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Mar 28, 2024, 01:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The UFC will put on its first event in Saudi Arabia on June 22 with a card headlined by a middleweight bout between Khamzat Chimaev and Robert Whittaker, Dana White, the promotion’s president, announced Wednesday night. The UFC Fight Night card will air for free on

Jeff Wagenheim Mar 26, 2024, 04:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Bruno Cappelozza, the 2021 PFL heavyweight champion, no longer will compete on the season-opening fight card April 4, the promotion announced on social media Tuesday. Cappelozza was scheduled to fight Sergey Bilostenniy on the main card in San Antonio, but the PFL posted on

Jeff Wagenheim Mar 23, 2024, 09:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Igor Severino‘s UFC career lasted barely a round and a half on Saturday night before he was disqualified for biting his opponent and subsequently released from the fight promotion. The 20-year-old Brazilian fighter, making his Octagon debut at a UFC Fight Night event in

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMar 22, 2024, 07:27 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions At long last, Corey Anderson can officially call himself a champion. Anderson (18-6) claimed the vacant Bellator MMA light heavyweight title on Friday, defeating Irish challenger Karl

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMar 21, 2024, 02:28 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Ronda Rousey, one of the most influential stars in UFC history, revealed this week that she retired from mixed martial arts primarily because of a history of

Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterMar 21, 2024, 01:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions UFC heavyweight fighter Walt Harris has been suspended four years for testing positive for multiple steroids, the UFC announced Wednesday. Harris, 40, tested positive for drostanolone, its metabolite and testosterone of exogenous origin in samples collected June 24, 2023 and July 12,

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMar 20, 2024, 09:09 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland says his recent social media post on mental health was part of a longtime “merry-go-round” with personal struggles, and he chose to share it

Mar 27, 2024, 08:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The NCAA tournament has taken over the sports world, as it tends to do every spring. It’s hard to open an internet browser or social media app without immediately getting hit by an image of a bracket. You can’t fight it, so just embrace it. Historically,

Jeff Wagenheim Mar 24, 2024, 01:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Rose Namajunas took her first step in a quest to reach the top of the flyweight division, outpointing Amanda Ribas (13-5) by unanimous decision in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. Namajunas (12-6), a two-time UFC champion at strawweight, ended

Dotun Akintoye, ESPN.comMar 20, 2024, 03:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TKO Holdings, the parent company for the UFC, has reached a $335 million settlement in two class-action antitrust lawsuits filed by fighters seeking better pay. The settlement was agreed to on March 13, a little more than a month before a trial was set