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- Paddy Pimblett says Movsar Evloev 'quit' and 'rolled over' against Volkanovski at UFC 333Volkanovski stopped the unbeaten challenger with six seconds of round two left, and Pimblett said Evloev should have kept moving to see out the round.
- O'Shaquie Foster and Vasiliy Lomachenko agree to fight next year after Navarrete winThe pair came face to face at ringside after Foster unified the WBC, WBO and IBF super-featherweight titles. No date or venue has been set.
- Darren Owen's GFL sets debut at Club Atletico Lanus for 18 DecemberThe Global Fight League will stage its first event in Buenos Aires, with the Buenos Aires Gauchos hosting the Miami Monsters, after its planned May launch was cancelled.
- On Saturday the UFC announced a Dallas Fight Night for 16 January 2027The Fight Night card will be the UFC's first event of 2027, ending the promotion's usual holiday break from mid-December to mid-January.
- Dana White says UFC events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia will go ahead despite the warSpeaking after UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi, the UFC CEO said he has never felt unsafe in the region and that other sports' plans are 'their business'.
- Shakur Stevenson released by Zuffa Boxing without a fight, Dana White saysUFC CEO Dana White said he offered the undefeated boxer his release himself, after a rumoured showdown with Devin Haney never came together, and insisted there is no bad blood between the two sides.
- Arman Tsarukyan calls out Georges St-Pierre after tech fall win over Dillon DanisThe UFC lightweight contender named St-Pierre at the RAF 14 press conference after beating Danis in Las Vegas, a win that took his Real American Freestyle record to 8-1.
- Eddie Hearn calls Dana White's Zuffa Boxing 'a laughingstock of the sport'The Matchroom promoter said the people running Zuffa have "not a clue about boxing" and that White should admit at the end of the year it has been "an absolute monstrosity".
- Charlotte Padie: things to know before she faces world champion Rodrigues in ONEThe French striker makes her professional debut against a reigning ONE world champion. She won a junior world kickboxing title by knockout while still at school and holds national titles in kickboxing and Burmese boxing.
- Sean O'Malley says he is fighting Petr Yan next, even if the UFC announces Yan vs Song YadongO'Malley, who beat Yan in 2022, wants the rematch in the United States early next year and called Daniel Cormier's question to Yan about Song "anticlimactic".
- Islam Makhachev cites Ian Garry win after Carlos Prates brands him a cowardCarlos Prates will fight Michael Morales for the interim UFC welterweight title on 30 January. Champion Islam Makhachev hit back by pointing to his win over Ian Machado Garry, the only man to beat Prates in the UFC.
- Daniel Dubois backs Moses Itauma to rebuild and wants to fight him soonerDaniel Dubois says there is no shame in Moses Itauma's ninth-round stoppage by Hrgovic, and wants the fight between them to happen while it is at its most competitive.
- Movsar Evloev says Alexander Volkanovski 'was the better man today' after first career lossVolkanovski stopped the previously unbeaten challenger at 4:54 of the second round in Abu Dhabi to keep the UFC featherweight title.
- Eddie Hearn says he told Devin Haney a Ryan Garcia fight is the biggest in boxingThe Matchroom promoter said Garcia then walked into the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he and Haney were talking, and could not see Haney behind a pillar.
- On this day in 2014: Eubank Jr stops Omar Siala in two rounds in LiverpoolThe German was halted 1:50 into the second round of a scheduled eight-round contest, a technical knockout win for Chris Eubank Jr.
- Alexander Volkanovski finishes Movsar Evloev as Petr Yan beats Merab DvalishviliBoth champions kept their titles at UFC 333, with Yan's victory settling his trilogy with Dvalishvili, while Lone’er Kavanagh, Alexander Volkov and Aaron Pico won on the main card.
- Islam Makhachev waits until after Ramadan following Ian Garry win, says WhiteUFC CEO Dana White said the welterweight champion, slated to fight in January, told the promotion he did not want to compete until after Ramadan, prompting a new belt at UFC 336.
- Petr Yan beats Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision at UFC 333Petr Yan defended his UFC title against Merab Dvalishvili in their third fight, with all three judges scoring it 48-47 in his favour in Abu Dhabi.
- Carlos Prates vs Michael Morales set for UFC 336 interim welterweight titleFlyweight champion Joshua Van will also defend his belt against Manel Kape in the co-main event of the 30 January card in Toronto.
- O'Shaquie Foster drops Emanuel Navarrete twice in 12th round to unify three titlesThe WBC champion won a unanimous decision in San Antonio on scores of 118-108, 118-108 and 115-111, taking Navarrete's WBO and IBF super-featherweight belts.
- Jon Jones trolls Dillon Danis after Arman Tsarukyan loss leaves him 0-3 in RAF wrestlingJones congratulated Danis on another dominating performance in an Instagram comment and said Mike Tyson would be proud of him.
- Dominick Reyes calls Daniel Cormier a 'low iq hater' after UFC 333, Cormier tells him to chillReyes also wrote that Jon Jones "whooped" Cormier, and Cormier replied that he had praised the win and was "not very hard to find".
- Vasiliy Lomachenko says he is back at 130 and explains why he walked away from Tank DavisLomachenko said he was tired from boxing and that 135lb was not his natural weight when he quit instead of facing Gervonta Davis.
- Albert Gonzalez knocks out Edward Vazquez in round two to retain NABF featherweight titleThe unbeaten Gonzalez dropped former world title challenger Vazquez with body shots in the co-feature of Navarrete vs Foster in San Antonio and moves to 19-0.
- Ryan Garcia and Teofimo Lopez in advanced talks for 6 February fight in New York or Las VegasThe fight would unify Garcia's WBC and Lopez's WBA welterweight titles, though the WBA has ordered Lopez to defend against Jack Catterall.
- Frank Martin stops Tarik Zaina in round seven to win vacant NABO title in San AntonioMartin dropped Zaina with a left hand and finished him on the undercard of Navarrete vs Foster, his first win since a February draw with Nahir Albright.
- Alexander Volkanovski would retire 'win or lose' after a Justin Gaethje super fightThe featherweight champion said he would vacate his belt after the fight, and Dana White said there is not much the UFC would refuse him.
- Dana White explains Dillon Danis UFC ban: a fight breaks out every time he shows upThe UFC boss was asked about the ban at the UFC 333 post-fight press conference in Abu Dhabi, a day after Danis lost to Arman Tsarukyan at RAF 14.
- Dalton Smith wants to sell out Hillsborough and walk out with the Arctic Monkeys playing liveEddie Hearn said the owners of Sheffield Wednesday want to stage a Dalton Smith fight at the stadium next year, and that it should be a unification fight.
- Eddie Hearn says he likes Floyd Mayweather v Ryan Garcia and thinks Mayweather can winThe Matchroom promoter compared a Mayweather return to a 'welterweight George Foreman coming back' and said Garcia should otherwise be fighting Devin Haney.
