8:09 AM ET The UFC’s card scheduled for May 9 is staggering in terms of name value, expectations and impact. One thing it seems to lack at the moment is an official name. Is it UFC 249 or 250? With three title fights and a number of other bouts with considerable title implications, it’s safe

8:21 PM ET Shaquille O’Neal is a four-time NBA champion, and he attributes his Hall of Fame success to … mixed martial arts. “MMA is the reason I became a champion,” O’Neal told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani on Wednesday. “I always used to practice basketball. It wasn’t enough. Because when I played basketball, it was more

9:59 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Georges St-Pierre was sitting in his Montreal home late one evening just a few weeks ago. He was alone, with the TV on, and he was flipping through channels. He stumbled upon a rebroadcast of his 2017 fight with Michael Bisping. That was the night GSP, the longtime UFC welterweight

7:26 PM ET LAS VEGAS — UFC president Dana White has promised his company will be the first major sports organization to return to a normal schedule amidst the coronavirus, and he’s already planning his next event on May 9 at a location to be determined. White told ESPN on Tuesday he is already deep

8:54 AM ET The Ultimate Fighting Championship is in the midst of its longest hiatus in eight years (36 days). If this hiatus lasts two more weeks — which it is expected to, given Dana White’s plan for fights to resume on May 9 — it will be the promotion’s longest in 13 years. In

7:31 PM ET UFC bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo says he is still willing to defend his 135-pound title on the originally scheduled date of May 9 but would like the promotion to let him know soon if it’s feasible. Cejudo (15-2) was scheduled to face Jose Aldo at UFC 250 in Rio de Janeiro, but

7:40 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim What if it had actually happened? Yeah, I’m talking fantasy here, dreaming up a world in which Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson did the impossible and stepped inside a cage and fought. You know, just like they were scheduled to do — but did not do — in 2015. And

1:04 PM ET Colby Covington‘s over-the-top persona seems tailor-made for the world of professional wrestling, and he is already making plans on when and how he’d like to make the transition from the UFC Octagon to a WWE ring. “I would say probably 2021,” Covington said on SB Nation’s “What the Heck” show. “Not this

7:04 PM ET On Thursday, Dana White announced the UFC would not proceed with its scheduled pay-per-view event, UFC 249, on April 18. The card was planned despite stay-at-home ordinances throughout most of the United States and was to be headlined by an interim lightweight title fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje. It was

8:32 PM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi Despite the UFC pulling out all the spots to try and make it happen, UFC 249 will no longer happen April 18. On Thursday, UFC president Dana White told ESPN’s