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Just a week out from one of the biggest UFC cards of the year, the promotion had a tough task of building excitement for UFC Vegas 81. It's a good job that one of the most prolific strikers in UFC...

UFC Vegas 81 this past weekend delivered a thrilling main event that saw a couple of near finishes, at least one from both fighters involved — Edson Barboza and Sodiq Yusuff. The bout took home Fight of the Night...

Bantamweight Khai Wu has a big fight coming up on the PFL Championship undercard on November 24 — but it's the inevitable questions about one of his students that he's been answering over the past while. That would be Mark...

With USADA and the UFC are ending their partnership, Jon Jones wants to see his No Contest against Daniel Cormier reverted back to a win. Israel Adesanya, meanwhile, is taking an extended hiatus from MMA in the wake of...

It should come as no surprise to see Edson Barboza and Sodiq Yusuff collecting the Fight of the Night bonus at Saturday's UFC Vegas 81. The Fight Night card was an understated affair on paper that delivered a very solid...

Legendary MMA striker Edson Barboza, still going strong at thirty-seven years old, beat Sodiq Yusuff in the main event of UFC Vegas 81 in a bout where Edson came back from near-unconsciousness to win a unanimous decision victory in...

The UFC brought the always exciting Edson Barboza home to the Apex in the main event of UFC Vegas 81, taking on rising featherweight Sodiq Yusuff. The main event billing was the first for "Super Sodiq," who has built a...

The co-main event of UFC Vegas 81 saw an all-Brazilian women's flyweight clash go down, with former title challenger and Invicta FC champ Jennifer Maia taking on Viviane Araujo. Early on, the pair traded leg kicks and jabs, with neither...

If there was a front-runner for Fight of the Night at UFC Vegas 81 when the full card was first announced, you have to imagine that Jonathan Martinez vs. Adrian Yanez would have been it. Two fighters who have proven...

With Marc-Andre Barriault forced to withdraw from this weekend's UFC Vegas 81, it was Andre Petroski stepping in on short-notice against the always entertaining Michel Pereira. Petroski had been a smashing success since entering the UFC, while Pereira had had...