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Capping off the night at Bellator 300, a milestone event for the long-running MMA promotion, was a lightweight grand prix semifinal and title fight. Usman Nurmagomedov, the undefeated cousin and heir apparent at least in terms of the family name...

Two of the most tenured veterans in women's MMA faced off in the co-main event of Bellator 300 from San Diego, California as Cris Cyborg successfully defended her featherweight title against 'Alpha' Cat Zingano, winning by TKO in the...

On a historic night for Bellator MMA, the promotion's inaugural women's flyweight champion and one of its biggest stars Ilima-Lei Macfarlane put on a gritty showing but fell (quite literally) after throwing down with flyweight champ Liz Carmouche. The fight...

After instituting a ban on fighters carrying flags out to the octagon and displaying them post-fight at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, UFC President and CEO Dana White has reversed that decision. Speaking at the UFC...

There are those over the past week who have claimed that lightweight Bobby Green didn't deserve to headline UFC Vegas 80 (not to mention his opponent on Saturday, Grant Dawson). Beg to differ. Coming off a win over Tony Ferguson and...

Joe Pyfer was Joe Pyfer once again when he took on knockout artist Abdul Razak Alhassan in the co-main event of UFC Vegas 80 and submitted him in the second round. This was the biggest fight of Pyfer's young MMA...

Alex Morono and Joaquin Buckley each entered their UFC Vegas 80 bout off of second-round finish victories over fellow welterweights. Despite a finish loss last year, veteran striker Morono has won five of his last six fights in the division...

Securing his first fight as a father, Drew Dober made quick work of Ricky Glenn in a lightweight fight at UFC Vegas 80 on Saturday. "I came in with zero expectation, only reaction," Dober said in his post-fight interview, mentioning...

Alexander Hernandez returned to the featherweight division on Saturday for a battle with "Senor Perfecto" Bill Algeo at UFC Vegas 80. Both fighters were coming off single wins: Algeo over TJ Brown, and "The Great Ape" Hernandez over Jim Miller...

Romanian Diana Belbita, living in and training out of Stoney Creek, Ontario in Canada, took on her toughest test to date in Polish ex-title challenger Karolina Kowalkiewicz at UFC Vegas 80. Belbita was coming off a big win at UFC...