Junior dos Santos and Francis Ngannou are getting a promotion of sorts.A A previously scheduled heavyweight bout between dos Santos and Ngannou has been moved from the UFC 239 pay-per-view card to the UFC Minneapolis main event, according to UFC officials Tuesday. ESPN was first to report the change. A rematch between former welterweight champions […]

The Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight division is arguably the deepest one in the promotion. Justin Gaethje is looking to continue to climb the rankings, and he has identified Conor McGregor as his latest target View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

UFC on ESPN 3 has a new headliner, as a heavyweight clash between Francis Ngannou and Junior dos Santos will top the June 29 card in Minneapolis, Minn. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Philipe Lins won’t be able to defend his Professional Fighters League heavyweight championship in 2019. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Raoni Barcelos doesn’t rule starting another training camp to fight Said Nurmagomedov. The Brazilian bantamweight prospect improved to 3-0 under the UFC banner with another finish, stopping short-notice replacement Carlos Huachin with elbows at Saturday night’s UFC 237 in Brazil. Huachin replaced Nurmagomedov on days’ notice, and Barcelos, who was […]

It only took Cosmo Alexandre one punch to send Sage Northcutt into the operating room. Taking to Instagram, Northcutt revealed he had suffered eight fractures from Alexandre’s knockout blow at ONE Championship: Enter the Dragon, forcing him to undergo nine hours of surgery in Singapore. View this post on Instagram Fresh out of surgery…I had […]

Sage Northcutt’s first career knockout loss came at a costly price. Northcutt’s anticipated ONE Championship debut went down Friday in Singapore, and it was essentially a worst-case scenario. Northcutt (11-3) was knocked out in brutal fashion just 29 seconds into his fight with Cosmo Alexandre (8-1), getting left face first on the canvas after taking […]

Women’s mixed martial arts pioneer Jessica Aguilar is no longer with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Johnny Walker only needed four months to turn himself into a must-watch attraction in the UFC. And now, he’s aiming at the sport’s best. The light heavyweight talent made quick work of everyone he’s faced so far inside the Octagon, demolishing Khalil Rountree, Justin Ledet and Misha Cirkunov in a […]

A potential USADA anti-doping violation forced Neil Magny’s withdrawal from the UFC Rochester co-main event. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Neil Magny has pulled out of his scheduled co-main event clash with Vicente Luque at UFC Rochester, according to a report from

Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping believes it may be time for Anderson Silva to finally hang up his gloves after suffering another fight-ending leg injury on Saturday night. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

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The UFC’s fourth pay-per-view of the year takes place this weekend with UFC 237, and the promotion’s popular “Embedded” series returns to get you ready. UFC 237 takes place Saturday at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and UFC Fight Pass. In the night’s main […]

OTTAWA, Ontario – For Merab Dvalishvili, competing in the UFC is a chance to do what he loves. But it is also an opportunity to serve as inspiration for those in his native country of Georgia. Dvalishvili (9-4 MMA, 2-2 UFC), who held both the U.S. and Georgian flags after dominantly beating Canada’s own Brad […]

Just one week before the start of its 2019 season, the Professional Fighters League has lost a champion from the first season and the headliner of its inaugural event, as Louis Taylor has elected not to participate in this season. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Louis Taylor will not be pursuing a second PFL tournament win. The league’s 2018 middleweight winner announced Wednesday that he is withdrawing from the upcoming 2019 season. With no 185-pound tournament this season, Taylor was set to drop down to the 170-pound division, but he broke the news on Wednesday that this will not be […]

Nostalgia will be in the air for fight fans this fall. A feature-length documentary on UFC 1, entitled UFC 1: Origin of the Octagon, is in the works by Emmy-winning production company SI Films for late 2019. Directed by John Mason Gordon, the film will feature interviews from numerous individuals key in the creation and […]

Gallery Photos: Felice Herrig through the years Bad news from UFC strawweight Felice Herrig: She won’t be competing at UFC 238 after all. Herrig on Tuesday posted an Instagram video of herself on crutches, announcing that she needs surgery to repair a torn ACL. As a result, she will no longer meet Chinese fighter Yan […]

A torn ACL will prevent Felice Herrig from competing as expected at UFC 238. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com