9:20 AM ET Tony Ferguson recently changed management groups, leaving Paradigm Sports Management — a team that represents former UFC champion and fellow lightweight Conor McGregor — for Ballengee Group. Some have questioned whether being part of the same organization might have hurt the chances of this matchup being made in the past. Now that

5:15 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Brock Lesnar‘s time in the UFC — or at least the tease of a return — appears to be done, for now. That still leaves many lingering questions for the former UFC heavyweight and WWE Universal champion. 1 Related Lesnar, 41, will not be fighting Daniel Cormier for the UFC

4:48 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Felice Herrig won’t get her Chicago homecoming next month. The UFC women’s strawweight fighter tore her ACL and is out of her UFC 238 fight against Yan Xiaonan, Herrig announced Tuesday on Instagram. That bout was scheduled for United Center on June 8. Herrig is a resident of nearby Crystal

1:03 AM ET With Brock Lesnar informing UFC president Dana White that he doesn’t intend to fight again, the UFC is close to finalizing a heavyweight title matchup between Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic for a pay-per-view event on Aug. 17, in Anaheim, California. Both sides have verbally agreed to the fight, though contracts are

11:56 PM ET The UFC is targeting a strawweight matchup between Claudia Gadelha and Randa Markos for UFC 239 on July 6 in Las Vegas, according to multiple sources. Both sides have verbally agreed to the 115-pound bout, although contracts have not yet been signed. UFC 239 is scheduled to take place at T-Mobile Arena,

5:16 PM ET Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald, who caused a buzz in the MMA community with postfight comments last Saturday, reiterated in a press release his intention to continue fighting. He will face on Neiman Gracie in the semifinals of Bellator’s Welterweight World Grand Prix on June 14 at Madison Square Garden in New

11:16 PM ET Jacare Souza isn’t done yet. Last month on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, Souza (26-7, 1 NC) said that he would retire if he didn’t get a middleweight title shot after his April 27 fight. However, considering he ended up losing to Jack Hermansson Saturday night in Sunrise, Florida, a title fight appears

6:53 PM ET The latest episode of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show featured a longtime coach talking about possible retirement for his fighter, a Bellator champion coming off a successful title defense and a UFC middleweight contender describing his road to a title shot. Here’s what you might have missed: “He has a lot of fight