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
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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
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
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