3:30 PM ET UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko said she hopes to be back “sometime in August” from the leg surgery she underwent a week and a half ago. “I was hoping [the injury] would heal by itself, but when it started to frustrate me a little bit, doctors advised me to have surgery,”

8:38 PM ET UFC president Dana White once said he would never book Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson again. That was after cancellation No. 4. We appear to be at cancellation No. 5. Nurmagomedov is in Russia, apparently no longer in the mix for UFC 249 because of how the global coronavirus pandemic is shutting

6:28 PM ET Associated Press The Professional Fighters League has put its season on hold indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. The mixed martial arts promotion was expected to begin competition in May. CEO Peter Murray said the PFL made the decision to safeguard its fighters’ health. “We are adjusting our plan for the rest

6:02 PM ET With Khabib Nurmagomedov off the embattled UFC 249 card, his would-be challenger, Tony Ferguson, is saying the UFC lightweight champion should be stripped of his title. Nurmagomedov wrote Wednesday on social media that he is in quarantine and essentially out of what would have been his UFC lightweight title defense April 18.

3:04 PM ET Roman ModrowskiESPN.com UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic said Wednesday that he still sees spots in his left eye from a torn retina that was surgically repaired. He said there’s no timetable for his return to the Octagon, but in the meantime, he wages a different kind of battle as a part-time firefighter

7:16 AM ET What a difference a day makes. If you would have asked MMA fans on, say, Sunday if they still wanted to see the Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson fight happen on April 18, I’m certain the majority would have answered with a resounding yes. However, now that it appears as though Nurmagomedov

6:52 PM ET UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones agreed to plead guilty to DWI (second offense) on Tuesday and will not face any jail time if he follows the terms of a plea agreement, according to a spokesperson for the Bernalillo County, New Mexico, district attorney’s office. Jones was arrested on four charges last

5:54 PM ET As news broke Monday that UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov may not be able to fight in UFC 249 against Tony Ferguson on April 18 because of travel issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, Dustin Poirier texted Dana White. “I’m open,” Poirier informed the UFC president. But the response from the UFC

9:19 PM ET As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bellator said on Monday that it has decided to clear its slate of fights in May. Bellator 242, scheduled for May 9 in San Jose, California, has been postponed, along with Bellator London on May 16 and Bellator 243 on May 29 in Temecula, California,

12:53 PM ET Despite Dana White’s insistence in recent weeks that the Tony Ferguson vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov fight will go on, increasingly strict travel restrictions and other precautionary measures designed to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic appear to have the fight on the brink of cancellation. During an Instagram Live interview on March