Interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall says he will fight at UFC Manchester this summer. UFC president Dana White said last week a pay-per-view event was being planned and he wanted to put Aspinall and welterweight champion Leon Edwards on the card. Speaking on his TikTok, Aspinall said: “I had a meeting with the UFC….
UFC Star Conor McGregor will make his long-awaited return to the Octagon on June 29 when he takes on Michael Chandler at UFC 303 in Las Vegas. It has been three years since McGregor last fought in the UFC after breaking his left leg in the first round of his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier….
UFC’s parent company TKO Group has agreed an out of court settlement worth $335m on two lawsuits with a group representing about 1,200 former UFC athletes.The group of former fighters claimed that UFC’s contracts suppressed athletes’ abilities to negotiate other promotional options.The anti-trust lawsuits had sought up to $1.6bn in damages.A court case that been…
Undisputed boxing world champion Claressa Shields secured her second victory in MMA after a split decision win over Kelsey De Santis in Riyadh. The fight made history as the first professional MMA bout in Saudi Arabia featuring two women. Shields, a three-weight world champion in boxing, was visibly emotionally when she was confirmed the winner….
Ireland’s Conor McGregor says he will make his UFC return against Michael Chandler in Las Vegas on 29 June. Former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion McGregor has not fought since breaking a leg against Dustin Poirier in July 2021. In a video on social media, 35-year-old McGregor said it would be the “greatest comeback of…
Francis Ngannou has been ranked the number 10 heavyweight by the WBC after his fight against Tyson Fury. The 37 year old former UFC heavyweight champion narrowly lost to Fury on points after knocking the Briton down. Fury’s WBC title was not on the line for the bout as Ngannou was not previously ranked by…
Israel Adesanya, a former UFC middleweight champion has been sentenced to three months in prison for drunk driving, the incident took place on August 19, when Adesanya was pulled over and found with 87 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood in his system. The legal limit in New Zealand is 50 milligrams. In…
