MMA

8:00 AM ET As we gear up for this UFC major occasion on Saturday between … between … maintain up. Am I seeing this proper? No UFC this weekend? For the primary time since April 2, the UFC doesn’t have an occasion this week. That will not be the case once more for some time,

8:00 AM ET The UFC has fighters starting from 115 kilos to greater than twice that weight. But measurement doesn’t matter very a lot in the case of assessing the place the best fights are. Some weight lessons are top-heavy, that includes dominant champions nobody can match. Different divisions draw their intrigue from a degree

10:27 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The UFC’s girls’s bantamweight division has a brand new title contender on its fingers. Ketlen Vieira (13-2), of Manaus, Brazil, improved to 3-1 in her previous 4 fought contests on Saturday, as she outpointed former champion Holly Holm (14-6) in a five-round essential occasion. The 135-pound battle was very

9:33 PM ET The UFC will run again some of the surprising fights in its total historical past. A bantamweight title rematch between Julianna Peña and Amanda Nunes will headline UFC 277 on July 30 in Dallas, officers introduced on Saturday. The pay-per-view occasion will happen inside American Airways Area and air on ESPN+. Peña

9:00 AM ET For the primary time in almost 10 years, Holly Holm is considering skilled boxing. To be clear, Holm’s major focus remains to be very a lot on MMA and recapturing the UFC bantamweight championship that she gained in 2015 and surrendered in 2016. Holm (14-5) faces Ketlen Vieira in the principle occasion

8:17 AM ET ESPN Information Companies LOS ANGELES — Baseball nice Alex Rodriguez is taking a swing at blended martial arts as an investor and board member for the Skilled Fighters League. The PFL introduced the addition of the previous New York Yankees celebrity to its board of administrators Thursday. Rodriguez’s funding is a part

9:33 AM ET The UFC has introduced it would stage its first occasion in France on Sept. 3 on the Accor Area in Paris after a decade-long battle with French authorities. President Dana White stated on Tuesday: “I am so excited to carry our first occasion in Paris this September. Will probably be an unbelievable

4:04 PM ET Glover Teixeira’s days competing within the Octagon appear numbered. The UFC gentle heavyweight champion informed Globo’s Mundo de Luta podcast Wednesday that he wish to wrap up his illustrious profession within the subsequent few months and this is able to “in all probability” be his last yr preventing. Teixeira, 42, will defend

4:43 PM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov says he lately texted Dana White to argue in favor of a light-weight title shot for his longtime good friend and teammate Islam Makhachev — and apparently White left the retired legend on learn. “Truthfully, that is first time since we began speaking to one another that he do not

8:38 AM ET Clay Collard will attempt to proceed his march towards a PFL title on June 17, when he takes on Alexander Martinez in Atlanta. PFL officers introduced the light-weight matchup Wednesday. The occasion, which takes place at OTE Enviornment, marks the second spherical of regular-season motion. Collard (21-9) is on a mission in

7:47 PM ET Manel Kape is free to compete at UFC 275 following an atypical drug-test discovering final month. However he is not going to but be licensed by the Nevada State Athletic Fee. The NSAC dominated Tuesday at a listening to throughout its month-to-month assembly that Kape should bear six extra months of drug

Might 16, 2022 UFC light-weight Islam Makhachev desires to face Charles Oliveira for the vacant title in October, and believes he’ll beat the Brazilian at his personal recreation of submission grappling. Makhachev (22-1) is anticipated to battle Oct. 22 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, situated in a predominantly Muslim area the place he’s highly

11:48 AM ET The 2-sport plan for WBA, WBC and IBF middleweight champion Claressa Shields over the subsequent 18 months is beginning to take form, nevertheless it’s now not clear whether or not it can embrace an undisputed middleweight title combat in opposition to WBO champion Savannah Marshall. Shields instructed ESPN on Tuesday {that a}

9:50 PM ET Aleksandar Rakic tore the ACL in his proper knee in a UFC Combat Night time major occasion loss to Jan Blachowicz final Saturday in Las Vegas, Rakic’s supervisor Marcelo Brigadeiro confirmed to ESPN on Monday night. Early within the third spherical, Rakic took a step again following a Blachowicz mixture. When Rakic

1:43 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was denied bail once more Monday in his tried homicide case at a movement listening to in Santa Clara (California) County, per the court docket. Choose Shelyna Brown determined in opposition to permitting Velasquez bail for a second time, citing Velasquez’s “reckless disregard for human life.”

8:51 AM ET With huge fights occurring each week and new champions being topped together with present championship forging their legacy, it is simple to overlook that Kamaru Usman continues to be the pound-for-pound finest in MMA right this moment. However is it potential for Usman to catch a former pound-for-pound champ and arguably the

1:10 AM ET Jan Blachowicz‘s journey again to the UFC title received off to an odd begin. However the former champ will definitely take it. Blachowicz defeated Aleksandar Rakic by way of TKO at 1:11 of the third spherical after Rakic suffered an harm to his proper knee. Blachowicz landed a mixture and Rakic took

7:29 PM ET Connor O’Halloran LONDON — Logan Storley claimed the interim Bellator Welterweight title in London on Friday with a split-decision (48-47, 47-48, 49-46) victory over Michael “Venom” Page on the OVO Area Wembley. Web page was trying to change into simply the third-ever British fighter to change into a world champion in MMA,