Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker underwent emergency surgery for an abscess he suffered through just 24 hours prior to flying out to Saudi Arabia. "Rob had a really bad abscess that flared up a week before flying out," Whittaker's...

Extremely noticeable on this past Saturday's UFC Saudi Arabia card was the lack of any sort of female talent, but that may soon change. The UFC made its debut in the Kingdom in Riyadh on June 22, with a card...

Saturday's UFC Saudi Arabia marked the promotion's debut in the Kingdom, and the event did not go off without a hitch. Far from it. After being bumped back several months (reports at the time claimed the Saudis were unhappy...

UFC Saudi Arabia was an action-packed main card where three of the five fights ended in thrilling finishes on the feet. In the middleweight main event, Robert Whittaker made quick work of high-level prospect, Ikram Aliskerov. Several veterans need...

Four fighters including contenders Robert Whittaker (middleweight) and Volkan Oezdemir (light heavyweight) found Saturday's UFC Saudi Arabia card to be a profitable endeavor. The promotion's debut in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was first pushed back, then hit with numerous...

Robert Whittaker and Ikram Aliskerov threw down in a makeshift main event at UFC Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The five-round middleweight affair had originally featured ex-champ Whittaker opposite Khamzat Chimaev, but with Chimaev falling ill, it was Aliskerov, in just...

Top heavyweight contenders Sergei Pavlovich and Alexander Volkov co-main evented UFC Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Although controversy followed the fights announcement because the pair are friends and training partners who did not want to fight, the bout still went down....

Conor McGregor was on hand at the 3Arena in his native Dublin, Ireland on Saturday, where teammate Sinead Kavanagh was in action. Following SBG Ireland's Kavanagh being submitted by three-time Bellator women's featherweight title challenger Arelene Blencowe, McGregor was given...

Saturday's UFC Saudi Arabia was not without its share of turmoil, thanks to a bevy of cancellations and last minute opponent swaps. The drama didn't stop there, however, as Kelvin Gastelum had struggled with his weight through training camp,...

After not one but two opponents fell through, it was newcomer Antonio Trocoli that wound up facing Shara Magomedov at UFC Saudi Arabia on Saturday. In a curious turn of events, Trocoli had been scheduled to face Ikram Aliskerov a...