7:48 AM ET It was all set up so well for UFC light heavyweight contenders Corey Anderson and Jan Blachowicz. There they were, scheduled to fight each other in a UFC main event, just seven days after Jon Jones was set to defend his title against Dominick Reyes. More than likely, Jones would win (as

7:33 AM ET When Bruce Buffer announces the winner of Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night main event in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, will he be naming the next challenger for light heavyweight champion Jon Jones? That is the most compelling storyline surrounding the Corey Anderson vs. Jan Blachowicz rematch. Jones is coming off a controversial

4:43 PM ET UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn was in a single-vehicle crash last week and is currently under investigation for possible DUI, a Hawaii Police Department spokesperson confirmed Wednesday with ESPN. There are currently no charges against Penn, 41. Police responded to calls of a black truck speeding, losing control and flipping into

8:16 AM ET Earlier this week, I noted a few MMA phrases that really grind my gears. “To be the champ, you gotta beat the champ,” “championship rounds mean more” and “I can’t believe that was a unanimous decision” are a few of them. You know what’s another one? “Don’t leave it in the hands

7:34 PM ET Manny Pacquiao has signed with Paradigm Sports Management, the company announced on Tuesday. In its announcement, the agency said he signed because he is looking to “solidify the final years of his boxing legacy.” According to the announcement, Pacquiao, a reigning welterweight world titleholder, the only fighter to win world titles in

5:18 PM ET With the indefinite loss of its middleweight champion, Bellator has moved to a veritable superfight for the vacated belt. Gegard Mousasi will face welterweight champion Douglas Lima for the vacant Bellator middleweight title on May 9 in San Jose, California, Bellator president Scott Coker announced Tuesday on Twitter. The title was relinquished

6:00 PM ET In an evolving sport in which gripes against officiating are commonplace, the Kansas Athletic Commission will experiment with a major change. Beginning March 1, the KAC will offer MMA promoters the option for “real-time” scoring, Kansas boxing commissioner Adam Roorbach told ESPN on Monday. After every round, the score of the fight

4:12 PM ET UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko believes a third fight against Amanda Nunes will happen at some point, but she’s enjoying her reign in the 125-pound division and sees Joanne Calderwood as her likely next opponent. “[Calderwood] makes sense,” Shevchenko said Monday on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “She’s closer for the next

Feb 14, 2020 RIVER OAKS, Texas — Montana De La Rosa does the standard after-school parenting drill. Piloting her Ford Explorer with her husband, Mark De La Rosa, seated in the passenger seat and her daughter, Zaylyn Woods, in the back, Montana tries to pry the day’s details out of her third-grader. The math test?

3:19 PM ET Dominick Reyes got a chance to talk very briefly with Jon Jones inside the Octagon after their hard-fought UFC light heavyweight title fight last Saturday night. Reyes pushed Jones to the brink, but Jones, the longtime champion, held on for an extremely close unanimous decision win (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) in the main