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UFC on ESPN+ 25 goes down on February 15 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The UFC Rio Rancho card will be headlined by a possible #1 contender bout in the light heavyweight division between Corey Anderson and Jan Błachowicz. Held in the Santa...

Ultimate Fighter 27 winner Brad Katona, who came out on top of a season full of undefeated fighters, is a UFC athlete no more. On Tuesday, the Canadian confirmed a report by TSN revealing that he had been cut...

A welterweight showdown has joined the ranks of April's UFC 249. Belal Muhammad will be looking to make it three straight wins when he takes on former Bellator champ Lyman Good at the event. MMA Junkie was first to...

Bellator welterweight champion Douglas Lima will be moving up to challenge Gegard Mousasi for the vacant middleweight title on May 9 in San Jose. Just 24 hours after it was announced that he had signed a new contract extension with...

Every UFC fighter, Bellator fighter, UFC champion, Bellator champion, hall of famer, and legend of the sport starts their career the same. This time out, we put the focus on young up-and-coming prospects who are still early in their...

The latest fighter to run afoul of USADA is Michel Prazeres, who has been handed down a two-year ban from competition after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. USADA continues to test UFC athletes, and they continue to test positive...

Bellator has announced that welterweight champion Douglas Lima and flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane have signed multi-fight, multi-year extensions with the company. Early Monday, Bellator MMA sent out a press release stating that reigning welterweight and flyweight champions Douglas Lima and...

Judging was on the hot seat this past weekend. A number of fights came under fire thanks to puzzling scores being returned by judges. Among them, Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes (49-46 Jones was rather galling), Andre Ewell vs....

Inscribed on the wall of the old TUF gym, "never leave it in the hands of the judges" became something of a mantra for fighters and MMA fans in years gone by. Yet while the quote became cliche, the...

At UFC 247 we witnessed two highly entertaining title fights. Both of which saw the champion retained his or her title. Jon Jones was able to notch a split decision win over Dominick Reyes in a razor-close fight, while...