Deiveson Figueiredo Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Deiveson Figueiredo believes he should be next in line for the bantamweight title with a stoppage of Marlon Vera at UFC Abu Dhabi, but he doesn’t expect Sean O’Malley to be holding the belt. The former…

Umar Nurmagomedov and Bekzat Almakhan Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Umar Nurmagomedov believes he has some of the best grappling and wrestling in the UFC bantamweight division, but if he wants to be the best, he knows there’s at least…

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Eddie Hearn got another taste of Terence Crawford’s competitiveness Wednesday when the unbeaten three-division champion settled a prior dispute with the promoter by defeating him in darts. “To be honest with you, I really, really like Terence Crawford. He’s got such…

A pair of powerful UFC middleweights are set to clash in October. Abdul Razak Alhassan and Josh Fremd will look to get back into the winner’s column on Oct. 12 at a UFC Fight Night event. Two people with knowledge confirmed the booking to MMA…

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Talk about not pulling punches… In addition to the more high-profile exodus of David Benavidez from 168 pounds to light-heavyweight, unbeaten Cuban left-hander David Morrell followed by fleeing the division for a light-heavyweight debut Saturday night on the star-studded Los Angeles…

The rivalry between Sean O’Malley and teammates Aljamain Sterling and Merab Dvalishvili continues to ramp up. O’Malley and Sterling have a long history culminating in O’Malley’s stoppage victory over “The Funk Master” to claim the bantamweight title at UFC 292. Now that rivalry has carried…

Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvili engaged in a heated first faceoff last week and the video has just surfaced. In a promotional video shoot for their Noche UFC 306 showdown Sept. 14 at Sphere, the promotion’s bantamweight champion and challenger got into a heated discussion…

Ranked UFC strawweights Luana Pinheiro and Gillian Robertson will collide this November. The three-round fight is scheduled for Nov. 9 at an event yet-to-be-announced. A location is not known at this time. Two people with knowledge of the matchup recently informed MMA Junkie of the…

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Mayra Bueno Silva could face a financial penalty from the Nevada Athletic Commission after she jumped up and over the cage following her loss to Macy Chiasson at UFC 303 in June. On Tuesday, the commission…