10:27 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Dustin Poirier and Israel Adesanya walked out of the Octagon on Saturday night as champions, and it had only a little to do with the shiny new title belts they carried with them. Their performances in the main event and co-main of UFC 236 in Atlanta made them interim champs,
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1:22 AM ET Appearing in his first UFC title fight, Dustin Poirier defeated Max Holloway on Saturday by unanimous decision to win the interim lightweight championship at UFC 236 in Atlanta. The judges each scored it 49-46 in favor of Poirier. Poirier snapped Holloway’s 13-fight win streak and ended Holloway’s bid to become the fourth
12:56 AM ET Rich Franklin is the latest inductee to be added to the UFC Hall of Fame Class of 2019. During the UFC 236 broadcast on ESPN+, UFC announced that Franklin, the former UFC middleweight champion, will join Michael Bisping for induction at a ceremony in Las Vegas on July 5, during international fight
Apr 14, 2019 ATLANTA — The hype is real. Just 14 months after making his UFC debut, Israel Adesanya is a middleweight champion, and he had to take out an absolute monster in Kelvin Gastelum to get it done. Adesanya (17-0) defeated Gastelum (16-4) via unanimous decision to claim the UFC’s interim 185-pound championship Saturday.
8:03 PM ET Nick Newell, a one-handed fighter with a 14-2 professional record, has signed a bout agreement to fight Kelvin Hackney (16-5) on May 31 in Hartford, Connecticut, at CES 56. Newell has not fought since July 2018, when he lost to Alex Munoz by unanimous decision on “Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series.”
3:22 PM ET ATLANTA — A fight between Daniel Cormier and Brock Lesnar “isn’t even in the works,” UFC president Dana White said Friday. Cormier, the UFC heavyweight champion, has been outspoken about wanting to fight the WWE superstar before he retires from the sport. Lesnar lost his WWE Universal Championship belt to Seth Rollins
4:09 PM ET Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw accepted full responsibility for a two-year doping suspension on Friday, saying his team knew nothing about his use of EPO ahead of a flyweight title fight against Henry Cejudo in January. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) suspended Dillashaw, 33, through Jan. 18, 2021, earlier this
9:57 AM ET ATLANTA — Both UFC 236 title fights are now official, as Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya all made weight on Friday. UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway will fight longtime lightweight contender Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 236 on Saturday. Who has the edge? We asked
Apr 12, 2019 When he was a kid, Jalin “The Tarantula” Turner was afraid of spiders. Instead of avoiding them, Turner confronted his fear as a young adult. He started by caring for one tarantula. Then there were 10. By the time he was done, he had more than 200 tarantulas. “You just get addicted
9:11 AM ET Through five fights in the UFC, Israel Adesanya has proved to be exactly as advertised. The only question left is whether he can win a UFC championship. It has taken 30 professional fights, but the time is finally here for longtime contender Dustin Poirier to win his first UFC championship. The UFC