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A battle of ranked strawweights and fellow Brazilians Amanda Ribas and Tabatha Ricci played out at UFC Abu Dhabi on Saturday. Ribas sat at #7 in the UFC's 115lb division, Ricci at #10. It was less than a minute in when...

Turkish light heavyweight Ibo Aslan faced off against Billy Elekana as part of Saturday's UFC Abu Dhabi preliminary card at the Etihad Arena. Aslan was looking to bounce back from his first loss in the UFC, opposite Ion Cutelaba. Elekana...

Featherweights Mohammad Yahya and Steven Nguyen were the second fight in on Saturday's UFC Abu Dhabi preliminary card. Yahya was making his debut in the weight class, after losing his first two fights under the UFC banner at lightweight. Yahya vs....

Heavyweight Marcus Buchecha, a ONE Championship veteran and decorated BJJ champ, made his promotional debut at UFC Abu Dhabi opposite Martin Buday. "Buchecha" (properly Marcus Almeida) struggled to stay active in ONE, where he posted a  5-1 record with his...

Dustin Poirier made the walk to the octagon for the final time at UFC 318, challenging Max Holloway for the UFC's "BMF" belt at home in Louisiana. Poirier's final fight, set in New Orleans, was the rare case of a...

Middleweight Roman Kopylov, coming off a head kick finish of Chris Curtis, faced off with ex-title challenger Paulo Costa at UFC 318 on Saturday. Costa was 1-4 across five fights dating back to his 2020 title challenge against then-champ Israel...

Kevin Holland entered UFC 318 off wins over Gunnar Nelson and Vicente Luque, and was looking to make it three in a row in a welterweight fight with Daniel Rodriguez. Rodriguez had also captured two straight wins, against Santiago Ponzinibbio...

Former Bellator MMA double champ Patricio Pitbull was in search of his first win inside the octagon at UFC 318, where he took on Hawaii's "50K" Dan Ige. Pitbull had lost a lackluster decision to Yair Rodriguez in his debut...

Longtime UFC veteran Michael Johnson kicked off the UFC 318 card on Saturday, paired up with a young up-and-comer in Daniel Zellhuber. The lightweight fight found Zellhuber looking to bounce back from a loss to Esteban Ribovics at Noche UFC...

The featured prelim at UFC 318 in New Orleans on Saturday saw bantamweights Kyler Phillips and Vinicius Oliveira face off. Phillips, a.k.a. "The Matrix," had seen a three-fight win streak snapped by Rob Font last time out. As for Oliveira,...