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Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterSep 6, 2024, 10:49 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Jorge Masvidal said Friday he intends to resume his career in mixed martial arts and already has discussed his pending return with the UFC. Masvidal (35-17) announced

Andreas Hale, ESPNSep 6, 2024, 09:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Dustin Poirier says he will return to the Octagon for one last fight. Poirier, 35, teased the idea of retirement after his loss to UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev at UFC 302 in June but has reversed course. Responding to a post on X

Sep 6, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sean O’Malley makes the second defense of his UFC men’s bantamweight championship against Merab Dvalishvili in the main event of two-title-fight UFC 306 on Saturday, Sept. 14, in Las Vegas. The event, which the fight promotion is billing as Noche UFC becauase it falls on Mexican

Andreas Hale, ESPNSep 4, 2024, 08:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Valentina Shevchenko said she is wary of allowing the judges determine the outcome of her trilogy bout with flyweight champion Alexa Grasso after their previous meeting ended in a controversial split draw. Shevchenko will try to regain the title when she meets Grasso for

Andreas Hale, ESPNSep 3, 2024, 06:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The UFC’s return to Edmonton, Alberta on Nov. 2 has a new main event. UFC CEO Dana White announced on X that former flyweight champion Brandon Moreno will face Amir Albazi at Rogers Place in what will likely be a title eliminator. Editor’s Picks

Records are made to be broken, right? Try telling that to Wilt Chamberlain and Cy Young. “Wilt the Stilt” averaged an NBA-record 50.4 points per game in 1961-1962, a season in which he also set a single-game scoring mark with 100 points. No one has come close to either record in the six decades since.

Aug 26, 2024, 10:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Despite September being one of the lighter months on the UFC calendar, with only three weekends featuring fight cards, it is significant with the promotion’s ambitious endeavor into Sphere in Las Vegas on Sept. 14 for Noche UFC — which is how the fight promotion is

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterAug 25, 2024, 01:48 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions It is not easy to break into a top five ranking in the UFC, but Caio Borralho has made it happen in a relatively short amount of

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterAug 24, 2024, 12:43 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — English featherweight Brendan Loughnane punched his ticket to the PFL finals for the third time in four years, outpointing Kai Kamaka III in a split

Associated Press Aug 23, 2024, 05:22 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former MMA fighter and professional wrestler Ronda Rousey has issued an online apology, which she admits is “11 years too late,” for reposting a conspiracy video on social media about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, which left 20 first graders and

Andreas Hale, ESPNAug 23, 2024, 10:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions In the 1984 film “Revenge of the Nerds,” characters Lewis Skolnik (played by Robert Carradine) and Gilbert Lowe (played by Anthony Edwards) lead a group of nerds to stop the ongoing harassment from the bully fraternity Alpha Betas at the fictional Adams College. At

Aug 22, 2024, 10:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Top-10 middleweight Jared Cannonier meets surging Caio Borralho in Saturday’s main event in Las Vegas, headlining an event that also features the finals in two weight classes of Season 32 of “The Ultimate Fighter.” The main card at UFC Apex will be on ESPN and ESPN+

Andreas Hale, ESPNAug 22, 2024, 02:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou wants to make one perfectly thing clear ahead of his PFL debut against Renan Ferreira: He never ducked a fight with Jon Jones. During a news conference for the Battle of the Giants PFL Super Fight event on

Ryan HockensmithAug 20, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Close Ryan Hockensmith is a Penn State graduate who joined ESPN in 2001. He is a survivor of bacterial meningitis, which caused him to have multiple amputation surgeries on his feet. He is a proud advocate for those with disabilities and addiction issues. He covers everything from the

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterAug 19, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions UFC 305 was full of surprises. The fight card, which took place in Perth, Australia, and featured many fighters from Oceania, showcased many closely contested fights and

Aug 18, 2024, 02:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A 12-fight card at UFC 305 in Perth, Western Australia, was headlined by a middleweight title matchup between Dricus Du Plessis and Israel Adesanya. While Du Plessis retained his crown in a fourth-round submission victory, other stars such as Kai Kara-France and Dan Hooker had big

Aug 18, 2024, 12:54 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Dricus Du Plessis remains the king of the middleweight division, submitting former two-time champion Israel Adesanya by rear-naked choke in Round 4 to retain his title Saturday in the main event at UFC 305 in Perth, Australia. Du Plessis caught Adesanya with a left hook and

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterAug 16, 2024, 01:37 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Two title fights are set to headline UFC 307 on Oct. 5, UFC CEO Dana White announced Friday. Light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira will seek his third