saturday. It will be Holloway’s first fight back at 145 pounds after moving up for an ultimately unsuccessful attempt against Dustin Poirier to claim the interim
3:40 PM ET The Professional Fighters League is reshuffling its deck after three fighters could not make weight Wednesday morning. Lightweights Ramsey Nijem and Carlao Silva and featherweight Gadzhi Rabadanov all did not hit their weight marks for PFL 5. Silva weighed 159 pounds, three over the 156-pound maximum, per New Jersey State Athletic Control
9:12 AM ET Daniel Pineda is a veteran mixed martial artist who was added as an alternate to the 2019 PFL season. He enters the PFL’s featherweight tournament ahead of PFL5 to face Gadzhi Rabadanov on Thursday in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Given the current standings, it’s likely that a finish against the skilled grappler
8:56 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Mixed martial arts great Anderson “Spider” Silva of Brazil became a U.S. citizen along with thousands of others in a mass naturalization ceremony Tuesday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Silva took his oath of citizenship along with his son Kalyl, 20, and daughter Kaory, 23. The
11:51 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim The floodgates closed just a little after two weeks of UFC contracts aplenty being handed out on Dana White’s Contender Series, but the promotion president still found room to add three more fighters to his roster on Tuesday night. Two weeks ago, all five winners at UFC Apex earned contracts,
9:13 AM ET Jordan Williams has a backpack with him wherever he goes. It rarely leaves his side. That’s the way it’s been since he was a teenager. In college, it sometimes made him the butt of jokes at parties. “People were like, ‘What do you have a backpack for? You selling drugs?'” Williams told
7:25 PM ET The latest episode of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show featured multiple former UFC champions, a rising prospect on the verge of a title shot and a famous television and movie star. Here’s what you might have missed: Spencer ready to ‘shock the world’ Cris Cyborg, at one point considered the greatest female fighter