Lightweight fighter Nate Diaz swarmed to the most significant win of his career in the Ultimate Fighting Championship by landing one punch after another Friday against Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone.
Diaz halted Cerrone's string of wins by snapping his head with one punch after another to win a unanimo…
Alistair Overeem ended Brock Lesnar's career by winning the battle of heavyweight archetypes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Overeem stopped Lesnar with a technical knockout Friday in the first round of UFC 141's main event in Las Vegas. Lesnar after the fight announced his retirement.
Alistair Overeem is a step closer to ensuring his fight versus Brock Lesnar on Dec. 30 will take place as scheduled.
Per the terms of a conditional one-year license issued by the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Dec. 12, Overeem submitted a urine sample two days later at an accredited labora…
While there was some concern after a one-hour television show that contained only 64 seconds of actual fighting, the debut of UFC on Fox on Saturday night drew strong numbers, particularly in the company’s target demographics.
UFC on Fox did a 3.1 rating and 5.7 million viewers for the one-ho…
On Saturday night, the Ultimate Fighting Championship takes one of the most important steps in the promotion’s history, running its first event on network television. Fox offers an opportunity for the burgeoning sport to rise to a new level and cultivate a new base of fans. Taking center stage …
A intriguing middleweight bout between Vitor Belfort (20-9 MMA, 9-4 UFC) and former welterweight Anthony Johnson (10-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) will be part of January's UFC 142 card.
Fighting in his home country of Brazil, Jose Aldo will defend his UFC Featherweight Title Jan. 14 in UFC 142 against undefeated fighter Chad Mendes, FOXSports.com has learned.
The fight will pair Aldo’s electrifying style, one punctuated by ferocious flying knees and lighting-quick submissio…
In a UFC event that saw multiple, last-minute headlining changes, Nick Diaz out-boxed BJ Penn at Saturday evening’s main event en route to an exciting decision victory over the former two-division champ. Though Penn was able to land a takedown and ground-and-pound the former Strikeforce welterwe…
MMAFrenzy’s coverage of UFC 137 continues as we continue our preview of Saturday’s main card with our main event of the evening, former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz versus former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion BJ Penn.
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Even headlining a Ultimate Fighting Championship card hasn't kept Nick Diaz from feeling seller's remorse.
"If I had my chance to do it over again, I would have gone back to the boxing contract," Diaz said Wednesday. "It would have paid me more money. ... Later on, I'm sure they would have had …
Injuries have forced welterweight John Hathaway and heavyweight Oli Thompson off UFC 138, which is scheduled for Nov. 5 in Birmingham, England.
The announcement was made Monday on UFC’s website. The nature of the
injuries suffered by Hathaway and Thompson was not disclosed.
Hathaway is a nativ…
Former UFC interim heavyweight champion Shane Carwin announced on his web site Saturday that he has suffered another back injury.
Carwin expects the injury to sideline him until next year.
“As I ramped up my training for UFC 141, my back locked up,” Carwin said. “It wasn’t like the [Brock] Lesnar…
Assuming the English translation we’ve been given is accurate, it was admittedly a bit jarring to see reports of Anderson Silva’s longtime manager, Ed Soares, casually telling a Brazilian media outlet the middleweight champion “only has around four fights left in his career.”
Yet before …
It's not often that fans of mixed martial arts are given the chance to watch two of the best pound for pound fighters in the sport on one card. At UFC 136, fans were given that chance with UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. Both men were already con…
Chael Sonnen looked like he hadn't missed a day in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Sonnen elicited a tapout from fellow top-10 middleweight Brian Stann in the second round of their bout at UFC 136 in Houston. It was Sonnen's first fight since losing 14 months ago to middleweight champion A…