MMA

2:03 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN CHICAGO — Henry Cejudo has an Olympic wrestling gold medal. He has the UFC flyweight title. And now, one of the best combat sport athletes of all time has added some more gold to his collection: the UFC bantamweight title belt. Cejudo, 32, stopped Marlon Moraes via TKO with ground
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5:34 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN A former UFC champion is leaving behind his former division. Chris Weidman announced Saturday on Ariel Helwani’s ESPN Radio show that he will be moving up from middleweight to light heavyweight. The New York native added that he is planning a return from multiple injuries around October. Weidman (14-4) was
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3:43 PM ET The family of Canadian heavyweight Tim Hague, who died two days after suffering a brain hemorrhage in an Edmonton boxing match two years ago, filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday alleging that a city sports official was criminally negligent for allowing Hague to fight. The suit also accuses the referee, ring doctors, the
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12:33 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN CHICAGO — It came with a bit of trepidation, but the UFC’s two title fights this weekend are official. Jessica Eye, the women’s flyweight challenger, weighed in on the mark at 125 pounds with less than 30 minutes left in the two-hour weigh-in window Friday morning here at the Crowne
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11:11 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The next step for the PFL lightweights and featherweights is set. PFL 5 will be headlined by a lightweight bout between Chris Wade and Akhmed Aliev, the promotion will announce Friday. The card is scheduled for July 25 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In the co-headliner, PFL 2018 featherweight champion
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