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ONE Championship’s newest marquee signing is ready to make his debut. Former two-division KSW champion Roberto Soldic is slated to face undefeated Murad Ramazanov in a welterweight bout (185 pounds in ONE) at the promotion’s Dec. 2 event, which takes place at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, Philippines. Soldic (20-3), the No.

Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev top one of the deepest UFC cards of the year. During Saturday’s UFC Vegas 61 broadcast, the promotion announced the official lineup for UFC 280, which takes place Oct. 22 in Abu Dhabi and airs live on ESPN+ pay-per-view. The card is headlined by Oliveira and Makhachev — No. 1

Yan Xiaonan picked up the biggest win of her career, and had to survive some tough spots against Mackenzie Dern in the main event of UFC Vegas 61. MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Jed Meshew, and Shaheen Al-Shatti react to Yan’s majority decision win and the judges’ scorecards as a whole, along with Dern’s performance overall

MMA Fighting has Bellator 286 results for the Pitbull vs. Borics fight card on Saturday from the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, Calif. In the main event, Patricio Pitbull puts his featherweight title on the line against Adam Borics, a winner of four consecutive fights. Former featherweight champion A.J. McKee makes his lightweight debut

MMA Fighting has BKFC 30 results for the Hunt vs. Henry event at the Fant-Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, La., which will be headlined by a matchup for the vacant cruiserweight championship. In the main event, current BKFC light heavyweight champion Lorenzo Hunt takes on Quentin Henry for the chance to capture his second title. Hunt

Spike Carlyle wasn’t happy with Bellator 286’s official weigh-ins. The 29-year-old lightweight missed weight by 0.6 pounds on Friday, tipping the scales at 156.6 pounds for his co-headlining matchup against A.J. McKee, which is a non-title bout. That was Carlyle’s second attempt after being given an additional hour to cut weight; the UFC veteran initially

Surging featherweights Bryce Mitchell and Movsar Evloev will headline UFC Vegas 64 on Nov. 5 at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. MMA Fighting previously reported verbal agreements were in place for the matchup, which pits the No. 11 (Evloev) featherweight against No. 13 (Mitchell) in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings. ESPN.com first broke news of

Don Shainis has the opportunity to shake up the UFC featherweight rankings on two weeks’ notice when he makes his octagon debut this Saturday. Shainis faces Sodiq Yusuff in a main card matchup at this weekend’s UFC Vegas 61 event at the UFC APEX. “Shameless,” a former Cage Titans featherweight and FAC lightweight champion, plans

Joanderson Brito is awaiting a new opponent for UFC Vegas 62 on Oct. 15 after Melsik Baghdasaryan was forced off the card with a broken hand, multiple people close to the situation told MMA Fighting. Baghdasaryan announced the injury earlier this week on social media, revealing he suffered a right metacarpal bone fracture. Brito (13-3-1)

Eddie Alvarez was happy with his decision to sign with ONE Championship, but as his contract — and career — winds down, the former UFC lightweight champion made the decision to try and produce an amicable exit from the promotion. Alvarez recently revealed that he and ONE Championship were able to do just that, but

After a second win on DWCS that was even faster than the first one, it was hard not to imagine Bo Nickal doing very well against the UFC’s best welterweights. Khamzat Chimaev’s name was tossed about at the broadcast table at UFC APEX. Fresh off a 52-second stoppage on Tuesday night’s up-and-comer showcase, Nickal dispensed

UFC 279 commentators zeroed in on the appearance of Chris Barnett’s face during his prelim fight with Jake Collier, expressing concern for what appeared to be a serious injury. There was talk of nerve damage or a stroke. It wasn’t nearly that serious, though it certainly wasn’t fun for Barnett, who survived early trouble to

Marlon Vera believes he could get a title fight next. In August, Vera scored the biggest win of his career, knocking out Dominick Cruz in the main event of UFC San Diego. The win was Vera’s fourth in a row and put him on the precipice of a title shot in the stacked 135-pound division

Nate Diaz’s first opponent in his post-UFC life is likely going to be one of the Paul brothers, according to oddsmakers. Both Jake Paul and brother Logan Paul are currently the odds-on favorites to face Diaz next, with Jake topping the list at +150 odds and Logan coming in second at +400, according odds posted

Cris Cyborg worked eight rounds to win a decision over Simone Silva in her first time in a boxing ring Sunday at Fight Music Show 2 in Curitiba, Brazil. The reigning Bellator featherweight champion, Cyborg holds 20 knockouts in 26 MMA wins en route to title wins in the UFC, Strikeforce, and Invicta FC, and

Israel Adesanya headlines one of the most anticipated cards of the year. The UFC middleweight champion is set to take on longtime rival Alex Pereira in the main event of UFC 281, which takes place Nov. 12 at the fabled Madison Square Garden arena in New York. Adesanya and Pereira have history together dating back

MMA Fighting has Fight Music Show 2 results for the Cyborg vs. Silva event Sunday evening from the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil. In the main event, Bellator featherweight champion Cris Cyborg will make her professional boxing debut against Simone Silva. Silva is 17-21 overall and has lost eight straight fights. Cyborg is one

MMA Fighting has Mayweather vs. Asakura results live for the Floyd Mayweather vs. Mikuru Asakura fight card at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, on Saturday night. When the main event begins, around 1 a.m. ET, check out our Mayweather vs. Asakura live round-by-round updates for our live blog of the main event. Check