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Heavy Hitters kicked off 2022 for ONE Championship, and it was strawweight champion Xiong Jing Nan anchoring the card in the main event. The Chinese strawweight world champion had been perfect under the ONE Championship banner, save for a failed...

A women's bantamweight bout between Josiane Nunes (8-1) and Wu Yanan (11-4) has been booked for the UFC's February 26, 2022 Fight Night event. Cageside Press confirmed the booking Friday, following an initial report by Eurosport.nl's Marcel Dorff, citing the...

A bantamweight showdown between seven-fight UFC veteran Julio Arce and Brazilian newcomer Daniel "Willycat" Santos has been added to UFC 273. Both fighters confirmed the booking on social media, following an initial report by Eurosport.nl. The fight finds Arce (17-5) looking...

With Ilia Topuria losing opponent Movsar Evloev to illness, Canadian featherwieght Charles Jourdain has stepped up to take his place at UFC 270 next week. News of Jourdain's involvement in the fight was first reported by KOImenero MMA's Álvaro Gª...

With Aleksei Oleinik out of his UFC 270 bout against Greg Hardy, another formidable Eastern European heavyweight has taken his place. In place of Oleinik, Hardy will now face Moldovan heavyweight Sergei Spivak. "The Polar Bear" switching spots with "The...

ONE Championship returns to action with Heavy Hitters on Friday, January 14, it's first event of 2022. The card goes down live in Singapore, with a women's strawweight title fight in the main event. That bout will see Chinese champion...

The very public and very troubled contract negotiations between UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou and the promotion appear to be stalled. Speaking to ESPN on Thursday, Ngannou stated that he is willing to sit out the remainder of the year...

Like it or not, weight-cutting is deeply rooted in mixed martial arts. MMA adopted its weight-cutting from the sport of wrestling, where it is presumed to be very advantageous to be the biggest and strongest in your weight class....

With a fight at UFC 270 later this month falling through, South Korea's Ji Yeon Kim will now compete in February. Kim (9-4-2) will face Brazil's Priscila Cachoeira (10-4) at the UFC's February 26, 2022 Fight Night event. Cageside Press...

The first significant MMA event of 2022 arrived on Wednesday night, with Invicta FC 45 bringing an atomweight title fight to Kansas City, Kansas. The rematch between Alesha Zappitella and Jessica Delboni had been in the works since last summer....