Category Archives: Yahoo! Sports – Mixed Martial Arts News

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured a segment on the WWE discussing how the sports entertainment company treats its talent. In the episode, Oliver covered how professional wrestlers aren't actually employees of the WWE and are independent contractors responsible for their own medical expenses

(Video courtesy of TMZSports | Viewing may be limited by broadcast rights restrictions) Though most people thought that Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz 3 last November was likely a one-and-done scenario for both men, it appears that exacting his revenge on Liddell has Ortiz ready to fight again.  Deciding

WWE's WrestleMania 35 has nothing to do with mixed martial arts, but it still means something to former UFC featherweight champion Cris "Cyborg" Justino. Former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, who catapulted women's MMA to a level never before seen, is competing in the first-ever

The charges against Conor McGregor for recently smashing and taking a fan's phone have been reduced.While McGregor was arrested and initially charged with felony criminal mischief and felony strong-armed robbery. The arrest report initially released by the Miami Herald states that McGregor was leaving

According to a report by AGFight, the long rumored fight between UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar is being targeted for UFC 241 on Aug. 17, though no location has been revealed for the event. The UFC has yet to make any official statement on the bout or

When Anthony “Rumble” Johnson made a surprise announcement about his retirement following his last fight in the UFC against Daniel Cormier in 2017, many believed it would only be a matter of time before he returned.Now more than two years later, Johnson has absolutely no regrets about his decision to

Conor McGregor announced his retirement, but not everyone thinks it's for real.

White normally tries to stay out of such incidents and when there has been offensive language used in the past, he's sloughed it off as "the fight business." This time, White was bothered enough to release a statement.

Khabib tweets his response in his and Conor McGregor's escalating war of words.

It might sound cliché for Dustin Poirier to say things like he’s not looking past his next fight and the future doesn’t exist past UFC 236 on April 13 but that is exactly how he feels.While it’s rather common to hear fighters to make those kinds of proclamations, Poirier’s reasoning goes deeper than