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The latest coverage from across combat sports.
Muay ThaiTawanchai vacates ONE featherweight Muay Thai belt after four-year reign, Carrillo elevated to undisputed champion
The Thai superstar’s injury forces a decision his camp had resisted for months. The Scot who took the interim strap in February inherits the full belt. A rematch remains on the table once the shin heals.
Bare Knuckle BoxingBKFC 91 Naples wrap: Hunt survives an R1 knockdown to make history, and Europe gets two new belts
Lorenzo Hunt got dropped by a left hook in round one, landed just two punches for the entire opening frame, then walked out of Arena Flegrea three-division champion. Jindrich Byrtus and Tomas Melis added European belts to a card built to plant BKFC’s flag on the continent.
MMASix fights announced for Noche UFC 4, headlined by Moreno and Grasso returns
The September 12 card at Desert Diamond Arena builds around two former Mexican champions bouncing back from tough recent stretches. Zuffa Boxing has Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn the same night, meaning TKO Group is running major MMA and boxing cards in parallel.
MMABlachowicz now faces Navajo Stirling at UFC Belgrade after Guskov’s re-routing
The 10-0 City Kickboxing prospect steps in for Bogdan Guskov, who was pulled to Abu Dhabi against Ankalaev. Six weeks off his last fight, Stirling walks into the biggest test of his career.
WrestlingRAF 11 preview: Ben Askren’s return anchors a card built around his impossible year
The former Olympic wrestler and MMA champion returns to competition Saturday in Milwaukee, on his 42nd birthday, thirteen months after a double lung transplant and a hospital stay that included, by his own count, four moments when his heart stopped.
MMAUFC Oklahoma City preview: Du Plessis vs. Usman headlines a middleweight-heavy card with Strickland watching
Twelve fights, two former UFC champions in the main event, one top-ten middleweight fixture in the co-main, two missed weights on Friday morning, and one Sean Strickland at home taking notes.
MMAAlex Pereira reopens Herb Dean feud after Michel Pereira’s UFC release following Baku loss
The former two-division champion argued that a missed point deduction at UFC Baku cost his countryman a roster spot, called on other fighters to speak up on officiating, and pointed the criticism at the referee rather than the promotion.
Ankalaev vs. Guskov booked for UFC Abu Dhabi after Rountree pulls out injured
UFC 329 wrap: The five-year comeback that lasted 69 seconds, and the sport left in its wake
Royval survives a second-round knockdown to submit Kavanagh, walks away with Fight of the Night
McGregor breaks silence after UFC 329 knee injury: ‘I can only describe it as hell’
UFC 329 preview: McGregor’s return, Steveson’s debut, and the full 14-fight card
