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Tresean Gore has Jared Cannonier’s lifetime of experience on his side. 

Gore (6-4) took on Azamat Bekoev (20-5) in a middleweight outing at UFC Fight Night 272. The fight was a closely-contested affair for the most part until Bekoev appeared visibly exhausted in the last round. Gore snapped in a sneaky guillotine choke and choked his opponent out to secure the win in the final round. 

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Gore trains with veteran UFC middleweight contender Cannonier at the MMA Lab in Phoenix, Arizona. “Mr. Vicious” revealed that Cannonier taught him a specific “bubble fighting” style, which he expects to be out on DVD someday. Gore explains that the style is based on imaginary bubbles around a fighter and their opponent, with the focus being on maintaining range. Gore credits his submission win over Bekoev to the Cannonier’s bubble-fighting lessons.A Helpful Technique “Working with people like Cannonier – he helped me to realize the dangers that are there,” Go…

Sean Strickland tried to fight a UFC star when he was 9 to 10 years old. 

Strickland recently caused controversy again while meeting a fan. The former UFC middleweight champion tried to make a little girl flip the bird while posing for a photo with him.  Strickland subsequently said that every fan interaction reminds him of his first meeting with a UFC fighter. Strickland was a kid when he came across the legendary Tank Abbott at a bar. Abbott was just probably trying to figure out what Strickland, a kid, was doing at a bar. However, an angry Strickland, who has had a rough childhood, tried to pick a fight with Abbott. Strickland’s father, whom he is not a fan of, intervened and apologized to Abbott. Abbott got the gist of the situation and hung around with Strickland for the rest of the night.

‘It Was a Really Dope Night’ “Every time I meet a kid who’s a fan, I’m always reminded of the first time I met a UFC fighter,” Strickland said on Instagram. “I had to be…

Joshua Van will defend his flyweight crown about a month later than originally expected. | Getty/UFC

UFC 327 has lost a title fight. 

Joshua Van was scheduled to put his flyweight title on the line against Tatsuro Taira in the co-main event at UFC 327 on April 11 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. However, the fight has now been rescheduled to the already stacked UFC 328 card on May 9 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The fight has reportedly been postponed due to a minor injury suffered by Van. The rescheduling was announced during the UFC Fight Night 272 broadcast on Saturday. 

One Month Down the Road UFC 327 will be headlined by a clash for the vacant light heavyweight title between Jiri Prochazka and Carlos Ulberg. Meanwhile, Khamzat Chimaev will put his middleweight title on the line against Sean Strickland in the main event at UFC 328. 

Van (16-2) won the flyweight title with an injury stoppage win over Alexandre Pa…

Alessandro Costa attacked the body with intention, and that work made him $100,000 richer.

The Lobo Gym MMA product received a “Performance of the Night” bonus for his second-round stoppage of Stewart Nicoll in their preliminary flyweight contest at UFC Vegas 115 on Saturday night. A left hook to the liver sent Nicoll to his knees and Costa polished off his victory with one follow-up punch at the 4:56 mark of the period.

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A Knee KO and a Furious Round Elsewhere, Alice Pereira also earned a $100,000 “Performance of the Night” check for a spectacular knockout of Hailey Cowan in a preliminary bantamweight affair. The 20-year-old Brazilian prospect rendered Cowan unconscious with a leaping left knee to the chin 4:24 into the second stanza to secure her first UFC triumph.

Finally, Tommy McMillen and Manolo Zecchini garnered “Fight of the Night” honors and $100,000 apiece for their frenetic featherweight encounter. While both men were on the offensive fro…

Renato "Moicano" Carneiro showed no mercy on his American Top Team training partner.

The Brazilian veteran authored a near flawless performance in the UFC Vegas 115 main event, as he submitted Chris Duncan with a face crank 3:14 into the second round of their lightweight bout at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. “Moicano” returns to the win column after suffering back-to-back losses against Beneil Dariush and Islam Makhachev in his previous two Octagon appearances.

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Carneiro (21-7-1, 13-7 UFC) began methodically, tagging his Scottish foe with jabs while occasionally closing the distance for clinches and takedown attempts. “Moicano” picked up the pace in Round 2, sitting Duncan (15-3, 6-2 UFC) down with a left hook before quickly taking his adversary’s back. It was a miserable time for Duncan from there, as Carneiro peppered him with punches in hopes of creating an opening for a choke. A bloodied Duncan defended for as long as he could, but a…

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Conor McGregor recently made a surprise appearance in an exhibition boxing match in his home country.

Video has surfaced of the former UFC two-division champion competing in a three-round bout at the Crumlin Boxing Club in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday. In the videos, McGregor enjoys success in exchanges, forcing a pair of standing eight counts during the match.

