Dricus du Plessis ensured the middleweight title remained in South Africa with a clinical victory over Sean Strickland at UFC 312 at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena.
Tom Naghten
Before you get to the main card of UFC 312, here’s how to watch the prelims.
Daniel Yanofsky
Here's everything you need to know to catch the UFC 312 event on Saturday in Australia.
UFC middleweight Sean Strickland retained his title as the sport’s most confounding personality with another unhinged, rollercoaster ride of a press conference in Sydney on Thursday.
Former middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is going to weigh up his options before deciding on his next move following a knockout defeat to Nassourdine Imavov.
UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell is under fire for comments he made praising Adolf Hitler, and UFC president Dana White was quick to condemn him.
Dan Treacy
The Sporting News provided a full list of winners and losers from the UFC Saudi Arabia fight card.
Here are your options to watch UFC Saudi Arabia, including streaming options to catch the prelims and the main card on Saturday in Riyadh.
Here's everything you need to know to catch the UFC Saudi Arabia event on Saturday in Riyadh.
Millions of fans of the UFC who opened Instagram on Wednesday night were greeted by a post from the official Instagram account of the company which promoted a brand new cryptocurrency.
Val Dewar
The first title fight for the UFC's pay-per-view card in April has been announced, as Alexandre Pantoja will defend his flyweight throne at UFC 314 in Miami, Florida.
Conor McGregor had harsh words for Paul Hughes after the PFL star told Khabib Nurmagomedov, "I am not like [McGregor]."
Despite declining Sean Strickland request for a gentleman's agreement to only strike, the champ said the fight will likely be a striking affair regardless.
Italy's Vettori expected to fight Roman Kopylov and only realized it read Dolidze after days had passed.
This blunder continues a troubling theme for the newly founded team-based fight promotion.
Former UFC middleweight champion Rob Whittaker has lashed Daniel Cormier for sharing an image of the former’s busted teeth following his UFC 308 loss to Khamzat Chimaev in October.
Australian welterweight Jack Della Maddalena has revealed he was keen to fight at UFC 312 in Sydney but couldn’t get an opponent over the line.
Dvalishvili dealt with a laundry list of injuries during a troubled training camp.
The California State Athletic Commission disclosed the fighter purses, with top earner Merab Dvalishvili making double that of his next closest colleague, Jiri Prochazka.
It was a good night to be a champion at UFC 311. The Sporting News provided live coverage of the event, presenting results, analysis, and highlights from the event.
Islan Makhachev and Merab Dvalishvili saw off challenges to their crowns at an action-packed UFC 311.
Light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira returns to action at UFC 313 on March 8 to face Magomed Ankalaev.
He also brought her up on stage at weigh-ins and will donate to an oncology charity in her name.
Before you get to the main card of UFC 311, here’s how to watch the prelims.
Here are your options to watch UFC 311, including the TV channel for the prelims and pay-per-view options for the main card on Saturday in California.
The original challenger, Arman Tsarukyan, went down with an injury the night before weigh-ins.
Tsarukyan reportedly suffered a back injury during the weight cut process last night.
The UFC's first PPV event of 2025 will be in the Intuit Dome in Inglewood. Here's everything you need to know about UFC 311 and how to buy tickets.
Here are your options to watch UFC Vegas 101, including streaming options to catch the prelims and the main card on Saturday in Las Vegas.
What made Ilia Topuria deserve the award for best fighter of 2024, ahead of colleague Alex Pereira?
The two GOATs met up for a training session in Las Vegas and shared some funny anecdotes along the way.
Here are your options to watch UFC Tampa, including streaming options to catch the prelims and the main card on Saturday in Florida.
After an unprecedented 2024 campaign where he scored victories over divisional greats Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway, Ilia Topuria has now indicated that a move up to lightweight is in his immediate future.
Tobey Lewis
The judge for many high-profile UFC bouts has been widely criticized by combat fans since scoring GGG/Canelo 1 for Saul Canelo Alvarez, and now by Dana White.
