Dec 6, 2020 The UFC surprisingly released top middleweight contender Yoel Romero on Friday, but UFC president Dana White said that won’t be the only departure coming. At the news conference following Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night, White said the promotion would be cutting around 60 fighters before the end of the year. “We’re gonna

4:35 PM ET Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz is returning to action in March. Cruz (22-3), 35, has agreed to fight up-and-comer Casey Kenney (16-2-1) at UFC 259 on March 6, sources told ESPN. MMAJunkie.com first reported the news. 2 Related The fight will mark Cruz’s first nontitle bout in more than six years.

6:54 PM ET Claressa Shields has not wasted any time jumping into mixed martial arts training. ESPN’s top pound-for-pound women’s boxer signed with PFL to compete in MMA earlier this week. And on Friday, she arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to train at JacksonWink MMA with her friend Jon Jones, one of the best UFC

1:46 AM ET ESPN’s panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim breaks down the biggest stories coming out of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, including Marvin Vettori‘s thrilling unanimous decision win over Jack Hermansson, and whether the type of violent slam Jordan Leavitt executed to beat Matt Wiman should remain legal. Marvin

9:03 PM ET Yoel Romero‘s UFC run has come to an end Romero and the promotion have parted ways, his manager, Malki Kawa, confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Romero had three fights left on his deal, sources said. “While we didn’t expect Romero’s time in the UFC to end like this,” Kawa told ESPN, “we

7:38 PM ET UFC middleweight Marvin Vettori has been asking for a big fight all year. The slugger wanted a matchup against a top-ranked opponent. It did not quite come together — through no fault of his own — until now. At the end of what has been a trying 2020 for Vettori, he will

Dec 3, 2020 Jack Hermansson will face Marvin Vettori in the middleweight main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday at the promotion’s Apex facility in Las Vegas. The fights will be broadcast on ESPN2 and ESPN+, with the main card starting at 10 p.m. ET, preceded by prelims at 7 p.m. Vettori is Hermansson’s

1:54 PM ET The greatest MMA flyweight fighter ever will look to add another belt to his collection. Demetrious Johnson will get his long-awaited shot at the ONE Championship flyweight title against champion Adriano Moraes on Feb. 24, Asia’s ONE announced Friday. The current plan is for the card to be in Singapore, though that

8:10 PM ET Jake Paul is already one of the most talked-about boxers in the world, even with only two pro fights. The polarizing YouTube and social media star is coming off a second-round knockout Saturday of Nate Robinson, the former NBA player, on the very successful Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. undercard. Now?

8:32 AM ET UFC president Dana White has been saying it a lot in recent weeks, and it’s worth repeating here: Just get through 2020. It’s safe to say the UFC has done a tremendous job operating within a pandemic this year, and it’s nearly across the 2020 finish line with three events to go.