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The latest coverage from across combat sports.
MMAVolkanovski’s coach says the hole in Ruffy’s game is closed before UFC 331: ‘Arman’s in for a fight’
The man who built The Great’s career has watched the Brazilian knockout artist retool his wrestling inside the Freestyle MMA room, and his verdict on the Tsarukyan matchup is blunt.
UFCUFC Sacramento preview: Hernandez gets his home game, with the champion who beat him now in his corner
Seven years after its last visit, the promotion returns to Golden 1 Center with a NorCal headliner whose eight-fight run ended against the man currently holding the middleweight belt. His response was to join that man’s camp. A win at home restarts the climb. Across the cage: a surging Brazilian knockout artist with every reason to spoil the party.
BJJUFC BJJ 10 wrap: Tackett cranks his way to a record fourth defence, Ste-Marie takes the featherweight crown in her debut
The Bowl reopened Thursday night and nobody in it heard a final horn that mattered. The welterweight king needed 104 seconds, a Canadian took a belt in her first walk, both Tackett brothers submitted their men in the first round, and the flyweight tournament produced a final between two champions from different divisions of the sport’s map.
MMABKB plants its flag in Newcastle behind Terrill’s homecoming, in the same arena where he won a rival promotion’s belt in March
The North Shields heavyweight headlines BKB’s first Tyne card on October 10, seven months after becoming BKFC’s inaugural UK champion in the very same building. A title defence sits underneath, a former IBF world champion returns, and the UK’s two bare-knuckle promotions are now openly shopping in each other’s aisles.
MMAA belt for a maybe: how Kaik Brito read the market and won
The two-time OKTAGON welterweight champion vacated his belt six weeks ago, cancelled a September title defence, and walked into the Meta APEX with nothing guaranteed. He walked out with a walk-off knockout, a UFC contract, and the sharpest possible illustration of what the European title picture is actually worth when the Apex calls.
MMAPFL boss pumps the brakes on the Usman-to-UFC noise: ‘They’re not legally allowed to’ make an offer
John Martin used Helwani’s show to remind the sport that free agency has rules, and the exclusive window still belongs to his company. The broadcast graphics, the White and Campbell handshakes, and Cormier’s on-camera pleading, all of it, in Martin’s telling, is staged noise until the clock runs out.
BoxingCejudo books a Misfits Boxing debut for September, five weeks after wrestling Dvalishvili again
The Olympic champion and two-division UFC king crosses into his third ruleset in a year, meeting former Misfits lightweight champion Deen the Great in Miami on September 26. First, he wrestles Merab this Saturday.
Contender Series wrap: Six contracts on a wild night of upsets, a walk-off haymaker, and a Von Flue choke
DWCS Week 2 preview: BJJ world champion Mahamed Aly gets a second shot at the contract that got away
UFC 330 breaks the Philadelphia arena’s all-time gate record, and the number tells a bigger story than the night
Din Thomas retires on air minutes after Robertson’s title loss, absorbs two days of backlash, then apologizes: ‘I stole her moment’
Makhachev names his preference for the next defence. With both contenders in attendence, it leans towards Prates.
