Jul 24, 2018 Tyron Woodley will defend his welterweight title against Darren Till on Sept. 8, UFC president Dana White confirmed to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto. The road to the highly anticipated 170-pound bout, which will headline UFC 228 in Dallas, was detailed to ESPN by multiple sources. The UFC had been looking to secure a
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5:24 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing a middleweight bout between former champions Luke Rockhold and Chris Weidman for UFC 230 in New York, according to sources. The pay-per-view event will take place on Nov. 3 inside Madison Square Garden. The UFC has not yet announced a main event for the card. Luke
10:16 AM ET WEST HAVEN, Conn. — It’s 10:15 a.m. on a sunny Wednesday morning, and the man Dana White said would “never” compete in the UFC is less than a week away from doing just that. Nick Newell, wearing a black and maroon shirt with gray shorts, leads a small group of fellow fighters
7:05 PM ET Alexander Gustafsson is out of UFC 227 on Aug. 4 because of a minor undisclosed injury, his agent, Nima Safapour, said Sunday. Safapour said the injury occurred last week. “Since that time, we have been working closely with the UFC doctors, our doctors in Sweden, and the experts at the UFC Performance
6:49 PM ET UFC light heavyweight Anthony Smith is quickly making a name for himself in his new weight class. Smith (30-13) ran roughshod over Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua (25-11) on Sunday, knocking out the former champion with a nasty combination at 1:29 of the opening round. The 205-pound fight headlined UFC Fight Night in Hamburg,
10:52 AM ET Chamatkar Sandhu Marc Diakiese will be looking to push the pace and promises a finish as he tries to get back on track Sunday in the UFC’s return to Germany. The British lightweight hasn’t had the best year, having suffered the first two career losses, which came back to back against Drakkar
9:34 PM ET The UFC will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Nov. 10 with a bout featuring Frankie Edgar and Chan Sung Jung in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card, president Dana White told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto on Friday. The bout, which matches two all-action, fan-friendly fighters in a five-round featherweight match,
1:56 PM ET Though much of the news from this week’s NXT tapings was focused on some other major moments coming together ahead of NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn IV, Cain Velasquez’s appearance in the crowd raised quite a few eyebrows. Though it might seem as though the scripted fighting of the WWE and the real fighting
9:37 PM ET An intriguing middleweight fight is in the works for the UFC’s return to Madison Square Garden. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. David Branch has been verbally agreed to for the Nov. 3 show in New York, sources told ESPN. Souza (25-6, 1 NC), a former Strikeforce middleweight champion, is coming off a split
5:20 PM ET It didn’t take long for the UFC to find a replacement to fight Angela Hill in August. The promotion has booked Hill versus Cortney Casey for the Aug. 25 Fight Night card in Lincoln, Nebraska. Casey replaces Alexa Grasso, who recently withdrew from the card for undisclosed reasons. Hill (8-4) is coming