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Yosuke Saruta edged out Joshua Pacio at ONE: Eternal Glory on Saturday in Jakarta. The Japanese challenger, who was only offered the fight as a replacement for the injured Hayato Suzuki, becomes the latest in a long line of fighters to win the strawweight title.This was the fourth time in a row that

The Ultimate Fighting Championship begins its ESPN era this week with UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw in Brooklyn, N.Y.The fight promotion's debut on ESPN and the network's digital subscription service, ESPN+, kicks off with a champion vs. champion superfight between flyweight champion

Paige VanZant returns to the Octagon on Saturday after a difficult and trying 2018 in which she had multiple surgeries to fix a broken arm.

The flyweight title fight between champion Henry Cejudo and bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw is going to be a kick, both figuratively and literally. Dillashaw is bidding to become just the fourth fighter in UFC history, following Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier and Amanda Nunes, to hold two belts

Sonya Blade debuted as one of seven original characters in 1992.

The bantamweight champion's long-term goal is to defeat flyweight champ Cejudo, then move up to 145 pounds to try to win the featherweight belt.

It wasn't a given that Rachael Ostovich would be able to fight Page VanZant at "UFC Fight Night 143," but she drew on her inner strength and believes she's ready.

Cris Cyborg has been lobbying for a rematch almost from the moment she lost to Amanda Nunes at UFC 232 on Dec. 29, but it sounds as if that rematch might never come. Nunes took Cyborg out in just 51 seconds, but the former featherweight champion felt that fans felt she deserved a rematch, and why shouldn

A former NFL All-Pro lineman, Hardy is the kind of athlete rarely seen in mixed martial arts.

The future of the flyweight division in the UFC remains a question going into the historic showdown on Saturday night between 125-pound champion Henry Cejudo and current bantamweight king T.J. Dillashaw.The fate of the weight class could already be sealed but Cejudo believes if he can stand his ground