Kai Asakura attempted to win gold in his first UFC fight, but Alexandre Pantoja had other plans. The Sporting News provided results, analysis, and highlights from UFC 310.
Who walked out of Las Vegas holding gold? The Sporting News provided results from the entire UFC 310 fight card.
Two titles will be on the line at UFC 312 in Sydney, with middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis facing Sean Strickland in the main event, while women's strawweight champion Zhang Weili returns to face Tatiana Suarez.
During the broadcast of the final UFC pay-per-view event of 2024, UFC 310, the next women's strawweight title fight was announced.
Before you get to the main card of UFC 310, here’s how to watch the prelims.
Here's everything you need to know to catch the UFC 310 event on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Here is everything you need to know to listen to UFC 310 on the radio.
Here are your options to watch UFC 310, including the TV channel for the prelims and pay-per-view options for the main card on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Former UFC champion Conor McGregor will have to pay the entire legal costs of Nikita Hand, around €1.5 million, after being found civilly liable for sexually assaulting her.
The UFC returns to the T-Mobile Arena as Las Vegas hosts one of its final PPV events of 2024 in UFC 310. Here's everything you need to know about the event and how to buy tickets.
Here’s all you need to know about Kai Asakura, from how he started in the streets with his brother to fighting for gold in his UFC debut.
Leon Edwards has broken his silence after months without public appearances since his welterweight title loss to Belal Muhammad at UFC 304.
Nickal appeared recently on the Pound-for-Pound podcast and discussed what will come next for him.
Let’s take a look and see who the most even matchup would be for the PFL 2024 season winners, to better understand how good they are in the context of the wider sport.
In a post on social media, top UFC bantamweight Umar Nurmagomedov made a surprise revelation of an injury which kept him out of any January matchups.
Will the British star take her talents to the UFC in search of a fight against Valentina Shevchenko?
With the 2024 World MMA Awards approaching in less than a week there is still no consensus on what the best mixed martial arts battle of the year was.
Peyton Talbott is just 9-0 as a professional MMA fighter at 26 years of age but already has star power which has led to him making videos with the likes of Tony Hawk.
Jamahal Hill simply cannot stop starting beef with notable names in the sport of mixed martial arts due to his inability to accept his knockout loss to Alex Pereira.
The hottest new talent in MMA is Manchester’s 26-year-old phenom Dakota Ditcheva, but how would her Muay Thai specialty fare against the legendary Shevchenko?
Jones has refused to fight the interim title holder unless he gets the pay rise he wants to take on the challenge.
Jamahal Hill has never been accused of being quiet and meek, but maybe he should have been, as his constant campaign to try and downplay the success of Alex ‘Poatan’ Pereira has led to naught but embarrassment for the former title challenger.
Khabib states "full support" for $Convict cryptocoin, which purportedly seeks to make money for the assault victims of McGregor.
Another prominent UFC fighter has publicly complained after he was dealt a raw hand by having his opponent pull out at the last minute, being unable to procure a replacement, and the UFC not paying him his show money – or any money.
Conor McGregor first took aim at former UFC colleague Mike Perry in July 2024 after Perry lost a boxing match against everyone's least favorite person, Jake Paul.
Conor McGregor's court defeat in a sexual assault suit against him has caused a string of fans to drop the Irishman.
Following his submission loss to Khamzat Chimaev in which the former UFC middleweight champ had his mandible broken, Robert ‘the Reaper’ Whittaker revealed he simply had surgery to remove the teeth in question.
The UFC star's liability for a 2018 sexual assault continues to hurt his business dealings.
Jon Jones' comments that he would retire after UFC 309 appear to have faded by the wayside as he says he will fight in 2025, though still does not want to face Tom Aspinall.
What is next for the best unranked main card fighters of UFC Macau?
