Nearly two years removed from winning The Ultimate Fighter 28 at heavyweight, Juan Espino finally returned to the octagon at UFC 253. His fight Saturday night was just the eleventh of his career, which at 39 years of age is...

Excluding having missed weight for the fight, Ludovit Klein's UFC debut was everything the fighter could have wanted. Coming in on short notice at UFC 253 against Shane Young, Klein (17-2), a promising featherweight prospect from Slovakia, finished the fight...

After a loss in her last outing and a lengthy layoff, Ketlen Vieira (11-1) was "very happy" to get a win over Sijara Eubanks at UFC 253. The bantamweight bout, which went down Saturday on "Fight Island" in Abu Dhabi,...

Newcomer Danilo Marques picked up a unanimous decision win in his debut at UFC 253. It was a clear-cut victory for the Brazilian, but not without some controversy, thanks to multiple fence grabs by opponent Khadis Ibragimov going unpunished. Not...

Coming out of UFC 253, Canadian featherweight "Mean" Hakeem Dawodu is now on a five-fight win streak. After starting his career in the WSOF, Dawodu (12-1-1) made the jump to the UFC in 2018, and after dropping his debut,...

Brandon Royval has gone from being the awkward new kid at school, to the big man on campus, following UFC 253. Well, not exactly. "Not at all," Royval (12-4) corrected with a laugh, speaking post-fight to Cageside Press in a...

UFC 253 marked the return of the Ultimate Fighting Championship to "Fight Island" in a big way. After a successful stint in Abu Dhabi in July, the UFC was no doubt hoping that lightning would strike twice, putting on another...

It was only six weeks ago that Jan Blachowicz knew for sure that he would not be fighting Jon Jones. That's when the UFC e-mailed him an offer to face Dominick Reyes at UFC 253, for the vacant light...

Flyweight Kai Kara-France hasn't fought since back in February, at home in New Zealand. So when the call came to fight this weekend at UFC 253, despite only one name being offered, "Don't Blink" jumped at the chance. Even...

Women's bantamweight Sijara Eubanks had all of an hour to figure out who would accompany her to Fight Island this week. In fact, she got the phone call from her manager the night before, telling her that she had...