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Conor McGregor has his hands in a lot of different business ventures as one of the most profitable combat sports athletes in history and now he's even got his own signature brand of whiskey.

While it might not have felt like a monster event to the rest of the world, Russia welcomed UFC Fight Night 136 with open arms and open pocketbooks. UFC Fight Night 136 took place on Saturday in Moscow, drawing what is reportedly the biggest crowd in history for a Russia-based mixed martial arts event

Jan Blachowicz continued his career resurrection with an impressive finish of Nikita Krylov at UFC Fight Night 136 on Saturday in Moscow.

Aleksei Oleinik made the most of his return to home to Russia with an emphatic first round submission win over Mark Hunt in the main event of the first ever UFC event in Moscow.

Valentina Shevchenko was left without a fight at UFC 228 after Nicco Montano was transported to the hospital because of difficulties with her weight cut.

The second-ranked women's strawweight Jessica Andrade may have punched her way to a second title shot on Saturday by knocking out No. 4 ranked Karolina Kowalkiewicz in the UFC 228 co-main event. Andrade moved forward from the beginning of the fight and pressured Kowalkiewicz. She stunned the "

The heavyweight main event is officially set for the UFC's debut card in Moscow, Russia but that doesn't mean everybody on the card made weight. First things first, Mark Hunt and Alexei Oleinik were both on point at the weigh-ins as their main event fight is now set for Saturday. Hunt tipped

(Courtesy of UFC) UFC Fight Night 136 main event fighters Mark Hunt and Aleksei Oleinik had no issues on the scale on Friday, but two other fighters did. TRENDING > Main Event Set But Two Fighters Fail to Make Weight at UFC Fight Night in Moscow Mairbek Taisumov and Jin Soo Son both failed to make

Though the fighters at UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till delivered a night of exciting fights and finishes, the draw at the American Airlines Center was the lowest of any of the UFC's five trips to Dallas. UFC 228 pulled in an audience of 14,073 accounting for gate receipts of $ 1,714,556.08. Those aren&

(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) There are plenty of fighters that have heat in the lead-up to their bouts, and Darren Till had his words with Tyron Woodley going into their UFC 228 headliner in Dallas, Texas. But at the end of the day, mixed martial arts is a sport, and it doesn't have to