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McGregor’s latest activity is sure to spark further speculation that his return to action could be imminent. The “Notorious” hasn’t competed since breaking his leg in a loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. A scheduled return against fellow “The Ultimate Fighter 31” coach Michael Chandler at UFC 303 fell through when McGregor pulled out on the week of the fight due to a broken toe.

More recently, McGregor lobbied hard to be on the UFC card — at one point claiming his participation was a “done deal.” However, when the event was announced, McGregor was not part of the…

Malcolm Wellmaker will attempt to get back on track at UFC Fight Night 276. | Getty/UFC

Malcolm Wellmaker will look to return to winning ways in May. 

Wellmaker is scheduled to welcome debutant Juan Diaz at UFC Fight Night 276 on May 16 in Las Vegas. Marcel Dorff was first to report the pairing.

Prospects Collide Wellmaker (10-1) gained early stardom as a welder who kept his full-time job despite earning a UFC contract on Dana White's Contender Series in 2024. Wellmaker finally quit his job as a welder after earning a performance bonus with a first-round knockout win over Cameron Saimaan in his UFC debut last year. Wellmaker then made a quick turnaround to score another bonus-winning knockout over Kris Moutinho. Wellmaker was a massive favorite in his latest outing against UFC debutant Ethyn Ewing this past November. However, Wellmaker’s hype train was derailed as he suffered his first professional loss against Ewing in a huge upset. 

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Marwan Rahiki enjoyed a successful UFC debut. | Getty/UFC

Marwan Rahiki will make a quick turnaround for his sophomoreUFC outing. 

Rahiki (8-0) will take on Jack Jenkins (14-4)  in a featherweight matchup at UFC Perth on May 2 at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.  MMAFighting.com was first to report the bout.

Strong First Impression Rahiki made his debut against Harry Hardwick last month at UFC Fight Night 269 at the Apex in Las Vegas. While Rahiki put on a brutal beating on Hardwick, the latter showed immense grit in refusing to go out. However, Hardwick’s corner threw in the towel at the end of the second round after he revealed that he had a broken jaw. Rahiki has finished all eight of his wins so far. The undefeated Moroccan-Australian will make a quick turnaround of a month and a half for his sophomore clash against Jenkins. 

Meanwhile, Jenkins is 4-2 in the UFC since making his debut in 2023. The Australian striker is coming off…

Grant Dawson is 11-2 in the UFC. | Getty/UFC

The latest addition to the UFC 328 card has all the makings of a potential banger. 

Grant Dawson and Mateusz Rebecki are scheduled to trade leather in a lightweight tilt at UFC 328 on May 9 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Dawson confirmed the booking via social media. 

Contrast in Styles While Dawson (23-3) is a well-rounded wrestler, Rebecki (20-4) is known for engaging in violent slugfests while also being technically sound. Dawson is 11-2 in the UFCwith six finishes and coming off a first-round knockout loss against hot prospect Manuel Torres.

Meanwhile, Rebecki has now dropped three of his last four after starting his UFC career on a three-fight winning streak. However, Rebecki’s last three bouts have all been brutal bloodbaths and a treat to fans. 

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— UFC (@ufc) April 3, 2026 The Ultimate Fighting Championship kicks off its busy April with a Meta Apex card, which is now official following the UFC Vegas 115 weigh-ins and two weight misses.

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Headlining the 13-fight card is a fight between lightweight veteran Renato Carneiro and prospect Chris Duncan. This is the fourth UFC main event for "Money Moicano," who had no issue making weight for the five-round fight, just like his opponent. However, three fighters weren't professional as Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev, Rafael Estevam and Darrius Flowers all missed weight for their respective bouts. Of the three, Yakhyaev returned to hit 206 pounds. The other two will be fined 20% of their purses.

Carneiro (20-7-1) enters the fight on a two-fight losing streak, as he went winless in 2025. L…

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— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) April 3, 2026 A heavyweight boxing clash between two of the division's beloved knockout artists is now official following the Deontay Wilder vs. Derek Chisora weigh-ins.

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Both hard-hitting heavyweights successfully made weight for their clash, which will take place at the O2 Arena in London. Two other boxers failed to hit their weight limits, though. Ashton Sylve came in three pounds over the super lightweight limit for his fight against Raul Antonio Galaviz Hernandez, while Jordan Dujon was 2.9 pounds over the middleweight limit for his bout against Amir Anderson. Both fights will continue forward, but the overweight fighters will be fined a percentage of their purses.

Wilder (44-4-1) enters the anticipated fight with…

It appears the beef between Ultimate Fighting Championship former stars Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal is far from squashed.

On March 21, 2022, a few weeks after the two collided atop UFC 272, Masvidal attacked Covington outside of a restaurant in Miami. Covington stated that he chipped a tooth, while he also claimed his expensive watch was damaged in the assault. “Gamebred” was ultimately charged with a few felonies, and they were reduced to a misdemeanor battery charge when he took a plea deal. Masvidal was sentenced to two days in jail—not prison—and fined almost $1,000 in fees and costs.

