3:00 PM ET LOS ANGELES — A UFC fighter’s attempt to get a technical knockout loss overturned on the grounds of gender discrimination was denied Tuesday. The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) voted 3-2 to uphold the TKO result by referee Herb Dean in a fight between Germaine de Randamie and Aspen Ladd from the

Oct 15, 2019 FRANCISCO RIVERA THINKS about it almost every day, the night in Las Vegas when his MMA career began a notable descent. Rivera was putting on a solid performance, landing his powerful right hand against Urijah Faber at UFC 181 on Dec. 6, 2014. In his most high-profile fight, Rivera was proving he

4:22 PM ET ESPN.com staff Joanna Jedrzejczyk scored a big win for American Top Team on Saturday by beating Michelle Waterson, but she wasn’t sharing that celebration with ATT teammate Colby Covington. Covington will challenge welterweight champ Kamaru Usman on Dec. 14, and his public feuds with ATT teammates Jorge Masvidal and Dustin Poirier have

4:48 PM ET Tatiana Suarez should be one of the top contenders for the next shot at the UFC strawweight title, with an 8-0 record and five straight wins in the UFC, but all plans are on hold as Suarez deals with a neck injury she reaggravated in June. “I’ve always had disk issues,” Suarez

3:38 PM ET Joanna Jedrzejczyk said Monday that her right foot, which she injured in Saturday’s win over Michelle Waterson, is not broken and that a title shot against UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili is next. “I got the results yesterday and my foot was not broken,” Jedrzejczyk said on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “The

10:08 PM ET A top UFC women’s fighter is appealing a recent knockout loss. Aspen Ladd will go before the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) on Tuesday and argue that her 16-second TKO defeat against Germaine de Randamie was stopped by referee Herb Dean prematurely, CSAC executive officer Andy Foster told ESPN on Sunday. Ladd’s

11:44 PM ET One of the UFC’s best women’s champions might have earned another shot at gold. Joanna Jedrzejczyk defeated Michelle Waterson by unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 49-46) in the main event of UFC Tampa on Saturday night at Amalie Arena. Jedrzejczyk was the superior fighter on the feet throughout — much like her title

12:52 AM ET Demetrious Johnson may no longer be in the UFC, but he is still winning big fights — and he’s still one of the very best fighters on the planet. Johnson beat Danny Kingad via unanimous decision to win the ONE flyweight grand prix Sunday in Tokyo. “Mighty Mouse” has won all three

3:56 PM ET Cub Swanson landed straight right hands. He landed left hooks. Swanson landed uppercuts and punches to the body. Through it all, Kron Gracie, blood on his face, continued coming forward. Gracie stalked Swanson for three rounds. And for three rounds, Swanson teed off en route to a unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

5:29 AM ET LAS VEGAS – Two prominent mixed martial arts managers were involved in a “brief physical altercation” Friday night during the PFL MMA event – and a battery was committed, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department confirmed with ESPN. Abe Kawa, vice president of First Round Management, told ESPN that Ali Abdelaziz, the