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The second straight lightweight scrap to kick off UFC Vegas 87 on Saturday saw AJ Cunningham stepping in to face L'udovit Klein on short notice. Cunningham, an LFA vet, had come up short on the Contender Series against Steven Nguyen,...

Kicking off Saturday's UFC Vegas 87 card at the Apex in Las Vegas, lightweight Loik Radzhabov welcomed Contender Series alum Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady to the octagon. A former PFL athlete with nine fights under that promotion's banner, Radzhabov was 1-1 to...

Saturday's Oktagon 54 card in Ostrava, Czech Republic was very much about the Tipsport Gamechanger tournament, even while headlined by a middleweight title fight. This year's Gamechanger tourny takes place at lightweight, and all but two fights on Saturday's Oktagon...

Count ONE Championship Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong among those unhappy with the performance of the promotion's ex-heavyweight champ, Arjan Bhullar, on Friday. Indo-Canadian Bhullar, a former UFC athlete prior to jumping to ONE as a free agent, was paired...

Bekzat Almakhan has the unenviable task of facing the unbeaten, 16-0 Umar Nurmagomedov in Almakhan's promotional debut at UFC Vegas 87. The card is headlined by heavyweights Jair Rozenstruik and Shamil Gaziev, but a couple of newcomers in Almakhan...

A smart signing by the UFC sees Allstars Training Center's Benardo Sopaj stepping in on short notice this weekend at UFC Vegas 87. While the card is headlined by heavyweights Jair Rozenstruik and Shamil Gaziev, banatamweight Sopaj gets Vinicius...

Many fighters make their debut in the UFC against one of two people. Either they face a fellow fresh-faced debutant looking to make their name, or they get a grizzled veteran getting one last chance to hold on to...

Taking a fight on four weeks notice is UFC light heavyweight Tyson Pedro who faces Vitor Petrino at UFC Vegas 87 on Saturday night at the UFC APEX. "Bring it. That's it," Pedro told reporters on Wednesday. "I was the hype...

ONE double champion Anatoly Malykhin continued hunting middleweight champion Renier de Ridder at ONE 166 after stopping him to win the light-heavyweight belt last year. Holland's submission sensation de Ridder had been a two-division champion in his own right before...

The first of three title fights at Friday's ONE 166 in Qatar saw strawweight champ Jarred Brooks run it back with ex-champ Joshua Pacio, and not surprisingly, things got off to a quick start. Brooks, a former UFC flyweight who...