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As first reported by Fox Sports South Florida talk show host Andy Slater on Wednesday, Covington is suing Masvidal for damages upwards of or in excess of $50K sustained in the attack. Per the civil complaint filed on March 23, 2026, Covington claims that he suffered the following: “bodily injury and resulting pain and suffering; disability; disfigurement; p…

This former Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder’s nose has become the instructions in “Rocky Horror Picture Show” song “Time Warp”: it’s just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right.

Merab Dvalishvili has never had the straightest of noses, and he wears his crooked beak like a badge of honor. As a result of his many hard training sessions at his gym of Serra-Longo Fight Team, including those where he dueled with fellow ex-champ Aljamain Sterling, his nose took a lean towards the right. On Wednesday, Dvalishvili posted a video of himself driving to the hospital to get his face checked. In what appeared to be a non-April Fools’ gag, he had his even more tilted snout stuffed with bloody tissues, and he explained what happened.

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“What a good day, and what a stupid accident…again,” Dvalishvili said in his video first displaying the damage to his schnoz. “Five years after [my previous nose break], my nose is f---ed up even worse [laughs]. A…

Barring something funky on fight night, one of these two Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes will shed a losing streak at night’s end.

The UFC announced the return of former Rizin Fighting Federation champion Kai Asakura (21-6) on Thursday, who will be moving back up to 135 pounds after suffering two defeats in the Octagon. He draws fellow skidding combatant Cameron Smotherman (12-6), who won his promotional debut and has since dropped two decisions. The latter may be more famously known as the one who made weight ahead of his UFC 324 match with Ricky Turcios, only to faint and faceplant shortly after walking off the scales.

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Japan’s Asakura, 32, has not panned out since debuting with the promotion in 2024. Coming off winning the Rizin bantamweight belt against Juan Archuleta at the end of 2023—where Archuleta missed weight by over five pounds on fight night—Asakura was thrust into an immediate title shot. Champ Alexandre Pantoja throttled him i…

The four new fighters booked on the Professional Fighters League’s jaunt to South Dakota may not be local, but they are highly ranked.

On May 2, the organization will take to a former Bellator MMA stomping ground of the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls. The man on the marquee representing the area will be Logan Storley in a welterweight pairing against Florim Zendeli. On Thursday, the promotion dropped two new bouts for this billing, with three of the participants among the PFL’s top 10 in their respective division.

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The first of the two fights set for the PFL Sioux Falls main card is a heavyweight banger as Renan Ferreira (13-5, 3 NC) takes on Sergey Bilostenniy (14-4). It has been a rough couple years for “Problema,” as he claimed the PFL Super Fight heavyweight belt against Ryan Bader and everything looked up. When he was thrust into a matchup against Francis Ngannou, it all went wrong, as Ngannou punched him out in just over three minutes. The re…

The winner of this upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight clash may receive a number next to their name.

Last Friday, Spanish news outlet ABC broke the news that Joel Alvarez (23-3) would be throwing down with Yaroslav Amosov (29-1) at UFC 328. The welterweights will toe the line on May 9 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and it is unclear at the time where the two will be placed on the billing. The promotion confirmed this bout on Thursday.

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Featherweight-turned-lightweight Alvarez moved up to 170 pounds in October 2025 after having missed weight a few outings prior, and he battled Vicente Luque at his new division. The Spaniard overcame Luque on the scorecards in a truly bizarre outing where Alvarez was briefly awarded the TKO victory in the opening frame, only for referee Osiris Maia to second-guess himself and call a punch an eye poke. This ultimately marked the first decision win in the career of “El Fenomeno,” one t…

While the vast majority of eligible athletes have received their portion from the $375 million UFC antitrust lawsuit settlement, there are still some distribution issues regarding the rest of the payments.

According to an update from law firm Berger Montague, payments totaling more than $237 million have been issued to “984 claimants in 44 countries” from the Le vs. Zuffa antitrust case, which covered fighters who competed in the UFC from 2010 to 2017. That represents more than 90 percent of the eligible athletes, according to a release. There were a total of 1,088 class members who submitted claims related to the case.

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“We are working around the clock to distribute settlement payments to the remaining claimants,” the release states.A Variety of IssuesThere are a number of complications with payments for the remaining eligible fighters. These include processing issues, payment instructions under review and outstanding issues with ACH or wire instru…

Renato 'Moicano' will look to snap a two-fight skid on Saturday. | Getty/UFC

While Renato Carneiro and Chris Duncan haven’t been all that close in recent years while sharing the gym at American Top Team, that doesn’t make the matchup against a former training partner any easier.

“Moicano” and Duncan will square off in the UFC Vegas 115 main event on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Carneiro recalls training with Duncan in the past — but it was quite some time ago.

