10:44 PM ET Kansas will host what could be a historically significant MMA event Friday night, and Max Holloway wants to have a front-row seat for it. Holloway, the former UFC featherweight champion, will fly from his native Hawaii to Kansas City, Kansas, so he can be in attendance for the Invicta FC show at

7:44 PM ET Ryan Hall finally has what he has been asking the UFC for since last summer: his next fight. Hall, a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu with an unorthodox style, will face Ricardo Lamas at UFC Oklahoma City on May 2 at Chesapeake Energy Arena, the promotion announced Tuesday. Hall has had difficulty

7:52 AM ET Israel Adesanya didn’t have to pick Yoel Romero for his first title defense. The UFC middleweight champ could have waited until top contender Paulo Costa healed from his biceps surgery before putting his belt on the line. But Adesanya wants to stay active and beat the toughest guys in the division, so

4:33 PM ET In the aftermath of a wild and brutal slugfest against Dan Hooker on Feb. 22 in Auckland, Paul Felder hinted that he was contemplating retirement. The 35-year-old Philadelphia native had just lost a split decision by the thinnest of margins, but with a couple of weeks to think it over, it seems

5:50 PM ET Watch a replay of the show here. UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya said Monday that the circular mark on his left forearm is just “a little scrape” and that his title defense against Yoel Romero in the main event of UFC 248 on Saturday is not in jeopardy. “It’s just a little

2:23 PM ET All six of the 2019 Professional Fighters League champions will return for the upcoming 2020 season, the promotion told ESPN on Monday. The list of champions includes female lightweight Kayla Harrison, two-time featherweight champion Lance Palmer, two-time lightweight champion Natan Schulte, welterweight Ray Cooper III, light heavyweight Emiliano Sordi and heavyweight Ali

10:42 PM ET NORFOLK, Va. — The UFC’s flyweight division is still champion-less, but Deiveson Figueiredo sure looked the part on Saturday. Figueiredo knocked out Joseph Benavidez with a right hand in the second round of their main event bout at UFC Fight Night inside Chartway Arena. Figueiredo did not win the crown, however, as

10:25 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Deiveson Figueiredo added to the turbulent history of the UFC men’s flyweight division Saturday by winning a title fight in which he was not eligible to capture the belt. Figueiredo opened up a cut on Joseph Benavidez’s forehead, possibly on a clash of heads, and knocked him out with a

9:52 PM ET The largely dormant UFC women’s featherweight division got a shot in the arm Saturday night. Two of them, in fact. Felicia Spencer put on a dominant performance in defeating Zarah Fairn by first-round ground-and-pound TKO in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo in Norfolk, Virgina. And earlier in

5:19 PM ET Jessica Penne‘s case with USADA has reached a conclusion — with a better outcome than she previously believed. USADA, the UFC’s anti-doping partner, announced Friday that Penne has accepted a 20-month suspension due to a positive drug test for the banned steroid stanozolol. The ban is retroactive to April 8, 2019, so