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8:25 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Scott Coker was a neophyte mixed martial arts promoter in 2006. His company Strikeforce was in its infancy, coming off its inaugural event. Coker had a card scheduled in the promotion’s home base of San Jose, California, for that June, but it did not feature a fighter who could sell
11:40 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN UFC women’s bantamweight Macy Chiasson lost her home in a fatal crane accident last weekend and is filing a lawsuit against the apartment complex owners and crane company. Chiasson, 27, was at her Dallas apartment Sunday when a crane working on an adjacent building collapsed onto her complex during a
4:01 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing a strawweight title fight between Jessica Andrade and Weili Zhang to headline UFC Fight Night on Aug. 31 in mainland China, according to multiple sources. Contracts have not yet been signed, but the bout is nearly official, per sources. The event will take place in Shenzhen,
8:27 AM ET Chael Sonnen I started in mixed martial arts with one goal: to win a world championship. It was a promise I made to my dad, and it’s the only promise I ever made to him that I have not kept. I have done everything in my power to keep the promise, and
10:53 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Mackenzie Dern, a top UFC prospect, gave birth Sunday, she announced Monday on social media. Dern and her boyfriend, professional surfer Wesley Santos, had a baby girl named Moa, she wrote. This is Dern’s first child. “A little late, stubborn, american/brazilian, beautiful, perfect, God’s gift and our family’s biggest pride!”
3:28 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Cris “Cyborg” Justino‘s next UFC fight is the last one on her current contract. And the former UFC women’s featherweight champion will test the free-agent market afterward, she said Monday on ESPN’s Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. Justino will fight Felicia Spencer in the co-main event of UFC 240 on July
8:43 AM ET It’s Monday, time for another edition of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, which airs live starting at 1 p.m. ET on Twitter and YouTube. After it ends, you can listen to the entire show via the ESPN podcast center. The UFC is off this weekend, but all eyes will be on Madison Square
4:15 PM ET [embedded content] CHICAGO — There were plenty of storylines going into Saturday’s UFC 238, and there might be even more of them to discuss coming out of the event. After looking terrible in the opening round of his bantamweight title fight against Marlon Moraes, flyweight champion Henry Cejudo delivered one of the
2:03 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN CHICAGO — Henry Cejudo has an Olympic wrestling gold medal. He has the UFC flyweight title. And now, one of the best combat sport athletes of all time has added some more gold to his collection: the UFC bantamweight title belt. Cejudo, 32, stopped Marlon Moraes via TKO with ground