MMA news
- Sean Brady out of UFC Vegas 124 main event against Gabriel Bonfim with injuryThe UFC is looking for a short-notice replacement to face Bonfim at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on 7 November.
- Jean Silva hits back at Volkanovski's coach Joe Lopez over claim he doesn't deserve title shotSilva said Volkanovski had named him as next before his coach spoke, and urged the champion to stay at featherweight and fight him.
- Paddy Pimblett would take a Justin Gaethje rematch before Ilia Topuria: 'Justin's got the belt'Pimblett, beaten by Gaethje before Gaethje won the lightweight title against Topuria, says he would shoot for a takedown in the first 10 seconds if they fought again.
- Charles Oliveira backs Alex Pereira to knock out Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 335Oliveira, who defends his BMF title against Diego Lopes on the same Las Vegas card on 12 December, said Pavlovich does not defend against kicks.
- Tom Nolan honoured to face Moicano a week after Volkanovski title winThe 26-year-old Australian, unbeaten in his last five fights, headlines a UFC card for the first time when he meets veteran Renato Moicano at the Meta APEX on Saturday.
- Stipe Miocic backs Ciryl Gane to beat Josh Hokit at UFC 334The former two-time UFC heavyweight champion also rates a potential rematch between Gane and Britain's Tom Aspinall as about even, saying constant pressure would be Aspinall's best chance of winning.
- Usman Nurmagomedov becomes a free agent as his PFL exclusive negotiating window endsHis manager Ali Abdelaziz says he turned down a $2 million PFL offer after his final fight, and his team wants Ilia Topuria for a UFC debut.
- Fedor Emelianenko says Dana White 'always changes his story' on why the UFC never signed himThe 50-year-old also says the UFC only came for him when he was under contract elsewhere, never when he was a free agent.
- Renato Moicano on Tom Nolan's hero praise: 'I don't want compliments. I want money.'The pair headline UFC Vegas 123 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on Saturday, and Moicano has three fights left on his UFC contract.
- Alexander Volkanovski on retiring: 'One hard knock to the brain, a concussion and that's that'The UFC featherweight champion, 38, said he is content with what he has achieved and wants to look after his health, even though the paychecks will never be this big again.
- Joselyne Edwards to be backup fighter for Kayla Harrison vs Amanda Nunes at UFC 334Edwards will be on standby for the bantamweight title fight, the co-main event at Madison Square Garden on Saturday 14 November.
- Dominick Cruz says Ciryl Gane is not a cheater and puts eye pokes on the fighter who gets hitGane's last two opponents, Tom Aspinall and Alex Pereira, have both said he cheated against them. He defends the UFC heavyweight title against Josh Hokit at UFC 334 on 14 November.
- Randy Brown says Islam Makhachev 'doesn't fight a lot' and should fight moreThe UFC welterweight, who fights at UFC Vegas 123 on Saturday, named Anderson Silva, Israel Adesanya and Kamaru Usman as the 'real active champions'.
- Julian Erosa says UFC Vegas 123 will be his last fight: "I don't want fighting to retire me"The featherweight, who faces JeongYeong Lee on Saturday 31 October, said it will be his 19th UFC fight and that he would rather give his health to his family than to fighting.
- Alexander Volkanovski says he would vacate featherweight title to fight Arman TsarukyanThe UFC featherweight champion said there have been no calls from the UFC yet, and that he is getting more excited about Tsarukyan than a fight with Justin Gaethje.
- Alexander Hernandez talks films and food after UFC 332 TKO of dos AnjosThe UFC lightweight, now 19-9, has answered questions on films, food, television and concerts after a second-round TKO of Rafael dos Anjos ended his brief slide following an April 2026 loss to Rafa García.
- Robert Whittaker says UFC Sydney main event will be 'terrible' for Benoit Saint-DenisThe former middleweight champion expects Quillan Salkilld to win badly on 6 February, and said he is preparing to fight on the same card.
- Cris Cyborg says Claressa Shields quit MMA because it was too hardCyborg said Shields has had eight boxing fights since going back to boxing, the same number Cyborg has had while MMA world champion.
- Alexander Volkov says Josh Hokit thinks like an elementary school kid after roster jibeThe heavyweight, who beat Rizvan Kuniev at UFC 333, says Hokit has "a fight and a half" in the UFC and a title shot against Ciryl Gane.
- Jean Silva says title talks with the UFC have happened and the next move is up to VolkanovskiSilva said the UFC took him to Abu Dhabi to watch Volkanovski's UFC 333 win over Movsar Evloev, and that it is now down to the champion whether he stays at featherweight to face him.
- Jesse Sparks wants another quick knockout against Richard Carmack at BKB DoverSparks has needed 53 seconds in total to win his two bare-knuckle fights. He meets Carmack, who is 2-1, in a super heavyweight bout in Delaware on 20 November.
- Jose Aldo says he cried after Conor McGregor loss because he knew there would be no rematchAldo says Dana White told him in the locker room after UFC 194 that McGregor could no longer make featherweight and was moving up to lightweight.
- Kade Ruotolo books MMA return against Ok Rae Yoon after ACL surgeryKade Ruotolo will fight Ok Rae Yoon at ONE FN 50 on Friday 18 December. It will be his first bout after eight months out following reconstruction of a torn ACL suffered in training.
- Renato Moicano plans to fight out his UFC deal and then test free agencyThe 37-year-old has three fights left on his contract and headlines UFC Vegas 123 against Tom Nolan on Saturday, with boxing and influencing among the options he floated.
- Chael Sonnen calls Volkanovski's Gaethje retirement pitch 'one of the dumbest ideas' he's heardSonnen said that if Volkanovski wants to test himself at lightweight, he should give up the featherweight title and move up with no guarantees.
- Carlos Prates tells Islam Makhachev's manager 'I will finish his legacy'Ali Abdelaziz told the welterweight contenders to talk less. Prates, who fights Michael Morales for the interim title at UFC 336, said Makhachev would fight the number one contender if he fought for passion.
- Derek Brunson backs UFC in Sean Strickland pay row: 'Why would you sign a ten-fight contract?'Brunson, who spent over a decade in the UFC, makes his BKFC debut in Myrtle Beach on 20 November.
- Renato Moicano says Brian Ortega vs Dan Hooker will be 'the worst fight in the UFC'Moicano, whose two booked rematches with Ortega were both called off, has been calling for a fight with Hooker himself.
- Vadim Nemkov says UFC fighters "get paid mere pennies" and he earns about twice as much in PFLThe PFL heavyweight champion says money was a major reason he never signed with the UFC, ahead of his first title defence in Dubai on November 14.
- Sean Strickland vs Nassourdine Imavov title rematch planned for February in Florida, says BohnMMA Junkie's Mike Bohn said the fight may already be signed, after a pay dispute with the UFC derailed plans for a December date in Las Vegas.
