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Legacy Fighting Alliance kicked off a big weekend for the promotion Friday, with LFA 111 marking the first of two LFA events in just three days. It also marked the organization's first international event, as the promotion was traveling...

Friday's Bellator 262 card looked to answer a simple question with its main event: would Juliana Velasquez establish a new era as flyweight champion? Or would Denise Kielholtz make the Brazilian's reign a short one? The undefeated Velasquez, 11-0 to...

Las Vegas, NV — The UFC Vegas 31 official (and only) weigh-ins took place Friday morning in Las Vegas, with the full card of 22 fighters successfully making weight. Saturday's Fight Night card, technically UFC on ESPN 26, is headlined...

Las Vegas, NV — UFC Vegas 31 featherweight Billy Quantantillo enters Saturday's showdown against Gabriel Benitez coming off the first loss of his UFC tenure. "It was a tough loss, but I was on a nine-fight winning streak including a...

Uncasville, CT — The first bout of Juliana Velasquez's title reign arrives Friday night in Connecticut, at the Mohegan Sun Arena. The undefeated champion is stepping in the cage for her first fight of 2021 at Bellator 262. It's also...

Poland's KSW returns to action this weekend, with KSW 62 headlined by Olympic gold medalist Szymon Kolecki. Weigh-ins for the event took place Friday morning in Warsaw, with all fighters successfully making weight for Saturday's card. Kolecki (9-1), who won...

Las Vegas, NV — After winning big off a slam on the Contender Series, Dustin Stoltzfus' UFC debut fizzled. Against Kyle Daukaus, Stoltzfus (13-2) fought to an uninspired unanimous decision loss at UFC 256. It's a hard loss to take anything...

Las Vegas, NV — Through his first seven fights, multi-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Rodolfo Vieira admits that he never felt comfortable in the cage. He most certainly did not feel comfortable in fight number eight, which represented his first...

Trailing in the wake of Poirier vs. McGregor 3, which proved to be another massively successful Conor McGregor card for the UFC (1.8 million buys, reportedly), UFC Vegas 31 felt like an afterthought. But look a little closer, and...

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....