7:46 PM ET Ariel Helwani Close ESPN Staff Writer Ariel Helwani is an MMA reporter at ESPN. Follow him on Twitter at @arielhelwani. Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun After weeks of negotiations, Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington is finally on.

1:39 PM ET The UFC has officially parted ways with Hall of Fame fighter BJ Penn. Penn was released by the promotion this week, UFC president Dana White said, in the wake of several videos of Penn fighting on the streets of Hawaii surfacing. White told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto earlier this month before UFC 243

3:38 AM ET The UFC’s key middleweight clash this weekend is official. Jack Hermansson and Jared Cannonier both made weight Friday ahead of their main event bout Saturday at UFC Copenhagen in Denmark. The middleweight contenders each weighed in at 185 pounds on the dot. Hermansson (20-4), who is ranked No. 6 in the division

1:11 PM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Mixed martial arts fighter Katy Collins, who competed in Bellator as well as other promotions, died Wednesday at age 32 after suffering a brain aneurysm last week, her coach announced on social media. “The fight is over. You never stopped fighting, and we never gave up on you,” JT Tilley,

7:40 PM ET Jared Cannonier was living in Anchorage, Alaska, and doing maintenance on air traffic control equipment for the Federal Aviation Administration. It was 2009, he was almost a year removed from serving in the U.S. Army and his wife, Cat, was pregnant with their first child. Cannonier weighed more than 300 pounds. “When

6:12 PM ET A featherweight grudge match between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens is being re-booked as the co-main event at UFC Fight Night on Oct. 18 in Boston, UFC president Dana White said Wednesday. The 145-pound bout is not yet finalized, but both sides want the rematch. UFC Fight Night is scheduled to take

10:59 AM ET UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic is “highly unlikely” to compete again in 2019, after suffering an eye injury in his last fight against Daniel Cormier in August. Miocic (19-3) reclaimed his heavyweight title by knocking out Cormier in the fourth round of their title fight rematch at UFC 241. The UFC has

Jul 29, 2019 Two-thirds of PFL’s playoff brackets are set, and the promotion’s October postseason has become very interesting. The lightweight and featherweight divisions — two of the best weight classes in PFL — completed their regular season last Thursday night with a mix of some obvious outcomes and a few surprises along the way.

Sep 22, 2019 Richard Mann Jack Hermansson has the better and more diverse path to victory on Saturday night, but don’t count Jared Cannonier out. Hermansson has the better overall striking, ground striking, wrestling and submission numbers, but Cannonier holds the edge in one key category that could determine the outcome of the fight: knockdowns.

4:04 PM ET Jorge Masvidal spent three months in 2018 away from family, friends and his hometown of Miami. The UFC star was on Telemundo’s “Exatlon Estados Unidos” reality show, competing in physical and mental challenges in the Dominican Republic. He couldn’t use a phone, watch television or have any contact with the outside world.