Featherweight champion Max Holloway was dethroned by challenger Alexander Volkanovski on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
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Colby Covington will headline his third straight card Saturday when he challenges Kamaru Usman for the welterweight title in the main event of UFC 245 at T-Mobile Arena.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC 245 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, where Kamaru Usman, Max Holloway and Amanda Nunes will put their titles on the line.
Women’s strawweight champion Weili Zhang will put her 20-fight winning streak on the line against former champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 248 on March 7 at T-Mobile Arena.
Holloway expects a strong contingent from his native Hawaii to populate the city this weekend for his first fight in Las Vegas in more than four years.
The former women’s featherweight champ will attempt to win the belt in a second weight class when she takes on bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes.
Overeem will take on rising star Jairzinho Rozenstruik on Saturday after his original opponent, Walt Harris, withdrew due to the kidnapping and murder of his step-daughter.
Police confirmed Wednesday remains found in Alabama were those of his missing stepdaughter Aniah Blanchard.
The former two-division champion will headline UFC 246 at T-Mobile Arena in search of his first win since 2016.
An Alabama district attorney said Monday that authorities have “good reason” to believe human remains found belong to the missing stepdaughter of a UFC heavyweight fighter.
Lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov is expected to fight in the spring for the first time in more than a year. He doesn’t believe it will be for a rematch against Conor McGregor.
The light heavyweight champ opens as a minus-420 favorite over unbeaten contender Dominick Reyes on Feb. 8 in Houston.
Floyd Mayweather, the undefeated boxer from Las Vegas, took to Instagram on Thursday to tease a return hours after an interview was released in which he said he was done with boxing.
‘Shogun,’ a former UFC heavyweight champion, will take on Paul Craig on the main card of UFC Fight Night 164 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday
The beleaguered former NFL star is coming back just a few weeks after a no-contest ruling became the latest chapter in his bizarre mixed martial arts career.
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