6:02 AM ET Chamatkar Sandhu, ESPN Aaron Chalmers says he was not himself in his defeat to Corey Browning at Bellator MMA in Newcastle and is now looking to June’s London event for a comeback fight. The reality TV star turned MMA fighter got off to an unbelievably stellar start to his professional fighting career
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5:12 PM ET With middleweight champion Robert Whittaker still recovering from an abdominal hernia, the UFC has booked an interim title fight between Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya for UFC 236, president Dana White told ESPN on Tuesday. The pay-per-view event, scheduled for April 13, will take place at a venue to be determined. Gastelum
11:07 AM ET Mixed martial arts tension is rarely a slow build. Most often, a strike connects or a submission sinks in, and that secures a swift result. The exception: when judges are needed, and their opinion is not unanimous. An announcer reads one of the scores and chosen winner. That’s followed by the winning
3:34 PM ET Cris Cyborg, one of the most dominant female fighters in MMA history, has one fight left on her deal with the UFC. Some have questioned whether the Brazilian will return to the organization, as she has voiced displeasure of their lack of promotion of her in the past. The future of the
2:11 PM ET Bellator MMA, which recently completed a Heavyweight Grand Prix and now is in the midst of a welterweight tournament, will launch a 16-fighter featherweight tournament in the fall, promotion president Scott Coker told ESPN on Monday. “When you think about all of the studs we have in that weight division, it just
1:03 PM ET The UFC’s first main event on ESPN television belonged to French-Cameroonian heavyweight Francis Ngannou. 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; Dana White’s Contender Series; and more exclusive MMA content. Ngannou knocked out two-time
12:02 AM ET PHOENIX — Cain Velasquez’s highly anticipated return from a 2.5-year layoff proved to be short-lived, as Francis Ngannou knocked out the former two-time champion in just 26 seconds. Ngannou (13-3) dropped Velasquez with a short right uppercut just moments into Sunday’s UFC Fight Night main event. The heavyweight bout headlined the UFC’s
1:20 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim James Vick is 6-foot-3, enormous for a lightweight, and Paul Felder is 5-11, but Felder chopped down the bigger man with a steady diet of leg kicks, leaving Vick vulnerable to some big shots and winning a clear unanimous decision in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Francis Ngannou