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7:09 PM ET A key welterweight fight is now on the docket for summer. Former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos and Vicente Luque have agreed to a welterweight fight that will headline UFC Fight Night on July 15, sources confirmed with ESPN on Saturday. The card does not have an official location, but it

3:26 PM ET Three weeks after he announced his UFC retirement after competing at UFC 287 in his hometown of Miami, Jorge Masvidal is a busy man. He’s promoting his Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA show next week and is excited to announce his next Gamebred Boxing card in the near future. Fighting and martial arts have

12:52 PM ET Jack Hermansson has an undisclosed injury and is out of the scheduled June 3 UFC Fight Night main event with Brendan Allen, sources confirmed Friday with ESPN. No replacement for Hermansson has been selected yet. MMA Mania was the first to report the news. Allen has called out fellow middleweight contender Sean

8:00 AM ET Gilbert Burns sat at the podium of the UFC 287 postfight press conference on April 8 and issued the UFC an ultimatum: Book him a title fight next or just release him from his contract. “I’m not asking, I’m demanding,” said Burns, who had just beat Jorge Masvidal in the main event

10:59 AM ET Israel Adesanya says he suffered a Grade 1 MCL tear the week before his unforgettable knockout of Alex Pereira at UFC 287 earlier this month in Miami. Adesanya (24-2) revealed the injury via his YouTube channel Wednesday, including video of how it happened. The injury occurred when Adesanya’s leg buckled awkwardly underneath

Apr 25, 2023 Song Yadong meets Ricky Simon in the bantamweight main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. The main card at the UFC Apex is on ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET, preceded by prelims on ESPN2 and ESPN+ at 4 p.m. Song (19-7-1, 1 NC) is coming off a fourth-round

12:38 PM ET Brendan Loughnane and Rob Wilkinson will look to continue their quests for back-to-back PFL championships on June 8, in the second round of the promotion’s regular-season matchups. Loughnane (27-4) will face Jesus Pinedo (20-6-1) in a featherweight main event of PFL 4. Wilkinson (18-2) will take on Will Fleury (12-3) in a

7:41 PM ET The New Orleans Police Department issued an arrest warrant Monday for former UFC star Nate Diaz on suspicion of second-degree battery, police spokesperson Karen Boudrie confirmed to ESPN. Diaz is not in custody, Boudrie said. Diaz was involved in a brawl last week on Bourbon Street following a Misfits boxing card in

4:14 PM ET Demetrious Johnson hasn’t made a decision just yet, but the former longtime UFC champion said his upcoming fight could be the last of his storied career. The all-time great MMA fighter will defend his ONE Championship 135-pound title against Adriano Moraes in a trilogy bout May 5 in Colorado. It’ll be ONE’s

9:27 AM ET UFC president Dana White went on a fight-announcement spree last week, setting up co-main-event bouts for the next two upcoming pay-per-views and filling out what looks to be a deep UFC 290 card in July during International Fight Week. The rest of the summer, though, is a bit of a mystery. The