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Bellator MMA announced Friday that women's featherweight champion Julia Budd would be topping the card at Bellator 189 this December, and making her first title defense in the process. She'll be facing Arlene Blencowe for the second time in...

Bellator 184's main event on Friday featured the first official bantamweight title defense in the promotion since December 2016. That's after late-notice challenger Leandro Higo (who fought earlier on the Bellator 184 card) missed weight in April at Bellator...

Bellator 184 took place Friday night live from the Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. In the evening's co-main event, former featherweight champ Daniel Mason-Straus returned for the first time since losing his featherweight title this past April to...

Former two-time Bellator featherweight champion Pat Curran returned to action at Bellator 184 on Friday. His first fight in over a year, Curran faced off against the durable John Teixeira (otherwise known as John Macapa) at the event, which...

Bellator MMA returned to action Friday night with Bellator 184, live from the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. In the main event, bantamweight champ Eduardo Dantas put his 135lb title on the line against challenger Darrion Caldwell. Prior...

Kevin Lee's first attempt at making weight Friday morning did not go according to plan. At the UFC 216 weigh-ins in Las Vegas, the lightweight, competing for an interim title against Tony Ferguson Saturday, was a pound over the...

UFC 216 is down a bout, as lightweight Nik Lentz fell ill during his weight cut for Saturday's event. Lentz was expected to face Will Brooks on the preliminary card airing on FX (in place of Fox Sports 1)....

Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee are fighting for what they call the true lightweight championship.  But the shadow of "The Notorious" looms over the UFC 216 main event. Over the summer, Conor McGregor solidified himself as the biggest star in...

UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson continues his march toward immortality, but Ray Borg may just not be the notch he needs on his record to reach that goal. On Saturday night, Demetrious Johnson will pursue a hallowed mark of 11...

The UFC has another sponsor on board. In a press release Thursday, the promotion announced that it had reached a "multi-year partnership" with sports drink maker BodyArmor. As a result, BodyArmor is now the "official sports drink" of the...