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Patchy Mix enters the bantamweight grand prix a sizable underdog against former champ Kyoji Horiguchi, and he's ready to prove the odds-makers wrong. Mix (15-1) heads into Bellator 279 on a two-fight win streak, and it's Horiguchi in the cross-hairs....

Arlington, TX — Raush Manfio says MMA judges need to be more transparent. Defending PFL lightweight champion Manfio (16-3) picked up a come-from-behind knockout win against UFC vet Don Madge to kick off his 2022 PFL season. The knockout got...

Legacy Fighting Alliance returned to action on Friday at the 4 Bears Casino & Lodge in New Town, North Dakota, and put middleweight prospects in the spotlight in the LFA 130 main event. Capping off the night were Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz...

Including Saturday itself, it will have been 500 days since we last saw Ilima-Lei Macfarlane competing inside the Bellator MMA cage. It's something that caught the former flyweight champ herself by surprise. "I wasn't even aware that it was that...

Arlington, TX — After a very disappointing end to his rookie PFL season, Cory Hendricks had a chip on his shoulder. Hendricks (9-4) picked up a big win to kick off his 2022 PFL season by defeating 2019 light heavyweight...

Night one of Bellator's double feature in Honolulu, Hawaii arrived on Friday, with Bellator 278. Topped by a women's flyweight title fight, it was the thinner of the two cards planed for the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena this weekend —...

Russian newcomer Nikita Mikhailov will enter a bantamweight grand prix wild card fight on Friday night, stepping into the Bellator 278 card on short notice. It's his first fight with the promotion, with Mikhailov (9-1) filling in for Josh Hill...

At age 40, Clay Guida is entering UFC Vegas 52 off a Performance of the Night-winning victory against Leandro Santos back in December. Now, he's paired up with another young up-and-comer, Claudio Puelles, fourteen years Guida's junior. It's a big...

Promising flyweight prospect Muhammad Mokaev made a huge splash in his octagon debut at UFC London last month — and he's ready for more. After openly campaigning for a fight and expressing frustration at the lack of opponents willing to...

In a fight officially billed as a strawweight title eliminator at ONE 156 on Friday, Jarred Brooks got the job done in under a round. Brooks (19-2, 1NC), a former UFC standout who was victim of that promotion nearly scuttling...