11:45 AM ET The PFL has announced its official playoff schedule, which consists of three events in August. The events will take place on Aug. 13, 19 and 27. All of the cards will be held at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and will air on ESPN platforms. The first event

8:17 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card proved a few things — most notably, that Islam Makhachev is dangerously effective, as advertised, and that Miesha Tate seems ready to step right back into the thick of it in the women’s bantamweight division despite five years out of the Octagon. But is Makhachev, fresh off

12:20 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Miesha Tate is back — and she just might actually be better than ever. Competing for the first time since 2016, Tate (19-7) dominated Marion Reneau in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. The former champion, and mother of two, finished Reneau (9-8-1)

Armed with a new four-fight deal and a freshly-cut mullet, Australian Jimmy Crute has put the disappointment of a controversial TKO stoppage behind him and is reinvigorated about his prospects in the UFC’s light heavyweight division. For a brief moment earlier this year, when he struggled to process the pain of a doctor stoppage against

1:01 AM ET All eyes were on Islam Makhachev on Saturday night. Heading into his first UFC main event, those surrounding the fight game talked up the Dagestani star and pupil of Khabib Nurmagomedov. He answered all questions and thoroughly dominated Thiago Moises before ultimately submitting him in the fourth round. The top of the

1:06 AM ET Islam Makhachev‘s toughest task moving forward might be finding someone willing to fight him. Makhachev completely dominated Thiago Moises in the UFC Fight Night main event Saturday in Las Vegas. Moises mounted almost no offense at all and Makhachev was able to finish him with a submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:38 of

Jul 13, 2021 Dustin Poirier had a pretty good weekend. He beat up Conor McGregor for the second time in six months in Saturday’s UFC 264 main event in Las Vegas, and beyond the big bump in his bank account that came with a night in the cage with the biggest star in MMA, Poirier

12:11 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Juliana Velasquez retained her rare status as an undefeated MMA champion on Friday night, using a sharp jab and strong footwork to fend off Denise Kielholtz and successfully defend her flyweight title by split decision in the main event of Bellator 262 at Mohegan Sun Arena. Velasquez

1:04 PM ET Conor McGregor said he went into last weekend’s MMA trilogy against Dustin Poirier with “multiple stress fractures” in his left leg — the same leg that broke in the final seconds of the opening round. McGregor (22-6) lost to Poirier at UFC 264 on Saturday in Las Vegas. The official result was

6:43 AM ET The women’s bantamweight division in the UFC has been in need of new blood for some time now — but no one would have guessed Miesha Tate would be the one to fill the void. But that’s what it feels like going into Saturday’s UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, where Tate