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“It is difficult; it is the first time [I’ve faced a teammate],” Carneiro told UFC.com. “But at the same time, everybody wants to win, everybody wants to win their next fight, and that’s what I want too.

“Back in the day, we trained together a couple years ago, but I don’t remember the last time I trained with him; I think it was a long time ago.”

Duncan faced another ATT stablemate, Mateusz Rebecki, last August at UFC on ESPN 71. “The Problem” emerged with a u…

Arman Tsarukyan continues to stay busy as he awaits his next assignment from the UFC.

The lightweight contender will face UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber in the co-main event of Real American Freestyle 8 on April 18 in Philadelphia. The promotion announced the match on Wednesday. RAF 8 is headlined by a matchup between Merab Dvalishvili and Henry Cejudo and airs on Fox nation.

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Tsarukyan is coming off a victory over Georgio Poullas at RAF 7 on March 28. The Russian is now 3-0 under the RAF banner, with previous triumphs over Poullas and Lance Palmer. Since submitting Dan Hooker in the UFC Qatar headliner on Nov. 22, “Ahalkalakets" has competed in a number of grappling and wrestling matches in other organizations — including notable matches against the likes of Muhammad Mokaev and Sharabutdin Magomedov in Hype FC. Tsarukyan has seemingly been at odds with the Las Vegas-based promotion since pulling out of a lightweight title bout against Islam Makhachev…

Islam Makhachev continues to keep fans guessing. 

Michael Morales recently met up with Ilia Topuria in Madrid, Spain. Both Morales and Topuria are potential opponents for Makhachev. The welterweight champion had a cryptic response to a photo of Morales and Topuria posing together. Makhachev responded with a telephone emoji, hinting at a potential matchup between one of the two next. 

Makhachev (28-1) and Topuria (17-0) have long been on a collision course. Topuria was the featherweight champion when he started calling for a lightweight title shot against then-champion Makhachev, who eventually moved up to welterweight. Topuria also subsequently moved up to lightweight and won the title. A matchup between Topuria and Makhachev was rumored to be the original plan for the White House card in June. However, Topuria is now scheduled to defend his title against interim champion Justin Gaethje at UFC White House on June 14. 

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Michael Morales would fight Ian Garry differently than his other opponents. 

Along with being in a race for the next welterweight title shot, Morales (19-0) and Garry (17-1) have serious beef between them,. Morales recently admitted that he hates Garry, and that the Irishman doesn’t give him good vibes. Morales believes a potential bout against Garry would be very intense. While Morales won’t underestimate Garry, the undefeated Ecuadorian claims he would be extremely aggressive for the first time in his career.

Bad Blood “I do hate him,” Morales told Alvaro Colemenoro. “We don’t have a very good vibe. But at the end of the day, he’s still a fighter. I’m not gonna get overconfident if I had to prepare myself to fight him… That fight is gonna be intense if it happens… I think that if I were to fight him, it would be the first time that I would fight in a very aggressive way.”

Morales’ beef with Garry stems from an alleged incident at the UFC Performance Institute. Mo…

Quinton Jackson claims the UFC changed his contract to make him earn less. 

Jackson (37-14) won the UFC light heavyweight title with an iconic knockout in a rematch against Chuck Liddell in 2007. Jackson claims to have made $7 million for his win over Liddell. However, Liddell recently accused the UFC of changing his contract without his knowledge, after they found out about his earnings from the fight.

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A Hefty Sum “When they found out I made that $7 million, I’m gonna say it – they changed my contract without me knowing,” Jackson said on Adin Ross’ Kick stream. “… Because they bought my contract from another organization.” 

Jackson was a massive draw at Pride Fighting Championships in Japan and carried over his stardom to the UFC. The UFC had to buy Jackson’s contract from the World Fighting Alliance when they acquired the promotion in 2006. Jackson believes the UFC wasn’t initially aware that his contract guaranteed him pay-per-view di…

T.J. Dillashaw completely turned his life around by winning the bantamweight title against Renan Barao. 

Dillashaw (17-5) ended Barao’s title reign with a fifth-round knockout at UFC 173 in 2014. Dillashaw revealed that he got just $18,000 to show and $18,000 to win for his his first title victory. Dillashaw earned his UFC contract on “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 14 in 2011, although he lost to John Dodson in the finale. Dillashaw explained that “TUF” fighters were onboarded with a $10,000 to show and $10,000 to win contract, which got upgraded every three wins. Dillashaw was glad to tear apart his “TUF” contract after dethroning Barao as his stardom skyrocketed overnight. 

‘I Shocked the World’ “My life changed completely after beating Barao,” Dillashaw said on "The Jaxxon Podcast” “I was on ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ contract. I was fighting for a world title for $18,000. When I got to rip that contract… You’re on a 10-fight contract when you get on from ‘The Ult…