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Saturday will see one of the most enticing collisions of strikers yet in 2021 as surging contender Giga Chikadze meets UFC veteran Edson Barboza at UFC Vegas 35. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1430984141152030720?s=20 It is a testament to the business of mixed martial arts that...

A pair of top 15 bantamweights will collide in November — including former UFC lightweight champ Frankie Edgar. ESPN was first to report the news that No. 8 ranked bantamweight Edgar will fight No. 13 Marlon Vera on November 6...

This week's Writer vs. Fighter features Cageside Press' resident news breaker, and Sikjitsu featherweight, Austin Arnett, making their picks for UFC Vegas 35. It's time for another battle for pick supremacy. We pit those who write about face punch with...

A thrilling lightweight battle between Edson Barboza and Giga Chikadze headlines UFC Vegas 35 above a pair of Ultimate Fighter finale bouts and Cageside Press has its picks set. Strikers don't get much better than the two featherweights in the...

In the second of two featherweight semifinals at PFL Playoffs 3, Brendan Loughnane looked to continue his string of impressive performances against a Dagestani killer. Loughnane, who had won every fight he'd appeared in since being denied a contract on...

Invicta FC 44 marked the promotion's return to pay-per-view, with a card aptly entitled A New Era. Taking place Friday night in the all-female organization's home base of Kansas City, two new champions would be crowned — and the main...

For those who like their fights a little spicy, the build-up to Chris Wade vs. Bubba Jenkins at PFL Playoffs 3 must have been tantalizing. Ahead of the pair's featherweight semifinal, Wade had suggested the public was buying into Jenkins'...

Defending 2019 light heavyweight champ Emiliano Sordi had one more hurdle to clear on route to this year's PFL finals: former UFC standout and TUF Brazil 3 winner Antonio Carlos Jr. The pair clashed on Friday's PFL Playoffs 3 main...

As of UFC Vegas 35 this Saturday, Vanessa Demopoulos can finally say she's a UFC fighter. And that, "Lil Monster" tells us, feels like home. "It feels like home. Honestly. It feels like I've worked really hard for this," Demopoulos...

Edson Barboza believes that his main event fight with Giga Chikadze at UFC Vegas 35 will be a war. It's hard to think of a Barboza fight that didn't end up being a war. You would think with 25 fights...