Category Archives: Yahoo! Sports – Mixed Martial Arts News

Eryk Anders is on a three fight losing streak, but the former college football player still knows how to bounce back mentally.

B.J. Penn is winless in his last eight UFC fights. He's also faced some significant legal troubles this year.

Former UFC interim welterweight champion Colby Covington will headlines UFC on ESPN 5 in a pivotal welterweight battle with former champion Robbie Lawler. The fight will take place on Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.Covington had been expected to be the first challenger to new

(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube) MMAWeekly: The Low Down's Jake Hattan recaps Artem Lobov vs. Paulie Malignaggi from their headliner at Saturday's Bare Knuckle FC 6 in Florida. (Music provided by https://www.bensound.com/) There were weeks of venom being spewed between Lobov and Malignaggi

Artem Lobov and Paulie Malignaggi fought under the rules of bare knuckle boxing this past weekend, but their grudge match at Bare Knuckle FC 6 stole much of the thunder from competing mixed martial arts fight cards from both the UFC and Bellator MMA.Lobov is a UFC veteran, so his ties to MMA are strong

(Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube)Emily Whitmire has overcome a lot of hardship in her life, much of it dealing with the absence of her mother, whom she eventually found. It wasn't exactly a fairy-tale ending though. Whitmire found her mother homeless, living out of a tent. But she's overcome

Rafael Lovato Jr. used his jiu-jitsu expertise to pull off the upset and take the Bellator middleweight championship from Gegard Mousasi. Going into the fight, it was largely billed as an old-school style grappler vs. strike match-up, although the days of pure grappler vs. pure striker are largely behind

After suffering one of the most shocking losses in MMA history, "The Korean Zombie" is emphatically back in the win column.

There were a number of decisions on the UFC on ESPN+ 12 fight card on Saturday in Greenville, S.C., but there were also some outstanding finishes that had to make it difficult to determine the performance bonus winners. One winner that couldn't have been in doubt was Jairzinho Rozenstruik.Rozenstruik

Despite a plethora of mixed martial arts action over the weekend, most of it was largely overshadowed by the upstart Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship event in Florida, although MMA played a large part in why BKFC stole the spotlight.BKFC 6 featured a grudge match between boxer Paulie Malignaggi and