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Abu Dhabi - A win for UFC bantamweight Deiveson Figueiredo over former title challenger and #4 ranked Marlon 'Chito' Vera will get the former flyweight champion into the top 5 at UFC Abu Dhabi on Saturday. "You know as a...

Abu Dhabi - Former UFC title challenger Marlon 'Chito' Vera faces Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC Abu Dhabi on Saturday, but he chimed in on the next bantamweight title fight on media day. "People get confused because (Sean) O'Malley's a funny...

Mexican-Canadian strawweight Loopy Godinez perhaps understands better than most the criticism received by Merab Dvalishvili, who is headlining next month's Noche UFC (UFC 306) card at The Sphere in Las Vegas. Godinez (12-4) faces Mackenzie Dern at UFC Abu Dhabi...

Abu Dhabi - UFC strawweight Mackenzie Dern looks to snap a two-fight losing streak against Loopy Godinez at UFC Abu Dhabi on Saturday. Godinez is a wrestle-heavy type of fighter with solid striking, but going to the ground with Dern...

Former ONE strawweight champ Jarred Brooks will be eligible to capture interim gold at Friday's ONE Fight Night 24, but challenger Gustavo Balart will not be claiming a title win or lose. That's because Balart (12-4) missed championship weight at...

Kayla Harrison has accepted her second assignment in the UFC. Harrison (17-1), the former two-time PFL women's lightweight champ and two-time Olympic gold medal winner, now competing as a bantamweight, will face Ketlen Vieira (14-3) at UFC 307 on October...

Former two-time UFC women's strawweight champion Carla Esparza says her next fight will be her last. Esparza (19-7), 36, the UFC's inaugural 115lb champ, announced the news on Friday, revealing that her reported date with Tecia Pennington (13-7) at UFC...

The UFC returns to Abu Dhabi this week with a considerably stacked event taking place at the Etihad Arena on Yas Island. The main event sees bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen taking on surging undefeated Dagestani Umar Nurmagomedov, in what has...

Abu Dhabi - UFC welterweight Michael Chiesa takes on Tony Ferguson at UFC Abu Dhabi on Saturday night, but it's to be seen which version of 'El Cucuy' he sees in the octagon. "I would be a fool to train...

Abu Dhabi - UFC middleweight Shara 'Bullet' Magomedov takes on Michal Oleksiejczuk at UFC Abu Dhabi this Saturday, but the fight wasn't originally on the card until another fight fell off. "I don't know the exact ins and out of...