12:59 PM ET Yair Rodriguez is finally coming home. “El Pantera” will meet Jeremy Stephens in the main event of UFC Fight Night Mexico City Sept. 21, sources told ESPN. Rodriguez (11-2) is coming off a last-second knockout win over Chan Sung Jung in November. That win marked his ninth in his last ten fights.
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11:33 AM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — There were no weight troubles for Max Holloway on Friday morning. The UFC featherweight champion weighed in at 145 pounds even for his UFC 240 title defense here. Frankie Edgar, his opponent, hit 145 as well, making the headlining bout official. The two will fight Saturday night at Rogers
8:47 AM ET If there is one phrase that perfectly sums up UFC 240’s main event, a featherweight title fight between Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar, it might be: Here we are again. Here we are again at this matchup, which the UFC scheduled in 2017 and 2018, only to see it fall through both
1:11 AM ET The defending PFL champions at featherweight and lightweight are the No. 1 seeds heading into the playoffs. Chris Wade ended his losing streak against Russian fighters in an impressive showing to close out PFL 5. The audience was thrilled by a fight that ended in a majority draw. It was a night
9:53 PM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — A heavyweight bout once set to open UFC 240 on Saturday is off. Giacomo Lemos is out of a fight with Tanner Boser on the preliminary card at Rogers Place, UFC officials confirmed Thursday night to ESPN. The UFC said it was due to a “health-related issue.” Both men
6:24 PM ET Entering Thursday night’s intriguing slate of fights at PFL 5, only two featherweights (Luis Rafael Laurentino, Movlid Khaybulaev) and two lightweights (Akhmed Aliev, Natan Schulte) have six points and a clear advantage in the race for the playoffs. Everything else is wide open and undetermined. That parity is due, in part, to
1:36 PM ET Umar Nurmagomedov, the younger cousin of undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, will make an appearance at PFL 6 on Aug. 8, according to the promotion. Umar Nurmagomedov, who is also undefeated at 10-0, will face Sidemar Honorio (13-6) in a non-tournament bantamweight bout. The one-off fight is not part of PFL’s
8:42 AM ET It has been more than seven years since Frankie Edgar held a UFC championship. He will look to end that dry spell Saturday, when he challenges featherweight king Max Holloway at UFC 240 in Edmonton, Alberta. Win or lose, Edgar (23-6-1) already owns one of the most distinguished careers in MMA history.
10:14 PM ET Max Holloway faces Frankie Edgar in a defense of the UFC’s featherweight championship at UFC 240. But this isn’t an ordinary main event where a reigning champion comes in to defend his title. Holloway is coming off a loss to Dustin Poirier in an interim lightweight title bout at UFC 236. What
3:57 PM ET Max Holloway will be defending the men’s featherweight championship for the third time when he takes on former lightweight champion and one-time featherweight challenger Frankie Edgar in the main event of UFC 240 on Saturday night in Edmonton, Alberta. The main card is on pay-per-view, beginning at 10 p.m. ET and available