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After a fight with Linton Vassell fell through last month, Brazilian heavyweight Marcelo Golm finally makes his promotional debut at Bellator 265 this Friday. Golm (8-3) competed under the UFC banner from 2017 to 2019, posting a 1-3 record before...

A lightweight rematch will take place inside the octagon this October. Combate was the first to report the news that Mason Jones and Alan Patrick will rematch on October 23 at a yet-to-be-announced UFC event. Both fighters would confirm the...

If the lightweight division was already sporting some of the best matchups in MMA, it just got even better. BJPenn.com was first to report the news that No. 8 ranked lightweight Dan Hooker will fight rising prospect Nasrat Haqparast on...

Fabio Cherant missed weight in his UFC debut, but he says that won't happen in his next fight. Three days. Cherant (7-2) found out he was fighting Alonzo Menifield at UFC 260 back in March on just three days' notice....

ONE Championship's Empower card, rescheduled from May due to the coronavirus pandemic, is back on — with Xiong Jing Nan defending her strawweight title in the main event. The all-female affair will also feature the launch of ONE's much anticipated...

Gegard Mousasi had the first title defense of his second reign as Bellator middleweight champion on Friday, opposite dangerous grappler John Salter. And after a tiny bit of adversity in the early going, Mousasi put the challenger away by TKO...

Coming off a disappointing loss on Dana White's Contender Series, Khadzhi Bastaev made his promotional debut at Bellator 264 a memorable one. While the promotion doesn't hand out post-fight bonuses, something Bastaev made note of following his win, his battle...

The first event of the PFL's 2021 playoffs has come and gone, and Hawaii's Ray Cooper III is headed to his third consecutive welterweight final. Cooper anchored the main event opposite former UFC contender and Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald...

"It was a good experience," heavyweight Davion Franklin said of his Bellator 264 fight against the previously undefeated Everett Cummings. It was also a short one. Mixed martial artists aren't exactly paid by the minute, and Franklin made sure to get...

Ray Cooper III is headed to his third consecutive PFL post-season later this year. With a decisive decision win over former Bellator champ and UFC contender Rory MacDonald on Friday atop the PFL Playoffs 1 card, welterweight Cooper now finds...