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UFC Vegas 51 was a card that didn't exactly light the combat sports world on fire. Too many fouls, too many unfortunate finishes, including two technical decisions resulting from illegal strikes, and three bouts with point deductions. Then there was...

Sometimes a rematch comes along that simply makes sense, and is needed to figure out who could potentially be fighting for a shot at a world title. That is what we get with Vicente Luque vs. Belal Muhammad 2...

When Vicente Luque and Belal Muhammad first met years ago, at UFC 205 in 2016, the fight was almost an afterthought. Both fighters, still early in their UFC runs, were dwarfed by the larger names on that historic card in...

Perhaps it was a commentary on the paper-thin nature of Saturday's UFC Vegas 51 card that a pair of fighters with a combined zero fights in the promotion were serving as the co-main event. Then again, perhaps it was a...

A full three title fights topped the RIZIN 35 card in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday. The second of back-to-back cards at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza saw the promotion's lightweight, featherweight, and women's super atomweight titles all up for grabs....

The potential for fireworks was high when welterweights Miguel Baeza and Andre Fialho clashed on the UFC Vegas 51 main card on Saturday night. Fialho had made his UFC debut on short notice earlier this year, and was in search...

The second of two women's bantamweight clashes at UFC Vegas 51 on Saturday found Mayra Bueno Silva and Wu Yanan both looking to return to the win column. Brazil's Silva, a.k.a. "Sheetara," was 2-2-1 in the promotion overall, and entering...

Atop UFC Vegas 51 on Saturday night in Las Vegas was a welterweight rematch nearly six years in the making. Vicente Luque and Belal Muhammad had first met in 2016, part of the massive UFC 205 card. Much had changed...

One of two Canadian fighters on Saturday's UFC Vegas 51 card (the other being Jesse Ronson), featherweight T.J. Laramie was looking for his first win in the promotion. That would be no easy feat, however, in a match-up with...

Stepping in to replace Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos at UFC Vegas 51 was Contender Series alum Ange Loosa, paired up with deadly striker Mounir Lazzez. The welterweight pairing kicked off the Fight Night event's main card on Saturday at the...