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Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was granted a temporary fight license Tuesday by the California State Athletic Commission, allowing him to move forward with a scheduled bout against Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 232. The ruling removes Jones from the suspended list, where he landed after

The California State Athletic Commission on Tuesday voted to grant Jon Jones a temporary license to compete and remove him from the suspension list. He is now fully cleared to fight Alexander Gustafsson in the UFC 232 main event on Dec. 29 in Las Vegas, pending medical approval by the Nevada State Athletic

En route to winning three fights in 2018, Daniel Cormier became the first fighter in history to hold the UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight championships simultaneously. On Tuesday, ESPN The Magazine added another accolade to Cormier's resume by naming him the third most dominant athlete of the

Conor McGregor has been granted a continuance and will not go before the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Monday, Dec. 10, as planned. McGregor and UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov had both been slated to go before the commission on Monday to answer for their respective roles in the UFC

Brian Ortega was riding high heading into his UFC 231 main event showdown with featherweight champion Max Holloway, but everything came crashing down when Holloway ran roughshod over him. Ortega wasn't lacking for heart. He fought tooth and nail with Holloway through four rounds of their scheduled

Khabib Nurmagomedov, like Conor McGregor, will not go before the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Monday as planned to answer for his UFC 229 post-fight actions. Nurmagomedov and McGregor had originally been scheduled to appear at Monday's NSAC monthly hearing to adjudicate their disciplinary

Holloway has been one of the great champions in the UFC in the last two years, but against one of his most difficult challengers, he stepped up his game.

Max Holloway cemented his status in numerous categories at UFC 231 on Saturday night. He was handsomely rewarded by taking home two performance bonuses, adding an additional $ 100,000 to his bank account. Holloway put on a career-defining performance against previously undefeated No. 1 featherweight contender

Max Holloway put on one of the most impressive performances of his storied career at UFC 231 on Saturday in Toronto, setting any number of records.  One record that doesn't belong solely to him, but was driven in part by his headlining the fight card opposite Brian Ortega is the highest attendance

Max Holloway cemented his spot as the best featherweight in the sport on Saturday night with a thrilling win over Brian Ortega to cap off UFC 231 in Toronto. Now UFC president Dana White believes it's time for Holloway to put featherweight behind him and begin testing the waters at 155 pounds instead