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It took a minute, but it feels like Pannie Kianzad has finally arrived in the UFC. The bantamweight, who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 28 (at featherweight), wasn't gifted a contract at the end of the season. Few fighters were....

MMA is a sport full of colorful personalities. But not everyone can be a Chael Sonnen, Rampage Jackson, or Conor McGregor. For every Darren Till, quite frankly, there's a Tom Aspinall. And that's fine. Let's be honest, one Darren...

"To be honest, it did not play out the way I thought it was going to play out," Mark Lemminger said following his Bellator 242 fight with Jake Smith. The welterweight pair threw down on the preliminary card of Bellator's...

Raufeon Stots earned his second straight win inside the Bellator cage on Friday. Submitting the previously undefeated Cass Bell by rear-naked choke in the third round at Bellator 242, the bantamweight continued his steady progress up the 135lb ladder. That...

Invicta FC has announced it's next event, and it features a vacant atomweight title fight in the main event. Following Jinh Yu Frey's missing weight earlier this year in her title defense against Ashley Cummins, the Invicta FC 105lb belt...

"Have fun, smile, and don't have bad energy." That, at least in part, was what welterweight Jason Jackson saw as keys to his performance at Bellator 242. Whether the positive approach helped or not, the result was the right one....

Now former-UFC fighter Gilbert Menedez has been handed a two-year suspension from competition by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Melendez, 38, was last seen in action at UFC 239 in July 2019. Once a Strikeforce lightweight champion, who challenged for gold...

Fifteen fights certainly gave the fans plenty to talk about Saturday at UFC Fight Island 3. It gave the UFC brass more to talk about as well with Dana White and co. awarding a rare six Performance of the...

In the main event of UFC on ESPN 14 — UFC Fight Island 3 if you prefer — Robert Whittaker earned himself a decision victory over Darren Till. The seven-fight main card delivered in the end, and today we will...

To start last week, Ras Hylton had no fight planned. Then came Tuesday morning. Eventual Bellator 242 opponent Rudy Schaffroth had been expected to face Hard Knocks 365 heavyweight Steve Mowry. But Mowry was forced out of the event due...