12:34 PM ET Goodbye, 2018. It’s been real. Thanks for the memories. We’ll never forget you, and stuff. Hello, 2019! There’s something intoxicating about that fresh calendar smell, isn’t there? Last year treated us to some great fights, no doubt, but it’s 2019 now, baby. And we’re looking ahead. So, in that spirit, here are
MMA
2:12 PM ET It’s not a stretch to say Kayla Harrison‘s entire MMA career may have changed last Saturday, as she looked on from a hotel bedroom. Harrison (3-0) was in New York last week for a lightweight fight against Moriel Charneski on the PFL’s New Year’s Eve card. A two-time Olympic gold medalist in
6:02 AM ET Chamatkar Sandhu, ESPN Paul “Semtex” Daley vs. Michael “Venom” Page. Literally years in the making, arguably the biggest fight in U.K. MMA history is scheduled to take place on Saturday Feb. 16, but it won’t be anywhere in the United Kingdom. Instead, Bellator decided to place this fight in Uncasville, Connecticut. It’s
11:29 PM ET The Professional Fighters League crowned six world champions on Monday, at PFL 11: Championships inside Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. In addition to some hardware, the PFL, which was rebranded from the World Series of Fighting in 2017, handed out six $1 million checks. It was the final
10:09 PM ET Kayla Harrison may not have won $1 million at the Professional Fighters League Championships on Monday — but it feels like that’s only a matter of time. Harrison (3-0) claimed an easy TKO victory against Moriel Charneski on Monday, at the 3:39 mark of the first round. The lightweight bout took place
9:28 PM ET UFC fighter Cat Zingano isn’t out of the woods yet, regarding a right eye injury she suffered during a TKO loss to Megan Anderson at UFC 232 on Saturday in Los Angeles. The 145-pound fight ended in bizarre fashion when Anderson landed a left high kick to Zingano’s face. As Zingano tried
3:08 PM ET UFC 232 was a memorable event before the prelims ever started. The UFC’s decision to move the card from Las Vegas to Los Angeles will not be soon forgotten. The return of Jon Jones to light heavyweight supremacy. The arrival of Amanda Nunes as the greatest female fighter of all time after
12:00 AM ET Nick Parkisnon Floyd Mayweather dusted off the boxing gloves to deliver a boxing masterclass and stop Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in the first round on New Year’s Eve. The former five-division world champion — now 41 — floored Nasukawa three times before the end of the first round of a three-round welterweight
9:31 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Amanda Nunes had just shown herself to be the Baddest Woman on the Planet. But then pure emotion took over. Moments earlier on Saturday night, the 30-year-old Brazilian had stunned the mixed martial arts world by knocking out the unstoppable Cris Cyborg in 51 explosive seconds in Los Angeles. And
2:48 PM ET LOS ANGELES — After defeating Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 232 on Saturday, Jon Jones made a point to say (multiple times) there is no asterisk attached to this result or his renewed status as the UFC’s light heavyweight champion. And when it’s all said and done, maybe he’ll be right. Maybe history