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The latest fighter to run afoul of USADA is Michel Prazeres, who has been handed down a two-year ban from competition after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. USADA continues to test UFC athletes, and they continue to test positive...

Bellator has announced that welterweight champion Douglas Lima and flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane have signed multi-fight, multi-year extensions with the company. Early Monday, Bellator MMA sent out a press release stating that reigning welterweight and flyweight champions Douglas Lima and...

Judging was on the hot seat this past weekend. A number of fights came under fire thanks to puzzling scores being returned by judges. Among them, Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes (49-46 Jones was rather galling), Andre Ewell vs....

Facing scrutiny from athletic commissions and questions regarding the viability of fighting with a brain condition, Rafael Lovato Jr. has vacated Bellator MMA's middleweight title. After going public with a brain condition that has put his fighting career on hold,...

UFC 247 may be best remembered for its officiating rather than its outcomes. And that's unfortunate, given the PPV card offered an entertaining evening of martial arts prowess. The big debate, of course, was the outcome of the main event....

James Krause stepped into his UFC 247 bout with Trevin Giles on 24 hours notice. Up a weight class at middleweight. Having traveled to Houston to coach, not fight. While he didn't leave with a win, he did leave a...

Jon Jones has yet another title defense under his belt. It did not, however, come easy. And when the dust had cleared following the UFC 247 main event on Saturday in Houston, a lot of onlookers left feeling cheated. Challenger...

The co-main event of UFC 247 had Valentina Shevchenko looking to make her first title defense of 2020. Since arriving in the 125lb division, "Bullet" had been absolutely perfect, and perfectly dominant. Opponent Katlyn Chookagian had a tough assignment...

Unfolding in Houston, Texas, UFC 247 on paper had a tough time living up to the whole 'Everything's Bigger in Texas' claim. The main event featured Jon Jones taking on Dominick Reyes, far from the biggest fight of Jones'...

Alistair Overeem and Walt Harris have been paired up again, atop UFC Portland, while a spring date in Oklahoma City has also been added to the UFC's calendar. The UFC is heading back to a pair of cities it hasn't...