MMA news
- "Absolutely very, very real": David Feldman on BKFC's Anfield talks after Darren Till commentsThe BKFC president thinks the talks will move forward next week, though nothing has been announced. Bloody Elbow names Tommy Fury as Till's most likely next opponent.
- Bryce Mitchell wants face stomps legal in MMA: 'That's actually my best move'The UFC bantamweight called talk of banning oblique kicks "really, really stupid" and wants rounds and weight cuts taken out as well.
- Conor McGregor says clip of him laughing after Covington submission is 'false and fully edited'McGregor says the laugh has been placed at the wrong moment of the Hype show in Rome and that he does not 'laugh at competing men and women'.
- Jonny Parsons says Sean Strickland knocked him out cold in sparring, then drove him homeThe head kick came six weeks before his Contender Series fight, and he says he did "almost no training" before winning a UFC contract. He fights for the first time since 2023 on Saturday.
- Aaron Pico wants Lerone Murphy rematch despite knockout: 'I was beating him up'Manchester's Murphy knocked Pico out in his UFC debut, but Pico says 'a little bit smarter' would have won it and that he can beat the No. 3 featherweight.
- Kelvin Gastelum says he has one UFC fight left and has to win it: 'the end is coming soon'The 35-year-old says a renewal would be his last UFC deal, and he faces Rodolfo Vieira in a no-gi match in Rio on 13 November.
- Kyoma Akimoto vows KO in unbeaten Razhabali Shaidulloev's final RIZIN fight on New Year's EveThe PFL and RIZIN featherweight champion defends his RIZIN title in Nagoya before joining MVP MMA in 2027, with Luiz Gustavo v Mikuru Asakura as the co-main event.
- Beneil Dariush done fighting unless he finds 'something special': 'My goal is coaching'The 37-year-old has told his management and UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby he is not keen on fight offers, after four first-round knockout defeats in his last five fights.
- Patchy Mix reportedly cut by RIZIN after four straight losses and a six-pound weight missThe former Bellator bantamweight champion is said to have been taken off RIZIN's roster after going 0-2 since signing with the promotion, and it is unclear whether he will re-sign or go to free agency.
- 'Rocky Fielding just hit me up': BKFC's David Feldman says Darren Till is 'a target now'Feldman says BKFC is also "in talks with Tommy Fury", and that Derek Brunson could come into the picture for Till if he does well on his debut this month.
- Greg Foster went from UFC contract to ambulance: 'The doctors were getting mad at me'The win came on his mother's birthday, with her in hospital after a car accident he says fractured her neck and pelvis and left her with eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung.
- Raul Rosas Jr submits Colby Covington in under 45 seconds in Hype main event in RomeThe UFC bantamweight took the Hype main event in Rome on days' notice after Dillon Danis pulled out, with Covington due to face Khamzat Chimaev on 14 November.
- Colby Covington says Islam Makhachev's retirement talk is 'probably a negotiation tactic'Covington told Submission Radio the UFC welterweight champion "might not even ever fight again", and wondered aloud about "crazy demands" of "$15, $20, $30 million".
- Carlos Prates says Islam Makhachev 'chickened out', vows to beat him 'twice as hard'Prates says he was "pretty pissed off" after losing a 30 January title shot. He must now get past unbeaten Michael Morales for the interim belt at UFC 336.
- Dan Hooker says Charles Oliveira 'killed' the BMF belt and 'too many nice guys' got a crackHooker, who fights Brian Ortega at UFC Qatar on 21 November, also blames the UFC as Oliveira prepares to defend the title against Diego Lopes.
- Matt Brown says Dan Miragliotta should be reprimanded over Renato Moicano standupRenato Moicano had back control with a body triangle when the referee stood the fight up, and went on to lose to Tom Nolan in the third round. Brown says no warning was given.
- Tye Ruotolo says it’s going to be a war against Christian Lee for MMA titleThe unbeaten 23-year-old would become the first ONE world champion in both MMA and submission grappling by taking the lightweight belt in Bangkok on Friday 6 November.
- Artem Lobov says Conor McGregor 'took care of nobody' in attack over Mayweather moneyHis former sparring partner claims McGregor got “100M for Mayweather” while John got “100K if even”, adding: “All of this allegedly of course.”
- Kevin Vallejos jokes Dan Miragliotta will referee his UFC Qatar fight with Aljamain SterlingSterling said the referee's stand-up in Moicano v Nolan left him close to "storming that cage". He meets Vallejos in the co-main event in Doha on 21 November.
- Uros Medic says he's 'a little tired' of watching Islam Makhachev win: 'Go rest, go relax'Medic, who faces Kevin Holland at UFC 334 on 14 November, says the welterweight champion has accomplished everything and should get out if he is considering retirement.
- Edson Barboza faces Rashid Magomedov in ACBJJ battle match three months after retiringThe 40-year-old retired after a TKO loss to Esteban Ribovics in August, and strikes are allowed standing and on the ground in Rio on 13 November.
- Jacobe Smith says he said no to Bonfim main event: 'I wasn't willing to take it for 5 rounds'The unbeaten welterweight says he was prepared for three rounds, and would have pulled out of his fight with Randy Brown to take it on those terms.
- Michel Pereira books first fight since UFC exit against In Su Hwang at ZFN 5 on 19 DecemberPereira became a free agent after losing to Shara Magomedov in June, and Hwang is a former Road FC middleweight champion.
- Man jailed for six and a half years for setting fire to Conor McGregor's pub in DublinAbdullah Khan, 24, poured petrol on the door of the Black Forge Inn and attacked two gardaí with a knife four days later.
- Joshua Van defends Islam Makhachev after backlash over turning down UFC 336The UFC flyweight champion, who defends his own title against Manel Kape on that Toronto card, says Makhachev has done everything he needs to in the sport.
- Renato Moicano expects nothing from UFC after Tom Nolan stand-up loss: 'I signed the contract'Moicano told The Ariel Helwani Show he knew "the price" when he signed his contracts, and said he was "shocked" when referee Dan Miragliotta stood him up against Nolan.
- Big John McCarthy says the most he ever made refereeing a UFC event was $2,000The veteran referee said the fee covered "the entire night" at UFC 217 in 2017, and that Dan Miragliotta "probably made $1,600" for the Tom Nolan v Renato Moicano fight.
- Big John McCarthy says Dan Miragliotta was unfair to Renato Moicano at UFC Vegas 123The veteran referee said he has never taken a fighter out of back control, the position Moicano held when Miragliotta stood him up in a main event Tom Nolan went on to win by TKO.
- Charles Oliveira vs Diego Lopes tops official UFC 335 poster for 12 DecemberOliveira makes his first BMF title defence against a debuting lightweight in Las Vegas, while Alex Pereira and Sergei Pavlovich share the poster ahead of their five-round heavyweight co-main event.
- Renato Moicano plans to stop fighting MMA after three more UFC fights for influencer boxingThe 37-year-old told The Ariel Helwani Show he would box for "half a million dollars, million dollars" and does not want to end up like Tony Ferguson.
