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8:07 PM ET LONDON — Leon Edwards was the first to admit he gave a terrible performance in his welterweight title fight against Kamaru Usman eight months ago. He turned in a much better one against Usman at UFC 286. Edwards (21-3) recorded his first defense of the UFC’s 170-pound championship on Saturday in front

6:03 PM ET One of the greatest MMA fighters to ever live will finally be immortalized among his legendary peers. Anderson Silva, the former longtime UFC middleweight champion, will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame this summer, the promotion announced Saturday during the UFC 286 broadcast. Silva will go into the Hall as

8:44 PM ET Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim react to the biggest moments at UFC 286 and offer thoughts on what might be ahead for the standouts in London. There’s no doubting the welterweight champ after UFC 286 Wagenheim: Are we supposed to be surprised that at the end of a raucous Saturday

12:24 PM ET Kamaru Usman was well on his way to a sixth title defense and a record-tying 16th straight UFC win last summer. He was the undisputed best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet and about one minute away from another accolade that would vault him into a discussion about the greatest fighters of all

3:22 PM ET UFC fighter Jeff Molina has responded after a private video was leaked of him Thursday on social media. Molina wrote Friday in a statement posted on Twitter that he is bisexual, though this was “not the way” he wanted to announce that fact about his personal life. Molina is the first male

8:00 AM ET Trevor Wittman had one question for former pound-for-pound No. 1 Kamaru Usman in the aftermath of Usman’s knockout loss to Leon Edwards last August at UFC 278: Why did he lay off the gas in the final round? Seven months ago, Usman (20-2) was on the verge of tying Anderson Silva‘s UFC

2:04 PM ET When Conor McGregor broke his leg during a 2021 fight, he said he immediately had some doubts about whether or not he could continue his MMA career. Those concerns, though, were quickly dashed. McGregor, the UFC’s biggest star, felt in the moments following the leg break that as long as he was

9:25 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The UFC first visited London in 2002 for an event dubbed “The Brawl at the Hall.” The hall was hallowed old Royal Albert Hall, which prior to Matt Hughes defending his welterweight title against Carlos Newton that night had been best known for appearances by tenacious fighter Sir Winston Churchill

1:50 PM ET Leon Edwards started his MMA career by fighting his first nine bouts in his adopted home country of England. And in the time since Edwards, who was born in Jamaica and moved with his family to Birmingham when he was 9, joined the UFC in 2014, he has competed four more times

7:39 PM ET Every weight class in the UFC has its intrigue, but nowhere are the twists and turns as dramatic and volatile at the top as they are in men’s bantamweight. Merab Dvalishvili put on a historic performance in winning a lopsided unanimous decision over former champion Petr Yan in the main event of