4:04 PM ET ESPN+ will be the exclusive distributor of UFC pay-per-view events in the United States through 2025, ESPN and the UFC announced on Monday. This will make ESPN+ the single point of purchase for consumers for top UFC events, and extends the partnership between the companies for two additional years. The deal begins
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7:18 PM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Ariel Helwani Close ESPN Staff Writer Ariel Helwani is an MMA reporter at ESPN. Follow him on Twitter at @arielhelwani. Top UFC lightweights Al Iaquinta and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone have verbally agreed
12:01 PM ET Derrick Lewis believes he’s been fighting with a torn ACL for the past four years. Lewis told ESPN on Monday that he found out two weeks before his recent loss to Junior dos Santos that he had a torn ACL in his left leg. He informed the UFC of the injury before
12:28 AM ET Dana White isn’t going anywhere any time soon. The president of the UFC announced Monday that he has agreed to a new seven-year deal to remain running the world’s leading mixed martial arts circuit. “Ari Emanuel and I just signed a new seven-year deal, too,” White said in an interview with Megan
7:33 PM ET UFC welterweight contender Leon Edwards is disputing Jorge Masvidal‘s account of a postfight scuffle between the two backstage on Saturday at the O2 Arena in London. Masvidal, while doing a live interview with ESPN, left midway through to confront Edwards. Masvidal then threw a few punches toward Edwards’ face, leaving a cut
12:29 PM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print It’s Monday, time for another edition of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. There was a lot going on at UFC Fight Night in London on Saturday. What’s next for the winners and losers of the event? Here’s ESPN’s take. This week’s show, aired live on
11:19 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Raise your hand if, on Saturday morning, you were excited for a fight between Jorge Masvidal and Leon Edwards. Most of us probably hadn’t even given that potential matchup any thought, with the merry go round of UFC welterweights revolving around studs Kamaru Usman, Colby Covington, Tyron Woodley, Darren Till
9:56 PM ET LONDON — A postfight melee broke out backstage between UFC welterweights Jorge Masvidal and Leon Edwards on Saturday, shortly after Masvidal’s stunning victory over Darren Till in the main event of UFC Fight Night at O2 Arena. Masvidal (33-13) knocked out Till in the second round of their fight. Minutes later, while
8:02 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim It’s been a dizzying fall for Darren Till, who just last September was undefeated going into a challenge for the UFC welterweight championship. Till lost on that night, and on Saturday he suffered a second straight defeat, knocked out by a devastating left hook from Jorge Masvidal in the main
6:24 PM ET Phil MurphyESPN Video Great Britain’s first UFC champion is now its first Hall of Famer. The UFC announced Michael Bisping (31-9) as the first inductee of 2019 during Saturday’s event in London. He’s the fifth member of the Hall of Fame’s Modern Wing, joining Forrest Griffin, BJ Penn, Urijah Faber and Ronda