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The Contender Series is back, kicking off its seventh season this week with a five-fight card booked as a double-header with the ongoing The Ultimate Fighter 31. As a result, the Dana White's Contender Series 2023 season opener comes at...

Dana White's Contender Series returns on Tuesday night to kick off its seventh and latest season. The fighting show featuring prospects looking to break into the UFC has become a proven producer of future stars for the promotion, including...

For the first time in over four years the UFC returned to Nashville, Tennessee, this past Saturday, as ranked bantamweights clashed in the UFC Nashville main event. The originally scheduled main event was between Cory Sandhagen and Umar Nurmagomedov, but...

UFC Nashville is in the books, and turned out to be an entertaining card, outside of a main event that left plans apathetic thanks to the lack of explosiveness (thanks in part to an injury suffered by Cory Sandhagen). What...

It has been close to two years since we last saw James Gallagher inside the Bellator cage, but that layoff comes to an end this Friday at Bellator 298. Gallagher (11-2), who had become a bonafide star for the company...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twNvEwHV1qs&t=263s It wasn't all that long ago that Reno's Payton Talbott didn't think to highly of MMA. While he's riding a 10-fight win streak into a Contender Series showdown with a UFC contract on the line, he not only didn't...

The beauty of the sport that is MMA is that fighters come to the cage from all backgrounds. The sport attracts everything from athletes in other spots and wrestlers to teachers and blue collar workers. While some paths are...

Bellator MMA #3-ranked heavyweight Steve Mowry was alway keen on booking a rematch with Valentin Moldavsky, a rematch that finally arrives at Bellator 298 in Sioux Falls, SD this Friday. It just took a little longer than expected to get...

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Undefeated at 8-0, featherweight Lucas Brennan returns to the Bellator cage this Friday for Bellator 298, where he gets a stiff test in the form of Brazil's Weber Almeida. Brennan doesn't necessarily fit the tough guy mould you might expect...