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...

Light heavyweights Johnny Walker and Volkan Oezdemir kicked off Saturday's UFC Saudi Arabia main card on ABC. Walker's last two fights had come opposite Magomed Ankalaev, with a No Contest in the pair's initial meeting, then a knockout loss in...

Lightweights Nasrat Haqparast and Jared Gordon closed out the UFC Saudi Arabia preliminary card at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The promotion's debut in the Middle Eastern nation saw the main card on broadcast network ABC,...

With Melsik Baghdasaryan tearing his labrum, it was Brazil's Felipe Lima stepping into a short-notice featherweight fight with Muhammad Naimov at UFC Saudi Arabia. While the opportunity got Lima's foot in the door with the UFC, the highly-regarded bantamweight prospect...

The lone welterweight fight on the UFC Saudi Arabia card on Saturday, June 22 found Rinat Fakhretdinov facing off with Nicolas Dalby. Fakhretdinov was unbeaten in his UFC career, but coming off a draw against Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos, while...

Entertaining bantamweights Kyung-Ho Kang and Muin Gafurov put it all on the line in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Kang came into UFC Saudi Arabia as the owner of a successful 8-4 (1NC) UFC record over the last eleven years....

Undefeated light heavyweight and Contender Series winner Magomed Gadzhiyasulov made his promotional debut at UFC Saudi Arabia, opposite Brazilian Brendson Ribeiro. Like Gadzhiyasulov, Ribeiro had entered the UFC via the 2023 edition of Dana White's Contender Series, only to drop...

The long overdue Road to UFC 2 bantamweight final arrived at UFC Saudi Arabia on June 22, in a fight that paired China's Xiao Long up against South Korea's Chang-Ho Lee. Road to UFC 2 had launched in May of...

Felipe Lima was set to defend his Oktagon bantamweight title on July 20, until a short-notice opportunity at UFC Saudi Arabia became available. Muhammad Naimov was supposed to fight Melsik Baghdasaryan, but Melsik pulled out. In comes Felipe Lima...

Yana Santos will fight Chelsea Chandler in a ranked bantamweight clash on August 10, 2024. The fight is scheduled for the main card of UFC Vegas 95 at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. News of the booking was first...