3:19 PM ET A lightweight matchup between Benson Henderson and Myles Jury will headline Bellator 227 on Sept. 27, according to Bellator MMA officials. Jury (18-4) announced the bout on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on Monday, and the promotion confirmed it to ESPN. The event will take place in Dublin. A former UFC lightweight, Jury
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8:32 AM ET It’s Monday, time for another edition of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, which airs live starting at 1 p.m. ET on Twitter and YouTube. After it ends, you can listen to the show via the ESPN podcast center. The UFC is back in Western Canada this weekend, with UFC 240 going down Saturday
3:13 PM ET Everything’s bigger in Texas, right? That’s what they say? Well, this weekend’s UFC Fight Night in San Antonio did showcase three heavyweight bouts on the main card — two of which ended in violent fashion inside the first round. And in addition to that heavyweight action, welterweight Leon Edwards treated us to
1:48 AM ET Leon Edwards dominated former UFC champion Rafael Dos Anjos on Saturday in San Antonio for all five rounds, winning by unanimous decision. After the bout he called out current UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman — the last opponent to beat Edwards — and Jorge Masvidal, who he has bad blood with stemming
12:42 AM ET UFC welterweight Leon Edwards has had a tough time getting the top of his division to fight him. They might not have a choice in the matter after this weekend. Edwards (18-3) extended his win streak to eight Saturday night, as he defeated former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos (29-12) by unanimous
Jul 20, 2019 UFC heavyweight Juan Adams spent more than a year calling out Greg Hardy — and it took Hardy less than one minute to silence him. Hardy (5-1) made quick work of Adams (5-2) at UFC Fight Night on Saturday inside AT&T Center in San Antonio. A former Division I collegiate wrestler, Adams
Jul 18, 2019 For Rafael Dos Anjos, Saturday’s main event against Leon Edwards will mark his 28th appearance in the UFC. Not many of those were negotiated directly with promotion president Dana White. This one was, though. Dos Anjos (29-11) had just fought in May and was looking forward to spending the summer with his
11:21 AM ET Rafael dos Anjos and Leon Edwards both made weight Friday morning for their vital welterweight clash that is headlining the UFC San Antonio card. Edwards, the first fighter on the scale, came in at 171 pounds, and Dos Anjos hit the exact same number. The two men will square off in an
7:57 PM ET The UFC is moving a light heavyweight bout between Volkan Oezdemir and Ilir Latifi from Aug. 3 in Newark, New Jersey, to Aug. 10 in Uruguay due to Oezdemir’s visa issues, sources said. Oezdemir (15-4), of Switzerland, has been affected by visa issues in 2019, despite the dismissal of a felony battery
5:02 PM ET UFC veteran Myles Jury is off to Bellator. Jury has signed a multifight deal with the promotion, sources told ESPN. The 30-year-old Jury (17-4) is expected to debut for Bellator later this year, sources say. Jury will enter the promotion on a two-fight losing streak. He most recently dropped a unanimous decision