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The latest coverage from across combat sports.
WrestlingChimaev and Burns run it back in RAF: the fight that dented the aura gets a wrestling sequel at RAF 13 in Miami
Four years after the war that proved The Wolf was mortal, the rematch arrives with the striking stripped out. Chimaev wrestles Woodley in Moscow this Saturday, then Burns in Miami thirteen days later, while the man across from him arrives from retirement with a new career and an old grudge.
Jiu-JitsuJiu-Jitsu CON Takes Over Las Vegas This Weekend
Thousands of adult competitors, the legends teaching between the mats, and the industry selling to all of them, under one convention center roof for three days. World Master week has quietly become the participation economy’s biggest annual gathering, and this year it moved into a bigger building to prove it.
MMAContender Series Week 4 preview: An Irish favourite headlines a week after the show taught favourites humility
Fifteen contracts in three weeks, a season record within reach, and a graduate already knocking people out in the UFC. Tonight: streak against streak at welterweight, two returners chasing the season’s redemption pattern, and a co-main prospect who has finished every win of his career.
MMAPerry breaks his silence after the shoulder gave out in Orlando: ‘Health is wealth’
He took the replacement fight at half pay, walked out at -900 in his own city, hurt the substitute inside two minutes, and then his shoulder left its socket mid-combination.
MMAGaethje rules out 2026, still unable to punch two months after the White House war: ‘I’m just gonna enjoy being the champion’
The lightweight king’s hands are still reeling from what they did to Topuria’s face. The champion says he cannot hit anything, the rematch does not sit right in his gut, and the division below him gets a year to argue about who is next.
Bare Knuckle BoxingBKFC 92 wrap: Two belts defended at Fenway Park, Lauzon wins his homecoming, and the Green Monster watches a record tied
The 114-year-old ballpark hosted bare-knuckle boxing for the first time, and the night delivered exactly what the booking promised: a champion silencing enemy territory, a 33-second statement from the Queen of Violence, a Boston legend’s 49-second debut, and the loudest crowd the promotion’s founder says he has ever heard.
MMAUFC Shanghai wrap: Song knocks Umar Nurmagomedov out cold, and Chinese MMA gets the homecoming it waited a decade for
The uppercut was timed to the level change, the favourite was unconscious before he landed, and 16,188 people made the type of noise a market makes when its patience pays off.
Danis out of the Perry fight on 48 hours’ notice, stitches on display, and a wrestling title match now under a bandaged arm
Usman puts a number on the standoff: he turned down $2 million from the PFL, and his ask was higher
UFC Shanghai preview: Umar Nurmagomedov’s title case meets Song Yadong’s home crowd.
BKB 58’s seismic rewrite: Terrill flies in on three days’ notice to challenge Trujillo for the heavyweight title
DWCS wrap: Apodaca authors the biggest upset in the show’s history, and five fighters leave with contracts
