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After two years tied up on the sidelines due to visa issues, Mexican featherweight Fernando Padilla finally got to make his promotional debut at UFC Vegas 72 on Saturday, paired up with the always game Julian Erosa. Erosa entered the...

Rising heavyweights Marcos Rogerio de Lima and Waldo Cortes-Acosta threw down on the UFC Vegas 72 main card on Saturday — with the winner within striking distance of a ranking. Brazil's de Lima was 3-1 across his last four fights,...

Las Vegas, NV — Long considered a top prospect on the regional circuit in her native Canada, Jamey-Lyn Horth finally arrived in the UFC on Saturday night. At UFC Vegas 72, the flyweight moved up to bantamweight to capture a...

Trey Waters was stepping up on short notice at UFC Vegas 72 on Saturday, replacing Ange Loosa in a welterweight fight with Josh Quinlan. Quinlan had yet to taste defeat at either the amateur or professional level, leaving Waters with...

Former middleweight Jake Collier was looking to avoid the dreaded 0-3 stretch when he took on Martin Buday in a heavyweight featured prelim at UFC Vegas 72 on Saturday. Collier had suffered back-to-back losses against Andrei Arlovski and Chris Barnett,...

Conflict between Cody Durden and Charles Johnson sprung up before the two even got into the cage on Saturday night for their flyweight tilt. Months of Twitter spats bled over into the face-offs on weigh-in day. In the fight, Durden...

A mid-July UFC Fight Night card now has a main event. Former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos (32-14) will face off with fellow Brazilian standout Vicente Luque (21-9-1) in a welterweight contest in the main event of the promotion's July...

Promotional newcomer Irina Alekseeva turned heads at Friday's UFC Vegas 72 weigh-in for all the wrong reasons. After missing weight for her bantamweight fight with Stephanie Egger, the Russian nevertheless celebrated on the scale. The fight, thankfully, moved forward and...

Song Yadong and Ricky Simon got an unexpected upgrade to their bantamweight fight, originally scheduled last week as the UFC Vegas 71 main event. With Renato Moicano pulling out of a fight with Arman Tsarukyan, the original UFC Vegas 72...

Stepping up on short notice to make his debut at UFC Vegas 72 on Saturday was Marcus McGhee, booked into a scheduled 140lb catchweight with Journey Newson. The catchweight affair was necessitated when Brian Kelleher was forced off the card...