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AJ McKee closed out Saturday's PFL San Diego with a vintage "Mercenary" performance. McKee (25-2), once a Bellator featherweight champ, faced off against the previously undefeated Salamat Isbulaev, and battled through three hard-fought rounds to come away with a unanimous...

UFC Baku was a big night for Azerbaijan's Rafael Fiziev, and he's now $100,000 richer following his main event finish of Manuel Torres. After a closely contested opening round, Fiziev put Torres away early in the second, setting it up...

The Professional Fighters League kicked off what it's calling its "Summer Series" on Saturday, with PFL San Diego headlined by AJ McKee and Salamat Isbulaev. The winner of the bout should be lined up for a championship engagement, given the...

With Manuel Torres in hostile territory, all attention had been on Azerbaijan's own Rafael Fiziev ahead of UFC Baku on Saturday. The card's lightweight main event found Fiziev looking to return to the win column following a loss to Mauricio...

The co-main event at UFC Baku on Saturday had no love lost between middleweights Shara Magomedov and Michel Pereira. Shara "Bullet" was competing for the first time in a year, and had ruffled Pereira's feathers by making comments about his...

Matheus Camilo was in search of his second victory inside the octagon when he faced off against Nazim Sadykhov as part of UFC Baku's main card on Saturday. The lightweight fight found Azerbaijan's own "Black Wolf" entering with a 4-1-1...

Charles "Inner G" Johnson made the trip to Azerbaijan to face Asu Almabayev in a flyweight fight at UFC Baku on Saturday. Johnson, who holds a win over current flyweight champion Josh Van in the UFC, had been trading wins...

Middleweight Ikram Aliskerov was thrown to the wolves early in his UFC run, placed in a main event against Robert Whittaker in just his third UFC fight. While that bout didn't go his way, Aliskerov was still 4-1 in the...

Kicking off the UFC Baku main card on Saturday was the first of three middleweight fights among the final six bouts of the evening: Abus Magomedov vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk. Oleksiejczuk had been working with The Fighting Nerds the past couple...

Eric Nolan, in search of his first UFC victory, welcomed Farman Hasanov to the promotion at UFC Baku on Saturday, in a welterweight fight that served as the card's featured prelim. Azerbaijan's own Hasanov was debuting at home, 5-0 to...