Category Archives: Yahoo! Sports – Mixed Martial Arts News

Though it's been quite some time since Jon Jones set foot in the Octagon, the former UFC light heavyweight champion claims he has never left the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency testing pool for UFC athletes. "Glad you enjoyed the few seconds of training footage I shared the other day," Jones wrote

Bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell returned to featherweight at Bellator 204 on Friday night in Sioux Falls, S.D., where he made quick work of Noad Lahat. Though Lahat has an impressive track record fighting for the UFC and Bellator, it wasn't enough to fend off Caldwell. The bantamweight champ

Nicco Montano won the women's flyweight title at The Ultimate Fighter 26 Finale in December 2017 defeating veteran Roxanne Modafferi by unanimous decision. Since capturing the inaugural women's 125-pound title, Montano has been sidelined with injuries. She'll put her belt on the line for

UFC president Dana White is not willing to entertain Georges St-Pierre challenging the winner of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor. Nurmagomedov's undisputed UFC lightweight title will be on the line when he and McGregor headline UFC 229 on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas. St-Pierre returned from a near-four-year

(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) Bellator bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell made his way up to featherweight for a non-championship headliner at Bellator 204, where he made quick work of Noad Lahat. In a main card feature bout, newcomer Ricky Bandejas upset Irish sensation James Gallagher

UFC welterweight fan favorite Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone says he survived a near disaster while diving with a buddy on Friday in Cozumel, Mexico. Details are scarce, but Cerrone and his friend apparently were diving in caves and experienced a total silt out, which obscures a divers route out of

James Vick isn't going to pretend that he's Conor McGregor whenever he has a microphone in front of his face. While the former "Ultimate Fighter" contender certainly isn't afraid to speak his mind, Vick will be the first to admit that he does his best work inside the cage rather

Even before Stipe Miocic stepped into the Octagon to battle Daniel Cormier, the UFC already had plans in place for the winner. According to UFC president Dana White, an agenda was set up prior to UFC 226 that would see the winner of the main event that night then moving on to a showdown against former

Former world champion boxer turned promoter Oscar De La Hoya doesn't like the way mixed martial arts fighters are paid. In fact, he said that it makes him sick. So, he is proposing to do something about it by throwing his hat into the proverbial MMA cage. “I’m really looking forward to getting into

A fight between Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre has been talked about since 2011, when Silva reigned over the middleweight division and St-Pierre ruled the 170-pound weight class. The two held the top two spots on the pound-for-pound list, but the super fight never materialized. After St-Pierre