3:13 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Francis Ngannou has built a championship fighting career by unleashing blows with earth-shattering impact. Prior to Saturday night, the UFC heavyweight champion had finished his five most recent fights by knockout, three in less than a minute. Ngannou’s UFC 270 main event in Anaheim, California, ended with challenger Ciryl Gane

2:00 AM ET Deiveson Figueiredo exacted revenge on Brandon Moreno in their trilogy fight to win back the flyweight title at UFC 270 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on Saturday. It was the most entertaining fight of the night, and Figueiredo seemed to have elevated his game after moving his camp to Arizona

1:26 PM ET UFC light heavyweight champion Glover Teixeira will defend his title against Jiri Prochazka on May 7, multiple sources have told ESPN. Both Teixeira and Prochazka have committed to the date and opponent. The 205-pound title fight will take place on a UFC 274 pay-per-view event. The UFC has not announced an official

7:38 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — Francis Ngannou and Ciryl Gane are former sparring partners. That might be the only thing the two agree on at this point. At a news conference Thursday, Ngannou and Gane argued about whether they were actually ever “teammates.” They couldn’t agree whether Ngannou knocked Gane out with a head

1:49 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — A highly anticipated battle between the two top heavyweights in the world — who also happen to be former teammates — is now official. Francis Ngannou weighed in at 257 pounds and Ciryl Gane was 247 pounds Friday morning. The two giants will compete to unify the UFC heavyweight

9:14 PM ET A heavyweight matchup between English prospect Tom Aspinall and Alexander Volkov will headline the UFC’s return to London on March 19, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Thursday. The UFC has not held a live event in London since March 2019. The promotion’s first canceled event of 2020 due to the

2:17 PM ET The UFC is officially getting into the NFT business. The mixed martial arts promotion announced on Thursday it has partnered with Dapper Labs, the same company behind NBA Top Shot and NFL ALL DAY, to launch its own NFT this weekend. Fans will be able to purchase “moments” of UFC history beginning

1:56 PM ET Two of the UFC’s most popular fighters continue to express interest in facing one another, however there are no concrete plans to schedule the bout as of yet. In a social media post on Wednesday, Nate Diaz implored the UFC to book him a fight against former lightweight interim champion Dustin Poirier.

7:49 AM ET PARIS — An Uber arrives for a pickup outside the MMA Factory gym in the Rungis neighborhood, near Orly Airport. It’s a brisk afternoon with a light rain, three days after Christmas. The city, a capital of arts from fashion to culinary, is relatively quiet. When the driver hears that his passenger

7:50 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., and TIJUANA, Mexico — Brandon Moreno was prone on his knees and elbows, his head resting on the Octagon canvas. It’s Aug. 31, 2016, in Las Vegas, and Moreno’s potential run in the UFC was not off to the best start. He had just lost his opening bout on The