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It’s back. After awarding 46 UFC contracts over its 10 episodes in 2023, the eighth season of Dana White’s Contender Series is just hours away from kicking off. Later this evening, the first crop of 10 MMA prospects step into the UFC Apex’s Octagon in an effort to win a deal in the sport’s top pr...
Let’s take a trip back in time to roughly five years ago: Dana White’s Contender Series was about to begin its third season on the air and it did so in a new facility. After having spent the first two years of its life inside the TUF Gym, the original home of The Ultimate Fighter television serie...
The second event of the month of August in MMA‘s top promotion is about to commence. Tonight, the UFC Apex facility plays host to another edition of UFC Fight Night: UFC on ESPN 61. Live coverage of this UFC event begins at 5 pm ET/ 2 pm PT on ESPN and ESPN+. Due to several […]
The dog days of summer are winding down, but the UFC is just heating up. This Saturday, one week away from UFC 305 in Perth, Australia, Dana White‘s promotion sets up shop in its Las Vegas homebase for UFC on ESPN 61 from the UFC Apex facility. Live coverage of this event begins at a […]
If you thought the MMA schedule for Saturday was finished after the afternoon slate wrapped, you’re wrong. Seven hours of competitive violence in the daytime is just the beginning of a marathon day. MMA’s top promotion returns to live action in the evening. A week removed from a return visit to D...
On the eve of Father’s Day, you and Dad can sit down tonight and watch some fights. The third of five straight weeks of MMA action from the UFC takes place in Enterprise, NV at the Apex facility for UFC Vegas 93. Live coverage begins tonight at 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT with the […]
While another wave of uncertainty looms over the status of the planned UFC 303 main event on June 29, MMA‘s top promotion rolls on with the last event before the summer solstice hits. Saturday, one week removed from a stop at Yum! Center in Louisville, KY on the campus of The University of Louisv...
It’s been a lengthy stretch for MMA‘s top promotion of late. After Saturday’s card, the UFC will take next weekend off for the Memorial Day holiday inside the United States before embarking on a five-week stretch encompassing every weekend in June with an event. Before the bye week, the promotion...
Due to the pandemic, the UFC has used the UFC APEX to host events in the United States after the Nevada State Athletic Commission reopened combat sporting events in the state. The events at the APEX facility were fought inside a smaller octagon than the regular-sized ones used at most UFC events....
Ketlen Vieira takes on Yana Kunitskaya in a scheduled bantamweight clash this weekend. At UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis, Brazil’s Vieira has a chance to further her quest to become a UFC titleholder. But first, she has to get through former Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Kunitskaya. Despit...
UFC Vegas 18 returns to the Apex facility in Las Vegas with an absolute cracker main event in the heavyweight division between no. 5 ranked Alistair Overeem facing off against no. 6 ranked Alexander Volkov. With Overeem and Volkov ranked fifth and sixth respectively, a victory here could propel e...
UFC APEX a ‘state-of-the-art’ facility Constructing the new UFC APEX may have turned out to be one of the best things UFC has done as a company. Opened back in June 2019, who would have thought the facility would become the UFC’s savior during the COVID era. Well no one did because nobody in 201...
It seems that COVID-19 affecting UFC events this year has become the norm as multiple positive tests has led to two fight cancellations and one opponent change at UFC Vegas 17. Aiemann Zahabi will not be fighting this weekend as the Canadian announced through his social media that he had contract...
UFC Fight Night 176 brings the heat with a hard-hitting heavyweight tilt. The accomplished, Alistair Overeem squares off against streaking Brazilian, Augusto Sakai. Both athletes have a lot in common, preferring to fight orthodox and like to keep it standing. However, Overeem likes to switch to s...
A bantamweight tussle has been added to the September 5 UFC event, as Cole Smith takes on Hunter Azure. The match was revealed by MMA DNA’s Marcel Dorff this Friday afternoon. Cole Smith vs. Hunter Azure will square off on September 5 Smith (7-1) was signed to the UFC in early 2019 and won his de...
The ‘Golden Boy’ Edmen Shahbayzan takes on Derek Brunson in a battle of top 10 UFC middleweights, this Saturday at UFC Fight Night 173, live from the UFC Apex Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before betting the fight, take a look at the individual betting trends for each fighter, shared here at MMASu...