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Alistair Overeem kept his resurgence in the heavyweight division on track at UFC on ESPN+ 7 in St. Petersburg, Russia, last Saturday with a first-round finish of longtime friend and former training partner Aleksei Oleinik. Overeem escaped unscathed, receiving just a minimal mandatory seven-day medical

Tito Ortiz isn't hanging his hat on his knockout of Chuck Liddell. The UFC Hall of Famer has inked a deal to continue his career with Combate Americas.Ortiz inked the deal cagside at Friday night's Combate Americas event in Los Angeles.https://twitter.com/PhotoAmy33/status/1121977804747202560According

Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor is laughing all the way to the bank following the successful launch of his ‘Proper No. 12’ whiskey. A recent report from the Distilled Spirits Council via the Irish Times shows Irish whiskey sales have topped $ 1 billion in the United States for the first

UFC middleweight Paulo Costa and one of his coaches have each received a six-month suspension from USADA after unauthorized use of an IV to administer fluids at two of his most recent fights.USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) made the announcement on Friday. USADA oversees the UFC’s anti-doping

Saturday's UFC event in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., got the green light following Friday's official weigh-in.Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza and Jack Hermansson headline UFC on ESPN+ 8 after they and the rest of the fighters on the fight card made weight without issue.Jacare was originally slated

Yahoo Sports combat columnist Kevin Iole ranks his Top 10 pound-for-pound mixed martial artists in the world.

Hardy knows that question is going to follow him for the rest of his days.

“I always believed that I had the skills for this sport,” Hermansson said.

Dustin Poirier has nothing personal against Khabib Nurmagomedov other than the UFC lightweight title that’s currently wrapped around his waist.At UFC 236, Poirier solidified his place as Nurmagomedov’s next opponent after he became the interim lightweight champion with a hard fought five round decision

Luke Rockhold believes that UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is simply racking up wins in a division where he's mostly run out of suitable challengers. Rockhold intends to change that. The white-hot talk over the past few weeks was a verbal feud between Jones and newly minted interim middleweight