Salt Lake City, UT — There's no question that Leon Edwards took the long road to the UFC's welterweight title. Nine straight wins. Multiple fight cancellations, including dates with Khamzat Chimaev and Tyron Woodley. The coronavirus pandemic getting in the...

Salt Lake City, UT — After a year and a half on the sidelines, Iraq's Amir Albazi made a triumphant return to the octagon at UFC 278. "The Prince," an Iraqi-born Swede fighting out of England, made short work of...

Kamaru Usman was looking to match Anderson Silva's consecutive wins record at UFC 278 on Saturday. He was also looking to make yet another defense of his welterweight title, this time against Leon Edwards. A rematch of their 2015 meeting,...

Salt Lake City, UT — Bantamweight Aoriqileng notched his second straight win on the preliminary portion of UFC 278 in Salt Lake City on Saturday — though he came away just a little banged up. Through the first couple of...

Salt Lake City, UT — After nearly four years out of action, light heavyweight Tyson Pedro got back to work this past April with a triumphant KO of Ike Villanueva. At UFC 278 in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Australia's...

Salt Lake City, UT — Polish heavyweight Marcin Tybura is the latest obstacle standing in the way of undefeated Moldovan Alexander Romanov. "16-0, quite impressive," Tybura (22-7) admitted during the UFC 278 media day this week, asked about his opponent's...

Salt Lake City, UT — The UFC 278 official weigh-in went down Friday morning, essentially free of any drama — though one fight will not move forward. In the early morning hours on Friday, Shanna Young fell ill, transported to...

Salt Lake City, UT — In case you were wondering, Paulo Costa says it's really him running his Twitter account. "Just me. 100%. 100%, believe ," Costa (13-2) said during this week's UFC 278 media day, ahead of his fight...

Women's lightweight star and multi-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison is bullish on the future of women's fighting. Harrison (14-0), also a two-time Olympic gold medallist in Judo, is in London this week for PFL 9 and her semifinal fight with...

Salt Lake City, UT — Former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo rides a three-fight win streak into his UFC 278 showdown with Merab Dvalishvili — but believes he should already be fighting for gold. "Yes, surely. I actually think that...