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Cerminara books her comeback at UFC Edmonton: ‘Mom’s back’

The former flyweight title challenger returns October 17 against Jamey-Lyn Horth, ending a layoff that stretched across pregnancy, birth, and the long road back to fight shape. The record she holds is still hers. The ranking she spent a decade building is not.

Andrew WeissmannAug 124 min read

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Garry answers the fight-week noise before UFC 330: ‘This sport is a pantomime. I couldn’t care less.’

The challenger has heard every version of the criticism on the way to Saturday. His response names the only three people whose opinions made his ledger: a 16-year-old in Dublin, a wife, and a little boy he wants front row when the belt goes on.

Andrew WeissmannAug 113 min read

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Ditcheva reveals she fought half of PFL New York with broken hands, telling only her cut man

The whisper went to one person in her corner. The scorecards went her way. Ten days later, the unbeaten flyweight is back in splints, facing another layoff, and rereading a decision she made about surgery a year ago. The performance everyone graded on ring rust deserves a new viewing.

Andrew WeissmannAug 115 min read

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UFC Vegas wrap: Salkilld chokes out Gamrot in one round, and the lightweight queue has a new problem

The Australian’s first main event lasted four and a half minutes and ended with the division’s most reliable grappler tapping to a rear-naked choke. Darren Elkins’ farewell lasted 35 seconds. The Apex delivered a night that reorganised two divisions and retired a legend.

Andrew WeissmannAug 105 min read

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UFC Vegas preview: Gamrot’s top-10 standing meets Salkilld’s momentum, and the fans’ picks disagree with the rankings

The perennial contender has spent four years guarding the lightweight division’s upper floor. The Australian has spent his short UFC run kicking the door in. Saturday at the Meta APEX, the promotion finds out whether the queue behind the champions just got a new name.

Andrew WeissmannAug 74 min read

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UFC 331 full card lands: Van-Pantoja II headlines LA’s first numbered card in eight years, Tsarukyan returns against Ruffy

The flyweight title rematch nobody stopped asking for since the 26-second injury ending, a five-round lightweight assignment with real danger attached, an Ortega-Moicano rematch nearly a decade in the making, and Gable Steveson on the same night the man who knocked out Junior dos Santos for MVP walks back into the octagon.

Andrew WeissmannAug 64 min read

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Abdelaziz says PFL passed on extending Nurmagomedov before New York, and the 90-day clock is now running

The manager put a number on the table before the Colgan fight. The promotion declined it. The champion gambled on himself, won in one round, and became the most consequential free agent in the sport four days into the MVP MMA era.

Andrew WeissmannAug 55 min read

Remembering Allan Nascimento, the flyweight who earned everything the long way

The Brazilian grappler died Monday at 34, an apparent heart attack in his sleep, six weeks after his last walk to the octagon. He leaves a 22-7 record, two Performance of the Night bonuses, and a career that stood for patience in a sport that rarely rewards it

Aug 44 min read

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PFL New York wrap: Nurmagomedov flattens Colgan in the final fight of his deal, Ditcheva returns to a complicated night

The champion needed one round to close out his contract in front of the men who just bought the company. The co-main event winner walked out 16-0, booed, skipped by the broadcast, and asking the same question about the merger as everyone else.

Aug 25 min read

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UFC Belgrade wrap: Medic delivers a 30-second homecoming, Stirling stops Blachowicz, and the card finished almost everything

Twelve finishes in fourteen fights. A Serbian headliner who needed half a minute. An undefeated New Zealander who just ended a former champion’s night in one round. The promotion’s first walk into Belgrade could not have been scripted more cleanly if the matchmakers had written the endings themselves.

Aug 16 min read

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Dana White dismisses the MVP-PFL merger, Jake Paul fires back with Netflix numbers, and the promotional war has its opening week

The UFC boss says stacking two promotions nobody watches does not produce a rival. Jake Paul says his Netflix debut outdrew a UFC card. Both spoke on the same day, both picked the metrics that suit them, and the market has not voted yet.

Jul 314 min read

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UFC Belgrade preview: Serbia finally gets its card. Medic’s knockout streak meets the man who came back from a mexican prison

The only ranked Serbian on the roster gets his first main event at home, against an opponent who spent eight months in a Mexican prison and came back to win three straight. A former champion, two heavyweight experiments, and a face-off that needed security fill out the promotion’s first walk into Belgrade Arena.

Jul 317 min read

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Nabiev’s PFL New York bout scrapped as commission refuses to clear his opponent, Khabib Nurmagomedov confirms

The undefeated light heavyweight is one of five bout casualties in a fight week that has seen the New York State Athletic Commission decline multiple fighters. Nurmagomedov posted the confirmation himself from New York, where he is cornering his cousin’s title defence on Friday.

Jul 313 min read

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UFC Sacramento preview: Hernandez gets his home game, with the champion who beat him now in his corner

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