It ended up taking Robert Whittaker nearly 10 months to wash the taste of UFC 243—where he lost his middleweight championship by … More

On Saturday night, Deiveson Figueiredo put a hellacious beating on four-time Ultimate Fighting Championship title challenger Joseph Benavidez, clinching the vacant 125-pound title in perhaps … More

If nothing else, MMA is a sport with no shortage of extremes. There are freak athletes, physics-defying displays of violence … More

With an Ultimate Fighting Championship event that offered a gold-studded main attraction in Dustin Poirier-Dan Hooker but little beneath the marquee of divisional consequence, … More

Heading into UFC on ESPN 11 on June 20 in Las Vegas, few people would have predicted that the very first fight … More

“It is possible that intelligent tadpoles reconcile themselves to the inconvenience of their position by reflecting that, though most of … More

Something is happening in the ranks of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo has called it a career after defending his … More

I started this series in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it looked like fights might be on … More