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
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3:35 PM ET Looking back, John Kavanagh will admit his first attempts at marketing a mixed martial arts gym to the general public were rather poor. As owner and head coach of Straight Blast Gym Ireland in Dublin, Kavanagh oversees one of the most successful MMA teams in the world today — but it took
12:59 PM ET The UFC has officially announced that a heavyweight bout between Mark Hunt and Aleksei Oleinik will headline its first Russian event on Sept. 15 in Moscow. The promotion initially wanted Oleinik, who is from Moscow, to face former champion Fabricio Werdum. That fight was scrapped in May, however, when Werdum was notified
4:49 PM ET Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva will be eligible to return to competition later this year, after resolving his case with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on Wednesday. Silva, 43, has been sidelined since last November because of a failed drug test. USADA officials have announced he tested positive for metabolites
Jul 20, 2018 Jeff WagenheimESPN The name seemed to emerge out of thin air, a forgotten echo from the faraway past. Shogun. The reference to Mauricio Rua came spilling out of the mouth of Daniel Cormier, who was still floating in the heady ethers of having become heavyweight champion a couple of days earlier. His
9:57 AM ET “Suga” Sean O’Malley is on the comeback trail. The popular UFC bantamweight is eyeing a return to action at UFC 229 on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas, his manager Daniel Rubinstein told ESPN. According to Rubinstein, Team O’Malley wants to fight Alejandro Pérez on the card. Perez is coming off a unanimous
4:48 PM ET Hard-hitting English welterweight Paul Daley has re-upped with Bellator MMA, clearing the way for his participation in the promotion’s Welterweight Grand Prix and a long-running grudge match against Michael Page. Bellator president Scott Coker confirmed Daley’s new deal to ESPN on Wednesday. The two sides have occasionally been at odds during Daley’s
12:23 PM ET The UFC women’s flyweight title will be defended for the first time in September. According to multiple sources, the UFC has booked champion Nicco Montaño vs. Valentina Shevchenko for their UFC 228 card on Sept. 8 in Dallas. Montaño became the inaugural women’s 125-pound champion at the The Ultimate Fighter 26 Finale
2:41 PM ET Bellator MMA officials revealed additional details for its Welterweight Grand Prix tournament on Tuesday, during a joint news conference with DAZN streaming service in New York. Bellator president Scott Coker revealed nine of the 10 welterweights slated to compete in the 170-pound tournament. The format will consist of two preliminary qualifying matchups
8:43 PM ET Stipe Miocic claimed the UFC’s heavyweight championship back in May 2016 when his right hand dropped Fabricio Werdum in Curitiba, Brazil. Miocic then went on to win three more times, setting the record for most title defenses in the division. The Cleveland native’s reign as “The Baddest Man on the Planet” came