MMA being what it is, a lot of expectations were put on Alex Oliveira vs. Peter Sobotta at UFC Fight Island 3. "A lot of people thought it was going to be Fight of the Night. I knew it...

Despite a lack of cookies to celebrate with (or at least not enough cookies), Carla Esparza was in good spirits following her fourth consecutive win on Saturday, at UFC Fight Island 3. Even looking a little worse for the...

It took a minute, but it feels like Pannie Kianzad has finally arrived in the UFC. The bantamweight, who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 28 (at featherweight), wasn't gifted a contract at the end of the season. Few fighters were....

MMA is a sport full of colorful personalities. But not everyone can be a Chael Sonnen, Rampage Jackson, or Conor McGregor. For every Darren Till, quite frankly, there's a Tom Aspinall. And that's fine. Let's be honest, one Darren...

Now former-UFC fighter Gilbert Menedez has been handed a two-year suspension from competition by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Melendez, 38, was last seen in action at UFC 239 in July 2019. Once a Strikeforce lightweight champion, who challenged for gold...

Fifteen fights certainly gave the fans plenty to talk about Saturday at UFC Fight Island 3. It gave the UFC brass more to talk about as well with Dana White and co. awarding a rare six Performance of the...

In the main event of UFC on ESPN 14 — UFC Fight Island 3 if you prefer — Robert Whittaker earned himself a decision victory over Darren Till. The seven-fight main card delivered in the end, and today we will...

Nathanial Wood got back in the win column Saturday at UFC Fight Island 3. Not that he'd been gone for long. Wood (17-4) had suffered the first loss of his UFC tenure earlier this year. Yet it had come in...

It's not often you see commentators get into a heated discussion with a ref during a live event. Yet that's what went down Saturday on "Fight Island" (Yas Island, Abu Dhabi) as the UFC's well-publicized stint there came to...

Now that the historic events in Abu Dhabi have come and gone, we look back on the Fight Island experience that set a benchmark for mixed martial arts forever. The planes are in the air.  The cage on the beach...