10:33 PM ET UFC heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik got his wish. Less than one week after knocking out Alistair Overeem at UFC Fight Night last Saturday in Washington, Rozenstruik (10-0) has agreed to meet Francis Ngannou (14-3) in the main event of UFC Fight Night on March 28 in Columbus, Ohio, sources told ESPN. Both sides

5:29 PM ET LAS VEGAS — A lightweight championship rematch between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor is a very real possibility in 2020, according to UFC president Dana White. McGregor (21-4) is scheduled to face Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone (36-13) at UFC 246 on Jan. 18 in Las Vegas, while Nurmagomedov (28-0) is set to defend

12:55 PM ET Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jackson Wink MMA Academy, the mixed martial arts gym that counts UFC light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm and former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre among its notable fighters, will offer naming rights. Gym co-owner Greg Jackson told The Associated

10:39 AM ET COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — Colby Covington is shadow boxing, warming up for a private striking workout. He’s with a coach, inside a room tucked next to an acai bowls cafe. Rock music is playing on Covington’s smartphone, and he’s wearing a shirt that reads “Stomp my flag, I’ll stomp your ass.” It’s

6:57 PM ET Remember when you were a child and you would grab a flower and do the whole “She/he loves me, she/he loves me not” game? Those were nice times, right? Well, right now our beloved sport of mixed martial arts is that flower. And there’s a lot I love about what’s going on

11:00 PM ET It will be a matrimonial milestone for mixed martial arts. Mark De La Rosa will fight Raulian Paiva at UFC Rio Rancho on Feb. 15 in New Mexico, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. It’ll be a flyweight bout, but it will represent more than that. Montana De La Rosa, Mark’s wife, is

2:41 PM ET Two-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes will defend her women’s bantamweight title against Germaine de Randamie this weekend, and on Monday she said she intends to defend at featherweight in her next fight after that. Nunes (18-4) is one of just four fighters to reign in two UFC divisions simultaneously, and none has

2:38 PM ET Liz Carmouche was involved in the first women’s fight in the UFC. She just fought for the UFC women’s flyweight title, a loss to Valentina Shevchenko in August. So, it came as a surprise when she was released by the UFC last week. Carmouche said Monday on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show that

12:30 PM ET Jairzinho Rozenstruik said Monday he wasn’t surprised when referee Dan Miragliotta rushed in to stop Saturday night’s main event at UFC Fight Night in Washington, D.C. Alistair Overeem was slumped against the cage with his upper lip split open by a Rozenstruik right hand as the fight – which Overeem was winning

1:39 AM ET UFC heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik capped off a magical 2019 run in a big way, as he knocked out Alistair Overeem in the final seconds of their heavyweight bout. Rozenstruik (10-0) needed every bit of the five-round main event to get the job done. Referee Dan Miragliotta waved the fight off at the