Preview: UFC Fight Night 144 ‘Assuncao vs. Moraes 2’ Raphael Assuncao will lock horns with Marlon Moraes in a high-stakes bantamweight rematch with title implications on Saturday in Fortaleza, Brazil.

What Fast Finishes Really Mean Quick stoppages can mean vastly different things for different fighters, depending on the career context of the combatants themselves and how...

Parlaying and Praying: Bellator 214 ‘Fedor vs. Bader’ After nearly three years of its belt collecting dust, Bellator MMA will finally have a heavyweight champion. It may be arguably the greatest heavyweight ever, a 42-year-old Fedor Emelianenko, or it may be...

Ben Nguyen: The Best Is Yet To Come Jacob Debets sat down with flyweight Ben Nguyen to talk about his release from the UFC, watching Rizin FF's New Year's Eve spectacle from the bleachers and chasing down fights with Demetrious Johnson and...

The UFC Flyweight Title: A Visual History “The reports of my death were exaggerated.” -- Mark Twain
That famous quote by America’s bard might apply equally to the beleaguered ...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings If the Ultimate Fighting Championship did indeed send T.J. Dillashaw to kill the flyweight division, as he so claimed, then Henry Cejudo is...

Sherdog’s Pound-for-Pound Top 10 A little less than three years ago, Henry Cejudo looked out of his depth in a flyweight title shot against Demetrious Johnson at UFC 197.

Catching up with the King Jacob Debets talked with Australian MMA pioneer Elvis Sinosic about his early career, the ascendancy of oceanic fighters in the UFC, the...

A Little Bit of Everything If UFC Fight Night 143 was indeed an introduction to the sport of mixed martial arts for casual ESPN audiences, it was a fitting one, writes...

5 Lessons Learned from UFC Fight Night 143 The Ultimate Fighting Championship staged its first card on ESPN with UFC Fight Night 143 and jumpstarted our 2019 prizefighting year. We can...