Oct 18, 2019 Jeff Wagenheim BOSTON – Every rematch is a little different, but usually they grow from the same seed: a first meeting that leaves some open questions. A longtime champion who seemed invincible goes down to defeat. A well-matched duo leaves us wanting more after they’ve battled it out for 15 back-and-forth minutes.

2:20 AM ET LAS VEGAS — The 2019 PFL Finals on Dec. 31 will feature two familiar names, in 2018 champions Lance Palmer and Natan Schulte. Palmer (21-3) will meet Daniel Pineda in the featherweight finals, while Schulte (19-3-1) will look to repeat against Loik Radzhabov at lightweight. Both advanced to their respective back-to-back finals

8:05 PM ET After a wild first night of action, which saw Kayla Harrison, Larissa Pacheco, Ray Cooper III and David Michaud clinch their spots in the $1 million finals of their respective divisions, Thursday marks the second stanza of the PFL playoffs. Sixteen fighters enter the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas in

8:39 PM ET A former UFC champion is leaning toward calling it a career. Luke Rockhold, who won the middleweight title in 2015, told ESPN Thursday night that he is considering never fighting again. “I have no interest in fighting right now,” Rockhold said. When asked if it was possible he might never fight again,

9:43 AM ET The UFC’s middleweight division has seen a changing of the guard over the past 12 months, and former champion Chris Weidman found himself on the wrong end of it. Can he get himself on the right side of the changes that are happening at light heavyweight? That’s the biggest question going into

9:57 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The Professional Fighters League says it has instructed prominent MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz not to attend any of its postseason events until a resolution is reached on a battery citation Abdelaziz received at a recent PFL show. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department cited Abdelaziz for battery at PFL’s

8:55 PM ET Conor McGregor and Frankie Edgar exchanged tweets on Wednesday saying they’re ready for a fight. Now they must wait for the UFC to actually make the bout happen. After a post by the UFC’s Twitter account celebrating Edgar’s 38th birthday, McGregor chimed in, wishing his fellow fighter a happy birthday and saying

11:14 PM ET By his own admission, UFC debutant Ben Sosoli hates working on his major weakness – getting off his back when under fire in the Octagon. The 29-year-old has been called up to fight controversial American knockout artist Greg Hardy in Boston on October 19, a dramatic change of fortunes after Sosoli recently

5:47 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The California State Athletic Commission has taken a major measure in attempting to combat extreme weight cutting. CSAC, one of the largest combat sports regulatory bodies in the world, voted Tuesday to pass a rule that would cancel a fight if a competitor weighed more than 15% above the

6:56 PM ET UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones took a plea deal Tuesday on a charge stemming from an April incident at a strip club. Jones pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct in Bernalillo (New Mexico) County Metropolitan Court and received a 90-day deferred sentence, per court documents. During that period of time, Jones