May 28, 2020 Talks between the UFC and light heavyweight champion Jon Jones over a potential jump to heavyweight stalled out last month after Jones requested an “absurd” amount of money to do so, according to UFC president Dana White. Jones (26-1) publicly stated on social media late last week that he was “currently in

5:34 PM ET The UFC returns to Las Vegas on Saturday night as the fight capital of the world reopens for combat sports with a welterweight main event between former champion Tyron Woodley (19-4-1) and rising challenger Gilbert Burns (18-3). As well as everything went for the UFC in Jacksonville — 32 total bouts and

12:57 PM ET The UFC’s first main event back in its hometown is now official. Former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and Gilbert Burns made weight Friday morning at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Woodley and Burns each weighed in at 170.5 pounds. The UFC Fight Night card will take place Saturday night at the

May 20, 2020 Tyron Woodley already has established himself as one of the greatest welterweights of all time. This weekend, he will try to prove he’s one of the greatest welterweights right now. Woodley (19-4-1, 9-3-1 in the UFC) will meet rising 170-pound contender Gilbert Burns (18-3, 11-3 UFC) in the main event of Saturday’s

9:29 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Bao Nguyen loved to watch movies while he was growing up, but as a child of the 1980s, the options were not as robust as they are in 2020. Nguyen remembers stumbling upon a film from a decade before he was born, the Bruce Lee martial arts classic “Enter the

7:07 AM ET Tyron Woodley has been having some trouble sleeping lately, but it’s not because he has too much on his plate. Woodley said he’s 100 percent focused on Saturday’s Fight Night main event against Gilbert Burns, which wasn’t the case the last time he was preparing to step in the Octagon. Woodley had

7:37 AM ET Tyron Woodley is back in action on Saturday after more than one year away from the Octagon. The last time we saw Woodley, he lost the UFC welterweight title to Kamaru Usman at UFC 235 on March 2, 2019. His planned bout with Leon Edwards in March was scrapped due to the

12:28 PM ET UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili doesn’t have her next fight booked yet, but if it were up to her she would fight a former champion. Zhang told ESPN on Thursday that her preference is to next fight Rose Namajunas, who held the belt from November 2017 to May 2019. “I would fight

11:42 PM ET UFC president Dana White confirmed Wednesday that plans are in the works for Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway to meet in a rematch of their featherweight world title fight of last year. Volkanovski dethroned Holloway on Dec. 14, taking the featherweight crown via a unanimous decision at UFC 245 in Las Vegas.

7:32 PM ET UFC president Dana White said Wednesday on SportsCenter that the promotion is targeting Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo for the bantamweight title, which was vacated after Henry Cejudo retired this month. White said a date and location are not set. Cejudo, a former two-division champion, announced his retirement after successfully defending the