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The UFC is back in its Las Vegas home base to kick off the calendar year with a pair of strawweight contenders at the top of the bill. Here's how to watch UFC Fight Night 249 with 115-pounders in the headlining spot, plus a potential welterweight slobberknocker in…

PFL chairman and founder Donn Davis announced Monday that elbows will be legal in all fights, a major change for the promotion heading into 2025. Since its inception in 2018, the PFL had banned elbows for the regular season and playoffs. Elbows were…

Check out this week's "Spinning Back Clique," MMA Junkie's weekly live show that takes a spin through the biggest topics in mixed martial arts. This week's panel of Brian "Goze" Garcia, Nolan King and Danny

It's MMA, so anything can happen, Ali Abdelaziz acknowledged. But absent some fluke, he says the next UFC light heavyweight title fight is all but locked up. It's been the consensus, anyway, that 205-pound champ Alex Pereira (12-2 MMA, 9-1 UFC) will take on Abdelaziz…

Youssef Zalal has seen his career do a pretty major 180-degree turnaround the past few years. The 36-year-old Moroccan featherweight won his first three fights in the UFC by decision, but then had three straight decisions losses and a draw and found himself on the outs…

Despite fighting some of the world's best under the UFC banner for well over a decade, Jeremy Stephens feels he hasn't exactly gotten the respect he deserves from the combat sports world. Stephens, a former UFC featherweight veteran, believes he has the perfect opportunity…

The good news is, ex-rivals Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold are on decent terms now. Maybe they aren't sharing a table at Friendsgiving, but they're probably not putting sugar in the other guy's gas tank, either. So when they got together on fellow former UFC…

Merab Dvalishvili has been very vocal about his thoughts on the merit of Umar Nurmagomedov's title shot. The UFC bantamweight champion doesn't see Nurmagomedov (18-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) deserving of the title opportunity, which is set to play out in the co-main event of UFC

Matheus Camilo entered in adversity, but exited in a dream. As Camilo (9-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) boarded a plane back home to Las Vegas from South Korea, he did so with a new job title: UFC fighter. His performance on "Dana White: Lookin' for a Fight" was enough to get a…

Damon Jackson may be retired – kinda/sorta. Or, maybe like in "Friends," he's just on a break. Let's go with that. Jackson recently told MMA Junkie Radio the word of his retirement from the UFC may have been a little premature. He's on a planned hiatus away from things,…

(This story was updated to add new information.) The new GFL will hold its inaugural draft Friday, and hundreds of fighters will be on the list of eligible fighters. The GFL will be a team-based promotion that kicks off in April. Teams will be made up of both female and

It's been more than 30 years since Onyx dropped "Slam" into our earholes, and it remains a classic. And for all that time, we've gotten occasional slam finishes in MMA that are so brutal that they make you say "But, but, but wait, it gets worse!" The UFC has compiled…

The MMA Junkie 2024 Awards season is in the books. Now, for the first time, you can see all of our staff members' honors from the past year in one spot, from our top fighters of the year to the biggest stunners and more. We've compiled all our awards coverage and…

Eddie Alvarez is one of the few MMA legends still competing in combat sports, and being 40 and having more than 40 professional fights, it's safe to assume the end of his career is near. But how close is retirement for "The Underground King"? It seems the…

There were several storylines that remained consistent throughout 2024 with one of the biggest being the debate of who is the No. 1 pound-for-pound best fighter in MMA today. The biggest instigator of that discussion was none other than UFC CEO Dana White,…