Apr 17, 2019 Who is the best fighter regardless of weight class? See ESPN’s P4P rankings. Click here Check out my rankings within each MMA weight division by clicking on the links below. For a list of current UFC champions in all weight classes, click here. Note: Results are current, rankings as of April 16.
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1:04 AM ET MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — It’s about midnight at McCann’s Pub & Grill, and Aljamain Sterling has the energy of an overhyped toddler. Above him, playing on a quartet of television screens, Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya pummel each other through the fourth round of their UFC interim middleweight championship fight as Saturday lurches
8:10 AM ET The latest episode of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show (1 p.m. ET Monday, live on Twitter) featured a former champion breaking down PED use in the sport, two top middleweights trading shots at each other and an Olympic gold medalist wrestler discussing a possible transition into fighting. Here’s what you might have missed:
12:17 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print It’s Monday, time for another edition of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. Dustin Poirier and Israel Adesanya both earned UFC interim titles Saturday after vastly different paths to their belts. Their wins set up two career-defining fights. This week’s show, aired live starting at 1 p.m.
3:45 PM ET Israel Adesanya won the UFC’s interim middleweight belt on Saturday after an epic back-and-forth battle with Kelvin Gastelum. Jon Jones, however, wasn’t impressed. He took to social media in a series of now-deleted tweets discrediting Adesanya’s victory and shooting down any shot the 29-year-old has against him in a potential fight. “You
6:59 PM ET Dustin Poirier‘s eight-year journey to a UFC title shot ended in gold at UFC 236 this past weekend, as he defeated a pound-for-pound great in Max Holloway. The UFC is now on ESPN and ESPN+. Subscribe to ESPN+ to get: exclusive live UFC events, weigh-ins and more; Ariel and the Bad Guy;
6:51 PM ET ATLANTA — Khalil Rountree Jr. dominated Eryk Anders in every facet on Saturday at UFC 236, cruising to a unanimous decision win (30-26 on all three judges scorecards). From the start, Rountree attacked Anders with hard inside leg kicks that had his opponent’s thigh a bright red after the first round. Rountree
10:27 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Dustin Poirier and Israel Adesanya walked out of the Octagon on Saturday night as champions, and it had only a little to do with the shiny new title belts they carried with them. Their performances in the main event and co-main of UFC 236 in Atlanta made them interim champs,
1:22 AM ET Appearing in his first UFC title fight, Dustin Poirier defeated Max Holloway on Saturday by unanimous decision to win the interim lightweight championship at UFC 236 in Atlanta. The judges each scored it 49-46 in favor of Poirier. Poirier snapped Holloway’s 13-fight win streak and ended Holloway’s bid to become the fourth
12:56 AM ET Rich Franklin is the latest inductee to be added to the UFC Hall of Fame Class of 2019. During the UFC 236 broadcast on ESPN+, UFC announced that Franklin, the former UFC middleweight champion, will join Michael Bisping for induction at a ceremony in Las Vegas on July 5, during international fight