Alexander Volkanovski will have his opportunity to make history on home soil in February.
The UFC featherweight champion is set to take on newly-crowned lightweight champ Islam Makhachev in the main event of UFC 284 in Perth, Australia on Feb. 12, 2023.…
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCLess than a month after the lightweights faced off inside the octagon, the title fight between new champ Islam Makhachev and featherweight titleholder Alexander Volkanovski is officially set.
Promotional officials revealed on Saturday that the champion vs. champion…
Renato Moicano | Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesRenato Moicano’s passionate post-fight speech at UFC 271 earlier this year saying he “wants money” didn’t lead to the $50,000 performance bonus he was hoping for after choking out Alexander Hernandez in…
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCCarla Esparza will celebrate her 13th year as a professional fighter in early 2023 while spending most of that time as one of the best strawweights in the sport.
She was the inaugural 115-pound champion in both the…
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesChris Gutierrez understands the task he was given in being Frankie Edgar’s final UFC opponent this Saturday, but he plans to make the feel-good story all about him.
Gutierrez faces Edgar on Saturday at UFC…
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLCIsrael Adesanya’s head coach Eugene Bareman did see some flaws in the middleweight champ’s most recent title defense against Jared Cannonier at July’s UFC 276 event, but it didn’t change that the performance was still one-sided and sensational…
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCMMA Fighting has a live watch party for Saturday’s UFC 281 event, which will mark the promotion’s return to Madison Square Garden in New York City, and will be headlined by the highly anticipated middleweight title fight between…
Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLCUFC fighters — past and present — such as Daniel Cormier, Carla Esparza, Alexander Volkanovski, Dustin Poirier, Michael Chandler, and more, along with Jon Anik, react to Frankie Edgar competing for the final time this Saturday at UFC…
Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCIsrael Adesanya expects his third meeting with Alex Pereira to be a grisly affair.
At UFC 281, Adesanya defends his middleweight title against Pereira, an opponent that has previously defeated him twice in kickboxing. That history has been…
NEW YORK – Glover Teixeira had a message for Jiri Prochazka during their Thursday faceoff.
Teixeira (33-8 MMA, 16-6 UFC) lost the light heavyweight title to Prochazka (29-3-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) at UFC 275 in June. He will get a chance to reclaim…