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The latest coverage from across combat sports.
MMAGaethje reveals he won both belts on a broken-down knee he’s carried since Christmas: ‘I know for a fact I will not be fighting again this year’
The new detail changes the shape of the whole championship year: a bone-marrow-deep edema in his fibula, suffered last Christmas Day, carried silently through the Pimblett camp, the interim title, the Topuria camp, and the White House war.
GrapplingADCC 2026 preview: A vacant throne for the first time in 17 years, and grappling’s biggest exam lands in Kraków
The Olympics of grappling runs Saturday and Sunday in Poland for the first time ever, in the largest arena the sport has filled in Europe. Everything about the weekend is historic and almost nobody is talking about it.
MMAAoki returns to RIZIN after a decade, chasing the ending that DREAM never got.
He headlined the promotion’s first card in 2015 and never came back. Thursday in Osaka, at 43, the greatest submission artist Japan has ever produced fights Mikuru Asakura in the Super RIZIN 5 co-main, and on the same card fights the son of a man he once beat.
Jiu-JitsuThe Cobra wins gold: Former WWE star, Santino Marella, tops his Jiu-Jitsu CON bracket and leaves Vegas with a medal, a crooked jaw, and no regrets
The man who made a career of comedy in WWE spent World Master week doing something deeply awesome: grinding through a five-man purple belt super heavyweight bracket at 46-plus, and cataloguing the damage on the flight home.
MMAContender Series wrap: Pasley knocks out Berisha, earns a Jon Jones comparison, and the season hits halfway ahead of record pace
The main event between two men who had never seen a second round ended in the first, with the underdog on top dropping elbows. Four more contracts, a wedding present from the boss, one winner sent home empty-handed, and twenty-four signings at the season’s midpoint. The record is officially in danger.
MMADWCS Week 5 preview: Two unbeaten light heavyweights who have never needed a second round
A main event where every professional win has come in the first round, the week’s genuine gem at welterweight courtesy of the Fighting Nerds, and a returner back from one of the worst knockouts in show history. The auditions continue tonight at 7 p.m. ET on Paramount+.
Bare Knuckle BoxingFernandez promises war for BKB’s Mexico debut
The Tijuana champion defends his belt at home on September 19, in the promotion’s first card on Mexican soil, against the most credentialed opponent it could send. A three-division champion versus a man less than a year into his bare-knuckle career, in front of the city that raised him. The homework had better be done.
UFC Paris wrap: Parnasse finishes Hooker in one round, and the coronation arrives exactly on schedule
Umar breaks his silence in four sentences, Khabib vows the title fight, and Usman answers his critics: the family speaks after Shanghai
UFC Paris preview: France’s greatest export finally arrives at a -550 favourite over a top-10 gatekeeper in his debut
Italy’s BJJ federation launches a Grand Slam for Europe’s black belts
Chimaev and Burns run it back in RAF: the fight that dented the aura gets a wrestling sequel at RAF 13 in Miami
