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The third Bellator MMA card of 2023 has picked up some additional fighters, including a key welterweight bout. Bellator 292, which takes place on March 10, 2023, will see Michael "Venom" Page (20-2) face off with Goiti Yamauchi in a...

A freak injury has forced Nathaniel Wood out of his UFC 286 fight with Lerone Murphy. The featherweight contest had previously been announced for the March 18, 2023 Pay-Per-View event in London, England. However, on Wednesday, Wood revealed that a...

Former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who returns to action at heavyweight next month at UFC 285, is charting a course through his new weight class. Jones (26-1, 1NC) will face Ciryl Gane in the main event of the March...

The UFC has rather surprisingly released bantamweight Saidyokub Kakhramonov, the fighter announced on Wednesday. In a series of posts to his since-deleted Twitter account, Kakhramonov (10-3), who went 2-1 inside the octagon, says he was handed his walking papers while...

Women's bantamweight action is set for the UFC's May 13, 2023 event. Jessica-Rose Clark (11-8, 1NC) will welcome Tainara Lisboa (5-2) to the octagon at the card, which does not yet have a location or venue officially announced. Iridium Sports Agency,...

UFC President Dana White has dismissed Islam Makhachev's concerns about the lack of promotion surrounding this weekend's UFC 284. In the weeks leading up to the event, the promotion seemingly ignored their return to Australia, and it's champ versus champ...

Don Shainis got his call to the UFC the way that so many before him have - on short notice. Not only did he only have two weeks to prepare, but he would be facing the #12 featherweight in...

Bellator MMA has reasons to be optimistic about their future on broadcast network CBS. Saturday's Bellator 290 drew an average of over one million viewers, on a card stacked with two title fights including the retirement of legendary heavyweight Fedor...

After opening locations in Las Vegas and China, the UFC is set to open its third Performance Institute. The promotion announced Tuesday that they would be opening their latest PI, a training and development facility, in Mexico City in the...

Since this past season of Contender Series, we've already seen a number of the graduates debut in the UFC. Both Bonfim brothers picked up big wins last month down in Brazil. Joe Pyfer, Raul Rosas Jr, Daniel Marcos, Mateusz...