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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3:47 AM ET From front to back, UFC 238 was one of the promotion’s strongest cards of the year thus far. Henry Cejudo walked away with his second UFC title, Valentina Shevchenko retained her flyweight belt with a devastating knockout and Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan made their respective cases for the next bantamweight title
2:14 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN [embedded content] CHICAGO — Tony Ferguson left United Center on Saturday night a triumphant winner, his victory streak extended to 12 and his spot among the top contenders in the UFC’s lightweight division preserved. If a punch fell a few inches to the right, though, his UFC 238 could have
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
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
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
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
9:43 AM ET UFC flyweight champion Henry Cejudo is a man who appreciates his hardware. You’ll hear from time to time about a UFC champion who keeps the title belt in a closet somewhere. Or maybe “at mom’s house.” Every champ is different, in terms of the value he or she puts on the physical
12:55 AM ET As the Professional Fighters League kicked off its light heavyweight and heavyweight seasons at PFL 3 in Uniondale, New York on Thursday night, we learned that one division is stacked with intriguing talent while the other seems wide open as it looks for a star or two to emerge. The 205-pounders impressed
8:22 PM ET The Professional Fighters League closes out its first round of fights in its second season at PFL 3 as light heavyweights, including Season 1 runner-up Vinny Magalhaes, and the heavyweight division step into the cage. 1 Related Defending PFL heavyweight champion Philipe Lins had to drop out of the competition due to