Cageside Press

San Diego, CA — Heavyweight prospect Slim Trabelsi finally arrives in the big leagues at Bellator 300 in San Diego, CA on Saturday. Trabelsi (5-0) had inked a deal with the UFC in 2022 to compete in that organization, but...

San Diego, CA — Cat Zingano has had her eye on Cris Cyborg for a good long time now. "I felt like it was a matter of time, one way or the other," Zingano, 41, explained during this week's Bellator...

Just five or so months ago, Hawaii's Ilima-Lei Macfarlane told Cageside Press that she feared enduring grueling weight cuts was "significantly impacting" her chances at motherhood. Ahead of Bellator 300, Macfarlane, the promotion's former women's flyweight champ, missed weight for...

Bellator 300 arrived on Saturday at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego, CA, celebrating a significant milestone for a promotion that has been the #2 name in mixed martial arts for the better part of a decade. Established in 2008,...

Oktagon MMA was in action on Saturday, with a title unification bout topping the Oktagon 47 card at the Tipos Aréna in Bratislava, Slovakia. That main event saw Czech Republic's Karlos Vémola return to face interim champion Pavol Langer, with...

The UFC's next expected Canadian date has added recent TUF 31 winner Brad Katona. Katona (13-2), a Winnipeger who made the move to Dublin to train with SBG Ireland, will face Garrett Armfield (9-3) at UFC 297 on January 20,...

Xtreme Courture bantamweight Gustavo Lopez is one of the few American fighters making the trip to compete for Oktagon MMA, and he returns to the promotion this weekend at Oktagon 47 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Having made some extreme weight cuts...

Knockout artists Thanh Le and Ilya Freymanov faced off in the main event of ONE Fight Night 15 in Bangkok, Thailand for the ONE interim featherweight championship in MMA. Thanh Le had previously won the undisputed belt and defended it...

Undefeated Italian-Canadian fighter Jon Di Bella successfully made the first defense of his strawweight kickboxing title at ONE Fight Night 15 when he faced Danial 'Mini T' Williams at the legendary Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. Williams moved down in...

Bellator lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov is in the midst of a tournament, but the future implies there's a different reason to deliver against the dangerous Brent Primus at Bellator 300. https://twitter.com/BellatorMMA/status/1708882098873090186?s=20 At 25 years-old, Bellator's lightweight champion has the world on...