Fighter and model Carlos Ulberg notched the biggest win of his mixed martial arts career on Saturday in Macau when he won a decision over former UFC light-heavyweight title challenger Volkan Oezdemir.
#2 UFC strawweight Yan Xiaonan dominated #10 Tabatha Ricci in the UFC Macau co-main event on Saturday, who will each fighter face next?
After Conor McGregor was found by a jury in Dublin, Ireland to be liable for sexual assault, IO Interactive has ended their collaboration with the famous mixed martial artist.
Famous live-streamer iShowSpeed tried to test UFC lightweight Dan Hooker in a sparring session and was left gasping on the canvas.
Petr Yan called for a rematch with Merab Dvalishivili after beating Deiveson Figueiredo, but will he get it? What other options exist?
Patricio Pitbull, Leandro Higo, and Patchy Mix have all tweeted about their issues with new Bellator owners, the PFL
No stream will exist for the first event of Mike Perry's new fight promotion, Dirty Boxing Championship, headlined by Yoel Romero against a Power Slapper.
Dagestan’s ‘King of Kung Fu,’ Muslim Salikhov, is forty but set a UFC record in Macau. on Saturday.
Gabriella Fernandes won as a 7-1 underdog against Wang 'Joker' Cong, who once beat Valentina Shevchenko in kickboxing.
Fans who are hardcore enough to wake up at 3am on Saturday, or overseas fans who usually are forced to do so, were rewarded with an excellent preliminary card from Macau, China.
In the Road to UFC women's strawweight final at UFC Macau Shi Ming knocked out her countrywoman Xiaocan Feng in the third round when down on the scorecards.
Lone'er Kavanagh won an exciting decision in his UFC debut against a fellow undefeated prospect in Jose Ochoa.
Yan Xiaonan vs Tabatha Ricci has all the makings of a binary striker vs grappler matchup
Former bantamweight and flyweight champs collide in a 135-lb title eliminator in Macau, China.
Gabriella Fernandes will be by far the toughest opponent China's budding 6-0 star, who once beat Valentina Shevchenko in kickboxing, has faced in MMA.
China's light-heavyweight destroyer Mingyang Zhang will welcome former LFA middleweight champion Ozzy Diaz to Macau at UFC Macau.
Here's everything you need to know to catch the UFC Macau event on Saturday in China.
New Zealand’s rising MMA star, and part-time model, Carlos Ulberg, will take on long-time vet and one-time title challenger Volkan Oezdemir at UFC Macau on Saturday.
Nikita Hand sued the former UFC double champion Conor ‘Notorious’ McGregor for damages for rape in a 2018 case which the gardaí, the Irish police force, declined to pursue criminal charges for.
Here are your options to watch UFC Macau, including streaming options to catch the prelims and the main card on Saturday in China.
Here's a breakdown of all fighters who took home the $50,000 bonus after UFC 309.
Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic finally faced off for heavyweight bragging rights. The Sporting News provided results, analysis and highlights from UFC 309.
Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic met in New York for the UFC heavyweight title. The Sporting News provided results from the entire UFC 309 fight card.
At UFC 309's media scrum, UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones said that after his fight on Saturday with Stipe Miocic, Jones will be seeking to compete in "fun fights" with athletes who are similar in size to him
Despite the fact that he is fighting Stipe Miocic this week, UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones continues to talk and tweet about Tom Aspinall, the current interim heavyweight champion.
The UFC 309 main event on Saturday is between light-heavyweight GOAT Jon Jones and heavyweight GOAT Stipe Miocic.
Here are your options to watch UFC 309, including the TV channel for the prelims and pay-per-view options for the main card on Saturday in New York.
UFC 309 is a stacked pay-per-view card from top to bottom. Before you get to the main card, here’s how to watch the prelims for free.
The co-main event of UFC 309 is a lightweight rematch between Charles Oliveira and Michael Chandler.
Tybura will be the toughest test of the kickboxer's MMA career thus far.
