1:12 PM ET GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — To escape the life he knew, the life he once envied growing up, Aljamain Sterling had to isolate himself. Gang life dominated his town. His brother would come home with black eyes after fights, and friends were shot. Some died. Depending where you went to middle school in
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6:02 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Donald Aaron, the husband of UFC fighter Andrea Lee, was apprehended recently following nine months on the run, ESPN confirmed with law enforcement officials Friday. Aaron has been wanted by police since last August on charges of domestic battery abuse and false imprisonment. According to Shreveport (Louisiana) Police Department spokesperson
12:48 PM ET It’s hard to measure what success looks like against Jon Jones. The man has been fighting professionally since 2008, and no one has legitimately beaten him. If we’re being honest, though, the most recent attempts to halt Jones’ perfection — failed title bids by Alexander Gustafsson (December) and Anthony Smith (March) —
4:55 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The UFC main event this weekend is official. Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Smith both made weight Friday morning for their light heavyweight main event fight, scheduled for Saturday at UFC Stockholm. Gustafsson weighed in at 205 pounds on the dot, and Smith weighed 206. Gustafsson and Smith are each top
6:01 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Jessica Andrade, the UFC’s newest champion, was carjacked at gunpoint Wednesday in Brazil, her manager Tiago Okamura confirmed with ESPN after Andrade posted about it on social media. MMA Fighting was the first to report the news. Andrade was driving her Honda H-RV in Niteroi, Brazil with her wife Fernanda
5:55 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The UFC has lost a top fight from its card this weekend. Ilir Latifi is out of his UFC Stockholm bout with a back injury, the promotion announced Thursday. Latifi was scheduled to fight Volkan Oezdemir in the light heavyweight co-main event on Saturday’s card from Sweden. The fight will
10:28 PM ET UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber is set to come out of retirement and fight in his hometown of Sacramento on July 13. Sounds like a sweet deal for “The California Kid.” But instead of taking on a cream puff in his first fight since 2016, Faber is being pitted against a
7:46 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a non-title featherweight bout between former champion Cris Cyborg and Felicia Spencer for UFC 240 on July 27, according to UFC president Dana White. White told ESPN the UFC has formally offered the 145-pound bout to both sides. Once signed, the bout will serve as the co-main event
7:41 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing a bantamweight fight between Germaine de Randamie and Aspen Ladd on July 13 in Sacramento, California, sources told ESPN. Bout agreements have not been signed, but both sides have verbally agreed, sources said. This will be the five-round main event for the UFC Fight Night that
May 30, 2019 Nick Newell will return to competition Friday in Hartford, Connecticut, nearly one year after he came up short in a bid to win a UFC contract. Newell (14-2), a congenital amputee, will face Antonio Castillo Jr. (9-9) in a show promoted by CES MMA, a regional company in the Northeast. The 33-year-old