The last time Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone stepped into the cage, he dominated KJ Noons and once again looked like a potential threat for the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight title.
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Welterweight contenders Rory MacDonald and Robbie Lawler will fight as part of the UFC 167 card in Las Vegas on Nov. 16, a source close to the organization confirmed.
Very few fighters have had to deal with the kind of expectations that have been placed on Irish featherweight Conor McGregor so early in his Ultimate Fighting Championship career.
Chael Sonnen had struggled in his past two fights as he lost title bouts to all-time great champions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
With the Ultimate Fighting Championship set to host one of its most important cards of the year in Boston on Saturday, there was one name that was almost assuredly going to be part of the event.
No matter how much Nick Newell accomplishes as a fighter, he knows there always will be doubters.
UFC content is already broadcast by more than 30 TV networks in 28 languages in 145 nations. Now, the Las Vegas company plans to make fans out of just about anyone on the planet who has a TV screen, a mobile communications device or cash for an event ticket into a UFC fan.
A Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts organization that feeds fighters to the Ultimate Fighting Championship has scored a big sponsorship win, with adidas, one of the best-known brands in worldwide sports, deciding to be an endorsement partner.
Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship, the mixed martial arts fight promotion company, has cracked down on a website that UFC officials said illegally streamed three of its recent pay-per-view fight shows on the Internet.
The fan in Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney has always wanted to see mixed martial arts pioneers Tito Ortiz and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson fight each other. Now the businessman in him hopes enough paying customers are similarly interested in the matchup of ex-Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champions to make Bellator’s first pay-per-view event a success.
Jose Aldo retained the Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight title Saturday night with a fouth-round technical knockout of “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung in the main event of UFC 163 in Rio de Janeiro.
Former NCAA wrestling champion Phil Davis could be one win from earning a light heavyweight title shot in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
UFC President Dana White has healthy fighters, pleased television partners and a tantalizing slate of upcoming fall fights. It’s a big change from last year, when White spent untold months scrambling to replace injured stars and plugging holes in an ambitious schedule that devolved into a patchwork slate for mixed martial arts’ dominant promotion.
Four-time All-American and two-time national champion Johny Hendricks is one of the most accomplished college wrestlers ever to compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
The UFC World Tour begins today with a press conference in the lobby of MGM Grand.
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