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Demetrious Johnson may have stunned the MMA world with the unprecedented sequence that led to his record-breaking victory over Ray Borg at UFC 216 — a suplex-to-armbar finish that Dana White called the best submission in UFC history — but the move wasn’t anything out of the ordinary for “Mighty Mouse.” According to Johnson, he’s been regularly training the submission for the past several years. He’s just never had the chance to use it against a world-class opponent.

Daniel Lima had his seven-fight winning streak snapped Sunday in Japan, and the loss came 24 hours after a scary scene at the Pancrase 290 weigh-ins.

Newly crowned UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson was the top earner at UFC 216, serving as one of five fighters to clear the six-figure mark in earnings for his performance on Saturday night. The Nevada Athletic Commission released the event’s finalized salary information this weekend to MMA Fighting.

One of the UFC’s best known flyweight fighters is no longer with the promotion.

Move over Bud Light.

On Monday, the UFC announced that they would be ending their nine-year relationship with beer company Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. that regularly saw the Bud Light logo prominently featured inside the Octagon at events, and moving on to a multiyear sponsorship deal with Mexican import brand Modelo Especial, per ABC News.

The new deal is expected to begin in 2018, with Modelo receiving similar exposure as far as branding in the UFC cage and advertisements featuring the company’s fighters and personalities. Читать дальше...

Gokhan Saki isn’t wasting any time getting back into the Octagon.

Less than three weeks after the kickboxing legend’s victorious UFC debut, the promotion announced Saki’s return to the Octagon against Khalil Rountree at UFC 219, scheduled for Dec. 30 in Las Vegas.

Saki (1-1), a multiple-time champion in kickboxing, returned to the sport 13 years after his first MMA bout, and knocked out Henrique da Silva at UFC Japan in September. It was Saki’s first fight since 2015, when he won... Читать дальше...

Cris Cyborg's contract situation in the UFC is still complicated, but UFC president Dana White is confident that she will eventually return to action against Holly Holm.

Overall, UFC 216 turned out to be a pretty good fight card, in that Bobby Green and Lando Vannata did a bit of synchronized swimming in the “deep water” and Demetrious Johnson broke the all-time consecutive title defenses record with a casually executed suplex-to-armbar finish of Ray Borg. These things played out extraordinarily on a night that truly needed something extraordinary, as the UFC paid tribute to Las Vegas just six days after the city’s greatest tragedy.

LAS VEGAS — In the year-long lead-up to the fight that now headlines UFC 217, Michael Bisping has made it abundantly clear that he believes Georges St-Pierre is making a major mistake by deciding to move up to middleweight for his UFC comeback. And while it’s clear that St-Pierre has put on some size since the fight’s introductory press conference in March, Bisping remains unimpressed by what he sees from the former welterweight champion.

The MMA Hour is back in your life. Below is a rundown of Monday's show:

With UFC 216 in the books, all eyes in the MMA world can now turn in full to the biggest fight of the year, Georges St-Pierre’s challenging Michael Bisping for the UFC middleweight championship at UFC 217. St-Pierre is coming out of an almost four-year long retirement to attempt to become only the fourth man to win titles in two weight divisions in the UFC. Should St-Pierre be successful, a host of intriguing options await him going forward including a fight against one of the other multi-division champions, Conor McGregor. Читать дальше...

Rizin FF makes its first trip to Fukuoka, Japan, on Oct. 15, and the promotion announced the official bout order for the upcoming event.

LAS VEGAS – John Moraga talks to the media at UFC 216 about his upset knockout win over Magomed Bibulatov, his post-fight reaction, the state of his fighting career, and much more.

Yancy Medeiros and Alex Oliveira are set to meet inside the Octagon in December, both fighters announced on social media.

Luis Felipe Alvim is the new Juiz de Fora Fight welterweight champion, and his story is unlike everything you’ve ever seen.

LAS VEGAS – Middleweight Brad Tavares speaks to the media at UFC 216 about his decision win over Thales Leites, what's next for his career, the Las Vegas shooting, and much more.

Pretty much everyone has crammed for a test at one point in their lives, but that pressure probably doesn’t compare to having almost no time to prepare to fight someone in a cage.