12:57 AM ET DALLAS —Tyron Woodley took every negative critique against him — boring, old, slowing down — and delivered a brutal right hand to each one, scoring a second-round submission victory over Darren Till in the main event of UFC 228. Before UFC 228’s main event between Tyron Woodley and Darren Till, a multitude
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12:23 AM ET DALLAS — The co-main for UFC 228 was supposed to be a UFC women’s flyweight championship bout between champion Nicco Montano and No. 1 contender Valentina Shevchenko, but things haven’t gone exactly as planned for the UFC in 2018, as at least eight main events have been affected by injury, weight cuts
10:21 AM ET Saturday night’s UFC 228 co-main event is in serious jeopardy. Nicco Montano, the UFC women’s flyweight champion, was transported to a local Dallas hospital Friday morning prior to the official weigh-ins, according to multiple sources. UFC officials declined to confirm whether her title fight against Valentina Shevchenko is canceled, but according to
11:35 AM ET UFC flyweight champion Nicco Montano will not defend her 125-pound title against Valentina Shevchenko on Saturday after being transported to the hospital on Friday. The title fight was supposed to co-headline UFC 228 at American Airlines Center in Dallas. UFC released an official statement on the matter. “As a precautionary measure, UFC
8:04 PM ET UFC women’s flyweight champion Nicco Montano will be stripped of her title after failing to weigh in Friday for her UFC 228 bout against Valentina Shevchenko, UFC president Dana White told ESPN. Montano was transported to a hospital before the weigh-in due to “health concerns,” according to the UFC, and will not
9:30 AM ET The UFC visits American Airlines Center in Dallas on Saturday, and it’s bringing along a title fight, as welterweight champion Tyron Woodley will put his belt on the line against a budding superstar in Darren Till. There was to be a second title bout in the co-main event, but Nicco Montaño was
6:04 PM ET Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm is going to be out for the rest of the year, her agent said Thursday. Holm underwent successful knee surgery Wednesday to repair an injured meniscus and will need approximately four weeks of recovery, agent Lenny Fresquez said. She is hoping to return to action
4:17 PM ET It has been a long and twisty road for the UFC to arrive at Saturday’s welterweight title fight in Dallas between champion Tyron Woodley and unbeaten Darren Till. First the promotion and the fans had to go through the unfulfilled expectation of Woodley facing No. 1 contender Rafael dos Anjos … then
3:01 PM ET Antonina Shevchenko, the older sister of UFC women’s flyweight title hopeful Valentina Shevchenko, will make her UFC debut on The Ultimate Fighter Finale card Nov. 30 in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN. Shevchenko will face Ashlee Evans-Smith in a fight that will take place at 125 pounds, sources said. Nicco Montaño will
12:29 PM ET Valentina “Bullet” Shevchenko always has a gun on her hip. A Glock 19 is etched into her skin in black ink, with three bullets sitting in front of the weapon. “Three bullets, three letters,” she said in a phone interview. The letters Shevchenko, 30, is referring to, if you haven’t guessed, are