Category Archives: Yahoo! Sports – Mixed Martial Arts News

A pivotal featherweight fight is set for the UFC Fight Night 140 co-main event on Nov. 17 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ricardo Lamas and Darren Elkins have long been toiling in the UFC featherweight division, but neither has been able to capture the title, although both still aspire to wear UFC gold.

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

Conor McGregor had plenty to say about his UFC 229 fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov and what's next for him, but he spoke little about the post-fight brawl that shook MMA.

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

Dual-division champion Daniel Cormier was headed toward the biggest payday of his career with Brock Lesnar on the horizon for early 2019. So why did Dana White convince him to risk that to fight Derrick Lewis at UFC 230 in New York? The short answer is the simple one: White was in dire need of a worthy

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

The Red Sox are in the World Series, and thanks to Conor McGregor, 10 firefighters have tickets to see it live.

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

UFC 230 has just taken another major hit as former champion Luke Rockhold has been forced out of his bout against Chris Weidman in the co-main event on Nov. 3. Sources close to the contest confirmed the news on Friday following an initial report from ESPN. This is the second co-main event lost on the

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

Less than 24 hours after Luke Rockhold fell out of the UFC 230 co-main event, Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza agreed to step in.  Rockhold had been slated to fight Chris Weidman at UFC 230 on Nov. 3 at Madison Square Garden, but had to withdraw from their co-main event because of an undisclosed injury

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

Light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith has had the goal of becoming UFC champion since he was a teenager. The 30-year-old Texan may be one win away from securing a chance of achieving that goal. Smith (30-13) faces No. 2 ranked Volkan Oezdemir (15-2) in the UFC Fight Night 138 main event on Oct. 27

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

It didn't take long for the UFC to re-book Chris Weidman after Luke Rockhold had to pull out of their co-main event bout at UFC 230. Shortly after news broke on Friday that Rockhold was out because of an injury, Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza agreed to forego his UFC 230 bout with David Branch

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

UFC president Dana White has no interest in getting Nate Diaz another fight until he's dying for one. Well, Diaz isn't apparently dying for one right now. Diaz had been heavily critical of the UFC's promotion of him ever since his UFC 230 bout with Dustin Poirier had been announced, frequently

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

UFC’s White dismisses Khabib-Floyd boxing talk

by Site Admin ~ October 19th, 2018

UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov might want to fight boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, but UFC president Dana White doesn't want to hear about it. White told ESPN on Friday that the rumors of such a bout should be ignored, seemingly chalking it up to Mayweather's tendency toward self-promotion

MMA Mixed Martial Arts News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos

Copyright © 2010-2026 CombatSports.org All Rights Reserved.