Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk engaged in an epic brawl on a card headlined by a lackluster middleweight title bout between Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero.
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Israel Adesanya eventually solved Yoel Romero to win a narrow decision and retain the middleweight belt in the main event of UFC 248 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
Zhang Weili retained the belt with a thrilling split-decision win over former champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk in the co-main event of UFC 248 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC 248 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, with picks from the Review-Journal’s Adam Hill and Heidi Fang.
The title fight between women’s strawweight champion Zhang Weili and former champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk at T-Mobile Arena will be the culmination of a war of words.
The organization announced plans to proceed with the event as scheduled despite a documented case of the virus in Southern Nevada.
Champions Israel Adesanya and Zhang Weili have drawn strong interest and will make for a heavily bet parlay Saturday, Las Vegas bookmakers said.
Bantamweight star Sean O’Malley will meet Jose Alberto Quinonez to headline the preliminary card at UFC 248 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
Undefeated middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes in the power of visualization and has put it into practice as his career progressed.
UFC president Dana White is continuing his campaign to get Tom Brady in a Raiders uniform.
The UFC will host International Fight Week in Las Vegas for the ninth consecutive year in July. A full week of activities will be highlighted by UFC 252 on July 11.
Zhang is from the coastal province of Hebei, China, and will defend her strawweight title at UFC 248 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
Joseph Benavidez and Deiveson Figueiredo will meet in a flyweight championship bout at UFC Fight Night 169 on Saturday. But Figueiredo can’t win the belt after missing weight.
The lightweight contender has his eyes on some pretty big fish in the deep pool of contenders in the division should he get through Paul Felder on Saturday night in his hometown.
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones rips Dominick Reyes for not fighting during their title bout at UFC 247 and then saying he should have won the fight.
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