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Former Bellator MMA women's featherweight champion Julia Budd makes her regular season debut at PFL 3 this Friday in Arlington, TX, after signing with the promotion as a free agent last year. From that moment on, Budd became the biggest...

Phoenix, AZ - When Saturday night rolls around it will have been just one day short of UFC lightweight Donald Cerrone's last fight in the octagon. That night he lost to Alex Morono via TKO. This time around he...

TopTurtleMMA · Episode 324: Brandon Royval, Ray Cooper III, and UFC 274 Brandon Royval Interview (2:01) To kick off this week's show, we're talking with UFC flyweight contender Brandon Royval. He discusses the state of the title picture in the 125lbs...

Phoenix, AZ — Michael Chandler always always been a gracious fighter with the media, and he was happy to put on his analyst cap at Wednesday's UFC 274 media day, ahead of his showdown with Tony Ferguson. The lightweight dream...

Phoenix, AZ — Some fighters feel that you're not truly the champion until you've defended your title, but that was not the case for Charles Oliveira. Oliveira (32-8, 1NC) returns atop UFC 274, where he'll put his lightweight belt on...

Phoenix, AZ — Eight years is an awfully long time between fights. But that's the amount of time that has passed since Carla Esparza and "Thug" Rose Namajunas first shared the octagon together. The occasion was the finale of The...

Phoenix, AZ — Despite Charles Oliveira's impressive run to the UFC lightweight title and beyond, UFC 274 opponent Justin Gaethje does not see the same level of danger from the Brazilian that he saw in Khabib Nurmagomedov. "They're definitely not...

Melvin Manhoef or Alex Polizzi, it doesn't seem to matter to Bellator 280's Yoel Romero. He went from one to the other last week, with Polizzi stepping in for an injured Manhoeff in Paris this Friday. "They're both same stature,...

Ryan Bader, 38 years young, defends his Bellator MMA heavyweight championship this Friday at Bellator 280. There, Bader (29-7, 1NC) takes on Cheick Kongo, roughly eight years his senior. But despite recently signing a contract extension that he may not...

Cheick Kongo gets another chance — in all honesty, likely his last — to capture heavyweight gold at Bellator 280 this Friday in Paris, France. The occasion will be Kongo's second time fighting at home, after the French government legalized...