10:38 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Sage Northcutt‘s post-UFC run is not off to an auspicious start. Cosmo Alexandre knocked out Northcutt in just 29 seconds Friday at ONE Championship: Enter the Dragon in Singapore. Alexandre landed a big right hand to Northcutt’s jaw on the first exchange and it was over. The bout was contested
MMA
11:27 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Rafael dos Anjos and Kevin Lee both made weight Friday morning for their welterweight headliner on the UFC Fight Night card in Rochester, which is scheduled for Saturday night and will air on ESPN+. Dos Anjos came in at 170.4 pounds, and Lee hit the mark at 170.2. Dos Anjos
9:30 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event has been a long time coming for 26-year-old Kevin Lee. A lightweight for his entire career thus far, Lee (17-4) will make his welterweight debut against Rafael dos Anjos (28-11) inside Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. The move to 170 pounds could have happened
6:25 PM ET ESPN News Services HONOLULU — A Hawaii mixed martial arts fighter who pleaded no contest to assaulting his wife, UFC fighter Rachael Ostovich, has been sentenced to four years of probation. Honolulu police arrested Arnold Berdon in November on charges of attempted murder after he was accused of fracturing his wife’s eye
9:15 AM ET If there is one downside to being a young, physically tenacious MMA prospect, it’s usually a lack of maturity. That is something generally gained only with time. It’s probably impossible to have the best of both worlds — youth and experience. But the MMA Gold Fight Team in Northern California believes it
10:26 PM ET Kevin Lee has never been one to mince words in his UFC career. “The Motown Phenom,” however, wants to let his actions deliver his message ahead of his UFC Fight Night main event clash with Rafael dos Anjos on Saturday night. Lee, the former lightweight title challenger, will be moving up to
8:32 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Megan Anderson was the last person to step on the scale to weigh in for UFC 232. The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) was giving fighters a three-hour window to hit their respective mark, and Anderson used nearly every minute of it. The 6-foot Anderson’s weight cut is hard enough
7:28 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Neil Magny revealed the reason he is out of Saturday’s UFC Rochester co-main event: a failed drug test. The veteran UFC welterweight wrote on social media Tuesday that he is facing a UFC anti-doping policy violation after testing positive for the prohibited substance LGD-4033. Magny wrote that he was informed
1:44 PM ET Which MMA fighter is the best, regardless of weight division or fight promotion? ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi, Ariel Helwani and Jeff Wagenheim provide their top-10 picks, and their votes produce our consensus men’s and women’s pound-for-pound lists. (You can find Okamoto’s division-by-division rankings here.) Note: Rankings were updated May 14. Men’s
2:23 PM ET Who is the best fighter regardless of weight class? See ESPN’s P4P rankings. Click here Check out my rankings within each MMA weight division by clicking on the links below. For a list of current UFC champions in all weight classes, click here. Note: Results are current, rankings as of May 14.