2:34 PM ET The UFC has officially added a female flyweight bout between Paige VanZant and Rachael Ostovich for its UFC Fight Night event on Jan. 19 in Brooklyn. VanZant first hinted at the date months ago. Paige VanZant, left, has not fought since suffering a broken arm in this fight against Jessica-Rose Clark in
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10:57 PM ET Undefeated UFC newcomer Ben Askren has booked his first contest in the Octagon, and it’s against a former champion. Askren (18-0) will meet former UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler at UFC 233 on Jan. 26 in Anaheim, California, according to UFC president Dana White. The pay-per-view event will take place at Honda
3:32 PM ET UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier told ESPN on Monday he does not need to face Jon Jones for a third time before retirement. Cormier, who defeated Derrick Lewis on Saturday at UFC 230 to retain his heavyweight belt, has said he wants to end his MMA career by the
1:44 PM ET History was made in New York’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday, as Daniel Cormier became the first fighter in UFC history to hold two belts simultaneously and defend both. Saturday was a historic night for Daniel Cormier, but the fight was a sneeze away from not happening. The two-weight champion did make
1:08 AM ET Floyd Mayweather Jr. has made his New Year’s Eve plans official. Mayweather will exit retirement once again and fight 20-year-old Japanese kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa on Dec. 31 at the 37,000-seat Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, about a half-hour drive outside of Tokyo. Mayweather and Nasukawa appeared at a news conference
10:28 AM ET NEW YORK — Daniel Cormier may have summed it up best, just moments after defeating Derrick Lewis to retain his heavyweight title at UFC 230 on Saturday. “There are no surprises with me,” Cormier said. “If you have a puncher’s chance, that’s not enough. You have to be one of the best
12:51 AM ET The UFC has announced event dates for the first quarter of 2019, including its first ESPN Fight Night card on Jan. 19 in Brooklyn, New York. That event, which does not yet have a headliner, will take place at Barclays Center and air exclusively on ESPN+. It is the first event of
1:25 AM ET NEW YORK — Daniel Cormier added several more notes to his historic résumé Saturday night in a successful heavyweight title defense against Derrick Lewis at UFC 230. Cormier (22-1) became the first fighter in UFC history to officially hold two titles simultaneously and successfully defend both. He submitted Lewis (21-6) via rear-naked
11:17 PM ET Nigerian middleweight Israel Adesanya (15-0) continued his ascent to stardom with a first-round TKO over Derek Brunson (18-7) in the first fight of the UFC 230 main card Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Adesanya negated Brunson’s early attempts to get him to the floor before landing a hard
9:03 PM ET NEW YORK — UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker will get a second shot at defending his title on home soil. UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Friday that Whittaker (20-4) will defend his title against Kelvin Gastelum (15-3) in his home country of Australia. White did not provide a specific date,