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UFC Vegas 101 is here! Later today, the UFC’s 2025 schedule begins at the UFC Apex with the first card of the new year from MMA‘s top promotion. Live coverage of this afternoon/evening’s event begins at 4 pm ET/ 1 pm PT on ESPN+ inside the United States with the prelims. Main card action follows […]
Lemoore’s Tachi Palace has been the home of MMA in California since 2001, with LFA making its promotional debut at the venue with 12 fights for the Central Valley Locals for its presentation of LFA 199: Farias vs. Visconde. The matchup poses as the first time in LFA’s 199 event-long history that ...
ONE Championship is back tonight with ONE Fight Night 27 on the eve of UFC Vegas 101. This first fight night of 2025 features a nine-fight card across the combative disciplines, ranging from MMA, Muay Thai, to submission-only grappling. Inside the United States, ONE Fight Night 27 is streamed on ...
After a three-week break for the festive season, UFC Vegas 101 is set to take place on Saturday night. Friday morning in Las Vegas, the official weigh-ins for this weekend’s card took place. MMA‘s leading organization has its main event locked in following the weigh-in. Dern and Ribas On Weight f...
In the freshman outing for the UFC in 2025, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Mackenzie Dern (14-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) will clash with Amanda Ribas (13-5 MMA, 7-4 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 249 in Las Vegas. Originally meant to compete against each other at UFC on ESPN 63, the pair was then suddenly reschedu...
Kicking off the first UFC show of the year, strawweight standouts Amanda Ribas and Mackenzie Dern go toe-to-toe for a second time at UFC Vegas 101. Over four years removed from her loss to the Brazilian, Dern is attempting to enter the 115-lb division top five, sitting at No. 6 on the official ra...
Cody Jerome makes his ONE Championship debut in a catchweight Muay Thai battle against Luke Lessei at ONE Fight Night 27. Jerome earned the opportunity by winning the Road to ONE: Canada tournament. Stepping up onto the global stage for the first time does not daunt the Canadian, who is looking t...
UFC Mexico Fight Card Taking Shape The UFC roadshow will travel south of the border in the first quarter of 2025, where Arena CDMX in Mexico City will play host to a Fight Night event, UFC Mexico, on March 29th. Former middleweight interim title contender Kelvin Gastelum (19-9 MMA, 13-9 UFC) has ...
Invicta FC 60 is less than one month away. On Feb. 7, 48 hours before the NFL’s two best teams square off in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, one of the biggest sports weekends of the early part of 2025 gets underway in Atlanta. To quote the title […]
It looks as though Rodolfo Vieira’s first walk to the cage this year at UFC Fight Night 251 on February 15 is no longer in jeopardy. Originally scheduled to contend with Jacob Malkoun, the Aussie announced last week that he had to bow out from the bout due to picking up an injury. Fortunately, […]
AI in MMA could become huge in the coming years. MMA, much like most other sports takes time to prepare for and, more than other sports is highly anxiety-inducing, especially for the fighters themselves. Although all fighters, coaches and teams will enter a fight with a good idea as to how their ...
While John Lineker wants to get back to the top of ONE Championship‘s bantamweight MMA division, he has found himself in the thick of things in the “art of eight limbs.” After back-to-back victories in Muay Thai, he is close to breaking through into the official ONE athlete rankings. At ONE Fight...
ONE Championship returns for its first U.S. primetime event in 2025 with ONE Fight Night 27: Tang vs. Abdullaev on Prime Video. The exciting card will see matches across MMA, Muay Thai, and submission grappling. Athletes are ready to show out and ascend to stardom in Bangkok, Thailand. But what r...
Unbeaten Prospect Wants To Be The Youngest PFL Champion Much of the discourse surrounding the PFL’s upcoming Road to Dubai: Champions Series event later this month has centred around the main event between Usman Nurmagomedov and Paul Hughes. The promotion has leaned heavily into the “Dagestan vs....
After more than five years since his last fight, bantamweight legend Urijah Faber (35-11 MMA, 11-7 UFC) has been released from the UFC roster. His departure from the company comes after a recent bit of roster cleaning, with him being let go from his contract alongside Victor Hugo, Kyung Ho Kang, ...
Kevin Lee (20-8 MMA, 11-8 UFC) began his journey in the sport’s top promotion by way of an appearance during the undercard of UFC 169 on Feb. 1, 2014, dropping a unanimous decision after 15 minutes to “Raging” Al Iaquinta (14-7-1 MMA, 9-6 UFC) inside Prudential Center on the eve of Super Bowl XLV...