10:44 AM ET The supersized UFC main event this weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina, is now official. Curtis Blaydes and Junior dos Santos weighed in successfully Friday morning for their heavyweight main event Saturday at PNC Arena. Blaydes weighed 248, and dos Santos, the former UFC heavyweight champion, hit the scale at 247. Blaydes vs.

8:32 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Cris Cyborg has a difficult task this weekend. Then, with a win, options could open up for her in a big way — across multiple sports. Cyborg, one of the best fighters in women’s mixed martial arts history, will challenge Julia Budd for the Bellator women’s featherweight title Saturday

Jan 21, 2020 CRIS “CYBORG” JUSTINO walked into The Forum in Inglewood, California, through the VIP entrance on Sept. 28. It was the first Bellator event she’d attended since signing with the promotion three weeks earlier. But even though she was new to the company, she felt a comfort in knowing she would see many

7:47 AM ET The top of the UFC heavyweight division might be on hold as champion Stipe Miocic recovers from an eye injury, but the contenders for his title will be active early this year with Saturday’s main event in Raleigh, North Carolina first up. ESPN’s No. 4 ranked heavyweight Curtis Blaydes faces the most

3:46 PM ET UFC superstar Conor McGregor has made it no secret that he has interest in trying his hand at boxing again, be it in a rematch of his 2017 knockout loss to Floyd Mayweather in the second-highest grossing pay-per-view in history or perhaps a showdown with another legend, Manny Pacquiao, both of whom

2:38 PM ET One of MMA’s hottest prospects will be back soon. Edmen Shahbazyan will fight Derek Brunson in a pivotal middleweight bout at UFC 248 on March 7 in Las Vegas, the UFC announced Wednesday. Shahbazyan is one of the top young fighters in all of MMA. ESPN ranked the 22-year-old at No. 3

7:30 AM ET Remember last week when I told you it was conceivable that if all went well against Donald Cerrone, Conor McGregor could fight anyone from featherweight to welterweight next? Well, I guess I was wrong. I should have included bantamweight, too. On Monday’s Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, McGregor’s manager, Audie Attar, said this

7:34 AM ET UFC president Dana White does not think it would be a good idea for Conor McGregor to fight Jorge Masvidal, at least not as his next opponent. He has said so several times. White thinks it would be smarter for McGregor to wait for a potential rematch against lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov,

5:45 PM ET Editor’s note: Watch the replay of this week’s Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show here. Trying to determine who Conor McGregor will fight next is one of the hottest talking points in all of sports. Even before McGregor stopped Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in 40 seconds on Saturday, speculation about his next opponent dominated interviews

4:49 PM ET Conor McGregor came into 2020 saying he wanted to treat the year like a season and fight at least three times following a lengthy layoff. That remains the plan, according to his longtime coach John Kavanagh. McGregor knocked out Donald Cerrone in just 40 seconds in the main event of UFC 246