2:17 PM ET LAS VEGAS — A focused Thiago Santos walked through the doors of the UFC Performance Institute on Monday, just days away from his light heavyweight title fight at UFC 239 against Jon Jones. Flanked by his team of four coaches, Santos headed straight to the strength and conditioning area of this 30,000-square-foot

1:05 PM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Jon Jones might be the greatest male fighter in the history of mixed martial artist. Amanda Nunes might be the greatest female fighter ever. Both will be in action on Saturday night at UFC 239 in Las Vegas. The main card is on pay-per-view,

12:30 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The PFL’s high-stakes postseason is coming to Sin City. Professional Fighters League will hold its playoffs in Las Vegas over three weeks in October, the promotion announced Tuesday. The PFL championship finals competitors in each division will be decided Oct. 11, 17 and 31 at Mandalay Events Center. In order

10:28 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Daniel Cormier said it before his fight with Stipe Miocic. You can go back and hear it in interviews. The future champ-champ just about called his shot. “I said, ‘Stipe does this thing when he exits the clinch that will cost him,'” Cormier told ESPN. “He tends to hang his

1:55 PM ET Francis Ngannou, you have our full and undivided attention once again. Ngannou (14-3) was the most feared heavyweight in the world going into 2018, but a five-round loss to then-champion Stipe Miocic that January (followed by a complete no-show against Derrick Lewis later that summer) had “The Predator” looking very human. Well,

9:58 AM ET Luke Rockhold fights for a living. Since 2007, he’s spent his time in cages trying to avoid having punches and kicks connect with his legs, sides and head. He’s been pretty good at it, too, winning middleweight titles in Strikeforce and UFC. He’s still in a business where, win or lose, getting

11:08 AM ET Luke Rockhold fights for a living. Since 2007, he’s spent his time in cages trying to avoid having punches and kicks connect with his legs, sides and head. He’s been pretty good at it, too, winning middleweight titles in Strikeforce and UFC. He’s still in a business where, win or lose, getting

3:22 PM ET Peter Carroll In its 17-year history, Cage Warriors has paved the way to the UFC for nearly 100 fighters. On June 29, for the first time since the inaugural Cage Warriors championships were unveiled in 2005, six of the coveted titles — considered “golden tickets” to the UFC — were put on

12:12 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Junior dos Santos was the polished boxer. The former UFC heavyweight champion. He had the pedigree. But Francis Ngannou had the raw punching power. And in the end, that’s all that mattered. Ngannou crushed dos Santos with a combination of looping, crushing punches early on — a right hook followed

3:15 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Junior dos Santos was the polished boxer, the former UFC heavyweight champion. He had the pedigree. But Francis Ngannou had the raw punching power. In the end, that’s all that mattered. Ngannou crushed dos Santos with a combination of looping, crushing punches early on — a right hook followed by