Category: Boxing / UFC / MMA

MMA Junkie fight analyst Dan Tom goes in-depth on the UFC 312 main event middleweight title fight in Sydney.

Every fighter experiences a decline, but when it happens at the highest level of the sport, the flaws that lead to it can have an even greater spotlight. That's what coach Sayif Saud sees happening to former UFC middleweight champion and future UFC Hall of Famer…

Dominick Cruz is calling it a career. After an injury forced him out of his UFC Fight Night 252 retirement fight, Cruz (24-4 MMA, 7-3 UFC) announced his retirement Thursday in a lengthy, heartfelt post on social media. "I gave everything I had and put it into prepa

UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad knows what it's like to go through a training camp during Ramadan. Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) most recently trained through Ramadan for a fight when he took on Gilbert Burns at UFC 288 in May 2023. He won the…

Check out the artwork on all of the UFC event posters from 2025, starting with UFC Fight Night 249 featuring Mackenzie Dern vs. Amanda Ribas 2 on Jan. 11. (Gallery will be updated throughout the year.)

Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland are running it back in the second UFC pay-per-view of the year. Saturday, the UFC middleweight title will be up for grabs in the UFC 312 main event, which goes down at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. Strickland (29-6 MMA, 16-6 UFC

It's still a main event for Manel Kape at UFC Fight Night 253. It just might be not as significant as originally expected. In the wake of Brandon Royval's withdrawal, the UFC has landed on replacing him with Asu Almabayev, who will make his first headlining appeara

Don't expect Michael Chandler to use BKFC as a post-UFC career. Chandler has been entertaining fans with his wars inside the cage dating back from his rivalry with Eddie Alvarez in Bellator, to his battles with Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier in the UFC. But unlike…

A U.S. District Court judge has granted final approval to a settlement agreement between the UFC and a class of former fighters who filed a lawsuit against the promotion more than a decade ago. On Thursday, Judge Richard Boulware of Nevada officially approved the proposed…

Two rising UFC bantamweights are aligned for a three-round showdown. Canada's Serhiy Sidey and Texas' Cameron Smotherman will collide at a UFC Fight Night event May 3. The location and venue have yet to be determined. Two people with knowledge of the matchup informed…

The women's strawweight title will be on the line Saturday in the UFC 312 co-main event when Zhang Weili (25-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) puts the belt up for the third time in her second reign as champion when she meets unbeaten challenger Tatiana Suarez (11-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC). Take a…

Jon Anik thinks former UFC champion Israel Adesanya has nothing left to prove. Adesanya (24-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) suffered his third-straight loss when he was knocked out by Nassourdine Imavov (16-4 MMA, 8-2 UFC) in this past Saturday's UFC Fight Night 250 headliner at

The UFC returns "Down Under" for UFC 312, its second pay-per-view of the year, and the popular "Embedded" fight week video series is here to document what's happening behind the scenes. UFC 312 (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+) takes place Saturday (Sunday…

Aleksandre Topuria wanted to focus on helping his brother, Ilia Topuria, become champion before pursuing his own UFC career. Aleksandre, UFC featherweight champion Ilia's older brother, hasn't competed since a first-round TKO win in May 2023. He was gearing up for…

A few days after receiving his walking papers from the UFC, Jairzinho Rozenstruik has broken his silence. The UFC wasted little time – roughly 48 hours – in deciding to release Rozenstruik after his unanimous decision defeat to Serghei Pavlovic l