MMA news
- Chelsea Chandler backs Amanda Nunes against Kayla Harrison after UFC Edmonton winChandler, who submitted Melissa Croden in the first round, said she does not like Harrison and expects her to retire after the Nunes fight.
- Cage Warriors Roma risultati: Dario Bellandi wins by second-round TKO on returnThe former champion was fighting for the first time since losing his title at CW 200 in February. Giuseppe Mastrogiacomo finished his co-main event with a liver shot.
- UFC Edmonton results: Mike Malott beats Joaquin BuckleyEvery result from UFC Edmonton, with the method, round and time of each finish.
- Henry Cejudo says Sambo stars like Khabib Nurmagomedov 'can't make it in wrestling'The Olympic wrestling champion said "wrestling is king in Dagestan", but admitted he is not sure he could hang with its elite wrestlers now.
- Jena Bishop beats Liz Carmouche to become the first PFL women's flyweight championAll three judges scored the PFL Chicago main event 48-47 for Bishop, who had been stopped by Carmouche in last year's tournament final.
- BKFC scraps its flyweight division and plans to move champion John Dodson up to 135lbsChief executive David Feldman says there is not enough competition at 125lbs in bare-knuckle fighting to keep a full division busy.
- Michael Bisping says Ilia Topuria is not 'damaged goods' after Paddy Pimblett jibeBisping thinks Topuria could come back "even better" after losing to Justin Gaethje, and expects him to fight Pimblett early next year.
- Mike Malott puts win streak on the line against Joaquin Buckley in EdmontonThe Canadian welterweight headlines the UFC's return to Canada on Saturday, while Buckley arrives on back-to-back defeats. Erin Blanchfield meets Jasmine Jasudavicius in the co-main event.
- Kayla Harrison hits back at Demetrious Johnson over his Amanda Nunes commentsJohnson said he would rather Amanda Nunes stayed retired. Harrison called that a "mindset of scarcity" before their UFC 334 title fight.
- Movsar Evloev wants to beat Alexander Volkanovski over five rounds to prove 'he's not special'The unbeaten challenger says he dropped plans for a finish after hearing the champion's confidence. They meet at UFC 333 on 24 October.
- Muhammad Mokaev ends pursuit of UFC return and sees another promotion as best fitThe flyweight, released by the UFC in 2024 despite being ranked in the top five with no losses, has won four fights under three different promotional banners since leaving the Octagon.
- UFC Edmonton weigh-in results: Buckley and Malott make weight, main event officialBoth welterweights weighed 170.5lbs. Erin Blanchfield (125) and Jasmine Jasudavicius (124.5) also made weight for the co-main event.
- Larissa Pacheco says 'the market has kind of closed its doors on me' a year after PFL exitThe former two-division PFL champion, who holds a win over Kayla Harrison, believes the UFC passed on her to protect its bantamweight champion.
- Charles Oliveira says Ian Garry showed Carlos Prates the blueprint to beat Islam MakhachevOliveira, who trains with Garry, believes Prates's kicks to the ribs and calves could catch the welterweight champion off guard.
- Henry Cejudo says Brendan Allen's wife sent his wife a 'nasty message'Cejudo did not reveal what the message said but told Allen not to bring his family into their feud: "let men be men".
- Movsar Evloev's 1,500 push-ups an hour, taken from Kostya Tszyu's training methodThe unbeaten featherweight described the Saturday session to Sport-Express in 2020. He faces Alexander Volkanovski for the title at UFC 333.
- Joaquin Buckley says Rampage Jackson and King Green pushed him into streamingBuckley filmed content in 2023 but never posted it because he "didn't trust" himself. He headlines UFC Edmonton against Mike Malott on Saturday.
- Bo Nickal says Joe Pyfer fight has moved to February as a Cleveland main eventThe middleweight fight had been set for UFC 335 on 12 December. Nickal made the announcement at a political rally in Ohio, before any word from the UFC.
- Paulo Costa contrasts Rampage Jackson's $7m Liddell payday with Raoni Barcelos' payCosta estimates Barcelos made $80,000 to $100,000 for the five-round fight with Raul Rosas Jr. in which he lost consciousness.
- Valter Walker tells Alex Pereira he is still waiting for that sparring ticketWalker said Pereira has "a very wounded ego" before the former two-division champion faces Walker's teammate Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 335.
- Jasmine Jasudavicius says $10,000 Winnipeg fine for 'dip' was really over chewing gumJasudavicius says the Manitoba commission fined her after cameras appeared to show chewing tobacco in her mouth against Karine Silva. She says the gum fell out on the mat and officials declined to retrieve it.
- Robert Whittaker wants Brendan Allen to face Khamzat Chimaev rather than Dricus du PlessisRobert Whittaker says Brendan Allen should fight Khamzat Chimaev after his UFC Vegas 122 win, and wants Dricus du Plessis to face Gregory Rodrigues instead.
- Raoni Barcelos says retirement 'hasn't been ruled out' as he waits for diagnosisRaoni Barcelos is serving a six-month suspension with no head contact and a monitored heart rate after collapsing during his UFC Vegas 121 main event against Raul Rosas Jr.
- Barber meets Carli Judice at UFC 335 as Oliveira-Lopes card adds flyweight boutBarber, No 8 at flyweight in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings, returns from a knockout loss to Alexa Grasso against Judice, who has won four in a row.
- Darren Till vs Tommy Fury bare-knuckle fight hinges on Fury family issue, says Dave FeldmanBKFC president Dave Feldman says he will try to resolve objections from Tommy Fury's family within the next couple of weeks, or the grudge match with Darren Till will not happen.
- Liz Carmouche shaves her head to make weight for PFL Chicago title rematchCarmouche weighed 125lb for Friday's vacant flyweight title fight with Jena Bishop, whom she knocked out in their first meeting.
- Erick Visconde outpoints Ilias Bulaid in Contender Series Week 10 main eventErick Visconde beat Ilias Bulaid by unanimous decision at featherweight at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas, while Smilla Sundell defeated Aline Pereira on the scorecards in the co-main event.
- Victor Ortiz and Paulie Malignaggi to headline BKB 62 in Los AngelesThe former boxing world champions, who never met with gloves on, will fight over five rounds at super welterweight in BKB's three-sided Trigon on 5 December, Low Kick MMA reported.
- Chihiro Sawada to face unbeaten Anastasia Nikolakakos for vacant ONE atomweight titleSawada will bid to become the first Japanese woman to win a ONE world title when she meets the 7-0 Canadian at Yokohama Buntai on Wednesday 2 December.
- Brendan Allen submits Christian Leroy Duncan in fifth round at UFC Vegas 122Brendan Allen won the UFC Vegas 122 main event with a fifth-round rear-naked choke, while heavyweight underdog Allen Frye Jr. knocked out RJ Harris in the first round.
