1:47 AM ET Saturday’s UFC 261 featured two dominant performances by defending champions and one new titleholder who reclaimed her belt. Kamaru Usman proved he is still getting better when he knocked out Jorge Masvidal, and Valentina Shevchenko made a case to be included in the GOAT conversation. Meanwhile, Rose Namajunas delivered once again in

11:14 PM ET Just 17 seconds into his fight against Uriah Hall at UFC 261, Chris Weidman threw a kick towards Hall’s leg and appeared to seriously injure himself as his right leg bent unnaturally around Hall’s left leg. The fight was immediately stopped, and a quiet fell on the crowd at VyStar Veterans Memorial

5:48 PM ET UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman will defend his title Saturday against Jorge Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261 in Jacksonville, Florida. It will be the first UFC card in front of a capacity crowd since before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down spectator sports in March 2020. ESPN has Usman ranked

12:01 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Anthony Pettis, the main attraction of Friday night’s season-opening event in the Professional Fighting League, is known as “Showtime.” But Clay Collard stole the show. Collard knocked down Pettis, the former UFC lightweight champion, twice in Round 2 and survived a head-kick knockdown in the third round to take a

9:34 AM ET A blockbuster welterweight championship rematch is now official. Champion Kamaru Usman and challenger Jorge Masvidal both successfully weighed in Friday morning for their title clash. Usman weighed 169.5 pounds and Masvidal hit the mark at 170. Usman will defend his UFC welterweight title against Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261

5:34 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim The PFL begins its 2021 season on Friday night in Atlantic City, New Jersey, closing the show with “Showtime.” Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis makes his PFL debut in the main event at Ocean Casino Resort, taking on a fighter who built his own name in two sports, Clay

7:13 AM ET Roman ModrowskiESPN.com It was March 16, 2019, and London’s O2 Arena was packed for a UFC Fight Night. Darren Till, a popular local fighter from Liverpool, was facing Jorge Masvidal in the main event. Till was favored to beat Masvidal and then face Ben Askren, who was in attendance, for a shot

11:50 PM ET Alexander Volkanovski has endured the ups and downs of the UFC “roller coaster” in recent times, but he is pumped to trade positions and be one of the coaches for the upcoming series of The Return of The Ultimate Fighter. The UFC’s featherweight champion was just a week out from a second

8:07 AM ET Anthony Pettis Anthony Pettis is a former UFC and WEC champion and one of the most popular, well-known mixed martial artists of the last decade. The 34-year-old made headlines in late 2020, when he fought out his UFC contract and then signed an exclusive deal with PFL. The move brought a nine-year

10:00 PM ET Australian Jimmy Crute is in little doubt where he’ll be this time next year. Some might call it confidence, others cockiness, but the outside noise matters little to a bloke who spent much of 2020 alone with his thoughts. Alone with his thoughts and dog, Buddha, in the back of a van,