12:33 PM ET Before Jan Blachowicz and Thiago Santos stepped into the Octagon for the UFC Fight Night main event on Saturday in Prague, the event featured several prelims. Here’s how the fight all went down: Ismail Naurdiev defeats Michel Prazeres by unanimous decision Austrian welterweight Ismail Naurdiev (18-2) cruised to a decision win against
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4:40 PM ET Russian bantamweight prospect Petr Yan passed a big test during UFC Fight Night at O2 Arena in Prague on Saturday, as he cruised to a decision win against talented veteran John Dodson. “My game plan was to use my kicks and then counter with punches,” Yan (12-1) said afterward. “He’s a tough
11:10 PM ET An interim lightweight title fight between featherweight champion Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier will headline UFC 236 on April 13, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Friday. The UFC 236 pay-per-view event will take place at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. An interim middleweight title fight between Kelvin Gastelum and Israel
4:16 PM ET Brazilian fighter Thiago “Marreta” Santos is featured in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night in Prague, where he will face fourth-ranked Jan Blachowicz. It’s the second time that Santos will take part in the main event as he replaced Glover Teixeira last September in Sao Paulo and made his light
10:21 AM ET UFC Fight Night headliners Thiago Santos and Jan Blachowicz each made weight Friday for their light heavyweight main event in Prague, Czech Republic. A former middleweight, Santos (20-6) checked in at 204 pounds, 2 pounds under the allowable limit for a non-title bout. Blachowicz (23-7) weighed in at 205 pounds. The light
9:52 AM ET UFC strawweight prospect Mackenzie Dern will place her fighting career on hold, as she announced her pregnancy on Friday. Dern, 25, announced the news via Instagram. Dern’s boyfriend, Brazilian surfer Wesley Santos, was tagged in the post. “God makes everything so perfect!” Dern wrote. “I am so happy to be able to
Feb 22, 2019 Georges St-Pierre announced his retirement from mixed martial arts on Thursday. St-Pierre, who defended the UFC’s welterweight belt nine straight times from 2008 to 2013, will go down as one of the greatest fighters in history. But the one thing that would have kept him from making this decision? A fight with
6:47 PM ET Graeme Langford Liverpool’s Chris Fishgold (17-2-1) is set to fight Daniel Teymur (6-2) at UFC Fight Night in Prague on Saturday. ESPN sat down with Fishgold ahead of this fight to discuss his MMA origins, his fighting style, his opinions of Teymur, his plan for winning and more. ESPN: How did you
5:04 PM ET UFC bantamweight and featherweight champion Amanda Nunes on Thursday shot down the possibility that she’ll be fighting at UFC 237 in her native Brazil on May 11. “It will be tough,” Nunes said in an interview with Combate. “I’m thinking about fighting in the end of the year, around November or December.
11:51 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN It didn’t hurt that Georges St-Pierre is a supremely fit athlete, fast and fluid and robust enough to render another man powerless. But even as GSP was sharpening his fighting skills in the gym over the years and utilizing them like a boss inside the Octagon, his focus always was