11:29 AM ET Conor McGregor is still saying he’s retired, but he apparently hasn’t filed the paperwork yet with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that would actually signify his official exit from mixed martial arts. McGregor, the former UFC two-division champion who hasn’t fought since defeating Donald Cerrone at UFC 246 in January, tweeted on

7:24 AM ET Angela Hill is still quite certain she did enough to beat Claudia Gadelha in a controversial split-decision loss to the former strawweight title challenger in May. But afterward, Hill trained as though she had lost — and therein lies the silver lining. Hill (12-8, 7-8 in the UFC) will face Michelle Waterson

5:18 PM ET Next month’s highly anticipated fight between Dustin Poirier and Tony Ferguson isn’t happening anymore, according to Poirier. “UFC and I didn’t come to terms,” Poirier told ESPN. “I will not be fighting on Oct. 24.” Poirier recently traveled from his home in Lafayette, Louisiana, to South Florida to begin his training camp

7:26 PM ET In 2014, UFC strawweight Angela Hill became the first Black American woman to sign with the promotion, and on Saturday, she’ll become the first to headline a card when she faces Michelle Waterson in a Fight Night main event. Hill’s fight was originally scheduled to be the co-main event until Glover Teixeira

12:56 PM ET Bellator is back with a doubleheader this weekend — two cards on two straight nights at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Bellator 245 is Friday night, headlined by a rematch between former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida and former Bellator light heavyweight champion Phil Davis. In the co-main event, former

5:23 PM ET The UFC wants to book a highly anticipated fight between Dustin Poirier vs. Tony Ferguson on Oct. 24, but it isn’t a done deal just yet. “I’m in,” Poirier told ESPN on Wednesday. “… I just need to be compensated if they want this fight. Simple as that.” Ferguson has verbally agreed

9:07 AM ET The recipe for making it to the top of the sport is no secret: Win your fights. But that doesn’t always get a fighter where he or she wants to be, because there can be a traffic jam ahead in the rankings. Sometimes you just have to wait for others to fall

10:45 PM ET The UFC signed another four prospects on Dana White’s Contender Series on Tuesday, including a man who’s been flirting with a UFC appearance for more than four years. UFC president Dana White awarded contracts to middleweights Phil Hawes (8-2) and Aliaskhab Khizriev (13-0), bantamweight Drako Rodriguez (7-1) and light heavyweight Tafon Nchukwi

11:01 AM ET Is Nick Diaz ready to return to the Octagon for his first UFC fight in over five years? His manager told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani that Diaz is “100 percent” committed to fighting again, and the plan is for an early 2021 return. The manager, Kevin Mubenga, even provided a video of a

9:27 AM ET The wheels kept turning last week as Dana White’s Contender Series continued to be one of the most important parts of the pandemic-mired year for the UFC. Last Tuesday, three DWCS winners were awarded UFC contracts and two others — plus one of the losing fighters — received an invitation back to