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Contender 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.

Andrew WeissmannSep 14 min read

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Perry 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.

Andrew WeissmannAug 314 min read

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Gaethje 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.

Andrew WeissmannAug 314 min read

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UFC 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.

Andrew WeissmannAug 295 min read

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Usman puts a number on the standoff: he turned down $2 million from the PFL, and his ask was higher

The champion himself broke the silence in a Russian-language interview, revealing the price the promotion offered and the fact that his camp wanted more. Sixty-three days remain on the exclusive window, the promotion’s next offer is still being assembled, and the most consequential free agency in the sport finally has a public floor.

Andrew WeissmannAug 284 min read

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UFC Shanghai preview: Umar Nurmagomedov’s title case meets Song Yadong’s home crowd.

While one Nurmagomedov’s free agency dominates the sport’s business pages, his brother spends Saturday morning trying to force his way back to a title shot, against a Chinese striker fighting the biggest fight of his life in front of his own people. Set the alarm: the main card starts at 6 a.m. ET.

Andrew WeissmannAug 274 min read

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BKB 58’s seismic rewrite: Terrill flies in on three days’ notice to challenge Trujillo for the heavyweight title

Terrill was booked to sit cageside with a headset. Then the visa news broke, the former champion demanded his way into the main event, and the promotion said yes.

Andrew WeissmannAug 265 min read

DWCS wrap: Apodaca authors the biggest upset in the show’s history, and five fighters leave with contracts

Alex Apodaca took the fight a month after her last one, walked in as high as +1500 against the most heavily favoured prospect the series has ever staged, and out-fought the NCAA champion for fifteen minutes. The broadcast called it the biggest upset the show has ever aired.

Aug 265 min read

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Cyborg wins No. 30 in her billed farewell, keeps the belt, and declines to say goodbye: ‘I’m ready for anybody. Any time, any weight.’

The legend outworked Ketlen Vieira over five hard rounds in Tampa, closed the three-fight farewell she announced two years ago, and then spent her retirement speech calling out a boxing world champion. The greatest résumé in women’s MMA history added a round number on Saturday. It did not add an ending.

Aug 254 min read

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UFC Sacramento wrap: Rodrigues spoils the homecoming and banks the card’s biggest check, while De Ridder announces himself at 205

The hometown main event went to the visitor on the scorecards, the commission sheet says the win was worth exactly double, and the night’s heaviest news arrived a day later.

Aug 245 min read

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Volkanovski’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.

Aug 234 min read

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BKB 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.

Aug 215 min read

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A 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.