6:59 PM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — The UFC 240 main event features a dominant featherweight champion in Max Holloway defending his crown Saturday night against Frankie Edgar, who is looking to make the most of what could be his last shot at winning a title. Holloway, 27, has won 13 straight fights at 145 pounds,
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12:59 PM ET Yair Rodriguez is finally coming home. “El Pantera” will meet Jeremy Stephens in the main event of UFC Fight Night Mexico City Sept. 21, sources told ESPN. Rodriguez (11-2) is coming off a last-second knockout win over Chan Sung Jung in November. That win marked his ninth in his last ten fights.
11:33 AM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — There were no weight troubles for Max Holloway on Friday morning. The UFC featherweight champion weighed in at 145 pounds even for his UFC 240 title defense here. Frankie Edgar, his opponent, hit 145 as well, making the headlining bout official. The two will fight Saturday night at Rogers
8:47 AM ET If there is one phrase that perfectly sums up UFC 240’s main event, a featherweight title fight between Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar, it might be: Here we are again. Here we are again at this matchup, which the UFC scheduled in 2017 and 2018, only to see it fall through both
1:11 AM ET The defending PFL champions at featherweight and lightweight are the No. 1 seeds heading into the playoffs. Chris Wade ended his losing streak against Russian fighters in an impressive showing to close out PFL 5. The audience was thrilled by a fight that ended in a majority draw. It was a night
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
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