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City Kickboxing member Carlos Ulberg took on Nicolae Negumereanu in the opening bout of UFC 281, an event headlined by Ulberg's training partner Israel Adesanya. Former professional kickboxer Ulberg came into the match-up on the back of a two-fight winning...

The UFC has officially announced that the lightweight title fight between champion Islam Makhachev and featherweight title holder Alexander Volkanovski will take place at UFC 284 in Perth, Australia. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1591536311944388609?s=20&t=BWbz0_NDvdYtifp0TwaStQ The UFC has announced that the expected bout between lightweight champion...

Bantamweight Julio Arce faces off with Montel Jackson at UFC 281 this Saturday, and the 33-year old has seen a bit of a yo-yo effect in his career in terms of weight class. Starting out at bantamweight in his first...

China's Weili Zhang will look to become the latest fighter to reclaim strawweight gold at UFC 281 on Saturday night. "Thug" Rose Namajunas did it. Carla Esparza did it after that. Eight years on from defeating Namajunas to become the...

UFC 281 brings with it the return of Liverpool's Molly McCann, fighting without Paddy Pimblett by her side for a change. Pimblett will fight later this year in Las Vegas, but for McCann (13-4), she plans to "bring some European...

An interim lightweight title was on the line at KSW 76 on Saturday when featherweight champion Salahdine Parnasse made the move to claim a second belt. Parnasse, originally expected to face 155lb champ Marian Ziołkowski, drew Sabastian  Rajewski instead after...

Saturday saw U.K. promotion Cage Warriors return to action, with two title fights stacked atop the Cage Warriors 146 card. In the main event, Christian Leroy Duncan was set to make the first defense of his middleweight title against Bulgarian...

Israel Adesanya's motivation to finally get his hand raised against a familiar foe will be his fuel as he takes on highly touted knockout machine Alex Pereira at UFC 281. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1586855472556122113?s=20&t=P506L3jiEF0PHbQQqfkBighttps://twitter.com/ufc/status/1586855472556122113?s=20&t=P506L3jiEF0PHbQQqfkBig Let's look beyond the Twitter and Instagram clips. You've seen it...

Reigning champion Carla Esparza is looking to change the conversation from her uneventful last outing while Zhang Weili is looking to make the most out of her second chance to reclaim gold at UFC 281. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1590741356359536646?s=20&t=ugX7c2SMP7BQfNndfERArg "You are only as good...

After an aggressive run-in this past summer, Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler will finally collide in a high stakes bout in the lightweight division at UFC 281. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1514662682653171752?s=20&t=aF5uwwBXWa2bBWGyYKGcaQ Dustin Poirier has been in this position before.  "The Diamond" has become a...