Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou will square off for a second time with heavyweight gold on the line at UFC 260. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is ready to return and defend his title as he’s expected to clash with Brian Ortega in a five-round battle at the upcoming UFC 260 event on March 27. Multiple sources close to the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Saturday. ESPN initially reported the […]

Alexander Volkanovski will defend his featherweight belt against Brian Ortega at UFC 260. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Esther Lin, MMA Fighting For all the championships and accolades Conor McGregor has amassed during his UFC career, a pair of non-title fights against Nate Diaz may still be what people talk about the most. The rivalry sprung up out of necessity when Rafael dos Anjos was forced out of a title fight against McGregor […]

The Legacy Fighting Alliance will hold its first mixed martial arts event of 2021 on Friday, and the championship topper is good to go. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Santiago Ponzinibbio hasn’t fought since a TKO victory over Nail Magny in Buenos Aires. | Jason Silva-USA TODAY Sports A lot has happened in the UFC welterweight division since Santiago Ponzinibbio’s last appearance inside the octagon in November 2018. Tyron Woodley was UFC champion at the time, and Colby Covington had just been stripped or […]

Conor McGregor is all set to kickstart the year at UFC 257 when he takes on Dustin Poirier in the main event in Abu Dhabi but, as you might expect, the savvy Irishman has a host of options up his sleeve as he plots the next chapter of his career. In an extended interview with […]

Michael Chandler is ready to do whatever it takes to prove that he belongs amongst the UFC lightweight division’s elite. Chandler (21-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is set to make his octagon debut on Jan. 23, when he takes on Dan Hooker at UFC 257 on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, where on the same night, […]

Dan Hooker sees UFC 257 as a big opportunity to reposition himself at the top of the promotion’s lightweight division. Hooker (20-9 MMA, 10-5 UFC) will welcome former three-time Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler (21-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) to the UFC on Jan. 23 and is aiming to steal all the shine of Chandler’s highly anticipated […]

Esther Lin, MMA Fighting On the 26th episode of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee list off their top five title fights we need to see in 2021 in the sport of mixed martial arts. In addition, they also discuss five of the best non-title fights we could […]

Max Holloway’s first high-profile win was an impressive one. The Hawaiian fighter picked up his first victory over a former UFC champion  at UFC 206 in December 2016 when he stopped Anthony Pettis. Holloway (21-6 MMA, 17-6 UFC) outclassed Pettis on the feet over the course of two rounds to get a TKO in Round […]

Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Since the coronavirus pandemic started, the UFC has largely resigned itself to a couple specific locations including Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi. While hope springs eternal that the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine might bring audiences back to large, indoor sporting events at some point in 2021, the UFC has remained […]

The Ultimate Fighting Championship may have plans to move its events beyond Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi in 2020. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

ABU DHABI – Calvin Kattar still considers Max Holloway to be the top featherweight in the sport, and thus a win over the former champion in the UFC on ABC 1 headliner would help his own case for that claim. Holloway (21-6 MMA, 17-6 UFC), a former UFC titleholder at 145 pounds, is coming off […]

Francis Ngannou | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting As Francis Ngannou anxiously awaited Stipe Miocic’s return after a trilogy against Daniel Cormier, the ferocious knockout artist almost got a fight with arguably the greatest fighter of all time, Jon Jones. Jones had talked about changing divisions for several years, but amid a spat with the UFC, […]

Robert Whittaker’s road back to the UFC middleweight title has been extended a bit longer. Whittaker (22-5 MMA, 13-3 UFC), a former champion in the 185-pound division, has said he thinks he’s done enough to get a rematch with reigning titleholder Israel Adesanya. Since dropping the strap by second-round knockout at UFC 243 in October […]

Petr Yan’s camp will look a little different ahead of his bantamweight title defense at UFC 259. View full post on Recent News on Sherdog.com

Petr Yan is training stateside to prepare for his first UFC title defense. The UFC bantamweight champion, Yan (15-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) is preparing for his UFC 259 defense vs. Aljamain Sterling at American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Fla., his manager Sayat Abdrakhmanov confirmed to MMA Junkie on Saturday. UFC 259 takes place March […]

Newly crowned Cage Warriors featherweight champion Morgan Charriere will look to kick off his year with a win when he puts his title on the line at Cage Warriors 122. Frenchman Charriere (16-7) will take on England’s Jordan Vucenic (7-1) in the main event of the show, which forms the third leg of the promotion’s […]

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC A third championship fight is in the works for the already stacked pay-per-view fight card in March. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that a bantamweight title fight between new champion Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling is being targeted for UFC 259. The event […]