Las Vegas, NV — Two-time UFC women's strawweight champion Carla Esparza has had about a month to digest her loss to Weili Zhang at UFC 281, which cost "Cookie Monster" her title. At the 14th Annual World MMA Awards this...

Las Vegas, NV — Invicta FC's Kay Hansen was named to ESPN's Top 25 Under 25 this year, an honor she received last year as well. The difference being, in 2022, she actually made her exit from the UFC,...

Las Vegas, NV — Forrest Griffin is part of the old guard of mixed martial arts, known in his heyday for saving the UFC thanks to his Ultimate Fighter scrap with Stephen Bonnar, which sparked renewed interest in the...

Las Vegas, NV — Like Thanos and his Infinity Stones, UFC women's flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko has been collecting precious gems of her own: rubies. With each title defense, another ruby is affixed to her championship belt. So it was...

Leah McCourt will not be fighting on the Bellator Dublin card next February, which feels like a bit of a missed opportunity. McCourt, from Northern Ireland, has turned up in nearby Dublin five times under the Bellator MMA banner, after...

Raquel Pennington is looking at a very big 2023. Raquel and wife Tecia Pennington (nee Torres, though the "Tiny Tornado" has opted to take on the Pennington name) recently announced they are expecting their first child. That puts Tecia on...

Las Vegas, NV — PFL President Ray Sefo was on the red carpet at the 14th Annual World MMA Awards on Friday, where Cageside Press had a chance to question the exec on free agency, and gauge their interest...

Las Vegas, NV — Vanessa Demopoulos was dressed to the nines at the 14th Annual MMA Awards over the weekend, where Cageside Press caught up with her at the end of a breakthrough year for the UFC strawweight. "You can't...

Bellator MMA bantamweight champion Sergio Pettis (22-5) has been forced to sit on the sidelines and watch as the promotion's bantamweight grand prix unfolds. That's a tough pill for any fighter to swallow, made tougher still by the fact that...

Ilara Joanne (11-6) carried a secret with her in Bellator 289, at least as far as her mother was concerned: She hadn't told her mom that she was fighting. The Brazilian revealed after her win over former Bellator MMA women's flyweight...