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The Ultimate Fighting Championship's final fight card on the FOX broadcast network is set following Friday's UFC on FOX 31 official weigh-in. A lightweight rematch nearly five years in the making tops the 12-bout fight card, as Kevin Lee and Al Iaquinta square off in a five-round main event

Bellator women's flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane knows exactly what she's stepping into Saturday night. She will headline the second of two events that Bellator will hold in her home state of Hawaii this weekend and the magnitude of this moment isn't lost on here. While numerous

Vitor Belfort may have left his gloves in the Octagon following his last fight, but he has decided that he's not quite done in the cage just yet. Seven months after Lyoto Machida knocked Belfort out at UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro, the 41-year-old former UFC champion revealed that he is now a free

Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz revealed on Monday that he expects to be sidelined for the better part of a year following his latest injury. Cruz had been slated to meet John Lineker on Jan. 26 at UFC 233 – an event that has subsequently been cancelled – but as has been the modus operandi

Edson Barboza was ready for a fresh start. That's the easiest way to explain why the top 10 ranked lightweight contender decided to move from New Jersey to Florida earlier this year to begin training at the famed American Top Team academy in Coconut Creek. Now there's no secret why so many

Nick Diaz suggested he wants an opponent he respects to fight in UFC 235, but he didn't even seem to think welterweight champ Tyron Woodley was worthy. The feeling was mutual.

(Courtesy of UFC) It has been more than five years since Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson first set foot in the Octagon across from one another. The bout, however, has lost none of its luster as one of the most epic battles UFC light heavyweight history. Jones was the UFC light heavyweight champion

On Saturday, Bellator MMA was back at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, for the second event of a doubleheader weekend.  Women's flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane retained her title in front of a hometown crowd in the Bellator 213 main event.  Macfarlane defeated veteran Valerie

(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Michael Chandler reclaimed the lightweight title from Brent Primus at Bellator 212 on Friday in Hawaii. Chandler didn't simply win the belt back, however, he set all kinds of records and made history, becoming a champion for the third time, something that

No. 5 ranked lightweight Edson Barboza put on a striking clinic against Dan Hooker in the UFC on FOX 31 co-main event on Saturday in Milwaukee. Hooker entered the fight riding a four-fight winning streak and asked for highly ranked opponent. He got one in Barboza and found out what facing someone in