10:48 PM ET Henry Cejudo will again be down to just one belt. Cejudo told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto on Thursday that he will relinquish his flyweight title in order to focus on defending his bantamweight belt. He specifically called out Jose Aldo as a potential next opponent but said he will fight “anybody and everybody
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8:00 PM ET The UFC’s late-replacement headliner in South Korea is now official. Frankie Edgar and Chan Sung Jung both made weight ahead of their UFC Busan main event Saturday. Edgar and Jung — best known as “The Korean Zombie” — each weighed 146 pounds, right at the featherweight limit. Edgar is a fill-in for
12:01 PM ET PFL’s 2019 final card has been set with six championship fights for $1 million each. Two-time Olympic judo champion Kayla Harrison will headline the event against Larissa Pacheco for the women’s lightweight championship, officials told ESPN. The event will take place Dec. 31 at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theatre in New York.
2:44 PM ET PFL will have to go to Plan B for its featherweight final on New Year’s Eve. Daniel Pineda’s disciplinary hearing in front of the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has been pushed to January. The extension was brokered between the commission and Pineda’s representatives at an NSAC meeting Wednesday. Pineda was scheduled
10:45 AM ET Rory MacDonald is taking his talents to the Professional Fighters League. The former UFC title contender and Bellator welterweight champion has signed an exclusive multi-fight deal with the PFL, MacDonald and PFL officials told ESPN. He will be a part of the promotion’s 2020 season and will compete for the PFL’s welterweight
8:07 PM ET Just hours after Kamaru Usman‘s welterweight title defense Saturday night, Conor McGregor sent out a tweet. It read: “145. 155. 170.” McGregor has already held UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight — or 145 pounds and 155 pounds. The 170 represents the pound limit for welterweight. It sure seemed like McGregor was
6:26 PM ET Two-time Olympic gold-medalist Claressa Shields was at UFC 245 Saturday night campaigning for a fight against Amanda Nunes. Not since James Toney started on his path to taking on Randy Couture almost a decade ago have we seen a boxer at a UFC event so open about their desire to fight an
12:32 AM ET Australia started 2019 with one UFC world champion and finished with another, in what was another bumper and typically eventful year for the sport Down Under. Alexander Volkanovski was on Sunday crowned the UFC’s featherweight champion as he rounded out a stellar 12 months with victory over Max Holloway in Las Vegas.
5:15 PM ET A UFC contender opened up about her mental health, in detail, for the first time Monday. Megan Anderson discussed her 2010 suicide attempt and subsequent depression in an interview on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. The morning of her fight with Felicia Spencer at UFC Rochester in May, Anderson said she had a
11:10 AM ET One of the many questions following UFC 245 involved the future of Hall of Famer Urijah Faber. He looked competitive against bantamweight title contender Petr Yan, but the 40-year-old also took a pounding. The cut and nasty lump near Faber’s left eye were proof. Faber is scheduled to join Ariel Helwani’s MMA