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Sergio Pettis is set to defend his bantamweight title. The recently crowned champ has a date and opponent for his first title defense as the Milwaukee native will take on former titleholder Kyoji Horiguchi at Bellator 272 on Dec. 3. The pair will meet in the main event set to be hosted at the Mohegan […]

After it was previously rumored that Francis Ngannou would defend his heavyweight championship against interim titleholder Ciryl Gane at UFC 270 on Jan. 22, the promotion confirmed the event during UFC Fight Night on Saturday. The flyweight championship will also be on the line when Brandon Moreno defends the belt against Deiveson Figueiredo as the […]

After a bizarre week leading up to his UFC Fight Night main event with Paulo Costa, Marvin Vettori managed to pick up a hard-fought unanimous decision victory on Saturday. The fight was contested at light heavyweight despite being contracted as a middleweight bout, a result of Costa showing up badly overweight and admitting he could […]

It’s Fight Week on Fight Island. UFC 267 is upon us with a loaded fight card set to go down from Abu Dhabi on Saturday. Light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz will take on veteran Glover Teixeira in the main event while Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen battle for the interim bantamweight strap in the co-main […]

Bellator MMA traveled to Russia for the first time this past Saturday, putting on Bellator 269 from VTB Arena in Moscow. In the main event, legendary heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko scored a big knockout of Tim Johnson to show he still has some life left at age 45. The fight with Johnson was Emelianeko’s first since knocking […]