Who will win the UFC 309 main card opener?
Why did Jon Jones think Stipe Miocic talked about his kids? Was he right?
Newly ranked UFC welterweight Carlos Prates told Ariel Helwani on Helwani's live show on Tuesday that he smokes ten cigarettes daily, even on fight days.
Surprising fight broke early Thursday morning that Michael ‘Venom’ Page will be moving up to 185-lbs to fight #14 middleweight Sharaputdin Magomedov.
Da'Mon 'Da Monster' Blackshear lit up the early preliminary portion of the 100th card at the UFC Apex with a dominant performance and submission over Cody Stamann in their bantamweight bout.
Here are your options to watch UFC Vegas 100, including streaming options to catch the prelims and the main card on Saturday in Las Vegas.
The UFC makes its return to the World's Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden plays host to UFC 309. Here's everything you need to know about the event and how to buy tickets.
During his appearance on the Ariel Helwani MMA Show, Shavkat Rakhmonov shared that the former champion may be his replacement opponent.
McGregor is being sued in civil court by Nikita Ni Lamhain, aka Nikita Hand, who has alleged since 2018 that the former UFC champion and another man took advantage of her while intoxicated in a Dublin hotel room.
Jon Jones defends the UFC heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic, a fight years in the making.
Who will these two top flyweights face next?
After his competitive fight at UFC Edmonton which ended in a split decision, Canada's Serhiy Sidey has admitted he did not deserve the nod from the judges over Garrett Armfield.
'Onslaught' will be directed by Adam Wingard and stars Adria Arjona.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been a fan of combat sports for a long time, and often shows up ringside at fights to soak up the spotlight and support his favorite fighters.
Kyle Bonn
Here are your options for watching UFC Edmonton, including the TV channel for the prelims and main card on Saturday in Canada.
The UFC is now looking for a replacement fight to headline the last pay-per-view card of 2024.
Who will win the bout between #13 heavyweight contender Derrick Lewis and rising prospect Jhonata Diniz?
Who will win the UFC Edmonton main event on Saturday evening?
The UFC Edmonton co-main event is a fight with big name value in the form of former strawweight champion Rose Namajunas, as she takes on fellow top flyweight contender Erin Blanchfield.
Who will Ibo Aslan, Farid Basharat, Abus Magomedov, Carlos Leal, and Rinat Fakhretdinov fight next in the UFC?
The two lightweights have bright futures, where will they go next?
Geoff Neal beat 40-year-old legend Rafael dos Anjos as the former champ's knee exploded at UFC 308.
Jones must take four hours of anger management classes and have 90 days of good behavior.
What's next for the fighters who opened the UFC 308 main card, Shara Magomedov and Armen Petrosyan?
Who will light-heavyweight contender Aleksandar Rakic fight next after loss to Magomed Ankalaev UFC 308?
What's next for Lerone Murphy and Dan Ige in the featherweight division?
On Tuesday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) decided to remove cannabis as a restricted compound from the state's Prohibited List.
Who will Rob Whittaker fight next?
What's next for Magomed Ankalaev, the UFC's number one light-heavyweight contender?
What's next for Khamzat Chimaev after UFC 308 submission of Rob Whittaker?
Will Max Holloway move to lightweight after being unable to beat Ilia Topuria at UFC 308?
Whittaker's injury was explained, both the root cause of it by him, and the medical perspective by various doctors.
Rob Whittaker has revealed a pre-existing injury contributed to his lightning fast tap against Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi.
What featherweight in the world can realistically beat Ilia Topuria right now?
For the second week in a row, Conor McGregor has blown his cash gambling on mixed martial arts.
Ilia Topuria became the first man to knock Max Holloway out, paving the way for a rematch with Alex Volkanovski.
The future took out former champions in Abu Dhabi. The Sporting News provided results, analysis, and highlights from UFC 308.
