7:41 PM ET Rochester-native Desmond Green desperately wanted to fight on next month’s UFC Rochester card, and the promotion has obliged by booking him against former TKO champion Charles “Air” Jourdain (9-1), sources told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. Jourdain, of Montreal, will be making his UFC debut on the May 18 card. Green (22-8) is coming

11:35 AM ET Phil MurphyESPN Video Benson Henderson is one of the most accomplished mixed martial artists of his generation, a lightweight champion with both the UFC and WEC. But one thing in recent years has evaded him: a Bellator MMA championship belt. Henderson (26-8) fought twice for that honor in 2016 and both times

9:41 AM ET When Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza lost the Strikeforce middleweight championship to Luke Rockhold in September 2011, no one would have guessed he’d go eight years without a single appearance in a title fight. And yet, here we are — likely one win away from that exact milestone. The UFC is now on ESPN

7:13 PM ET Three current UFC fighters, including a former champion, plus a former fighter, were recently suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency for testing positive for the same banned substance. Former UFC women’s flyweight champion Nicco Montano, Sean O’Malley, Marvin Vettori and Augusto Mendes all failed random, out-of-competition drug tests for ostarine. After

9:06 PM ET Richard Mann The middleweight match at the top of this weekend’s UFC event is an extremely interesting stylistic clash. Even though Jack Hermansson is coming off a pair of first-round submissions, his distinctive striking style is what has really set him apart from the rest of the division. He has some clear

9:06 AM ET The latest episode of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show featured a rising contender combating allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, a former champion providing an update on his health and a college wrestling champion ready to make his UFC debut. Here’s what you might have missed: Costa says failed USADA drug test ‘not

12:36 PM ET Popular UFC welterweight Darren Till has been fined for his part in damaging a hotel and driving off in a taxi on the Canary Islands last week, according to multiple reports. Till, of Liverpool, was one of five British nationals who were arrested last Thursday and admitted to vandalizing the hotel in

1:10 PM ET ESPN Brazil Former UFC fighter Rodrigo de Lima (9-3-1) was killed Sunday following an argument with a rideshare driver in the city of Belém, Brazil. According to the authorities, de Lima argued with the driver and left his car. For unknown reasons, the man, later identified as Jefferson Roger Maciel, hit de

2:23 PM ET SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Roosevelt Roberts is not afraid of a fight. There was a time, very early in life, when he probably was afraid, but any fear Roberts had of physical violence was gone before he’d reached middle school. He might even remember the day it was lost for good. He

11:19 AM ET The UFC went to Russia this past weekend for just the second time in the promotion’s history. Alistair Overeem scored the 23rd KO/TKO of his career when he finished Aleksei Oleinik in the first round of the main event. Veteran Roxanne Modafferi beat Antonina Shevchenko via split decision in a hard-fought affair.