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The UFC returns to the UAE for the first time in five years on Saturday, but the promotion is steeped in controversyThe Ultimate Fighting Championship is back in the UAE on Saturday for the first time since 2014. Photograph: Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesOn Saturday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Bellator landed perhaps its biggest prize yet in locking down Cyborg, and it plans to stock the featherweight division with plenty of challengers.

Dustin Poirier has gone 9-1 with a no-contest since the loss to Conor McGregor and has matured from a fuzzy-faced young man into a physically imposing adult.

Almost no one thought she could do it, but Weili Zhang cemented her position in history in Shenzhen, China, on Saturday. Zhang took out Jessica Andrade in the opening moments of their UFC on ESPN+ 15 headlining bout to become the UFC's first Chinese champion.After Andrade slammed her way to the UFC

(Video courtesy of TMZSports | Viewing may be limited by broadcast rights restrictions)A bout between Frankie Edgar and Conor McGregor has been floating in the ether for years, yet it has never come to fruition. But with Edgar coming off of a loss to Max Holloway and McGregor having lost to Khabib Nurmagomedov

(Courtesy of UFC)Lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov returns to the Octagon to face interim champion Dustin Poirier on Saturday, September 7 in Abu Dhabi.But before that happens, take a look back at Nurmagomedov's record-setting fight with Conor McGregor. Their UFC 229 headliner was the biggest

(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube)Listen in on the UFC 242 media conference call with interim lightweight titleholder Dustin Poirier ahead of his UFC lightweight title unification bout with current champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.Poirier and Nurmagomedov headline UFC 242 on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019,

(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube)Listen in on the UFC 242 media conference call with lightweight titleholder Khabib Nurmagomedov ahead of his UFC lightweight title unification bout with interim champion Dustin Poirier.Nurmagomedov and Poirier headline UFC 242 on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, in Abu

Weili Zhang made history at UFC on ESPN+ 15: Andrade vs. Zhang on Saturday in Shenzhen, China, but she also earned a handsome bonus for her effort.Zhang shocked the world with her 42-second knockout of Jessica Andrade to lay claim to the UFC strawweight championship. The victory etched Zhang’s name in

World strawweight champion Jessica Andrade is a dangerous finisher. Ahead of her first title-defense this weekend, we look back on five of her most terrifying.