Ilia Topuria and Khamzat Chimaev continued to live up to the hype. The Sporting News provided results from the entire UFC 308 fight card!
Khamzat Chimaev scored a first-round submission victory over Robert Whittaker at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi, almost certainly booking himself into a middleweight title shot.
Shara Magomedov's knockout at UFC 308 will be on the KO of the Year shortlist.
Aslan delivered with a scintillating first round KO.
An unfortunate injury ended RDA's night at UFC 308.
Who will win the UFC 308 main card fights? What bets are best value?
UFC 308's eight prelim card fights offer plenty of options to make money. Always bet responsibly.
Here are your options to watch UFC 308, including the TV channel for the prelims and pay-per-view options for the main card on Saturday in Abu Dhabi.
Here's everything you need to know to catch the UFC 308 event on Saturday in Abu Dhabi.
Who will win the UFC 308 main card bout between strikers Sharaputdin 'Bullet' Magomedov and Armen Petrosyan?
Who will win the UFC 308 main card bout and title eliminator between Magomed Ankalev and Aleksandar Rakic?
Who will win the UFC 308 co-main event between former champion Robert ‘the Reaper’ Whittaker and the undefeated Khamzat ‘Borz’ Chimaev?
Who will win the UFC featherweight title bout between Max Holloway and Ilia Topuria?
Why did Dana White choose now to reveal that he once wished to cut Francis Ngannou from the promotion after the now-lineal heavyweight champion lost his first two fights back in 2018?
Breaking down the UFC 308 prelim card banger between Germany's Abusipuyan Magomedov and Brazil's Brunno 'Hulk' Ferreira.
Undefeated Lerone Murphy puts his '0' on the line against Dan '50K' Ige, we are here to break it down for you.
Breaking down the UFC 308 prelim fight between Rinat Fakhretdinov and Carlos Leal.
Alex Volkanovski had been hopeful of fighting for his former title at UFC 312 in Sydney but the UFC featherweight looks like he'll have to make other plans.
Who will Asu Almabayev and Matheus Nicolau, the two ranked UFC flyweights, face next?
Ilia Topuria defends the UFC featherweight title against Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 308.
Rob Whittaker’s preparation for his UFC 308 bout with Khamzat Chimaev has seen him enlist the help of some of Australia’s best martial artists.
The best fight of the week: Cris Cyborg vs Larissa Pacheco.
Breaking down the second best fight of the week: Michel Pereira vs Alex 'Fluffy' Hernandez
Breaking down Paul Hughes vs AJ McKee for the PFL Battle of the Giants event.
Breaking down Charles Johnson vs Su Mudaerji and Kyler Phillips vs Rob Font
Breaking down the sixth best fight of the week, a middleweight title rematch between Johnny Eblen and Fabian Edwards
Breaking down the seventh and eighth best fights of UFC Vegas 99 and PFL Super Fights.
Here are your options to watch UFC Vegas 99, including streaming options to catch the prelims and the main card on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Counting down the ten best fights of this week, which features UFC Vegas 99 and PFL Super Fights: Battle of the Giants.
In a surprise twist, Umar Nurmagomedov vs Song Yadong has been announced for the main event of UFC Tampa Bay.
The UFC will return to Sydney with a pay-per-view show, UFC 312, at Qudos Bank Arena on February 9.
Here are your options to watch Dana White Contender Series, including the streaming options for the event in the UFC APEX.
Ten fighters went into the UFC Apex on Tuesday night, but only five came out with wins. Which ones got contracts from the boss at the end of the evening?
Results and contract winners from the tenth and final week of the 2024 iteration of DWCS.
The Sporting News' Val Dewar sat down to project the next opponent for the top martial artists of UFC Vegas 98.
I underestimated Brandon Royval when I picked Tatsuro Taira to beat him, but paradoxically I also underestimated Taira himself.
Here are your options to watch UFC Vegas 98, including streaming options to catch the prelims and the main card on Saturday in Las Vegas.
