11:10 PM ET An interim lightweight title fight between featherweight champion Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier will headline UFC 236 on April 13, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Friday. The UFC 236 pay-per-view event will take place at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. An interim middleweight title fight between Kelvin Gastelum and Israel

4:16 PM ET Brazilian fighter Thiago “Marreta” Santos is featured in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night in Prague, where he will face fourth-ranked Jan Blachowicz. It’s the second time that Santos will take part in the main event as he replaced Glover Teixeira last September in Sao Paulo and made his light

3:50 PM ET Chamatkar SandhuESPN If you thought suffering his first professional loss was going to hold James Gallagher back, then think again. The brash young Irishman is returning to action, headlining Bellator 217 which goes down this Saturday in Dublin, Ireland. The event will also mark the first time Bellator will air on Sky

10:21 AM ET UFC Fight Night headliners Thiago Santos and Jan Blachowicz each made weight Friday for their light heavyweight main event in Prague, Czech Republic. A former middleweight, Santos (20-6) checked in at 204 pounds, 2 pounds under the allowable limit for a non-title bout. Blachowicz (23-7) weighed in at 205 pounds. The light

9:52 AM ET UFC strawweight prospect Mackenzie Dern will place her fighting career on hold, as she announced her pregnancy on Friday. Dern, 25, announced the news via Instagram. Dern’s boyfriend, Brazilian surfer Wesley Santos, was tagged in the post. “God makes everything so perfect!” Dern wrote. “I am so happy to be able to

Feb 22, 2019 Georges St-Pierre announced his retirement from mixed martial arts on Thursday. St-Pierre, who defended the UFC’s welterweight belt nine straight times from 2008 to 2013, will go down as one of the greatest fighters in history. But the one thing that would have kept him from making this decision? A fight with

6:47 PM ET Graeme Langford Liverpool’s Chris Fishgold (17-2-1) is set to fight Daniel Teymur (6-2) at UFC Fight Night in Prague on Saturday. ESPN sat down with Fishgold ahead of this fight to discuss his MMA origins, his fighting style, his opinions of Teymur, his plan for winning and more. ESPN: How did you

5:04 PM ET UFC bantamweight and featherweight champion Amanda Nunes on Thursday shot down the possibility that she’ll be fighting at UFC 237 in her native Brazil on May 11. “It will be tough,” Nunes said in an interview with Combate. “I’m thinking about fighting in the end of the year, around November or December.

9:42 PM ET Paul Felder‘s collapsed lung did not heal on its own, so he was forced to undergo surgery at a local Phoenix hospital Wednesday afternoon, according to Felder’s manager Brian Butler. Butler told ESPN the surgery was a success. Felder suffered the injury in the closing moments of his unanimous decision win over

7:38 PM ET Brazilian legend Anderson Silva has already booked his next fight, and it will take place in his native Brazil. Silva (34-9) will face Jared Cannonier (11-4) at UFC 237 on May 11 in Brazil, according to UFC president Dana White. It will mark Silva’s first appearance in Brazil since he defeated Stephan