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Ki MMA: Scott Coker’s promotion built on one division, a ring, and a 32-man world tournament

The doctrine: depth over breadth, brackets over belts, and no divisions until the talent earns them.

Andrew WeissmannSep 164 min read

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Aspinall vacates the heavyweight title after a training setback re-injured his eye: ‘Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout this absolute nightmare’

Two days after White said the promotion would discuss it, the champion answered by acting first. He was back sparring with a fight date agreed when the eye gave way again. Gane, whose fouls started all of this, now inherits the throne.

Andrew WeissmannSep 144 min read

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Noche UFC wrap: Silva finishes his redemption and demands the title, Moreno beats his ghost, and the people’s main event wins Fight of the Night

The Fighting Nerd choked out the hometown lottery ticket and called for gold, the franchise queen upset the No. 2 contender at +225, and the fans’ fight delivered exactly what they voted for.

Andrew WeissmannSep 145 min read

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Moreno sees his own ghost across the cage at Noche UFC: ‘He’s super dangerous because he’s motivated’

The former two-time champion returns to the building where he first won the belt, against a man living the exact comeback story he wrote, and the bookmakers favour the ghost.

Andrew WeissmannSep 124 min read

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Noche UFC preview: Silva gets his redemption stage, a hometown kid gets the call of his life, and the people’s main event sits third from the top

Jean Silva headlines his second straight Noche card against a 24-days’-notice Arizona native, while two undefeated featherweights turn the featured slot into one we all have circled.

Andrew WeissmannSep 115 min read

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Gaethje 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.

Andrew WeissmannSep 104 min read

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ADCC 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.

Andrew WeissmannSep 105 min read

Aoki 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.

Sep 105 min read

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Contender 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.

Sep 94 min read

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DWCS 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+.

Sep 83 min read

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Umar breaks his silence in four sentences, Khabib vows the title fight, and Usman answers his critics: the family speaks after Shanghai

No excuses, no relitigating, forty words of thanks and promise. The words around it carried the weight. The uncle called him one of the best in the world. The brother told the internet exactly what it could do with its outrage. And to the man who knocked him out, Umar sent three words.

Sep 44 min read

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UFC Paris preview: France’s greatest export finally arrives at a -550 favourite over a top-10 gatekeeper in his debut

Salahdine Parnasse has been the best fighter not in the UFC for half a decade. Saturday at Accor Arena he gets his debut, at home, in a main event, against Dan Hooker, priced like a champion. The Hangman has spent a career making anointed men earn it. Special start times: prelims at noon ET, main card at 3 p.m. ET.

Sep 44 min read

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Italy’s BJJ federation launches a Grand Slam for Europe’s black belts

Unione Italiana Jiu-Jitsu is launching a four-event, consecutive-wins gauntlet with real money banked along the way, opening in Milan in November.

Sep 34 min read

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UFC Vegas 122 wrap: Brendan Allen chokes out Christian Leroy Duncan in the fifth and runs his streak to four

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